Sentences with phrase «pagan practices»

HCP: They adopted their ways from pagan practices, like buildings, priests, choirs, sermons, and salaries.

It is true if you look at all of the pagan practices in India, Asia, Africa, Native American, along with Europeans prior to the Texts of the Torah and Bible.

You can even argue in that case that the resurrection of Christ also has parallels with pagan practices.

Secret heresies and New Age mystical and pagan practices ARE invading at a ridiculous pace.

So any pagan practices being done now are based off of historical accounts of pagans written by non pagans.

However, I also think that Jesus redeems all things, and so even though some pagan practices and influences have infiltrated what Jesus was doing, I still think that many people can benefit from them as they follow Jesus.

You can read a really cool discussion of their answer on christmas and easter at http://www.ptmin.org/answers.htm They say it can be redeemed, like some pagan practices can be, but others they feel can't.

Maybe I really misjudged the book and need to reread it... but I got the distinct impression that they were saying that the way church is done today is wrong becuase it is pagan, and the only right way to do church is like a house church does it because such churches haven't adopted any pagan practices.

I never intended to imply that Christianity civilized savage pagan practices.

It is curious that many Christian rituals, practices, and holidays have their roots in pagan practices.

So even the «Biblical» holidays were redeemed from pagan practices.

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

God could have given instructions to Moses to modify pagan practices to honour Him, but scripture shows that God did NOT.

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

The New Testament itself testifies to the persistence of pagan practices amongst the early communities and patterns of socialization by believers that brought them into contact with pagans on a regular basis (for example, 1 Corinthians 8 and 10).

The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Some pagan practices (putting up a tree) were taken as a cultural nod no harm in that but core beliefs of Odin etc... must be cast aside.

Some Contemporary Pagans practice all of these things I'm going to list, some just one or two, but all are pretty recognizable as facets of today's Paganism.

majority of the motheistic religions preach tolerance as does the pagan practice.

If our current traditions are not allowing us to do these things, we should find something else that will, either by approaching the issue with some inspired creativity, or finding a current pagan practice that we can redeem for church use.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are borrowing a pagan practice of writing «gospels» about the emperor, and use it to write about Jesus.

It has often been argued that the Christian application of the word to Jesus derives from this pagan practice.

p.s Fasting is a pagan practice?

It is not a habitual and certainly NOT a pagan practice.

Look, I fully admit that there was a pagan practice of chopping down trees and erecting them in public spaces or homes and decorating them with lights and gold and silver.

Developing this idea, and combining it with Freud's concept of the fetish, Kelley concludes that an uncanny object is a substitute for something once feared or desired that has undergone repression, such as the Oedipal drama or the pagan practice of human sacrifice.

Not exact matches

This is the fault of the Vatican, which practices Pagan Sun worship, not Christianity.

New age bookstores who catered to pagans were often the worst and the owners and employees who practiced paganism would spread lies about my belief system.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

And they are to avoid adopting any customs or practices of the pagans which conflict with Christian faith or morals.

Familiarity with stories of cures by similar methods in Jewish and pagan literature may have influenced the tradition of this miracle, so different from Jesus» usual practice in the Synoptic narratives.

Infant baptism is a pagan ritual and was NOT practiced by the early church.

I also prefer to see the word Pagan capitalized when referring to the modern religious practice.

Whether subconsciously, or as a result of the word pagan's origins, a lot of people refer to old or rustic practices as «pagan.»

Furthermore, Origen insisted that Christian paideia had to be practiced in conversation with the pagan paideia dominant in the church's host culture.

They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo - Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.

Islam's widespread practice of amputating the cli - to - ris and sometimes part or even all of the vul - va from the ge - n - ita - lia of Muslim women, affirmed in a had - ith by Mohammed himself, most likely also traces back to the founder's deliberate abuse of se - x to lure pagan males into his cu - lt.

I have even heard some say that the pagan writings and traditions were changed to match the Christian beliefs and practices, and that is why there are similarities.

Pagan holidays continued to be practiced and observed, but they were adopted and adapted by Christianity, and given new meaning and interpretations that fit better with Christian theology and ideas.

What they are implying is that such practices, because they have pagan origins, are hindering God.

* Much of what we do for church today originated from Greco - Roman customs (the practices of pagans) and human - made inventions.

Things like buildings, the order of worship, the sermon, the pastor, tithing and clergy salaries, baptism and the Lord's Supper all have their roots in pagan religious practices.

Though they don't say it, I imagine the authors are against Christmas and Easter as well, since both of these holidays are steeped in pagan cultic worship practices.

Because the Roman Catholics wanted it to fit in with the pagan celebrations so they would be more interested in practicing their form of Christianity.

However, to denounce a Christian tradition or practice as rooted in paganism simply because a similar practice appears in ancient pagan rituals is tantamount to throwing the baby out with the bath water.

i was raised «pagan» [in the current specific sense of «religion based upon an older religion that pre-dates Christianity and was replaced by Roman / Christian practices»] i LIKE Christianity.

Walsh's chosen task of articulating the continuity between Christianity and modernity clearly favors the theological - existential meaning of «practice» over the practical meaning, since the latter would seem to subordinate practice to a (pagan) «account of entities and concepts.»

Leviticus 20:23 gives us further insights as to the practices of the Canaanites; they were committing adultery, burning their children in the fire to pagan gods, practicing incest, sex w / animals, murder, and prostitution.

Witches and Pagan were hunted down and burned to death during the crusades simply because they did not practice your religion.

When one Pagan encounters another Pagan who believes and practices Paganism differently, they might argue a bit about these things, but in the end, they both just shrug their shoulders and decide to «live and let live.»