Sentences with phrase «pagan nations»

They were called out by God to be His chosen people, and as such, as a people they had to be dramatically different from the surrounding ungodly, pagan nations of the time.

God sent prophets to speak to his people and pagan nations on matters of injustice.

Other pagan nations would become Christian nations, and pagan rulers would become Christian rulers, just as had happened to Rome.

That is something not found in the Bible and Jehovah God himself said that «it never came up into my heart to burn people», when the nation of Israel was falling away from the true God and started practicing what pagan nations around them were doing.

The status quo was good for them, as it was for those «who sold the needy for a pair of shoes,» or for those who made entangling alliances with pagan nations and trusted in military might.

America is just one more pagan nation, mired in blood up to the elbows; as such it is not very interesting.

Through Jesus Christ, as Jean - Marie Cardinal Lustiger once wrote, «the pagan nations accede to the election of Israel and share in its grace.»

My former completely - pagan nations are now blessed with number of Christians.

After Jesus left our world, are we to completely trust the judgement of people administering a State religion for a pagan nation?

Such customs were common among the pagan nations surrounding Israel (e.g., the Canaanites).

In 300AD when Rome became a Christian nation from a Pagan nation overnight, they rolled many Pagan beliefs into the «Roman Catholic» church.

They are all pagan nations today.

Now, too, He singled out one of his sons before he came into being and entrusted him with a special mission: He made him a navi lagoyim, a prophet to the pagan nations.

how does «you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you» not condone slavery???