Sentences with phrase «in pagan holidays»

Most Christians want to stay as far away from Pagan holidays as they can, thinking that participating in pagan holidays is participation with the world.

But more than that, and here is the best part, and also the part that explains why I revel in pagan holidays, through the grace of Jesus, if He can redeem me from my slavery to sin, why can not He also redeem stories?

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My mother told me that placing my faith in God was the answer / But then I hated God cause he gave my mother cancer / Killing her slow like the Feds did to the Blank Panthers / The genesis of genocide is like a Pagan religion / Carefully hidden, woven into the holidays of a Christian /

Heck, most of the holiday christian covet so much is pagan in nature and they don't even know it.

Let's be honest, with the drinking the brawling over stuff in the stores, this holiday is more like the pagan one that the christians stole from them how many thousand years ago.

All the other stuff about Easter (as a holiday), eggs, rabbits etc are directly stolen from pagan fertility symbols that are relevant to the return of earthly fecundity in the Spring.

How long will you continue involve yourselves in holidays with pagan origin?

These are ALL taken directly from the pagan / heathen Yule holiday, which predate the arrival of Christianity in Europe.

Christmas was a pagan holiday in which the ruling Christians adopted so that the pagans would become Christian (falling right near the winter solstice).

Jesus is in the business of redemption, and just as Jesus has redeemed you and I, He redeems the cultural elements and traditions that surround us, including pagan holidays.

Im waiting for more attacks on Christians in your articles, I'm sure Christmas is coming so you can dissect that holiday and search for pagan roots as you do in everything.

Given the things that I've said about pagan elements in the Christian church, this might surprise you, but the old pagan holidays are actually good occasions to contrast the message of Yehoshua with the old pagan beliefs.

It could be worded better, but Easter in this post is in reference to the resurrection of Jesus, not the pagan holiday of «where's the eggs?».

In fact, I wrote a whole book proving that Jesus was not born in December, and that most of our Christmas traditions are Pagan holidays..In fact, I wrote a whole book proving that Jesus was not born in December, and that most of our Christmas traditions are Pagan holidays..in December, and that most of our Christmas traditions are Pagan holidays....

I have never understood the point of looking for evil, pagan roots or whatever in holidays so we can avoid them.

No it's not your Christ wasn't even born in December it was stolen from other pagan holidays, especially the winter Solstice.

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

So today we have Easter, Christmas, Valantines Day, Ground Hogs day, all previous Pagan Holidays converted and Christianized not to mention packaged and merchandized We also celebrate Halloween which is the Death of the Sun god in Pagan belief.

Though they don't say it, I imagine the authors are against Christmas and Easter as well, since both of these holidays are steeped in pagan cultic worship practices.

It is curious that many Christian rituals, practices, and holidays have their roots in pagan practices.

In this book, I argue that even though Christmas is a pagan holiday, Christians must celebrate it.

Mark: Christmas and Easter are holidays taken over by christians as they moved in and attempted to control / convert pagans.

They celebrated Yule in the winter ages before the Church took over the holiday to promote Jesus... All pagan festivals and holidays were given Christian meaning because the Church wanted to brainwash the masses and make assimilation easier!

Horus: Egyptian, 6000 BC Dionysus: Greek, 1500 BC Attis: Greek, 1200 BC Mithra: Zoroastrian, 600 BC Krishna: Hindu, 400 BC Jesus: Christian, 30 AD A) Born on Dec. 25 — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus (by way of plagiarizing a Pagan holiday B) Virgin Birth — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus C) Sign of Star in the East — Horus, Krishna, Jesus D) Adorned by 3 Kings — Horus, Jesus E) Teacher at age 12 — Horus, Mithra, Jesus F) Ministry started at 30 — Horus, Jesus G) 12 Disciples — Horus, Mithra, Jesus H) Traveled with Disciples Performing Miracles — Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus I) AKA The Truth, the Light, God's Shepherd — Horus, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus J) Betrayed — Horus, Mithra, Jesus K) Crucified — Horus, Attis, Mithra, Jesus L) Buried 3 days — Horus, Attis, Mithra, Jesus M) Resurrected — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus

Some people use it perhaps in this context, but wheni say say Christmas is a religious holiday in which pagans amd Christians celebrated it, it means that people of varying faiths celebrated it.

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.

And a great many people have attacked atheists about them celebrating Christmas, in our secular way, with the pagan traditions that make up most of the Christmas holiday.

Yes the holiday was set up on a pagan holiday and it was done in an effort to convert these religions.

Marshall, in Huntington, West Virginia, allows students to miss classes to observe pagan and other religious holidays.

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

At this time in history, the churches were receiving pagans into the church ranks, the pagan holidays were incorporated with the church so that no one was offended and to keep the pagans comfortable while learning our Savior, Jesus Christ's message of truth.

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

They were just co-opted from pagan holidays and do not require worship in magic man in the sky to have fun on those days.

Because in the minds and practice of most Christians, the Christmas tree does not represent a pagan holiday, but represents a time when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

What might have eventually passed into oblivion (as all other ancient pagan holidays), is now a recurring celebration of eroticism, pre-marital sex, and fertility — all in the name of «Saint Valentine.»

Valentine's Day originally had it's origins in the Roman pagan holiday of Lupercalia Day.

While Trick» r Treat is ostensibly out to tackle the problem of this wonderfully pagan holiday, other than suggesting that if you don't give treats and keep your jack - o» - lantern lit you'll get killed by a pumpkinheaded kid, it doesn't really offer much in the way of history.

What with Nightcrawler hiding eggs in interdimensional hidey holes, Beast very excitedly explaining the Pagan origins of the holiday's traditions, and Deadpool just throwing stuffed rabbits at everyone, it's an eventful day.

He and his wife, Joy Feasley, built a solar oven in a greenhouse for use in a celebration of the pagan holiday Imbolc.

Recent exhibitions include a collaboration with his wife, Joy Feasley, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, as part of Locally Localized Gravity in which the two built a solar oven in a greenhouse that was used in a celebration of the pagan holiday, Imbolc.