Sentences with phrase «of pagan gods»

The Waterfall of the Gods is so named because, according to the Icelandic Saga of Christianity, Thorgeir, a former pagan chieftain, denounced his beliefs by throwing wooden carvings of pagan gods into the falls.

The achievement of pagan gods and of oracles Christian theory explained by assuming that the fallen angels had masqueraded as gods to work the further damnation of man.

Instead he used soil to invoke the curses of the pagan gods of the Earth — prior to disappearing into his silent monastery to pray and fast for forgiveness.

do you accept the laws of odin, how about the other versions of your god or those of the pagan gods?

Perhaps even giving names to days of the week is itself a bit pagan — especially as the names we have are in fact those of pagan gods.

As Gunter Wagner observes, to none of the pagan gods «has the intention of helping men been attributed.

Otherwise, we've made no progress from the days when people cowered in caves fearing the wrath of their pagan gods.

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.

If I'm going to argue that all of the pagan gods of antiquity are valid representations of deity, I have no choice but to look at Yahweh as a valid representation of deity.

Or are captured by the fact that we meet in a downtown L.A. club called the Mayan, defined by the thousands of pagan gods that cover the entire complex, and label us an emerging church.

Christmas is a pagan holiday, on a pagan date for the winter solstice, Easter began as a celebration of the pagan god Ester.

The Hebrew term is a barely disguised imitation of the name of a pagan god.

And I would do so between worship of the Judaic / Christian God and worship of a pagan god.

Set during civil conflict, the film mostly follows Earth - born, armor - clad Don Rumata (Leonid Yarmolnik), who poses as the baronial offspring of a pagan god as he makes his way through the sweaty, ugly, farting, primitive madding crowd.

Not exact matches

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 /

Reminds me of when the Apostle Paul in New Testament finds among the pagans the statue to the «unknown god» — I guess just in case they forget one (since they had so many).

At one point the protagonist, John, has a conversation with History in which History informs him that the Landlord (God) has sent «pictures» of Himself to many of the pagans in the land who live apart from Mother Kirk (The Church).

Regardless of some pagan uses in the past, Easter today is the day to remember and be thankful for a God who sent is only begotten son, who was without transgression, to die for our sins and then be raised from the dead that all who believe in Him may have eternal life.

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

He also said that while pagan gods maintained their positions in the universe by punishing people, the Christian God acted profoundly differently by punishing himself on man's behalf - something unheard of before that point.

This could be a sample of judgment that falls on a pagan society that is filled with lust or God removing a known obstacle to the plan of salvation through Christ (Jesus came from this group of Israelites).

Pagans do not care which god you worship but the Cult of the Emperor made the Romans care.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

Christians and Jews follow the real God and muslims follow the pagan moon god of the Quarish TriGod and muslims follow the pagan moon god of the Quarish Trigod of the Quarish Tribe.

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

These terms have been watered down, and most (not all) people equate them as follows: - Most Christian / Muslim / Hindu / Pagan = a Gnostic Theist = Know of god's existence / non-existence, and believe in god.

It was in a period of philosophical and religious ferment, when the pagan gods failed to offer answers to the problems of ordinary life, that Christ came into the world and revealed God's salvific plan to all of mankind.

The pagan Canaanite religious worship of the people of Sodom included the cultic, religious, se.xual activity which was forbidden by God in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 and Deuteronomy 23:17 - 18.

As for the first pagans (sumerians), they worshiped the fallen angels that come in form of aliens, gods and goddesses, enchanted beasts, and serpent weilders, and shouldn't be taken lightly, these witches, wizards.

@ Catholic Mom before you talk you should reseach your beliefs cause in the 2nd council of Nicene they accepted that they could make Idols, that the 2nd commandment was talking about pegan gods lol... the only thing they did was bring Pagans beliefs and mixed it with Christianity....

The plagues also showed His mercy, being tailored to disrupt and humiliate the worship of their pagan deities without causing loss of human life until the final plague, which occurred only after God had exhausted every other option (Graeser, et.

They were called out by God to be His chosen people, and as such, as a people they had to be dramatically different from the surrounding ungodly, pagan nations of the time.

you guys have to understand, we as followers of christ (not christians) it is our job to tell you (society) that god exist and that he loves us and is willing to forgive us for the f @ # $ up things we do to each other daily, not prove he exist, b / c he sent prophets through out the ages to do that, some listen (hebrews, muslims) some didn't (pagans, atheis, new agers), then you have those who have had their souls violated (gays) who feel lost and confused.

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

JUDAISM, Self center ism, pig ism, or Atheism, invented by hindu's pagan's of Egypt by corruption of truth absolute in Torah to Justify hindu pagan Pharaoh's and their hindu pagan Santans, goons as god's to rule over humanity with impunity.

I know of no one (certainly not christians) who use the holiday to worship pagan gods.

Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there is only one God; (2) that this God is not identified with or contained by any region of nature; (3) that the pagan gods and goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations of the one true God; and (4) that the worship of any of these false divinities is idolatry.

The pagan myths commonly depicted the origins of natural phenomena in terms of the marriages and births of various gods and goddesses.

And yet it captures also that so graceful was his generous acceptance of injustice for our sake that a pagan soldier could not help but observe: Surely this man was the Son of God!

The same one that Changed the Sabbath day and renamed the days of the week to honor pagan gods?

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

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.

Jews and pagans generally taught that the manifestation of God or the gods to humans usually took place in a mediated or disguised mode (through burning bushes or nocturnal visitors, for example).

What a load of crap so did other pagan gods and they were bogus too.

Lots of Pagans I know worship Eastern Gods, and use Native American Ritual Techniques, but if they wanted to focus exclusively on those things they would join a Shinto Temple or petition the Lakota tribe for membership.

For example, whereas the sun and moon were the objects of worship in pagan religion, the Book of Genesis taught that they were nothing but lamps set in the heavens to give light to day and night: not gods, but mere things, creatures of the one true God.

This same criticism of religion is found in his poem «Christians and Pagans»: «Men go to God when they are sore bestead.

Some aspects of our lives reveal that we have changed very little from the pagan days when there was a god who was served on each day, and each god had requirements that were different.

Here the term «theos» is used of the God and Father of Our Lord, in spite of its palpably pagan associations.

Would you say it's common for Wiccans to have a «personal» relationship with their god (s) similar to how Christians think of Jesus, or is that not how pagans generally view their association with a deity?