Sentences with phrase «of paganism as»

8:5) of paganism as imperfect symbols of the one god; Paul may even have known the saying of Antisthenes that «by convention there are many gods, by nature, one» (cf. Gal.

I've always thought of paganism as a catch all for a tribalistic spirituality that is outside the framework of the world's major religions.

Not exact matches

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

The classical Protestant mindset, of course, regards sacramental thinking as something akin to paganism and magic.

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

Just as most of the citizens of the Western world reject paganism, when they give the matter any attention, so likewise do they recognize the untenability of power culture.

From Karl: As a pagan, do you believe the God of the Christian Bible exists, and simply reject him in favor of paganism?

Each of these examples reveals some of the inherent dangers that Eliot tended to minimize in light of what he saw as the more immediate threat of paganism.

dose of paganism is a betrayal to all the believers who gave their lives for the purity of the faith they delivered to us as recorded in the new testament.

Barfield identifies original participation as paganism, and insists that the Old Testament's condemnation of idolatry was a negation of original participation.

It is true that a distinction is made also in paganism, as well as by the natural man, between being in despair and not being in despair; that is to say, people talk of despair as if only certain particular individuals were in despair.

It would also be a prodigious stupidity to deny that pagan nations en masse, as well as individual pagans, have performed amazing exploits which have prompted and will prompt the enthusiasm of poets; to deny that paganism exhibits examples of achievement which aesthetically can not be sufficiently admired.

For it is not true, as a superficial view assumes, that the doctrine of the atonement is the qualitative difference between paganism and Christianity.

The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan did not possess his self directly in the face of God.

He applauded the Christian religious revival of the last quarter of the twentieth century, regarding it as an antidote to militant secularism and «postmodern paganism.»

One is that I was writing about the default neo-paganism of our culture, which, like ancient paganism, is not so much a creed as a stance.

Emperor Theodosius I banned paganism and imposed Trinitarian «Christianity» as the State religion of the Roman Empire.

Christianity is hinduism, paganism, denial of truth absolute, installed with fundamentals of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, 360 * in to two parts, hindu filthy Pharaoh 50 % and his hindu filthy sanatan, goon priest other half, known as hindu pagan trinity,, also known as King as god and his hindu, filthy sanatan, goon prophet, fortune teller as god.

This view makes Jenson less than friendly to certain trajectories in contemporary theology, such as the projecting of goddess images or the revival of paganism.

I think, at least for the well - trained elders, bishops, pastors and leaders, they would have an instinct to recognize that as some form of paganism.

the early church was (for the most part) more flawed and now guilty of crimes against God in that there have been abominations such as the catholic church that bring paganism into people as something of God

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

In Adamson's account, Augustine's legacy looms largest in this era because he had the courage to announce a redefinition of philosophy that required «self - knowledge as involving not just duality but trinity,» and a resistance to any remnant of paganism — that is, anything that does not lead us «away from sin and self - interest to a truly «philosophical» way of life.»

It also retains strong elements of pre-Islamic Arabic paganism, such as worship at the Ka» ba or holy house of Allah at Mecca and many superstitious, even magical practices.

This paganism, with the quasi - or actual worship of nature, leads easily to worship of the Earth as the deity - the worship of Mother Earth, or the Goddess.

But it also includes points that Muslims should consider: that the Qur» an may not deny the Crucifixion, as is often thought, or that its harsh condemnations of the concept of the «Son of God» may in fact be targeting Arab paganism and its carnal deities more than Christianity.

«Because of that dichotomy, paganism is automatically seen as satanic.»

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

In their eyes it is the modern manifestation of the earlier foes of Christianity, such as paganism and apostasy.

I am thinking in particular of the narcissistic body culture and the preoccupation with sexual fulfillment and personal choice that increasingly characterize the West, suggesting to some Muslims a dangerous reversion to paganism and perhaps the moral impotence of Christianity as well.

It is those Biblical teachings after all, that the Roman Church killed Christians for being in posession of while they tried to enstate paganism rituals directly contradicting them, such as Sunday sabbath and Solstice birthday, both of which directly contradict Biblical teachings.

At its lowest, most cultic level, baseball is hospitable to such a variety of little superstitions and local pieties that it almost qualifies as a kind of primitive animism or paganism.

During and after the Exile, the struggle of the Jews against being assimilated by paganism so coerced them into stressing their differentials and, as always in such a case, so led them to stress obvious peculiarities which are external, that Judaism emerged into a new era of accentuated legalism and ritualism.

The second point in our Christian reply to the pretensions of the paganism of today was, you will remember, that, so far as one can find anything new in the twentieth - century paganism, this new thing is something that has been borrowed by paganism from Christianity itself.

D. W. Robertson, J., NY: Liberal Arts, 1958) In the struggle between Christianity and paganism Augustine embarked on a twofold task when writing this book: (1) to define Christian doctrine in such as way as to preserve an exclusive gospel while sifting out pagan accretions; and, (2) to effect a rapprochement between revealed truth and those aspects of pagan learning not inherently antagonistic to that truth.

When the Nazis claimed that the pre-Christian German tribes were of a superior race, Faulhaber responed: «It is an historic fact that this swarm of tribes were first wielded together into stable unity as one nation in consequence of their conversion to Christianity... the greatest perversion would be a relapse into the paganism of ancient Germany.»

First, concerned about the influence of paganism upon the Roman Christians, Paul sees homosexual expression as a result of idolatry, but he does not claim that such practices are the cause of God's wrath.

In the third place, the core of the postwar paganism, under its Christian varnish, is something as old as the hills — an ancient error which Christianity has fought and conquered not once but many times already.

The pagan temptation,» as the philosopher Thomas Molnar described it, is hardly new — the Church has been fighting paganism since the time of Christ — but what is new is its aggressive resurgence, its seduction of so many Christians, and the warnings Pope Francis has issued against it.The Pope's scorching words against paganism have not been well - received by many, but Francis has gone right on assailing it, particularly in areas that pagans care about most: the environment and sex.Francis has been a bold and eloquent defender of the environment, and understands that protecting the environment is not a recent fad, but a long - standing Catholic principle, highlighted by many of Francis's predecessors.

Another example of how religions mimic paganism and claim it as their own.

If not a word about Christianity were heard, men would not be so conceited (as paganism never has been at any time); but by the help of the fact that Christian conceptions are unchristianly floating in the air they are employed in the interest of this most potentiated impertinence, in so far as they are not misused in another and equally shameless way.

If this then is to be understood bluntly, just as a matter of course, without the least reservation, to be taken quite unconcernedly and flippantly — then, if paganism's poetic fiction about the gods might be called human craziness, Christianity might be the invention of a crazy god; such a doctrine could only occur to a god who had lost his wits — so a man must judge who had kept his wits.

Later, in the wake of large - scale Irish immigration, school texts began slandering Roman Catholicism, describing it as an anti-Christian form of paganism and idolatry.

As the meaning of worship evolves in contemporary life, we return to many of the ideas inherent in paganism and animism of ancient traditions.

But just as there are tropical fossils under the ice, calling all bad weather our fault, gives the social psychotics of witch burning, omen worship, paganism, superstition and sacrificing virgins, a new meaner brother by the name of climate change.