But in the seminar I attended (which was
taught by a Pagan High Priestess, by the way...), I noted the belief of a creation, of an ongoing battle between good and evil, and of a coming final last battle, in which humans will join in the fight to defeat and vanquish evil from the universe.
Not exact matches
btw muslims belive in jesus moses and muhammad as prophets and belive in their original
teachings not the ones placed in the bible which have been altered
by pagan romans.
However I find it invaluable as a place to take my
pagan unchurched friends and have them
taught the word
by people more knowledgeable and grace - filled than I. Also as a place to be encouraged to hold the course and not revert to the old me which prefers kicking a ** and taking names over compassion, concern and giving my time / resources to the benefit of other.
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.
«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community
by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the
pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to
teach, and to lead.
There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other
pagan sources is included
by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his
teachings.»
Many of the early «Church Fathers» were highly influenced
by the
pagan Greek ideas of Plato and Aristotle, who
taught the immortal soul idea.
The Talmud relates that the great rabbi Hillel (who was still living during Jesus» boyhood) was once challenged
by a
pagan to
teach him the whole law while he stood on one foot.
I have recently been at a seminar
by Frank Viola — he
taught us about the Organic Church, and although his books «
Pagan Christianity», «Reimagining Church» and others, really stirred the idea of the «Emerging Church» OUTSIDE the institutional church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it again.
Blood of Christ, Yap, tradition of hindu Mithra sim, racist savior ism of hindu dark ages, Kill Mithra, THE BULL, EAT HIS FLESH AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, Hindu Catholic ism, filthy compounding of hinduism
pagan ism of hindu dark ages and hindu corrupted
teachings of Israelite, holy hindu secular ism, crooked donkey ism called Christianity to hind fool humanity in to hindu gentile ism, filthy slavery
by hindu Jews, filthy secular s, donkeys
by faith.
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...
And, if ADL is interested in Jewish - Christian dialogue, it is not helpful to claim that the Holocaust was «the expression of a total
pagan anti-Semitism nurtured
by two thousand years of Christian
teaching of contempt.»
such a Cinko demayo celebrated
by followers of hindu Catholic ism,
pagan compound of hindu
pagan traditions and hindu corrupted
teachings of Israelite.
ChRistians were
taught «If there
by anyone among you suffering, seek out the elder men of the church» rather than seek pharmakia as
pagans and Jews were doing.
N. T. Wright puts what I'm trying to say succinctly when he argues that the entire burden of the Pauline letters is to
teach new Christians to «think within the biblical narrative, to see themselves as actors within the ongoing scriptural drama: to allow their erstwhile
pagan thought - forms to be transformed
by a biblically based renewal of the mind» (emphasis added).