Sentences with word «pagan»

The question is as old as the early church's concern over the use of pagan practices of oratory.

But more than that, and here is the best part, and also the part that explains why I revel in pagan holidays, through the grace of Jesus, if He can redeem me from my slavery to sin, why can not He also redeem stories?

Some forty years ago, Heiko A. Oberman published an important article, using the research of Bishop Paulus Rusch of Innsbruck, in which he argued that the negative Nestorian reaction to Theotokos was initially a response to heretical groups who claimed that Mary was the mother of God not only according to the humanity of Christ but also according to the divinity of Christ, in the same way as there are mothers of gods in pagan religions.

Furthermore, I would like to point out that prayers from Christianity are based off of that from Pagans of the ancient cultures of Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia, Asia Minor, and else where where the Mysteries were.

(Halloween is not as pagan as you think it is.)

(op.cit., p. 175) In this situation persecution was «less the result of a systematic policy than of denunciation by pagans who spread damaging falsehood about the new forms of worship» (Bruno Chenu, et.al.

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The same can be said for Pagan Min in Far Cry 4, who at times felt more like the bad guy from a Bond flick.

Im waiting for more attacks on Christians in your articles, I'm sure Christmas is coming so you can dissect that holiday and search for pagan roots as you do in everything.

It shouldnt surprise the readers that much of Christianity is based on pagan practices.

(If the truth be told, Christians have already borrowed a huge chunk of Pagan beliefs and practices.

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

The dignity of man - and therefore the wrongness of killing innocent human beings - stands at the heart of natural law in the Christian dispensation, in contrast with the ancient pagan world.

There are many Pagans who continue to embrace Yahweh and Jesus in their rituals; they just supplement them with other gods.

Too many lies along with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are taught in the churches today (Christmas, Easter, Eternal torment in Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must go.

He made conversion easier by substituting festivals in honor of Christian martyrs in place of the old pagan festivals.

btw muslims belive in jesus moses and muhammad as prophets and belive in their original teachings not the ones placed in the bible which have been altered by pagan romans.

If origins did matter, then christians would not celebrate Christmas or Easter because both are based on pagan holidays.

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Early pagans didn't instigate war over the belief that their religious views were the only true path and all others must be eliminated.

I would suggest you read Frank Viola's books like Pagan Christianity, Re-imagining Church, Finding Organic Church, and The Untold Story of the New Testament Church, which answers your question.

I realize he claims that his form of Gnosticism is ancient with pagan roots, and that the official Christian Church rejected early Gnosticism, to its eternal detriment.

The eventual selection of Dec 25, made perhaps as soon as 273, shows a convergence of Origen's matter about pagan gods and the church's id of God's boy with the celestial sunlight.

So also, the «contract» between God and the Israelites in Deuteronomy is based off a Mesopotamian Suzerain - Vassal treaty, which often used pagan deities to guarantee the terms of the treaties.

As far as the winter solstice and Christmas, there is no date given in scripture for the birth of Christ it may have actually been spring, early church leaders decided to celebrate it when they did to stamp out other pagan celebrations at the time.

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What might have eventually passed into oblivion (as all other ancient pagan holidays), is now a recurring celebration of eroticism, pre-marital sex, and fertility — all in the name of «Saint Valentine.»

It is likely that a second reason for Paul's using homosexuality as his illustration of the immediate consequence of idolatry is that its public manifestations were typically associated with pagan temples.

Joseph Seed, much like Pagan Min in Far Cry 4 and Vaas in Far Cry 3, is an eccentric villain who you'll love to hate during the 6 - 8 hours of mainline story.

Christians simply didn't have a date that they celebrated the birth of their Savior, and were attempting to convert many Pagans into Christianity, so they joined the ranks and went with December 25th.

If you read about most pagan cultures, you will find abundantly the most abominable practices and the Israelites were to stand in contrast to them.

When Christians woke up to the fact people were celebrating the holiday with pagan symbols most of them got phased out.

The Catholics, he explained, were really good at converting pagans by appropriating their seasonal festivals for Christian purposes.

Christian holidays ARE based of the seasons, but not all of them just the winter solstace and the spring solstace because when Christians were trying to convert Pagans into Christianity they figured it would be easier if the clebrations they had were around the same times.

But even without the exact details I listed above, there are parallels in ideas and themes from old pagan myths and themes found in the Gospels.

We do not follow Islam, go against the injunction of Quran against pagan practices such as Hijab.

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.

Pagan Goddesses are equal to male deities.