Sentences with phrase «pagan worship»

Saint Apollonia, tortured for not conforming to pagan worship, shakes and tremors as a pair of pliers are raised to Continue reading →

During the time of Minos in Crete the sport of bull baiting was quite a popular form of pagan worship and entertainment.

Slenderman is pure mystery where as Bagul is involved with pagan worship and demonology..

They seem to gravitate toward pagan worship and the «old ways».

The Christmas tree is a idolatry and a pagan worship 100 % you claim that its to do with Jesus.

it was pagan worship going all the way back to nimrod.

Often it's not until the 2nd generation (who doesn't have pagan worship associations with their indigenous music, rituals, etc.), who then will bring these aspects of the culture back, with Christian meaning, but without the pagan associations.

What you're probably thinking of is where some form of pagan worship that involved incense was called an abomination, as were all forms of idolatry.

4:8), but for him and for other Christians pagan worship was worship of «mute idols» (I Cor.

Not because of the name (as in the calender or trade names) but because of the worship of God thru pagan worship traditions rubber stamped by the church.

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

this is a genuine request: could you maybe help me see your perspective with some biblical examples of redeeming pagan worship in order to glorify God?

1) Eternal fire (Psalm 11:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 18:7 - 9, Matthew 25:41, Jude 7) Isaiah 30:30,33 — Isaiah speaks of Topheth in the valley of Hinnom, where before it became Gehenna — the burning trash dump outside Jerusalem — it was the place of pagan worship where people burned alive their own children to their false god, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and God uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrighteous

The discovery at a shrine to Ba'al confirms that biblical passages about the triumph of Judaism over pagan worship are historically true.2 Kings 10:27...

On the other hand, Paul prohibited Christians from actually participating in the sacrificial rituals of pagan worship.

There are many such examples including; adultery, incest, bestiality, rape, forced prostitution upon one's daughter, sex as pagan worship and pederasty.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

For example, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: «Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship.

It's all so related to pagan worship that its hard not to think that there might be something metaphysical to it.

What do you think the response would be to an event aimed at converting people to Islam or pagan worship?

When the apostle Paul wrote this, it was in a culture of pagan worship where the church at Ephesus was situated.

Are they the one's on Earth controlling our lives or are you about God the creator of universe that is worshipped by mankind in different ways, given different names, given different looks and combinations, partners, sons... others worshiped Satan or made him partner to God... The Message of the «Monotheism» was there from time of existance up to Noah PBUH and the monotheist derived from those saved by Noah named Abraham PBUH who came up then with the message of «Submission» and rebuilt the house of worship in Mecca for religion teachings redirecting pagans worshiping idols, trees, or worshiping many Gods they made and named as in Greek mythology...

Not exact matches

This is the fault of the Vatican, which practices Pagan Sun worship, not Christianity.

The modern religion being pushed on us is a sick ancient Pagan Sun worship religion, that has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Christ.

This stretches from Catholicism, baptists, islam, hinduism, shintoism, buddhism, ancenstor worship, various pagan, etc..

Egyptian Pagan Religion: Osiris is a savior - god who had been worshipped as far back as Neolithic times.

Pagans do not care which god you worship but the Cult of the Emperor made the Romans care.

Yeah so what, it's talking about using sex to worship a pagan god.

The pagan Canaanite religious worship of the people of Sodom included the cultic, religious, se.xual activity which was forbidden by God in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 and Deuteronomy 23:17 - 18.

As for the first pagans (sumerians), they worshiped the fallen angels that come in form of aliens, gods and goddesses, enchanted beasts, and serpent weilders, and shouldn't be taken lightly, these witches, wizards.

The plagues also showed His mercy, being tailored to disrupt and humiliate the worship of their pagan deities without causing loss of human life until the final plague, which occurred only after God had exhausted every other option (Graeser, et.

With that strategy they introduced pagan doctrines which involved sun worship etc..

The prayers that would have been offered by my very Catholic teachers would have incensed me, because I was taught that Catholics were pagans, unsaved, idol worshiping sinners.

whether we do not worship other gods or not, we use the same symbolisms, like the egg and the bunny, pagan symbols of fertility.

I know of no one (certainly not christians) who use the holiday to worship pagan gods.

Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there is only one God; (2) that this God is not identified with or contained by any region of nature; (3) that the pagan gods and goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations of the one true God; and (4) that the worship of any of these false divinities is idolatry.

What your bible condemns is male prostitution, idolatry, worshiping a pagan god using sex and rape.

What your god does condemn is male prostitution, idolatry, worshiping a pagan god using sex and rape.

What I think you mean is that with the attacks by the early Christians in Rome on existing pagan religious sites, a further eradication of paganism was to make irrelevant pagan days of worship with Christian ones, thus we have Jesus» incorrect birth on December 25th, near the winter solstice.

Lots of Pagans I know worship Eastern Gods, and use Native American Ritual Techniques, but if they wanted to focus exclusively on those things they would join a Shinto Temple or petition the Lakota tribe for membership.

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.

The Jews weren't real happy with a lot of their pagan neighbors, and the priests in the Temple tended to get upset with the Hebrew people when they would worship a goddess.

Benedict Groeschel worships the pagan god Molech to whom children were sacrificed in early Bible times.

My own personal beliefs are a reflection of the balance I see between Lady and Lord, but there are a lot of Pagans who worship a Goddess (or goddesses) exclusively.

If your parents had of been Jehovah, you'd be worshiping that gos; had they been pagan you'd be worshiping those gods; etc..

An Orthodox Jew himself, he ridiculed the cult of the Wailing Wall as pagan stone - worship.

This god named Mammon — money or wealth — commands the devotion of so many in our society that we need to ask how we as Christians can deal with a pagan god whose worship seems institutionalized in our very economic system.

Let these heathen pagan Catholics believe what they want.Who believes them anyway?These are the guys who worship hearts and Mary and Saints.Pfffft!!!

Around, and then later above, this pagan altar the early Christians gathered to worship Jesus Christ and to build there a sanctuary dedicated to the memory of the bishop - martyr Clement.

Statues, praying to Mary and other «saints», placing the Pope and priests in a position that usurps Jesus, moving the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday (because the pagans already worshiped on Sunday)-- All violations of the ten commandments.