Sentences with phrase «pagan god»

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.

The strategy seems to be to bring the discredited pagan gods in Christian disguises, hoping that the traditional piety may be merged with the secular forms of self - confidence.

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

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.

Even Christendom reflected its own pagan past by continuing to name the days of the week after pagan gods, though we have long since forgotten why.

He was a myth created by first - century Jews who modeled him after other dying and resurrected pagan gods.»

Only pagan Gods came in threes and burned disobedient followers.

The name Jesus is a Roman pagan god.

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.

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.

pagan god Gowd, the belly, it is full of it, it can do nothing but full of hind, stink like a hindu stinky skunk.

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

Do christians not celebrate with «yule» tide greetings... you know, pagan god Yule, which obviously predated christianity?

Of course, Emperor Constantine forced all the priests to combine pagan gods and festivals with the new Christian religion at the Council of Nicea in 325AD in order to consolidate his empire.

Q. are the other pagan gods stronger than the christian god?

There's a moment in Sinister when Ethan Hawke peers into an attic and sees a gaggle of ghost children watching a Super 8 movie of Bughuul, a Babylonian pagan god.

There's one photograph from my past i desperately want to find, but i fear it was lost to the voracious pagan god of bits and bytes years ago — another case for printing your digital photos as soon as you take them.

It also includes embodiments, in the form of modern consumer goods, of the legendary 360 Arab pagan gods that Mohammad anciently banished from the holy precincts of Mecca's Ka'abah.

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

jesus was also equated with Horus, and Isis the sun - gods, and they used the Amen Rah, and Amen Sirapus, for other pagan gods, not of the covenant of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob, that is taught, and prophesied in Daniel 11:39 of christianity, and in Deut.32: 17, of Moses.

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.

It was coined by the Greeks to identify and separate people who did not share their pagan god beliefs.

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

Writing in the New Statesman Tom Holland said that the more he studied ancient history, the more he saw that pagan gods and followers did not value human life equally, routinely upholding the strong and rich above the weak and poor.

They named the days of the week after the pagan gods of Rome, the Sun and the Moon.

Just because someone who prays to pagan gods in certain way, then decides to pray to the true God through Christ in the same ritual that they were so ingrained from childhood, doesn't mean the person moved back to pagan gods.

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.

Hell is a consequence of God's loving act in giving us a choice of whom to follow — God, nothing, ourselves, the universe, or pagan gods.

The only period in time in which there was an active war with Muhammad was when the people from Mecca who banished him to Medina followed Muhammad in order to kill him for spreading the religion of Islam and destroying the pagan gods of the old Middle East.

Secular thought and FreeThought, as well as atheism, is not any more a religion than not believing in Unicorns, ghosts, ESP, Pagan gods and goddesses, and the list is endless.

What the bible condemns is rape, idolatry and worshiping a pagan god using sex.

Romans 1:23 - 32 — glad to see you included 23 since that set the precedence for that scripture they were worshiping their pagan god using sex.

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.

As I understand it, most Pagans were getting tats referring to their Pagan gods and dieties.

What your bible condemns is male prostitution, idolatry, worshiping a pagan god using sex and rape.

What your god does condemn is male prostitution, idolatry, worshiping a pagan god using sex and rape.