Sentences with phrase «by the pagans of»

Islam at the beginning held the sword only when it was necessary to survive the wars launched against it by the Pagans of Mecca beside the Persians who then were worshipping fire... Any way remember that we never came closer to the West until the launched their first attacks against Muslims by the crusaders that came from the west towards Jerusalem... Such acts has drove Islam to adopt the policy that says «Attack is the best means of defense» to push the crusaders further back.

Not exact matches

so you have a bunch of fake Christians with a non profit / no tax paying cathedral going bankrupt, and another bunch of pagan laced above the law non tax paying ped protecting catholics buying a cathedral (notice i did nt say Christian), from a bailed out by taxpayers bank....

This phenomenon of the baptized Catholic pagan is an impediment to the Church's mission, for it suggests that the Church is not serious about the truths it proposes or the consequences of living (and not living) by those truths.

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

Constantine I, who was the first Christian Roman emperor and who also had his wife, the Empress Fausta, and his eldest son, Crispus, put to death, seized property from pagan temples and by the end of his reign was ordering the pillaging and the tearing down of pagan temples.

First and foremost, greeks didn't just give up zeus on the spot, they were converted first by the romans on pain of death and later when the romans converted to christianity, there were still pagans, no one just looked at their beliefs, decided they were silly and changed.

Easter eggs were first colored by the pagans to resemble the rising sun and announce the return of light.

He also said that while pagan gods maintained their positions in the universe by punishing people, the Christian God acted profoundly differently by punishing himself on man's behalf - something unheard of before that point.

Only by hindu absurdity of a hindu, Christian and pagan.

There were also the Northern Crusades undertaken by the Christian kings of Denmark and Sweden against the Pagan peoples of northern Europe in the 12th and 13 centuries.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

However I find it invaluable as a place to take my pagan unchurched friends and have them taught the word by people more knowledgeable and grace - filled than I. Also as a place to be encouraged to hold the course and not revert to the old me which prefers kicking a ** and taking names over compassion, concern and giving my time / resources to the benefit of other.

Or are captured by the fact that we meet in a downtown L.A. club called the Mayan, defined by the thousands of pagan gods that cover the entire complex, and label us an emerging church.

No one ever existed by the name of Jesus, hinduism, fabrication of hindu Magi's, criminal tricksters of Rom to promote hindu Mithra ism, pagan savoir ism, religion of hindu, pagan Romans to make humanity their gentile, slaves.

In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»

The pagan Canaanite religious worship of the people of Sodom included the cultic, religious, se.xual activity which was forbidden by God in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 and Deuteronomy 23:17 - 18.

1) It is maintained by some that the relationship was essentially analogical - sequential: that is, imperial ideology did not directly shape ideas about Christ but, by virtue of the obvious analogies between some key elements of both, it made the ideas about Christ preached by the early Christians easily comprehensible and attractive to pagans.

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical recorBy the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical recorby squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

Have the souls of Christianity and the tutelary spirits of wind, water and sacred grove once invoked by pagan Greece and Rome come back as software and information, which never diminish however often they are used?

Christians and Pagans: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede by Malcolm Lambert Yale, 336 pages, $ 50

The New Testament itself testifies to the persistence of pagan practices amongst the early communities and patterns of socialization by believers that brought them into contact with pagans on a regular basis (for example, 1 Corinthians 8 and 10).

They were called out by God to be His chosen people, and as such, as a people they had to be dramatically different from the surrounding ungodly, pagan nations of the time.

«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

JUDAISM, Self center ism, pig ism, or Atheism, invented by hindu's pagan's of Egypt by corruption of truth absolute in Torah to Justify hindu pagan Pharaoh's and their hindu pagan Santans, goons as god's to rule over humanity with impunity.

corruption of truth absolute by hindu Pharisees, pagan self centered, follower of hindu filthy pig ism by corrupted Torah, known as Greek Torah, translated and commented by Ben Asheer in 250 AD in Yiddish, secularist, self centered language, also known as Old Testament, part of book of Mithra ism labeled as Bible.

Expect nothing better but mayhem among humanity by following of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, Allah, and following of hindu pagan Mithra ism, savior ism, neither commanded, nor allowed in Islam as a religion, but Theen Allah, consti tution of truth absolute.

Shiaism hindu Mithra ism, savior ism invented little over 100 years after Sydana Mohammad pbh by tribes of Kujar of north Africa and imposition as Fatmid Khalaphit by force by denial of Hidth and Quran, justified by hindu Judaism, pagan secularism to impose hinduism, racism by hindu, fabricated relationship with Family of Syadana Mohammad pbh to justify existence of hindu criminal Kings, a violation of fundamental commandment, human equality under the LA.

Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there is only one God; (2) that this God is not identified with or contained by any region of nature; (3) that the pagan gods and goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations of the one true God; and (4) that the worship of any of these false divinities is idolatry.

According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse, blood, pork, a pagan sacrifice, suffocated animals, animals killed other than by slaughtering, animals which died from a fall, animals killed by other animals, remnants of food eaten by a beast, food offered as a sacrifice to idols.

The New Testament birth stories appear to walk a fine line between the crass pagan versions, such as Plato's conception by Apollo, and the Hebrew accounts in which an infertile womb is somehow made fertile by divine decree, such as Sarah's conception of Isaac.

Familiarity with stories of cures by similar methods in Jewish and pagan literature may have influenced the tradition of this miracle, so different from Jesus» usual practice in the Synoptic narratives.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

Public morality and general goodness were being corroded by vast waves of «pagan» immigrants, by crime, poverty, and industrial strife.

In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

The characteristic modern is not a sheer pagan and certainly will not be attracted to the claims of synthetic barbarism as presented by either its major or its minor prophets.

What I think you mean is that with the attacks by the early Christians in Rome on existing pagan religious sites, a further eradication of paganism was to make irrelevant pagan days of worship with Christian ones, thus we have Jesus» incorrect birth on December 25th, near the winter solstice.

He made conversion easier by substituting festivals in honor of Christian martyrs in place of the old pagan festivals.

In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

Hardly anything survives from Constantine's city, but the great church of Hagia Sophia, «Divine Wisdom», now a mosque, which was rebuilt on more than one occasion, is on the site of the church built by Constantine, which was itself built on the foundations of a pagan temple.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

Each chapter offers an insight not only into Muhammad, but also the sociopolitical tensions of a 7th century Arabia, which is beleaguered by drought, famine, war and pagan idolatry.

Nor were animals and the forces of nature to be bowed down to by man as in pagan religion; rather man, as a rational being made in the image of God, was to exercise dominion over them.

Thanks to them and to Canon Law, the pagan customs of polygamy, concubines, arranged marriages and the repression of women had been replaced by monogamy, marriage for life and mutual consent between the spouses.

Only by Christianity absurdity of a Christian, Christian and pagan.

The use of force against those who did not share the Christian faith, be they pagan, Muslim or Jewish, was taken for granted by almost all Christians at the time.

They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo - Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.

Even Hegel's system, for all that it sought to have done with petty subjectivism, could do so only by way of a massive metaphysical myth of the self - positing of the Concept, and of a more terrible economy of necessity than any pagan antiquity had imagined.