Sentences with phrase «pagan religion in»

-- So I look to what Timothy was dealing with... A pagan religion in the town where he was (Ephesus).

After subduing the pagan religions in the east and halting the march of Islam in the west, Charles the Hammer has one final ambition — the throne... J. Boyce Gleason's sweeping historical epic fiction Anvil of God: Book One of the Carolingian Chronicles

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what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

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 /

OPEN YOUR EYE»S TO TRUTH ABSOLUTE AND DROP WORD RELIGION AND hINDU PAGAN CUSTOMS FROM YOUR WAY TO BE SUCCESS FULL IN LIFE AND HEAR AFTER.

No, Easter is the celebration of a pagan goddess that the christians stole in order to convert more people to their religion.

Thus, it is a near certainty that Judaism inherited the devil from the Persian Zoroastrians and the Christians in turn, inherited their devil from the Jews and other pagan religions.

Just because I am capable of imagining a pagan world and find the culture emotionally innate to me does not imply I believe in the old religion.

Too many lies along with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are taught in the churches today (Christmas, Easter, Eternal torment in Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must go.

Considering hell isn't even mentioned in your bible, and that it was stolen from the norse pagan religion, your belief's are laughable.

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 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.

That opposition was ratcheted up in Israel, where any toleration of transgenderism was viewed as a mark of infidelity to Yahweh and an idolatrous concession to pagan religion.

The idea that we will spend eternity in heaven comes more from pagan religion than from Scripture, and has only been prominent in the church for the past 500 years or so.

Jesus is the «true myth» (with the emphasis on true) which proves the validity of many of the themes and longings of men's hearts which are found in the pagan myths of other religions.

Father Tom Brodie, a Dominican priest, in his soon forthcoming book «In Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religionin his soon forthcoming book «In Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religionIn Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religions.

Expect nothing better but mayhem among humanity by following of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, Allah, and following of hindu pagan Mithra ism, savior ism, neither commanded, nor allowed in Islam as a religion, but Theen Allah, consti tution of truth absolute.

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.

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.

These people associate Modern Paganism with the pagan religions of antiquity, which were in direct competition with early Christianity.

While pagan peoples were pressing in from the North and the Northeast, the bearers of a new religion were conquering the South and the Southeast.

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.

Many anthropologists will label native religions as pagan, even if that religious tradition in Africa has nothing in common with one in the Philippines.

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

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

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.

many celebrations have pagan beginnings but religion has found a way to share in the celebrations with their own faith.

In the second century, the pagan Celsus criticized Christianity, saying it was a religion for «the foolish, dishonorable, and stupid... and only slaves, women, and little children.»

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.

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.

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

Many of the early Christians came out of Judaism and pagan religions where a class of clerics and priests ruled and dominated other people in all things spiritual.

Plus when you factor in all the similarities to other pagan religions of that time period your case goes up in smoke.

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

«I think there is a genuine embarrassment / horror when people in the West look at, for instance, some of the Pentecostal traditions, and I'm always very worried when people look at Asian or African religion and present it as a kind of syncretism, as a kind of survival of the pagan,» says Jenkins.

[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

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.

In seeking to root out man's claim to a special status in the universe, deep ecologists are pagan pantheists who reject biblical religion, especially the injunction of Genesis 1:28 to «Fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the seas, the birds of the sky, and all the living beings that move on this earth.&raquIn seeking to root out man's claim to a special status in the universe, deep ecologists are pagan pantheists who reject biblical religion, especially the injunction of Genesis 1:28 to «Fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the seas, the birds of the sky, and all the living beings that move on this earth.&raquin the universe, deep ecologists are pagan pantheists who reject biblical religion, especially the injunction of Genesis 1:28 to «Fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the seas, the birds of the sky, and all the living beings that move on this earth.»

It was the Neoplatonists who, though in the main adhering to their pagan tradition, put forward some sort of a philosophy of religion.

It was (and is) a pagan - based mystery cult that due to an accident in history (i.e. the Roman - Jewish War 66 - 70 CE, during which Jesus» original sect called «the Nazoreans» ceased to exist) has become Christianity, a non-Jewish and anti-Jewish religion.

This will be done in such a way of course that, as the experience of pagans and also of Christians shows, a right orientation towards God can be accomplished in the concrete, «subjectively», even where extremely grave errors are present regarding particular specific maxims of morality and religion.

I was raised CAtholic, and by choice became pagan (actually, not Pagan, which is it's own religion, but Druid, for those Christians out there who care to learn something) because to not see god in everything around you is utterly ridiculous tpagan (actually, not Pagan, which is it's own religion, but Druid, for those Christians out there who care to learn something) because to not see god in everything around you is utterly ridiculous tPagan, which is it's own religion, but Druid, for those Christians out there who care to learn something) because to not see god in everything around you is utterly ridiculous to me.

All started off as Religious people, who grew to hate religion, tried to ban it, and ultimately became mass murderers on the scale of millions — in Pol Pot and Hitlers case, killing especially those who opposed their brand of Atheist and in Hitler's case slightly mystic pagan «beliefs».

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For YHWH the Creator, is spiritual, and the connection, the creator of all life, He does not condone religions, idols, these are pagan, and not of righteousness, love, and peace, of His law of life, in Deut.32 vs. 45 - 47 is for all people to live our best life in righteousness, for all nations, as the future prophesy reads in Isaiah 56.

The righteousness and holiness of God imposed upon the Israelite an exacting standard of action and thought and, in turn, revealed the depravity of pagan religion, however pompous or ancient.

Now that I live in the Pacific Northwest, I have come to know many people who practice the Pagan religion.

- Pilgrimage to mecca was orginally a pagan religious rite of peace from all the different pagan religions a week of peice and trade (making the person or tradesman who owned mecca the wealthiest man and most powerful man in the region no wonder mohommed wanted it back so much was a money thing).

The early church understood the catholicity of its nature and the universality of its message only when it was engaged in mission among the Gentiles in the world of pagan religions and cultures.