Sentences with phrase «pagan traditions»

(2) Even if they were Xmas trees — we (Christians) already know that the Xmas tree has nothing to do with Christmas, it is a syncranistic acceptance of pagan traditions done to help convert pagans and held onto by pagon converts.

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.

Most Christian holidays and traditions are based on early Pagan traditions, and were melded together to ease the transitions for the Masses.

The base of the tree (which is, I would note from a theological perspective, an entirely pagan tradition) was made up of eight large books, representing the eight nights of Hannukah.

Perhaps that's why pagan traditions remained even as Christianity took hold.

It's thought that it was merged with German pagan traditions in the 15th century when they became Roman Catholic therefore merging the bunny with Easter.

Stories that have their roots in much older pagan traditions.

However, please know that there are some Christians who do not follow pagan traditions or observe pagan holidays.

The myth and tradition of Santa Claus has its creation rooted in European Pagan traditions.

If you live in this world and use the names of the days of the week like everyone else, you are using pagan traditions and customs.

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

Distinguishing three epochs in the history of Christianity and Western culture, he spoke of the period when Christianity was a «minority in a society of positive pagan traditions,» a second period when the society as a whole — law, education, literature, art, as well as religion» was formed by Christianity, and a third, our own period, in which the culture has become «mainly negative, but which, so far as it is positive, is still Christian.»

As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan tradition.

A tree nor Santa have anything to do with christianity and if you knew anything about your holiday you would know that it is based off of pagan tradition largely.

And Christians wiped out Pagan traditions after appropriating the tree, mistletoe, and other customs.

such a Cinko demayo celebrated by followers of hindu Catholic ism, pagan compound of hindu pagan traditions and hindu corrupted teachings of Israelite.

The concept of Halloween has changed over the years, the once simple pagan tradition has transformed into a «big business» venture for the...

Intrigued by the limited human physicality, the artist constructs and shapes hybrid bodies which resemble the ancient pagan traditions which saw the concept of the body from more spiritual perspective.

Marina Abramovic's exhibition is comprised of several video projections, which explore how sexuality and the human body were employed in Balkan pagan traditions and culture throughout history.

One of Britain's oldest arts institutions embraces pagan traditions in celebration of its Summer Exhibition.

Thus some Wiccans identify as both Wiccan and Pagan, while others use only the broader term Pagan to distance themselves from the popularity of Wicca or to signal an inclusion of other Pagan traditions.

Jesus does not seem Jewish anymore and the holidays he never would have celebrated based on pagan traditions have now become the high points of Christian celebration.

Most Christian holidays and traditions are based on early Pagan traditions, and were melded together to ease the transitions for the Masses.

I could go through Simon's excellent list of pagan traditions to show how all these things can be redeemed by Jesus Christ.

Gift giving is a pagan tradition, as an offering for the winter solstice.

I consider myself a descendant of the Roman people and feel I would have been much better off being raised according to pagan traditions.

the Christmas tree is of pagan tradition,..

Christmas is based on a pagan tradition & was usurped by christians, to celebrate Jesus birth!

And just as God has made me into a new creation, so also I take the pagan traditions of Christmas, and rethink, reimagine, rework, and recreate them all to point to the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Halloween, Christmas, and Easter are Pagan traditions.

A true Christian would not partake in these pagan traditions

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

In my experience, for example, those who are most concerned with getting rid of all pagan influences in Christianity, are also those who tend to be the most judgmental and critical toward those Christians who still incorporate some of those pagan traditions and customs.

Just as Paul wrote that the Law was given to lead people to Jesus (Gal 3:24), so also, other religions and pagan traditions and ideas about creation and the afterlife and defeating evil were given to lead people to Jesus.

And a great many people have attacked atheists about them celebrating Christmas, in our secular way, with the pagan traditions that make up most of the Christmas holiday.

A lot of traditions were added on as christians encountered other cultures and found it easier to convert them if they included some of the pagan traditions.

The Protostent Christians, in their ignorance of this co-opting of pagan traditions, simply accetped the dogma of the birth of their god and ran with it.

just another made up pagan tradition of the catholic that has zero historical meaning outside the catholic church

Birthday celebrations are a pagan tradition.