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1. Though the pagan soldiers mocked Jesus by putting upon Him that scarlet robe and crown of thorns, the nations will one day bow the knee and worship Him
2. “They think we are pagan savages because we chose our image of the almighty in female form
3. totality of the Occidental one was pagan
4. He is a pagan and they lead immoral lives
5. According to her, he was a pagan and her religion forbade her to get involved with him
6. Think about it: you are already a dedicated people, whereas I am basically a pagan
7. If you are not a pagan, but dream that you are, then it suggests that you are misdirecting or misusing your energy
8. This was frowned upon by the pagan girls
9. ” He wondered how they would react once they found out that Helez was going to marry a Babylonian; a pagan! Although, he had started taking his lessons with Darniil more seriously recently
10. After all, Helez was a Hebrew and this Zarko, a pagan
11. They might as well try to come to terms with it and accept the inevitable – they were getting a pagan as part of the family!
12. She mentioned her concern with the pagan practices so prevalent in the Babylonian culture
13. His court is filled with pagan excesses
14. believers into huge temples of pagan deities and the
15. I have no remorse to be a lesser part in this Pagan ritual
16. He found that doing God’s work here, in this land that he could only describe as Pagan, was a fulfilling task that rejuvenated his mind and soul
17. More than likely, to his pagan mind, it would have caused serious forebodings; for, probably, it had been raised to the fetish of some departed relation, and demanded respect in consequence
18. Hillenbrand would conclude that an old signal tower, once build upon the place of atavistic pagan
19. In pagan days women held many rights and responsibilities
20. IN THE FILTH OF THE PAGAN AND DRIP WITH THE
21. For you have allowed the pagan to enter in and take his throne upon the altar, as the congregation gives ear to the deceiver, welcoming his every word
22. Ireland: A nation gradually re-embracing its pagan traditions
23. It was confusing, she didn't know if there was any difference between the Pagan God, as the convent had called the God of magick, and the Christian God, or if they were one and the same
24. A natural deep-water harbour showed why the city was here, a small metropolis plopped right down into the midst of huge ruins, crumbling walls, and pagan temples brooding in the rarified air
25. Talk about hell, but it did preserve a museum, a slice of life as it was lived at that time, especially among the upper classes of a pagan society
26. However, their version of the one God hovers remotely over them, requiring only slavish adherence to ritualistic practices, at the center of which is a huge polished black stone (of possible meteoritic origin) that was also at the center of their pre-Islamic pagan ancestry
27. “With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (smoothly merge) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did the Christian community fail to absorb elements from foreign beliefs
28. If in truth, some of the stonework of the Temple was incorporated into the Colosseum, might not Nero’s successors have felt, in some slightly deranged mental equivalency, that they were sacrificing the all too successful successors of the hated Hebrew rebels in order to save their pagan people?
29. “Theodosius (I) was the first to prohibit the practice of the Pagan religion altogether, and he brought the Arian controversy to its final conclusion at the Second Ecumenical Council (Constantinople 381)…His grandson Theodosius II…brought together the Third Ecumenical Council (Ephesus 431), which anathematized Nestorius for separating the divine in Christ from the human…In 450 Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius…married Marcian…who made it his business to summon the Fourth Ecumenical Council (Chalcedon 451) and secure the condemnation of both Nestorius and the Monophysites, the latter of whom taught that there was only one nature in Christ—the divine
30. Instead of, in all honest humility, following the titular leader, the bishop of Rome, religious heir of the Apostle Peter, already chosen, according to the Bible, by their crucified leader as head of his church, and by extension any other bishop chosen as his successor; the Eastern leadership, following Constantine’s move of his capitol eastward sought to contest that authority, trying instead to negotiate a kind of co-ruler-ship, similar to that which had brought Constantine to the fore of the pagan, Roman Empire
31. His vision might naturally be seen to apply to his present and near-term future, but his reference to Jezebel takes me back to the “Northern Kingdom” and a pagan, Jezebel, who seemed to have had undue influence over the last Israelite king
32. The obvious conclusion would be that he made reference to the Pagan Roman and Gnostic influences surrounding all Christian efforts to remain true to the Word
33. From ancient Ur, to Babylon with its magnificent tower, to brutal Assyria, Babylon again, then the Persia of Cyrus, and his heirs, Alexander’s Hellenism, and last but not least Pagan Rome
34. He also warned against giving in to the temptations of the pagan world all around them, and from which many had just come, carrying in many cases, the baggage of old familiar beliefs
35. Each time the Israelites, God’s chosen, were exiled to the pagan land “between two rivers,” the same place, the land of Ur, that Abraham had not wanted to return to
36. Constantine, by the time of Nicaea, was the undisputed, first among the Romans within a pagan empire
37. He was the titular head of a majority pagan religion, but also, it was one that slowly gave way to this new Christian entity under his leadership
38. Constantine moved his capitol to the Bosporus, the “gateway to Asia,” it is suspected, largely because there were more Christians there (50 percent, Americana) than in the pagan west (Rome)
39. “The name of a many-sided movement in the 1st and 2nd centuries of the Christian era which combined the mythology and symbolism of several pagan religions with the teachings of Christ…had two characteristic features: a metaphysical dualism of matter and spirit whose origins are to be found in the physical dualism of darkness and light in the Parsic (or Persian) religion; and a doctrine of redemption, by which those who devote themselves to gnosis, or a higher knowledge, may proceed from the former to the latter realm…Much of Gnostic literature was falsely ascribed to such authors as the disciples of Jesus, Jewish prophets, heroes of antiquity, or imaginary personages…With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (attempt to smoothly unite) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did Christianity fail to absorb elements of foreign beliefs
40. Now I understand why the Jews did not want to mix; the reason that the Catholic Church has replaced the pagan celebrations by their own festivities; or why they have replaced the pagan gods for the God of the Hebrews, the God of Catholics, the God of the Hindus, the god of the Buddhists, ultimately, by the one God
41. You will be thunderstruck when you find the multitude of heathen (pagan) practises we practise in our churches today, shamefully under the banner of “Christianity”
42. "Meredith, hey? One of the parson's youngsters, hey? I've heard of you--I've heard of you! Riding on pigs and breaking the Sabbath! A nice lot! What do you want here, hey? What do you want of the old pagan, hey? _I_ don't ask favours of parsons--and I don't give any
43. (In my other book I explain the origin of Easter which is absolutely pagan and has nothing to do with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but celebrated religiously with all the other false rituals by Christians – note “the house of Ashtaroth” in verse 10 above)
44. I discuss many of these so-called Christian rituals which are as pagan as can be in my previous book
45. Do you believe what God’s Word says? If so, does it not tell you that we do not have a say in terms of the disposal of our bodies as far as cremation is concerned, because it does not belong to us? We have been bought with a very high price; therefore glorify God also with your body by not committing it to the pagan practise of burning it to whoredom!
46. He returned to the Kaaba where he destroyed all the pagan idols, except the black stone he believed had been sent by
47. May I be as bold as to request of you, dear reader, never to accept what I say, but please accept what God says and realise that “cremation” is a pagan ritual that is not from God, in fact God only approves this paganism in punishment, when His wrath is ignited!
48. (Again, maybe not for sensitive “readers”, but if you intend to indulge in this pagan practice, you must also be aware of the irregularities and atrocities associated with it
49. Vile I tell you, absolutely revolting and disgusting…but nonetheless suitable for an abominable pagan barbaric practice like this!
50. Now I ask, how on earth may these pagan idolatrous processes that crush can and grind bones, along with animals bones discarded in the same hole, be reconciled with Scripture that says:
