Sentences with phrase «with paganism»

One spelling text asked: «Is papacy at variance with paganism?»

Results are also connected with paganism / Wicca / Witchcraft... it is belief that drives the cure or the fulfillment of a wish.

I can not at this point enter into the discussion of types of Diaspora Judaism affected by contact with paganism; I wish only to record my conviction (1) that Paul's Judaism was not of the orthodox Palestinian type, which later became normal, and normative; and (2) that early Gentile Christianity, both before Paul and also outside the area of his influence, was far more substantial than the Book of Acts and the surviving Pauline letters have led many to assume.

The jokes on you FOJ, you worship false gods, you worship idols, you worship 3 gods, not 1, Christianity is a Jewish heresy mixed in with some paganism and Greek philosophy.

It was possible for Paul's converts to eat meat which had been offered to idols without compromising with paganism.

Did Christianity «redeem» these things so that they are no longer associated with paganism, OR did they corrupt Christianity so that it no longer reflects the values and mission of Jesus?

Not exact matches

What puzzles me is why someone with your credentials fell away from the truth and now embraces paganism and false teachings?

As T.S. Eliot put it, «we may say that religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature.»

I just dug up something I wrote a few years ago blasting the commercialism and paganism of our Christmas celebration so I could share it with friends.

I believe they would see the former as corrupted with certain gnostic beliefs that slander God's character and make Him out to be a liar, while the latter would be seen as so corrupted by paganism that it basically boils down to rude idolatry sprinkled with certain Christian beliefs.

That is the same thing, Catholic and atheists are in the same way, following the anti-Chist, living with tha same world, the kindom of Jesus is no of this world, his kindom is based in his apostoles and making diferents ways whitout paganism, idolatry and not asocieted with the famous, the walthty, the politicis, the mobsters, diferent?

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.

The church became identified with society and some of its members engaged in persecution of the remaining pockets of paganism.

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

If we are too easily accepting of blending the Christ way with other ways, the other way tends to start to dominate (e.g. Catholic church in parts of Latin culture) and we can end up with a sort of Christian flavoured paganism.

One the one hand, paganism and mystical religions seek salvation in a vertical movement of integration with the absolute, either by an ascent into the One or by a descent into the soul, On the other hand, Judaism looks for salvation in the horizontal movement of history, in the advent of a new era.

African traditional religion (ATR) was a top - down attempt by the religious elite to legitimize Christianity with the very paganism the missionaries had demonized.

No, my research has turned up the fact that Hitler was in fact an adherent to a strange mixture of old Teutonic paganism mixed with Hinduistic belief in reincarnation, New Age, belief, relicism, etc..

However, to denounce a Christian tradition or practice as rooted in paganism simply because a similar practice appears in ancient pagan rituals is tantamount to throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I couldn't possibly disagree with you more on Murrow / Eldredge and paganism.

I've never been an atheist, but I had difficulty with much of the paganism of the New Testament.

It would also be foolish to deny that in paganism lives have been led which were rich in aesthetic enjoyment, and that the natural man can lead such a life, utilizing every advantage offered with the most perfect good taste, even letting art and learning enhance, embellish, ennoble the enjoyment.

In the full article, I did briefly refer to that article I wrote about paganism, but I didn't deal with your question specifically.

Christianity is hinduism, paganism, denial of truth absolute, installed with fundamentals of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, 360 * in to two parts, hindu filthy Pharaoh 50 % and his hindu filthy sanatan, goon priest other half, known as hindu pagan trinity,, also known as King as god and his hindu, filthy sanatan, goon prophet, fortune teller as god.

Nash and Brown basically summarize the findings of these scholars in addition to supplementing their findings with more recent evidence that suggests 1st century Christianity did not steal its ideas from paganism.

Never since the days when rude minds, but minds aflame with the certainty of truth, laid seige to the proud and empty paganism of ancient Rome has there lain before mankind both the need, and the attainable prospect of one world civilisation, confirmed through one Faith from God, and under God, pacified in the unity of one brotherhood, one aim in human affairs, one common charity of end and purpose.

Many scholars, ancient and modern, have pointed out that such contact with Christianity is unlikely but that, even if it did happen, the Christianity practiced in that part of the world was so debased that it was indistinguishable from paganism.

Faced with Catholic clericalism, Orthodox binding, European Protestant devastation, confrontations with old and new paganisms, the irrelevance of much of American Protestantism, and ominous signs that, by standards of human judgment, the church was unequal to its task, the editors relied on a secret for hope.

The paganism of American culture is less obvious, for we do not have to contend with a government that suppresses religious freedom or harasses religious leaders.

NathanL: I'm not attesting any veracity to the specific Eostre thing — I was never familiar with that particular brand of paganism in my younger unsaved days.

You are seeing what they did to JFK saying that the catholic church pray to idols and practice paganism mixing with the old and new testament.

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

This paganism, with the quasi - or actual worship of nature, leads easily to worship of the Earth as the deity - the worship of Mother Earth, or the Goddess.

Thus what is happening, and quite rapidly, is the recrudescence of paganism in this country, all combined with valid environmental concerns and various alternative therapies and life - styles.

I'm sorry, but «Jesus» doesn't give somebody like her, who is steeped in paganism, «divine revelations» outside the Bible, nor would He promise to bless a book she is going to write — which, with its «new» revelations, render moot God's Word which tells us everything we need to know.

To speak of «God» properly — in a way, that is, consonant with the teachings of orthodox Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Bahá» í, much of antique paganism, and so forth — is to speak of the one infinite ground of all that is: eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of all things and for that very reason absolutely immanent to all things.

That, he says, is a big reason why paganism is seeing a revival: «If nothing else, because of the impending destruction of our environment, and our focus on finding a way to live in balance with nature.»

I am thinking in particular of the narcissistic body culture and the preoccupation with sexual fulfillment and personal choice that increasingly characterize the West, suggesting to some Muslims a dangerous reversion to paganism and perhaps the moral impotence of Christianity as well.

So paganism is imposed instead, with a «naming ceremony» with poetry and the planting of a tree, and announcements about wishes and star signs.

True, this anti-Christian faith is coming into action under different names in different parts of the world; but the more these alternative versions of the postwar paganism insist upon their points of difference — the more they abuse and attack one another — the more clearly they betray their kinship with one another to the eyes of the Christian observer.

If Christianity is to conquer a paganism that has been allowed to equip itself with the church's own weapons, the church will have perhaps greater need of God's grace than it has ever had before.

And if Christianity rises to the present challenge from the postwar paganism, the appearance on earth of another batch of saints will no doubt be one of the practical concrete ways in which the church will be given the strength to deal with its present adversary.

The raids of the Northmen, with the renewed inroads of paganism, had begun, but thus far only on the periphery.

It is quite right for one to say that paganism did not possess faith, but if with this one is to have said something, one must be a little clearer about what one understands by faith, since otherwise one falls back into such phrases.

Bottom line is the Christmas tree has its origins in paganism, has currently become a symbol of capitalism (with all those presents under the tree, none of which are being given to Christ), and is also embraced by secularism.

This animus is commonly identified with all those cultural «enemies» conquered in the past; it is called nature religion, goddess worship, paganism, witchcraft, demonism and the like, For a long time, Judaism also existed in Christian consciousness as a force in this suppressed animus.

More than 90 % of the people were Catholics, but it was a loose Catholicism with an underpinning of paganism.

Director Robin Hardy and musical director Gary Carpenter remember a descent into paganism that started in a Manhattan hotel room and ended up with the film company rubbishing their own work

His green politics and interest in paganism might also have struck a chord with the barbarous culture from which he arose.

Neither does the Bible, all the more so when it is trying to metaphorically convince me not only of a fairy, but a cobalt blue fairy with peculiarly tinted wings, forcing me to also consider the sky blue fairy of Judaism, the navy blue fairy of Islam, the red fairies of Hinduism, the purple fairies of the Norse religion, the green fairies of paganism, the rainbow - colored fairies of ancestor worship, all of which are equally implausible and mutually exclusive alternative kinds of fairies where we don't even have a single fairy of any color trapped in a cage.