Sentences with phrase «like pagan»

By combining these rational elements with natural substances rising proudly like pagan idols in this rigorously abstract, modern scene, Bove productively complicates this dialogue and reaches a balance at once delicately precise and strangely provisional.

During this close - minded time period in American cinema, she was showcased for her «exotic» qualities in films like Pagan Love Song, Latin Lovers, and The Fabulous Señorita.

What Mr. Halloran was not interested in making this campaign about, however, were «non-issues,» and he vowed «not to lose focus» on substantive messaging, a possible reference to aspects of his colorful biography, like Pagan beliefs, that appeared in his 2009 City Council campaign.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

The most un-Christ like pagan holiday on the calendar.

At their worst they became very like the pagan rituals which the Bible text holds not to be pleasing to God or appropriate to men, occasions for offering sacrifices in order to bribe God and buy off his anger.

Anyway, I have taken this up in prayer with Him, and He is showing me more and more that He looks like Jesus, not like the pagan war deities of other religions.

«Some day,» he predicted, «it will be universally recognized that the objects of Christian religion, like the pagan gods, were mere imagination.»

You can read a really cool discussion of their answer on christmas and easter at http://www.ptmin.org/answers.htm They say it can be redeemed, like some pagan practices can be, but others they feel can't.

In fact, I'd say he was just like the pagan gods, simply repackaged for improved sales.

God is not like some pagan deity whose default attitude toward us is anger and vengeful wrath.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

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.

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 /

Let's put it like this pagans, god has no simpathy for you on judgement day so I hope you know what your coming fate is.

The verse that comes to mind is Matthew 6:7 that says when you pray do not babble like the pagans do.

This is why I like pagans.

A third century theologian said it well: «We hold this day holy, not like the pagans because of the birth of the sun, but because of Him who made it.»

Lewis could not address the question without confronting the fact that he liked the pagan myths but was repulsed by Christianity.

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

He writes, therefore, to»... insist and protest in the Lord that you must give up living like pagans, for their purposes are futile, their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dullness of heart has produced in them.»

to the prophet Jeremiah He, (The Creator God) said that «burning people» like the pagans were doing had never come up into his heart.

Not exact matches

Several early Christian apologists claimed that the reason the gospel stories looked so much like * earlier * pagan stories was the Satan himself had set it all up in advance — a pre-emptive strike to confuse everyone.

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.

Judaism is the only true faith and all these heretical versions of it like Christianity and Islam are false, pagan, blasphemous, and reject the Covenant Abraham made with the Eternal One, the Ten Commandments, the Tanakh, the one and only Book, and Talmud the codification of the Tanakh.

While most of the questions have a Christian element, even an old Pagan like me had no trouble answering all correctly.

For extra lulz try telling them something like you're a member of ancient Pagan religion of Slovakia or something.

Except that Judaism is the only true faith and all these heretical versions of it like Christianity and Islam are false, pagan, blasphemous, and reject the Covenant Abraham made with the Eternal One, the Ten Commandments, the Tanakh, the one and only Book, and Talmud the codification of the Tanakh.

So I could imagine a Jesus saying «Look, stop trying to be religious, just drop the pretense and the holiness - BS and be compassionate and empathetic like the good pagans around you.

I suspect your church, like all of them, are offshoots of the pagan rituals you all stole from the ancients.

How about some articles about Afro - Carribean faiths, or Ancestor veneration in Asia, or neo-greek pagans, or Sikhs, or Chritisian «heretical» sects like the arians etc etc etc etc

If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

The sneaky dude went back in time and made it look like all those evil pagan deities did the same things as jazus, just to fool everyone.

We former pagans had all the conventional wisdom, but nothing profoundly complex and systematic like the Bible.

I urge you, read up on the various religions out there (Eastern Religions, pagan religions, dead religions ect...), heck even do it with your very narrow christian lense on, look at it like your scouting out the enemy for weaknesses.

Most of what passes for Christmas traditions are in fact Pagan / Heathen, like the lighted and decorate tree, candles in the windows, wreath on the door, caroling from door to door, exchanging gifts, etc..

And before you scream pagan at me, I like the taoist way of looking at diety better.

whether we do not worship other gods or not, we use the same symbolisms, like the egg and the bunny, pagan symbols of fertility.

The old saw that God helps those who help themselves is pagan and false, but like any heresy that is not a truth dislocated it is a truth with a falsifying twist.

Like Santa Claus, Zwarte Piet is a hybrid stock character of pagan origin.

newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm «The belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity; pagans, like Menander and Plutarch (cf. Euseb., «Praep.

This tack has been quite effective in working with pagans, wiccans, and several people who have joined some questionable new age groups... like the mother of a friend who after years as a pentacostal became a scientologist... were still working on that one... time to go to bed.

Muslims do not support atheism absurdity of evolution, but existence of truth absolute Muhammed, atheism absurdity of evolution is a fundamental of atheism, pagan ism, self center ism, product of observation of animals se x, having nothing to do with physical science, To learn causes of mayhem among atheists kafeers, Cristians, Jews, Hindus please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go and click on Like.

For a long time, the most common definition of the word pagan read something like this «anyone who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew.»

«Intentionally appropriating part of the pagan calendar in order to weaken competing faiths» hardly seems like something you could describe as a «blunder.»

Actually, God displays pretty much the whole range of emotion we see in ourselves, exactly like the Greek and other pagan gods.

She evidences here a refusal of pagan luxury that is in keeping with the actions and attitude of other figures, like Daniel who were also in captivity.

The story that Satan had made a pre-emptive strike by making earlier pagan stories look so much like the later gospels is one dead give - away.

I'd like muslims to explain clearly this verse from the Quran found in Surah 9:5» «ight and slay the pagans (or infidels or unbelievers) wherever you find them».

The December 25th observance was conducted by the Catholic Church and had nothing to do with the pagan observances (Saturnalia to be precise) Catholics, like the Jews have a liturgical year.