Sentences with phrase «pagans did»

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

Of course, pagan does not mean amoral.

The verse that comes to mind is Matthew 6:7 that says when you pray do not babble like the pagans do.

Your spiritual experience is valid to me, and most Pagans don't think of other religious traditions as being «wrong»; we just disagree with anyone who thinks they have a stranglehold on the truth.

First of all, Pagans do not «reject» anything.

So lets not seek for another as the pagans do, seek yee the One who save, Jesus, because there is no other name that can save.

I no longer walk as the pagans do, and as I once did!

The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan did not possess his self directly in the face of God.

On the other hand, it is for this reason true that the pagan did not sin in the strictest sense, for he did not sin before God.

If an activity is not evil, but Pagans do it, why can not Christians incorporate it also?

Why refuse to use something simply because «Pagans do it.»

Do not even pagans do that?

Pagans do not need a redeemer.

Heck, even Pagans don't worship nature.

The victory of the church over paganism was in part due «to the rule that the Christians assimilate pagan ideas while the pagans do not appropriate Christian ones» (Momigliano 1963 p. 87, quoted by Cobb 1982a p. 6).

Pagan Charities... I like that name for a new organization other than pagans don't need as much charity as others.

Not exact matches

Pagan said that a larger, more comprehensive study must be done before determining the drug's true impact, but if the drug's effectiveness is confirmed in such tests, nilotinib could become the first treatment to impede the killing of brain cells that's consistent with Parkinson's, according to NPR.

This year, I didn't have to do the Xmas bit even once, and most know, and accept the pagan rituals.

An education is a useful thing... Christmas has nothing to do with your imaginary friends illegitimate child... read on and open your closed mind: (http://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html)» Early Christians had a soft spot for pagans

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

Moshiach, messiah is not some supernatural second god man thing, I don't quite understand how the whole Pagan Horus myth got mixed up into what became Christianity.

so you have a bunch of fake Christians with a non profit / no tax paying cathedral going bankrupt, and another bunch of pagan laced above the law non tax paying ped protecting catholics buying a cathedral (notice i did nt say Christian), from a bailed out by taxpayers bank....

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 /

I don't see them upset at pagan holidays.

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.

Take not as (your) Bitanah (advisors, consultants, protectors, helpers, friends, etc.) those outside your religion (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you.

You fail to understand that there are a lot of people who are Christian but do not adhere to many of the popular «pagan» rituals and beliefs you speak of.

First and foremost, greeks didn't just give up zeus on the spot, they were converted first by the romans on pain of death and later when the romans converted to christianity, there were still pagans, no one just looked at their beliefs, decided they were silly and changed.

Writing in the New Statesman Tom Holland said that the more he studied ancient history, the more he saw that pagan gods and followers did not value human life equally, routinely upholding the strong and rich above the weak and poor.

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.

Heck, most of the holiday christian covet so much is pagan in nature and they don't even know it.

Oh the poor persecuted christians that don't even realize a good 90 % of their so called holiday comes from the pagans.

Just because someone who prays to pagan gods in certain way, then decides to pray to the true God through Christ in the same ritual that they were so ingrained from childhood, doesn't mean the person moved back to pagan gods.

The religious also don't want to realize that «Christmas» was stolen from the Pagan holiday of «Winter Solstice».

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

You are not Pagan, and you do not understand our crede.

and seriously, how do you know there were no pagans or atheists help?

But to say that it is a part of resurgent paganism does not prove that it is evil in and of itself: In terms of their origin, the play is pagan, the tragedy is pagan, the epic poem is pagan.

It was chosen because the King wanted to celebrate Christ and it coincided with the pagan holidays, therefore allowing the pagans their parties without causing them to riot — look into Saturnalia if you don't believe me

The sneaky dude went back in time and made it look like all those evil pagan deities did the same things as jazus, just to fool everyone.

16When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: «Why does he eat with Pagans and sinners?»

I urge you, read up on the various religions out there (Eastern Religions, pagan religions, dead religions ect...), heck even do it with your very narrow christian lense on, look at it like your scouting out the enemy for weaknesses.

To Lamar H and everybody else out there Do you happen to open the bible and compare the christian rituals against ancient pagan rituals (surprise surprise)?!? To everybody else, count to ten and look into your lives, maybe you'll find out that you do nt live your faith as you preach in these forumDo you happen to open the bible and compare the christian rituals against ancient pagan rituals (surprise surprise)?!? To everybody else, count to ten and look into your lives, maybe you'll find out that you do nt live your faith as you preach in these forumdo nt live your faith as you preach in these forums.

THE BIBLE DOES NT TEACH THE OBSERVANCE OF THOSE PAGAN HOLIDAYS PERIOD!

Pagans and atheists do not apply in the text.

1) It is maintained by some that the relationship was essentially analogical - sequential: that is, imperial ideology did not directly shape ideas about Christ but, by virtue of the obvious analogies between some key elements of both, it made the ideas about Christ preached by the early Christians easily comprehensible and attractive to pagans.

@ Catholic Mom before you talk you should reseach your beliefs cause in the 2nd council of Nicene they accepted that they could make Idols, that the 2nd commandment was talking about pegan gods lol... the only thing they did was bring Pagans beliefs and mixed it with Christianity....

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

Did you know it has pagan roots?

It's an interesting article particularly when one does consider the pagan roots.