Sentences with phrase «pagan religions where»

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.

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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.

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.

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

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

It seems that this was a holy site for a pagan religion — a sacred grove — where the victorious conclusion of major battles was marked by the ritual presentation and destruction of the bones of the vanquished warriors,» adds Mads Kähler Holst.

You will visit the Santiago Apostol church, the market where you can buy all types of fruit and vegetables, and the idol Maximón, a symbol of the mixed pagan - Christian religion of the indigenous communities of Guatemala.