Sentences with phrase «from pagan cultures»

Hopefully some of the things picked up from pagan culture, such as buildings, can be redeemed and at the same time not consume our values and mission.

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what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

A future Billy Graham will take cues, then, from the Apostle Paul and his outreach to ancient pagan culture.

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.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

That doesn't mean Modern Pagans ignore ideas, beliefs, and deity from outside of Western Culture; it just means that those impulses are generally filtered through a Western prism.

This was the manner in which educated, Greek - speaking Christians from the very beginning had been schooled, whether they were from pagan families or from Jewish families that had become assimilated into Greek culture.

Many of the stories were regurgitated — stolen accounts from previous pagan and Zoroastrian cultures or just simply fabricated to make the masses subservient sheep.

Second, endeavor to learn symbols from all sorts of cultures, including «pagan» cultures.

Most Christians think this is wrong, but what they don't realize is that they have simply chosen different «Pagan» traditions to incorporate... traditions that came from Graeco - Roman culture.

Churches must therefore exert themselves more to distinguish themselves from the pagan values of the surrounding culture — values that often sneak into our churches themselves.

When some of them became Christians, whether from pagan families or from Jewish families assimilated to Hellenistic culture, they came to Christianity as persons who had already been schooled in this way.

Having been born into a «pagan» culture, Pikanii Blackfeet I shall speak from the perspective of one who has and to some degree is there.

Furthermore, I would like to point out that prayers from Christianity are based off of that from Pagans of the ancient cultures of Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia, Asia Minor, and else where where the Mysteries were.

Ireland was still largely under the pagan Druidic culture, so the churches were constantly under attack from the Druidic priests.

And the pagans borrowed from other cultures, too.

Third, the pagans this holiday was stolen from wasn't atheistic, but polytheistic in nature (greco - roman culture).

That was a radical break from the norms of the surrounding pagan culture.

There is a tale from England that St. Boniface, in the seventh century, was traveling in Germany and wanted to draw pagan cultures away from their worship of oak trees.

From Greece the centre of that culture was to move gradually to Italy and over the centuries cultures built themselves on top of others with dizzying density; Christian Rome on top of Pagan Rome, the Goths, Vandals, Lombards, successively on top of Ancient Rome, reducing it through wars often to village status, the Normans from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism&raquFrom Greece the centre of that culture was to move gradually to Italy and over the centuries cultures built themselves on top of others with dizzying density; Christian Rome on top of Pagan Rome, the Goths, Vandals, Lombards, successively on top of Ancient Rome, reducing it through wars often to village status, the Normans from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism&raqufrom the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism».9