Sentences with phrase «pagan stories»

Like the one saying that the reason the gospel stories look so much like copies of earlier pagan stories was that Satan had made a pre-emptive strike — planning in advance false occurrences.

«Like the one saying that the reason the gospel stories look so much like copies of earlier pagan stories»

Actually, Christianity is based on Pagan stories and celebrates Pagan holidays.

They said it was a pre-emptive strike by Satan — he wrote the fake pagan stories to exist before the gospels to try to throw people off.

That early apologists had to say that pagan stories were a pre-emptive strike by Satan (written in advance of, but oddly similar to the gospels) is one of many tell - tale signs of fables that should have been abandoned long ago.

Then there's Christianity, where the gospels seemed oddly very much like earlier pagan stories.

They claimed that he disseminated the fake pagan stories to come before the «real» gospel stories.

Though the Ctatholics are definetly wrong there is something very flawed with his logic about pagan stories being bundled together they was huge part of the bible they was in many places the hebrews came and went is it possible pagans knew the story of Abraham and Isaac of course I am sure word spread like wild fire not to mention is how do you know if they are pagan stories or true stories that the pagans decided to tell sounds to me like he just doesn't want to be held accountable.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

The anonymously - written gospels were thought by many to be copies / variations of earlier pagan stories.

The story that Satan had made a pre-emptive strike by making earlier pagan stories look so much like the later gospels is one dead give - away.

I call them «true myth» because they resemble so many of the pagan stories and myths, and yet, the stories of Jesus are true.

This was the best excuse several early apologists had as to why earlier pagan stories similar to the Gospels were fake.

Several early Christian apologists claimed that the reason the gospel stories looked so much like * earlier * pagan stories was the Satan himself had set it all up in advance — a pre-emptive strike to confuse everyone.

Unfortunately, it is also, in its essence, a pagan story, and Jesus — well, yes, Jesus turned all our stories inside out.

Not exact matches

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

ALL of the stories in the bible are versions of the same stories dating far earlier to pagan, ancient greek, and egyption stories.

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

Even more amazing is that you «know» this based on an ancient book that was cobbled together thousands of years ago and stole stories from pagan mythology.

Even the central story of the Christian gospels bear a striking resemblance to older Pagan myths.

The New Testament birth stories appear to walk a fine line between the crass pagan versions, such as Plato's conception by Apollo, and the Hebrew accounts in which an infertile womb is somehow made fertile by divine decree, such as Sarah's conception of Isaac.

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.

And we should tell better stories that winsomely, even seductively, reintroduce the Great Story; being confident, as Lewis was confident, that the pagans then and now, in the fine phrase of Edward Norman, got it «broadly right.»

While there are «pagan» stories of resurrection, they are always stories about deities rising from the dead, not human beings.

The book of Jeremiah tells the story of God using the prophet to instruct the Jews in Babylon not to hate or ignore the pagan city, but to become long - term residents, to exercise good will toward it through prayer, and to seek its peace and prosperity.

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

Well Bob, let me try to be brief... the old testament is the history of the nascient people of Israel, and tells the story of the hammering process God used to mold them into His people... They frequently adopted the gods of pagans and idol worshippers, and the OT describes how God so wanted them to be His people... So many of the old testament prophecies actually point to a coming Messiah.

But more than that, and here is the best part, and also the part that explains why I revel in pagan holidays, through the grace of Jesus, if He can redeem me from my slavery to sin, why can not He also redeem stories?

They say that the Gospel stories are just rehashed pagan myths, where some of the details and the names of the characters are changed.

Without a living experience of God, then the pagan claims seem convincing on their own, especially those incomplete (often misquoted) stories on the web about who and what were those ancient pagan frauds (horus, mithra et al).

And what else are pagan myths except an attempt to explain in story form what has been observed in nature and felt in our conscience?

I was actually taught in Catholic school that they were both just stories and that Luke's was cribbed from various myths because he was a pagan and pagan gods came into the world with sensational events and circumstances.

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.

So «Pagan Christianity» is not the end of the story; it's only the beginning.

Islam is Judaism 3.0 blending the Hebrew stories with Arabic culture and other pagan beliefs.

Did you know that that story was adapted by Christians from Pagan folklore from the Sumerians?

Among the rash of sensationalist stories we can expect through the season, the annual «Easter was stolen from the pagans» refrain has sprouted again just in time for Holy Week.

I think it's about time people actually do some research as to the other religions that predated Christianity that have the same stories... Maybe research why the birth of Jesus is celebrated this time of year... coincidentally on the solstice when all other pagan religions celebrate the «rebirth» of the «Sun of God».

Performance of sacred stories and subsequent oral interpretations made the faith of Judaism accessible to outsiders and helped to assimilate pagans into the communities of worship.

That's why Christianity was a copy of other pagan religions of that time including the story of Jesus.

Many of the stories were regurgitated — stolen accounts from previous pagan and Zoroastrian cultures or just simply fabricated to make the masses subservient sheep.

The pagans distorted the Jewish prophecies and created their own mythological stories.

Regarding the story, Bultmann wrote «No doubt the story has been borrowed from pagan legends and transferred to Jesus.»

The heart of his instruction was that Augustine should not destroy the pagan temples, rituals, and sacred stories but should try to incorporate indigenous beliefs and practices into orthodox Christianity.

In particular, he said, he began to see much of the Old Testament as unoriginal stories that had been told in many pagan traditions.

The Bible is a collection of stories from one small portion of the world and most of those stories come from years before the bible was put together by the pagan ruler Constantine.

Recent studies of the miracle stories in the Gospels in comparison with those told of Jewish and pagan saints and sages or «divine men» have brought out the fact that the emphasis on faith as a condition of healing is a distinctive element in the Gospel narratives.

As Peter's confession prepared the way for the story of the Passion, so the confession of the pagan soldier provides the final comment upon it.

The resurrection story of Christ is re-packaged Pagan mythos, dressed up in Judeo - Christian garments and paraded out to the people to replace that which came before.

Really incredible take on the STORY Jesus tells in Luke 19 about a king rejected by his servants — interesting because Sam applies it to unbelievers when it was meant to be applied to the religious crowd who were rejecting Jesus — not the pagans like Zacheus's crowd that Jesus had just had a party with.