Sentences with phrase «converting pagans»

That's three years of usurping thrones, marrying for power, converting pagans and throwing heirs off of parapets.

The Catholics, he explained, were really good at converting pagans by appropriating their seasonal festivals for Christian purposes.

Hitherto, the Church has faced the task either of converting pagans (ie worshippers of other gods), or of constantly renewing the vigour of Christendom.

They also had the problem of converting pagans to their faith, given that the reward promised for following Mosaic Law was that the Jews got to live and prosper in the Promised Land (hardly an incentive for your average Greco - Roman pagan).

Early Christians wanted to convert pagans, Shaw said, but they were also fascinated by their traditions.

(3) Yes, the date was moved from the traditional date (March) to the new tradional date (December) to overlap some pagan holidays — again, to help convert the pagans who were more likely to convert when they didn't have to give up their feasting, singing, and gift giving with conversion.

A holiday meant to convert pagans.

Christian holidays ARE based of the seasons, but not all of them just the winter solstace and the spring solstace because when Christians were trying to convert Pagans into Christianity they figured it would be easier if the clebrations they had were around the same times.

That Christianity not only converted pagan Rome and her Emperor, but surviving the military collapse of Rome, reformed and forged anew the wild tribes of Europe into a new and Christian Roman Empire that lasted for at least one thousand years, is not ever mentioned.

Mark: Christmas and Easter are holidays taken over by christians as they moved in and attempted to control / convert pagans.

It was easier for early missionaries to convert pagans my modifying existing celebrations than to throw too many new concepts at them.

Christmas was invented by the church in order to convert pagans who celebrated the Winter Solstice.

Ex: the entire city of Goa in India was wiped out due to catholic inquisitions... convert the pagan infidels!!!

Not exact matches

What do you think the response would be to an event aimed at converting people to Islam or pagan worship?

No, Easter is the celebration of a pagan goddess that the christians stole in order to convert more people to their religion.

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.

I think the pagans should be the ones taking offense at the absurdity of christianity and how it walked in, stole their rituals and forced them to convert.

The reasons for the seasons — you mean the early Christian church co-opting pagan celebrations in order to gain converts?

C. S. Lewis said that the way to convert the world to Jesus was to first turn them into good pagans.

There the church was Latin - speaking and produced great writers and leaders such as Tertullian (c.160 - c. 225), who was brought up in Carthage, and Cyprian (d. 258), who was a pagan orator who was converted to Christianity in about 246 and who, two years later, was elected Bishop of Carthage.

This he thought would appease the pagans and make them more likely to convert.

Regarding its historical credibility Christianity could put high presure on «infidels» or «pagans» to convert, because Christianity is indeed the «royal» faith.

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

During that time, massive numbers of Pagans were converting to Christianity in a relatively short period of time.

So today we have Easter, Christmas, Valantines Day, Ground Hogs day, all previous Pagan Holidays converted and Christianized not to mention packaged and merchandized We also celebrate Halloween which is the Death of the Sun god in Pagan belief.

By the Holy Bible at least the pagans, which have converted to Christianity (we), can not reason any aggressive war.

According to Stewart McCullogh there is no evidence of large numbers of Jews turning to Christianity and that most of the converts must have come from the ranks of either pagans or Zoroastrians.

They began to plagiarize from other religions to make it more palatable to the pagans they wished to convert.

With 1,500 of them out there converting two Chin - amen apiece per annum against an uphill birth rate of 33,000 pagans per day, it will take upward of a million years to make the conversions balance the output and bring the Christianizing of the country in sight to the naked eye; therefore, if we can offer our missionaries as rich a field at home at lighter expense and quite satisfactory in the matter of danger, why shouldn't they find it fair and right to come back and give us a trial?

«Taking turns» refers to antiphonal recitations Justin Martyr, a pagan converted to Christianity in the second century, composed the First Apology and sent it to his Emperor, Antonius Pius.

Few contemporary pastors use the language of damnation - «turn or burn,» converting «the pagans» or warning people they're going to hit «hell wide open» - because it's considered too polarizing, Leonard says.

He also didn't want pagans unfamiliar with the teachings of Christ and the Jewish culture interrupting services with questions or bossing around other converts.

Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.

We confiscated pagan temples and converted them into centers for the worship of Jesus.

Islam was a great religion for helping pagans out of idolatry but not when it foments trouble around the world in its zeal to convert non-believers.

Yes the holiday was set up on a pagan holiday and it was done in an effort to convert these religions.

Do a little research and you will find that Jesus most definitely was not born on Dec 25 and that these traditions were pagan rituals that the church gave Christian names to in order to make the newly conquered converts easier to control.

They stole it from pagans and claimed it was the birth of Christ... Therefore lying to their followers and others to gain converts... Your church lied to you to gain your allegiance... brilliant.

According to The Encyclopedia Americana, many scholars believe that this was done «in order to make Christianity more meaningful to pagan converts.»

He pointed out that for the most part, pagan converts to the early church did not absorb Christian teaching intellectually and then decide to become Christians.

Paul's letters were to specific churches and many were having problems because of recent pagan converts (some had been priestesses) disrupting services.

Someone like Augustine (who was a pagan until he converted, even when it would have been much more convenient to remain a pagan) didn't have an answer for that, and confessed that the solution was tautological: God is God.

Christians simply didn't have a date that they celebrated the birth of their Savior, and were attempting to convert many Pagans into Christianity, so they joined the ranks and went with December 25th.

Just another way that the early Xtian church subverted another pagan religious practice in a way to gain converts.

His birth was moved to December, yes — to conform to the Pagans to convert them.

St. Paul said that after the last pagans or gentiles have converted the Jews as a whole will finally start to accept Jesus as their Messiah.

«Yes,» came back the reply, «but he did not give the names of his converts to the priests of the pagan temples!»

He mentions the Americas at some length in his work, but mainly as a recapitulation of the earlier episode of Christian triumph when pagan Roman civilization was successfully converted and civilized.

In Holy Fury, Pagan rulers who reform their religion instead of converting will have a chance to design that new Reformed Paganism.