Sentences with phrase «of pagan traditions»

In my experience, for example, those who are most concerned with getting rid of all pagan influences in Christianity, are also those who tend to be the most judgmental and critical toward those Christians who still incorporate some of those pagan traditions and customs.

the Christmas tree is of pagan tradition,..

A tree nor Santa have anything to do with christianity and if you knew anything about your holiday you would know that it is based off of pagan tradition largely.

Not exact matches

The base of the tree (which is, I would note from a theological perspective, an entirely pagan tradition) was made up of eight large books, representing the eight nights of Hannukah.

So because these ideas and traditions had a lengthy history, Nazi propagandists were able to easily cast Christmas as a celebration of pagan German nationalism.

I consider myself a descendant of the Roman people and feel I would have been much better off being raised according to pagan traditions.

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.

no records) Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.

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..

Familiarity with stories of cures by similar methods in Jewish and pagan literature may have influenced the tradition of this miracle, so different from Jesus» usual practice in the Synoptic narratives.

Women can lead rituals (and in many traditions are actually above men) and participate as equals (or superiors) in 99.9 % of all «Pagan» traditions.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

Your spiritual experience is valid to me, and most Pagans don't think of other religious traditions as being «wrong»; we just disagree with anyone who thinks they have a stranglehold on the truth.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

But in this country there is not the sharp black - and - white contrast between Christians and pagans, largely, I believe, because the whole life of the country has been soaked for many centuries in the Christian tradition.

They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo - Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.

Ah the perils of incorporating pagan virgin birth mythology into pre-existing Jewish cultural tradition.

Jason Mankey is a Pagan writer, blogger, and lecturer, and an initiated Wiccan (one of the biggest traditions inside Modern Paganism).

It was at the behest of the Catholic church that Christmas became an accepted tradition, though it is the combination of the Roman festival Saturnalia (observed from Dec 17 - 24) and the celebration of Mithra, Persian god of light (observed on Dec 25) The Catholic church continues to observe this pagan celebration, rather than following God's words to «touch nothing unclean».

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.

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....

And just as God has made me into a new creation, so also I take the pagan traditions of Christmas, and rethink, reimagine, rework, and recreate them all to point to the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Not because of the name (as in the calender or trade names) but because of the worship of God thru pagan worship traditions rubber stamped by the church.

«I think there is a genuine embarrassment / horror when people in the West look at, for instance, some of the Pentecostal traditions, and I'm always very worried when people look at Asian or African religion and present it as a kind of syncretism, as a kind of survival of the pagan,» says Jenkins.

I had reservations about the pagan origins of the festivities, and I was honestly frustrated by the powerlessness I felt under the weight of tradition.

I have always observed these traditions but have felt uneasy about them and now this year have been convicted that it is not ok to celebrate these Pagan festivals» Come out of her my people and touch not the unclean thing».

I know that Easter and Christmas were pagan traditions adopted by a pagan King to help win over the Christian population of the time.

It was the Neoplatonists who, though in the main adhering to their pagan tradition, put forward some sort of a philosophy of religion.

Quest for historical Jesus and for secularization of the gospel, for example, was very much influenced the modernity of the Western civilization; and, consequently, Asian religious - cultural traditions were regarded as pre-modern and neglected not only as «pagan», but also as antiquated.

The myth and tradition of Santa Claus has its creation rooted in European Pagan traditions.

If you live in this world and use the names of the days of the week like everyone else, you are using pagan traditions and customs.

So if people truly want to rid themselves of all things pagan, they need to start not with their holidays and traditions, but with their theology.

Jeremy i agree with what you have written many of the traditions in the church have come from pagan beliefs.I thought some of the comments were judgemental of others especially towards those who are pagan.There response was respectful we can learn alot about having a good attitude towards others and responding to others kindly.I think using scripture in a legalistic way is no different than what the pharisees did to Jesus in his day and he disarmed them by rebuking them saying you without sin cast the first stone.regards brentnz

We do also practice tradition, not as tenants of our faith though.Tradition at our house holds that the birthday person picks the meal, it also includes giving gifts at christmas.Not because it was created the same day as a pagan holiday, but because it is a family tradition.

Now by contrast with the pagan Greeks, Jews and Christians do have a tradition of verbal revelation.

In particular, he said, he began to see much of the Old Testament as unoriginal stories that had been told in many pagan traditions.

Blood of Christ, Yap, tradition of hindu Mithra sim, racist savior ism of hindu dark ages, Kill Mithra, THE BULL, EAT HIS FLESH AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, Hindu Catholic ism, filthy compounding of hinduism pagan ism of hindu dark ages and hindu corrupted teachings of Israelite, holy hindu secular ism, crooked donkey ism called Christianity to hind fool humanity in to hindu gentile ism, filthy slavery by hindu Jews, filthy secular s, donkeys by faith.

Historically, not all pagans followed the same traditions or celebrated the same kinds of festivals.

, and I wrote one specifically about the Pagan roots of our Christmas traditions (Christmas Redemption).

As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan tradition.

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.

Given that the pagan philosophies detailed in this history are resonant today, Adamson's attempt to fill in the gaps provides greater context to understand the ongoing conflicts between hedonism and orthodox Abrahamic traditions that animate so much of Western thought.

2,000 years ago what you and I think of as «slavery» was present and considered acceptable, not just by pagans but the Jewish tradition as well.

Paul did, and he was talking about a group of women who were spreading False genealogies and pagan traditions.

Shira, The meme «God hates pagans and apostates» is definitely biblical, which testifies to the reality that individually and collectively all People of the Book [and other Religious Traditions] are capable of greater or lesser spiritual understanding and mature actions.

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Some traditions of Christmas were taken from pagan celebrations, but the holiday itself is about the birth of Christ.

The history was there, in the oral traditions of Jesus» life and death; and the experience was equally real, and could now be shared anywhere and by anyone, by Saul the persecutor, by Gentile centurions and treasurers and simple men of Cyprus and Cyrene and Antioch, by pagan Galatians, and by cosmopolitan Corinthians and Romans — Jews and Greeks, bond and free.

That said, I don't consider an observation of Yule (fact: this was a Germanic pagan tradition LONG before the birth of Christ) or Eostre / Ishtar / Easter (all sorts of convoluted Roman and pagan traditions regarding celebration of spring and death / resurrection were happening around this time of year prior to Christ's existence) to be favoring one religion over another, since so many different religions are involved in those mixes.

just another made up pagan tradition of the catholic that has zero historical meaning outside the catholic church