Sentences with phrase «day as a pagan»

We do also practice tradition, not as tenants of our faith though.Tradition at our house holds that the birthday person picks the meal, it also includes giving gifts at christmas.Not because it was created the same day as a pagan holiday, but because it is a family tradition.

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Easter may have its origins as a pagan holiday... but Catholics... which are a branch of Christianity, view Easter as the holiest of days... starting on Good Friday when Jesus was executed to his rebirth on Sunday.

We don't celebrate days of week or months of year so not the same as actually making preparation for the pagan festivals and feasts.

I agree with you Jeremy in a sense, but I also agree with what Chrissy says, «I believe God is calling His bride out of the Harlot system and these pagan festivals are instigated by the Roman Catholicism, just as the changing of the Sabbath day was too.»

I'm not Christian anymore, but I celebrate it as a family day, because you know, quite frankly, we need at least one of those each year (and besides, whatever name it has, it was co-opted by Christians from a much older, pagan holiday, so it's fair game).

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?

Most Christians are classiifed pagan as sunworshipers because the observse sunday as the day of rest.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

We may not see a bumper harvest now but, as Peter puts it in 1 Peter 2:12, «Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.»

Perhaps even giving names to days of the week is itself a bit pagan — especially as the names we have are in fact those of pagan gods.

As a sometimes christian, pagan, Buddhist, I surely don't need a government to tell me that i need a day to recognize prayer, i take the time to pray when i need to.

But, in general, he was speaking up for the option and practical possibilities of a «true» Catholic Christianity, and against the sinful Christian vices of the (Christian) rulers and citizens of the day by showing the «natural» virtues of «good pagans» (who, incidentally, he depicted as practising euthanasia, an option for «reasonable» men unenlightened by Christian faith) in his imaginary faraway republic.

As most people go to church for only and hour on the Pagan sun god's day of worship, and only get a very watered down feel good sermon with a text book drummed into them interpretation, there is very little Bible and Scripture in church.

We get really into celebrating it around here, maybe cause there are a lot of Pagans and Wiccans around here, I don't know... anyways, I found packs of puzzles, stickers, and rings to give out as well as some non-nestle candy... I let my son eat a few things after he goes out and then he forgets about the cany after a few days.

im 34, married, 3 step kids, want kids of my own one day, country boy, disabled veteran, pagan, baby blue eyes, short brown hair, medium build, average looking, tattoos, piercing, 5 ft 7in tall, 180 pounds, i own with my wife a online pagan shop, im starting a handyman business as well.

The film starts with Max von Sydow (The Quiller Memorandum, Three Days of the Condor) as Father Merrin, leading an archaeological expedition into northern Iraq where artifacts of pagan origin are discovered which results in some unexplained calamities.