Sentences with phrase «even of paganism»
The priests had begun to look and act rather like the very priests of the old Jewish Law or even of paganism which Jesus of Nazareth had, according to the story, come to displace for all time.
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Many scholars, ancient and modern, have pointed out that such contact with Christianity is unlikely but that, even if it did happen, the Christianity practiced in that part of the world was so debased that it was indistinguishable from paganism.
8:5) of paganism as imperfect symbols of the one god; Paul may even have known the saying of Antisthenes that «by convention there are many gods, by nature, one» (cf. Gal.
This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.
It also retains strong elements of pre-Islamic Arabic paganism, such as worship at the Ka» ba or holy house of Allah at Mecca and many superstitious, even magical practices.
People have not even reached the consciousness of sin, they know only the kind of sin which paganism also knew, and they live on happily in pagan security.
Neither does the Bible, all the more so when it is trying to metaphorically convince me not only of a fairy, but a cobalt blue fairy with peculiarly tinted wings, forcing me to also consider the sky blue fairy of Judaism, the navy blue fairy of Islam, the red fairies of Hinduism, the purple fairies of the Norse religion, the green fairies of paganism, the rainbow - colored fairies of ancestor worship, all of which are equally implausible and mutually exclusive alternative kinds of fairies where we don't even have a single fairy of any color trapped in a cage.