Sentences with phrase «pagan priests»

And remember the context in which Paul was exposed to homosexuality... as he was writing Romans, he had just returned from one of his missionary journeys where he witnessed pagan priests and priestesses engaging in some odd sexual behaviors — including castrating themselves, carrying on drunken sexual orgies, and even having sex with young temple prostitutes (male and female)-- all to honor the gods of sex and pleasure.

It kinda became their god, and they interpret what this god says pretty much exactly the same way ancient pagan priests interpreted what their stone gods said.

It is strange to see us all sitting together at the sacred meal — master breaking bread with his slave, a Jew sharing a joke with a former pagan priest, a husband pouring wine for his wife, a zealot debating politics with a tax collector — but this is what makes us different; it's what makes us Christians.

The formal letter contained the restriction of eating any food offered to idols - that is, meat put on the market by pagan priests after they had used it in their sacrifices.

Their apocalyptic vision promised a new era of German world domination under the leadership of wise pagan priests — an empire of light, inhabited by noblemen, which would be cleansed of all Judeo - Christian influence.

The Empire turned over all the pagan temples and most of the pagan priests to the Church, and paid for them all out of the Empires vast tax and war revenue.

The pagan priests from the East came to worship a newborn king, an emperor, who would establish an empire on earth, and King Herod took the news as any human king would: as treason.