Sentences with phrase «in pagan culture»

And not just in Pagan culture, but using that as example.

Time and again God told Israelites to not partake in pagan Culture.

Now on our scale of concerns, what to do about meat sacrificed to idols ranks somewhere below decisions about whether to sod or seed the yard, but in Paul's day eating meat was a question about the limits of Christian participation in pagan culture.

Demons working in pagan cultures knew some cosmic facts, too.

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

Not exact matches

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.

When the apostle Paul wrote this, it was in a culture of pagan worship where the church at Ephesus was situated.

They often became intertwined with the local culture so it is very possible the Jews and Christians in that area integrated beliefs that where somewhat pagan.

Just because I am capable of imagining a pagan world and find the culture emotionally innate to me does not imply I believe in the old religion.

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

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.

It was a pseudonym for Osiris - Dionysus, a pagan god in ancient Mediterranean culture.

That paideia became the model for excellence in theological schooling was simply inherent in the way the Christian thing was construed by Christians and pagans alike in a Hellenistic culture that understood itself to be paideia

Furthermore, Origen insisted that Christian paideia had to be practiced in conversation with the pagan paideia dominant in the church's host culture.

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.

He discusses the parallels between America and Israel, and how Christians are to live, and react within a pagan culture in a way that is loving, yet drawing lines on what is most important.

[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

Yet, while McVeigh rejected God altogether, Breivik writes in his manifesto that he is not religious, has doubts about God's existence, does not pray, but does assert the primacy of Europe's «Christian culture» as well as his own pagan Nordic culture.

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Now, with a beautiful complementarity, Pope Benedict is putting his own particular patristic stamp on the mission of the Successor of Peter - he travels and speaks in the midst of an increasingly pagan culture as a teacher of faith and a witness to the truth and reason of the Christian claim.

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

The solution, particularly in an increasingly Godless, postmodern, secular, ignorant and irrational Western «culture, is certainly NOT to throw more gas on the fire by joining the pagans in their ignorance and rebellion and nihilism.

If you read about most pagan cultures, you will find abundantly the most abominable practices and the Israelites were to stand in contrast to them.

Writing in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War, Eliot said that the «choice before us is between the formation of a new Christian culture, and the acceptance of a pagan one.»

The early church understood the catholicity of its nature and the universality of its message only when it was engaged in mission among the Gentiles in the world of pagan religions and cultures.

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.

They had lived for centuries in a vibrant pagan culture, alternately tolerated and persecuted.

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

In post-Roman Europe, men like Augustine of Canterbury, Boniface and Cuthbert helped to make sense of Christianity for cultures that had once been defiantly pagan.

For the real and sustained opposition to Church teaching today is, as the Pope indicated in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae, an ascendant «culture of death» that has turned legitimate concerns (such as the state of the environment) into frankly pagan movements.

Nobody rings in the New Year quite like the Scots, with their unique blend of cultures dating back to the Vikings and pagans Love is in the air for Dove Cameron and Thomas Doherty!

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».9

Marina Abramovic's exhibition is comprised of several video projections, which explore how sexuality and the human body were employed in Balkan pagan traditions and culture throughout history.

Looking to Brazilian folklore and Baroque religious imagery, as well as Alchemical and Pagan symbols, Stephan has created his own unique language and style which embraces his influences and lets them evolve naturally into his own autobiographical work by combining them with his roots in urban art and Pop culture.