Sentences with phrase «pagan gods in»

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.

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 a pseudonym for Osiris - Dionysus, a pagan god in ancient Mediterranean culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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....

If there is a single Pagan in the room and the prayer isn't to their specific god, it could violate their views.

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.

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

Christians in Rome were viewed as a threat to the Emperor (Roman Emperors, by the way, were not atheists, they tended to have Pagan beliefs — recall the Roman 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).

There is no confirmation that Jesus even lived and in fact there is amazing coincident that makes him appear to be a made up figure based upon pagan demi - gods.

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.

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

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

Benedict Groeschel worships the pagan god Molech to whom children were sacrificed in early Bible times.

One of the commenters after Challlies» post also mentioned Richard Foster, Thomas Merton, centering prayer, contemplative prayer, lectio divina, and prayer labyrinths, which the commenter describes as efforts to «access God in a pagan / occult way.»

Nor were animals and the forces of nature to be bowed down to by man as in pagan religion; rather man, as a rational being made in the image of God, was to exercise dominion over them.

The book of Jeremiah tells the story of God using the prophet to instruct the Jews in Babylon not to hate or ignore the pagan city, but to become long - term residents, to exercise good will toward it through prayer, and to seek its peace and prosperity.

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

From Kat W.: I've known of pagans who run the gamut from secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gods.

This god named Mammon — money or wealth — commands the devotion of so many in our society that we need to ask how we as Christians can deal with a pagan god whose worship seems institutionalized in our very economic system.

They are ALL manmade gods, that's the point moron, they used pagan religions to create the stories in the bible.

In addition, the remarkable similarities between Christianity and other Mystery Religions of the time suggest that Christanity was an evolutionary hybrid of Jewish Messianism with pagan Savior God mythology.

And finally, if we do not want the world to be submerged by a pagan secularism without God and without hope, we ought not to compile statistics and make forecasts, but should bear our Christian witness in the market place by word and deed.

But again, you who believe in the daddy - o of jesus as the only god call this belief pagan and mythical... aka not real... here is a quote i'm sure has been on these blogs many times and will be again...

Roger Williams, for example, for all his insistence on the separation of church and state, believed that such general religion was essential for what he called «government and order in families, towns, etc.» Such general religion is, he believed, «written in the hearts of all mankind, yea, even in pagans,» and consists in belief in God, in the afterlife, and in divine punishments.2 Benjamin Franklin for all his differences from Roger Williams believed essentially the same thing, as indicated in the quotation from his autobiography in my original article on civil religion.

Actually, God displays pretty much the whole range of emotion we see in ourselves, exactly like the Greek and other pagan gods.

Right, they do nt mind playing on the «Jewish» Sabbath (i.e. the one in Old Testament) but wouldnt dare play on Sunday, the day the Romans decided to «make:» the Sabbath because that was the day all the Pagans were already worshipping their various Sun Gods.

In fact, I'd say he was just like the pagan gods, simply repackaged for improved sales.

tf: Did you once consider that maybe the reason it appears we speak out more against your god than other gods is because it is your gods believers that seem to be at the center of so much in this world??? I don't see Pagan's standing on street corners or attempting to use their holy books to deny equal rights.

Furthermore, ideas such as death and resurrection in pagan religions usually related to the crop cycle rather than the idea of a god dying to pay for someone's sins.

1) Eternal fire (Psalm 11:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 18:7 - 9, Matthew 25:41, Jude 7) Isaiah 30:30,33 — Isaiah speaks of Topheth in the valley of Hinnom, where before it became Gehenna — the burning trash dump outside Jerusalem — it was the place of pagan worship where people burned alive their own children to their false god, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and God uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrightegod, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and God uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrighteGod uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrighteGod will burn alive the unrighteous

One of the curious contrasts between Jonah and the sailors in Jonah 1 is that Jonah, a prophet of God, a member of the chosen people, refuses to pray to God when his life is threatened, but the pagan, idol - worshiping sailors not only pray to their own deities, but also pray to Yahweh when they learn that it is He who sent the storm.

By definition a pagan is someone who believes in a pantheon of gods.

Time and again God told Israelites to not partake in pagan Culture.