Sentences with phrase «mystery cults»

The bible's nothing but a book, mormonism is some kind of mystery cult, jews are a people.

Paul made it up, to compete with the saviors in the Greek mystery cults.

De la Paz is also co-founder of Craft Mystery Cult.

We hear the term «metaphysical» now mainly in reference to modern mystery cults like spiritism.

It was (and is) a pagan - based mystery cult that due to an accident in history (i.e. the Roman - Jewish War 66 - 70 CE, during which Jesus» original sect called «the Nazoreans» ceased to exist) has become Christianity, a non-Jewish and anti-Jewish religion.

In the sacramental mystery cults, which were so influential in the Mediterranean world of the first century, the term (or its equivalent,» Lady») was regularly used to designate the deity who was believed to preside over the cult.

In Plato the two primary Greek meanings for «theos», immortal and soul, coalesce, as they had earlier in the Pythagorean religious tradition, rooted in the Orphic mystery cults as distinguished from the popular Greek religion of the Olympic gods.

The early church faced a bewildering array of philosophical challenges and competitors, from Neo-Platonism and Manichaeism to the Roman mystery cults, with many of the great saints, martyrs and apologists of that age being converts from other belief systems.

In this world, guerilla ballerinas can be found both shooting and suckling orgiastic mystery cults, on the same page as anthropomorphic animals and Bauhaus puppets arranged in ceremonial chaos.

The concept of «salvation» was grafted onto the Jesus movent by Paul of Tarsus, who stole it from the Greek mystery cults.

Jovencio de la Paz is also a cofounder of the international collaborative group Craft Mystery Cult, founded in 2010.

Without Empire «the church» may very well not exist anymore and we would all be talking about how the Mystery Cult is opposed to empire.

Polytheisms, essence religions and mystery cults, on the other hand, invoke unalterable forces and eternal returns; they attribute events to inevitability, inscrutability and whim.

You are worshiping the bizarre remnants of a mystery cult that wrote it's own stories.

Perhaps Dionysus but that was within his mysteries cult that was highly secretive and not out in the open.

Without the ordained ministry, the church would quickly become a mystery cult.

The fact is, the «salvation» paradigm was never spoken of in first gospel, (Mark), and in fact developed historically when Saul of Tarsus first introduced it into the developing cult, because of the influence on him of the Greek mystery cults, (which is where he got it), and then was grafted onto the cult, and into the other gospels which were written AFTER he had first fought with the James community in Jerusalem.

The New Testament, despite a new recourse to mythological representations, principally to those of Jewish eschatology and the mystery cults, begins the reduction of the images which serve it as a vehicle.

There are those, however, who declare that even this majority church succumbed, although less spectacularly, to the trend, and that the dominant form of Christianity became a mystery cult in which Jesus was so distorted or forgotten that he had little effect.

Craft Mystery Cult (a collaboration between Stacy Jo Scott, Sonja Dahl and Jovencio de la Paz) The Color Wheel of Johannes Itten, 2011, Installation

But, inadvertently, Seghal might also be in danger of creating a mystery cult around his brand, as the invisible impresario of fetishised encounters that are in fact common to us all when we meet strangers in real - life situations — in taxi cabs, in coffee shops, while walking the dog.