Sentences with phrase «in pagan»

We foster pride in Pagan identity through education, activism, charity and community.

Their knees shook because in pagan cultures there is a fear of animals and trees and the restless Earth Mother.

«I'm really interested in Pagan beliefs and my family always celebrates the summer solstice,» she says.

[Platform: Nintendo 3DS] In the cult hit horror adventure Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took place.

In Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took place.

[Platform: Nintendo 3DS; Release: Summer 2016]-- In the critically acclaimed cult hit Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of brutal murders once took place.

But perhaps the best thing about Far Cry 4 is the superb villain in Pagan Min.

And yes, I'm a shamanic witch and am considered an elder in the Pagan community, having been in the Craft since February 29th (yes, leap year day), 1980.

In pagan times, for example, if you became a slave, it was your bad luck - no slaveholder needed to pretend his slaves were less than human in order to justify keeping them.

We foster pride in Pagan identity through education, activism, charity and community.

Alan Hoffman, a retired professor, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1997 and has participated in several clinical trials with no benefit, he says, until he enrolled in Pagan's study.

The US Probation Department had recommended 6 1/2 to 8 years of prison for Halloran, who tried to claim insanity as a defense at trial and is a «prince» in a pagan order that includes public floggings.

Halloran is a prince in a pagan order that endorses public flogging.

Halloran, of Queens, a «prince» in a pagan order that includes public floggings, was sentenced in March to 10 years.

Rabbits, birds, eggs, and flowering plants are the mainstays of springtime symbolism, and appeared in pagan rituals all across Europe.

In Pagan traditions, fasting is not a reflection of suffering, nor is it meant to remind us of anything more important than self, it is a means of preparation of self, usually for some ritual.

In some Pagan paths, fasting is considered a necessary step for preparing the body for certain spiritual experiences.

In Pagan traditions, this time of year is a time of preparation for the coming year.

Paul rebukes the Corinthians for seeking justice in pagan courts, states that they have already suffered a loss by bringing suits against one another (it would be better to be treated unjustly or defrauded), and recommends the establishment of Church courts (I Cor.

Once Christianity became permanently divorced from its Semitic origins in Judaism, and was proclaiming its Gospel in a pagan context where the ancient mythology was still very much of a reality, it was natural that the idea of the unseen divine world above should steadily become more dominant in Christian thought.

They visited women isolated in pagan households and assisted in the ritual of baptism of women, especially in the prebaptismal anointment.

«What Peter is actually implying, therefore, is that the authority of masters in slavery, and the authority of husbands (especially of the pater familias in the pagan household structure) are human institutions.

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.

So did everyone who ever believed in a pagan god who had a creation story linked to them.

* Lot was condemned for his acts, but such conduct was common custom in the pagan world.

In the beginning works can not save a man; in the end a man is saved for works The initial movement is a casting oneself on God; the steady progress is an ethical advancement, and in a pagan society James was right, for the Gospel which wins men is the Gospel of practical action which demonstrates that men are redeemed.

In that pagan environment, the situation of women was appalling.

You don't see us making cases against people who believe in Pagan faiths, we don't typically touch on Buddhism either.

13:8 - 10 that love means the fulfillment of the Law), but also in pagan literature love — love of man and even love of enemies — is regarded as one of the highest virtues.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

In making this point Cobb (1982 p. 6) says that Basil of Caesarea declared that in pagan literature Christians could find something that «keeps the soul alive».

EVERY one of your holidays / practices has it's roots in pagan rituals.

These passages in Leviticus can be translated to not mean hom ose xual se x generally, but only limiting hom ose xual se x in Pagan temples.

Yuletide pre-existed Christianity in pagan Europe.

This view had its roots in the desert God Yahweh's antagonism to sacred male prostitution, which was prevalent in the pagan nature religions that competed with Israel.

These passages in Leviticus can be translated to not mean homosexual sex generally, but only limiting homosexual sex in Pagan temples.

Here's where it gets really cool: While following a similar organizational structure, the household codes found in the Bible's epistles differ significantly from the household codes found in the pagan literature of the day.

When you stop using the days of the week Tiwsday (Tuesday), Odinsday (Wednesday), Thorsday (Thursday), Friggasday (Friday) or Saturnsday (Saturday), then you can claim that you don't believe in the pagan gods.

Its real point, he said, was «to trace the divine purpose in a pagan world.»

I mean if it was used in some pagan or satanic worship then I'd say it was offensive but come on, this is someone's private expression of art.

Clement had always seen in pagan philosophy, and especially in Greek philosophy.

The more formal definitions of Greek words are based on their use in the pagan Greek literature (naturally).

For Roger Fry, another member of the Bloomsbury Group, Raphael's Transfiguration could excite the same emotions even in the pagan spectator.

For many Messianic believers it comes down to learning that so much currently understood about Jesus is rooted in pagan teachings.

For an eternal idea is just as discernible in the mythical presentation of the cross as it is in pagan mythology — e.g. the idea of sacrifice or heroism.

Pagans believe in pagan gods.

When anti-Semitism began again in Christian culture, then, it was thus more attention - seeking than in pagan times.

Keep this in mind, too: if you'd been born thousands of years ago in pagan Europe, you'd believe in Odin and Thor and Loki or some other set of pagan gods just as much as you believe in the Judeo - Christian God.

The mean nastiness of a punishing Hell, along with the idea of demon creatures have their origins in the pagan beliefs outside of Judaism.

All through the 19th century these European nations had been extending their empires by colonising the world, chauvinistically regarding themselves as the bearers of light to a world in pagan darkness.