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| 1: | Christianity Wasn't Influenced by Pagan Religions!
Summary Many Christian college students have encountered criticisms of Christianity based on claims that early Christianity and the New Testament borrowed important beliefs and practices from a number of pagan mystery religions. Since these claims undermine such central Christian doctrines as Christ's death and resurrection, the charges are serious. But the evidence for such claims, when it even exists, often lies in sources ... The earlier Greek mystery religions were state religions in the sense that they attained the status of a public or civil cult and served a national or public function. The later non-Greek mysteries were personal, private, and individualistic. Basic Traits One must avoid any suggestion that there was one common mystery religion. While a ... Before A.D. 100, the mystery religions were still largely confined to specific localities and were still a relatively novel phenomenon. After A.D. 100, they gradually began to attain a widespread popular influence throughout the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan-christianity.htm | 97%  Size: 33K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD ... intended to represent a complete guide to morality or that the Sabbath-keeping should be transferred from Judaism to Christianity. ... There is not one text in the Torah or the Old Testament that teaches that the Sabbath must be kept as an exact seven-day multiple ... as late as the seventh century BC. There were many more much older kingdoms which certainly would have discovered this earlier. ... Sabbatarian apologists claim that the special days Paul was referring to here were the sacred days of the pagan calendar. Unfortunately, the focus of the book of Galatians is on the baleful influence of the ... sabbaths were done away with by Christ's death on the Cross. (4) One type of Sabbath cannot exist without the others, so St. ... The true connection is in regards to the association of sunrise in the east with the resurrection or rising of Christ. There is no ... For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-lying-for-god-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 85% Size: 2.6M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd Much of the imagery was foreign and meaningless to 1st century Gentile converts to Christianity and even more so today. The overarching theme ... day from the decree of Artaxerxes in 458 BC (Ezra 7) to the resurrection of Christ in AD 33. Josephus records 7 miraculous signs that ... the Jewish rejection of their Messiah, the Jewish persecution of Christians as seen in Rev 1:9; 2:9-10 and murder of Old Testament prophets. ... Pilate did everything in his power to save Jesus from the Jews by publicly pronouncing Him innocent, flogging as a substitute for death, ... Pagan Titus said to the Jews, "You wicked villains? Why do you trample upon dead bodies in this temple" (Wars 4.201,313; 6:110,126). ... Keep in mind that the seat of Roman power has been peacefully transferred from Rome to Constantinople 140 years earlier. B. AD 322 ... as a martyr for the Lord, an Apocalypse containing the boundless mysteries of the future." (Jerome Against Jovinianus 1.26, 400 AD) C. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/revelation/ | 84% Size: 3.0M Depth: 7 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Personal Evangelism 101 ... C. Calculate your cost. What will you have to sacrifice? Put to death? Romans 1:24-32; Galatians 5:19-21; Colossians 3:5-9. D. Are you ... whose very existence was based on that very faith in the resurrection of the body which the Sadducees rejected as new-fangled and absurd." ... In 380 A.D., the emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire. It was the pagans who were now ... These people brought with them into the church many of the practices and customs of their pagan religions. Some of the changes made in church ... also retained many doctrines and practices which are not taught in the Bible and were not historically a part of the New Testament church. ... However, Charles V, considered it an insult to see the English King discard his Spanish niece. He was a devout Catholic with much influence ... This is not the example given to us in the Old and New Testament passages quoted earlier. Should we assume that the New Testament church is ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-brent-hunters-evangelism-101.htm | 84% Size: 450K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914 ... Time- setting, visions, miracles, fanatics, false prophets, sleep of the dead, annihilation of the wicked, non-resurrection of ... Col. 2:16, and then only to condemn it! "We find in the New Testament 'preach the gospel,' fifty times; 'preach Christ,' ... Evidently the same Roman empire, the same ten kingdoms of Europe, with merely a change of religion from pagan to Catholic. Thus, ... This was the civil or political power of the ten kingdoms after professing Christianity. That this ten-horned leopard beast is ... It has ever been the boast of the Roman church that SHE never puts heretics to death. She simply anathematizes them, turns them over to the civil powers, and by her influence with these, CAUSES them to be killed by ... If so it would be the one only exception among all the religions of the world and a great loss to the church. If the material ... But of all the profound mysteries of creation, the greatest is that of the human soul, the thinking part of man. What is thought! ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Seventh-day-Adventism-RENOUNCED-by-D-M-Canright.htm | 83% Size: 749K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | Weigall, Arthur: The Paganism in Our Christianity This is one of the Watchtower's Star Witnesses! Trashes whole of Core Christianity. Weigall, is a modernist and ... Pagan religions before it was first recorded in the Bible. Such a conclusion is simply invalid and for this reason, it is utter deception for the Jehovah's Witnesses to use Weigall as proof that trinity is pagan, because ... such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word 'Trinity' appear. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord."-The Paganism in Our Christianity." ... Yet Weigall also finds the virgin birth, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ in pagan religions. They ... of the story of the Virgin Birth beside the earlier story of the descent of Jesus from David through ... clays; there were forty nights of mourning in the mysteries of the pagan Proserpine; there were forty days of ... religion of Osiris and Isis exercised considerable influence upon early Christianity, for these two great ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Weigall.htm | 82% Size: 54K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal ministries and preachers ... only begotten Son of God. We believe in His substitutionary death for all men, His resurrection, and His eventual return to judge the world. ... While Swaggart maintains a comparatively tiny presence in the U.S., he is quietly expanding his influence in television markets as far away ... Montanus, Montanism Montanism was a second century heresy started by Montanus a former pagan priest. See detailed documents on Montanus He ... In the early 1900's Charles Fox Parham had a small Bible school in which he taught the need for a restoration of New Testament Christianity based on the ... Lord The dominion of the world by The Church The defeat of physical death by ascended believers called Manifest Sons of God Unity of the ... With this "anointed" touch most of the people fell down and began moving their arms back and forth (as described earlier) while on the floor. ... doctrines and unite with the Catholic Church and other religions which are coming together by 2000 A.D. (Living Truth Ministries, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-encyclopedia-pentecostal-preachers.htm | 78% Size: 247K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ... ... Through his writing, in addition to his preach-ing, he has exerted a far-reaching influence over the country, particularly in blocking the ... We are here to put up a plea for pure, undenominational, New Testament Christianity, the only Christianity there is or can be, and we want the ... The only consistent proposition they may now ever offer for debate is this: Does the silence of the New Testament authorize instrumental music ... That is certainly a wide liberty with a broad license. It would give to every man Jew, Catholic, Pagan and Protestant, the liberty to ... to seek to regain through the sympathy of the Catholic world his forfeited throne and out of death to raise up a restored temporal power. ... in the Sacred Scriptures are the fictions of poets; and the mysteries of the Christian faith are the result of philosophical investigations. ... sorrowful mysteries, and glorious mysteries, connected with the birth, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. (3) The indulgence. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic/Catholic-church-doctrine-Bulwarks-of-the-Faith-Foy-E-Wallace-JR-Refuting-Dogmas-Catholicism-Protestant-Denominationalism-1951AD.htm | 78% Size: 1.6M Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ... ... Origen, Commentary on John, 2.6, ANF; X, 329.) A pagan philosopher, Celsus, well acquainted with Christianity and its ... We begin to have insight into the mysteries of faith, we are able to prophesy and to speak with wisdom. We become steadfast ... that at their adult believers' baptism Christians of an earlier age "began to speak, one in the tongue of the Persians, ... Christianity and simple life according to the Gospel. They were called the "good men." The pope and the councils of the church claimed that they denied the Trinity doctrine, the Holy Communion and marriage, as well as the doctrine of the death and resurrection ... He created the human body and is the author of sin, which springs from matter and not from the spirit. The Old Testament ... the imminent commencement of the Ecclesia Spiritualis and which exerted widespread influence in Western thought. ... Tao Te Ching, Koran, etc. (Society of Friends) Unitarian Universalists (by their own description) (i.e. all religions and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-history.htm | 77% Size: 295K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Seven Myths Of Denominationalism! ... It is not our intent to be divisive -- in fact, those who consider themselves part of Christianity are so divided now that further division ... He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ... It seemed to arise in almost every church, mainly because of the influence of Jewish converts. We will divide our presentation into three ... The paragraph above is to enable us to understand the reasons that Jesus did not teach that the Old Testament was done away prior to His ... This occurred after Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. Consider the message of the transfiguration as recorded in Mark 9:2-9: "And after six days Jesus ... of the previous chapter we see that the "they" here is the apostles, the very same as Jesus had repeated the promise to a few days earlier. ... does come again it will not be a hidden, secretive thing that is known only to an elite few, as some false religions are prone to teach. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/r-7-myths-of-denominationalism.htm | 76% Size: 542K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | REFUTED: Full-Preterist, "Realized Eschatology", "AD 70 doctrine ... ... causes a misdating of the crucifixion to AD 30 and New Testament books written 3-4 years earlier than they actually were. ... it is messianic and it had been universally been applied to the Father by the Jews until the arrival of Christianity. g. ... when Christ would have all authority on heaven and earth between the resurrection and the second coming as Mt 28:18 confirms. ... temple in Jerusalem and worshipped the Aramean pagan gods. c. The messianic fulfillment involved the death of not two, but one dreaded king Herod the Great in 1 BC, who a few months before his death ordering the slaughter of the children of ... No New Testament passage states that Jesus was the builder of the temple. i. In John 2:18-22 Jesus said "I will raise it [the ... a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. ... However, after AD 66, the devil has been cast into hell and no longer has any influence. d. So, Christadelphians and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/revelation/Refuted-Full-Preterism-Realized-eschatology-debunked-exposed-second-coming-Parousia-rapture-destruction-Jerusalem-70AD-Doctrine-Revelation-Commentary.htm | 76% Size: 1.1M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma and pre-existence of Jesus, the Resurrection of the body, the possibility of miracles, the existence of demons, exorcism and Jesus as the promised Messiah." ... Read a critical review of Adolf Harnack By the end of the third century C.E., "Christianity" and the new Platonic philosophies became inseparably united. ... with any of the pagan religions and kept far away from the numerous intersections out of which, under the influence of the monotheistic philosophy of religion, a now religiousness developed itself. But the spirit of this religiousness entered into the Church and produced forms of expression in doctrine and cultus to correspond with itself. The testament of primitive ... Thereby it became a mystery to the great majority of Christians. But mysteries were even sought after. Not the freshness and clearness of a religion ... In 1889 he became a professor in Berlin and continued teaching there until his death. (See The Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Westminster Press, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Harnack.htm | 74% Size: 52K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Trinity: The role of Constantine in the Nicene creed Ossius' influence on Constantine Click to View Opposition to the Nicene creed Click to View Nicea opposition same as we see in Luther Click to View ... He took major steps to rid his land of paganism. Constantine's conversion to Christianity was nothing more than a political move and was not genuine as evidenced by the fact he was not baptized until just before his death. The facts of Constantine's life refute this silly unscholarly notion. His anti-Pagan stance as good as any "good" Old Testament King of Judah. It was the practice of the day to delay ... the Unconquered Sun; But there was Christian influence in his houselhold since he had a half-sister named Anastasia (anastasis = resurrection). ... Constantine favoured Christianity among the many religions of his subjects, but did not make it the official or 'established' religion of the ... There was some suspicion of this word on the part of the orthodox because of its earlier association with Gnosticism and even Manicheism. Even its ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-constantine.htm | 72% Size: 63K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | SUMMARY: PROOF that TRINITY is NOT of PAGAN origin! "The fact that the church fathers never defend trinity against a charge of pagan influence is significant. If the source was so obviously pagan, then there ... This you got to see! How Non-Christian's try to trash the whole of Christianity: Things Jews and Christians stole from Pagans: The Trinity Pre-Christian ... Click to View Baal Jesus and the events of his life were copied from numerous Pagan stories. The timing, significance and manner of his death, resurrection and birth were taken from the gods Attis, Orpheus, Heracles, Mithra ... Kittel, Gerhard in "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament" JW's Quote Kittel in such a way as to leave the impression that he is not a trinitarian or ... "The Hindus, Greeks, and Romans had a three-god triad, but those did not come close to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Those cultures and religions ... The earlier one dates from the Ramesside period. It represents the bull as a mortal who has become Osiris, and runs as follows: 'Osiris = Apis [a single ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-not-pagan-reasons.htm | 71% Size: 90K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne ... Dr. Bacchiocchi flat-out confirmed what D. M. Canright taught almost 100 years earlier by his direct testimony that the Sabbath of Colossians 2:14-17 was, indeed, ... about why Christians really abandoned Sabbath-keeping remained unchallenged between the death of Canright in 1919 and the aftermath of the 1977 publication of Dr. ... Second, he must provide adequate evidence to show a high degree of probability that it actually DID influence Christianity in this manner. The more incredible any available ... The association between the Christian Sunday and the pagan veneration of the day of the Sun is not explicit before the time of Eusebius (ca. A.D. 260-340)... From ... Bacchiocchi's assertion that the Church at Jerusalem kept the Sabbath until the Second Siege in 135 AD. However, we can see, even in the New Testament writings ... On the contrary, it is our Savior who, after the pattern of his own rest, caused us to be made in the likeness of his death, and hence also of his resurrection" ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-sabbathgate-1888ad-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 70% Size: 714K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | Part1: Pagan Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... ... Catholic theologian Hans Küng observes in his book Christianity and the World Religions that the Trinity is one reason why the churches have ... It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent ... But things get worse for JW's because Eliade views Logos Christology as influence by Greek paganism and an intermediate bridge between ... Baptism, fast, purification, vigil, the hope of immortality and resurrection, miraculous cures, water turned into wine, all these were ... watchtower can find will say trinity is of pagan origin, are atheists and Christianity trashers! Yet even this Bible trasher admits John taught the trinity! Historian Arthur Weigall notes: "Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word 'Trinity' appear. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord."-The Paganism in Our Christianity. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm | 70% Size: 110K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... ... Catholic theologian Hans Küng observes in his book Christianity and the World Religions that the Trinity is one reason why the churches have ... It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent ... But things get worse for JW's because Eliade views Logos Christology as influence by Greek paganism and an intermediate bridge between ... Baptism, fast, purification, vigil, the hope of immortality and resurrection, miraculous cures, water turned into wine, all these were ... watchtower can find will say trinity is of pagan origin, are atheists and Christianity trashers! Yet even this Bible trasher admits John taught the trinity! Historian Arthur Weigall notes: "Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word 'Trinity' appear. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord."-The Paganism in Our Christianity. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT.htm | 70% Size: 727 bytes Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-rolalyn-maqsood-petra ... ... The other early "men of Seir" were the menhir-building cave-dwelling Horites mentioned earlier, descendants of their founding-father Seir the Horite. Their capital ... It is true that in Roman times there was apparently a huge statue of the sun-god Dushrat in the city temple, but this is of late date and Roman influence. Light and ... Four "mysteries" were bound up with the concept of female divinity: virginal purity and chastity; the hunger and passion of voluptuous female sexuality; the ... of that saviour, followed by the vicarious atonement effected by the divine death for all those who had faith in its efficacy, and the promise of their personal resurrection and immortality. The reader may be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that this description refers to Christianity, but it was the mythology that lay behind the Dushrat/Al-Uzza cult, the Baal cults and fertility religions of the old Testament, the mystery cults of Isis, Osiris, Dionysus, Attis, Tammuz, Demeter and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-rosalyn-maqsood-petra-a-travelers-guide-1994ad.htm | 68% Size: 83K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Rapture Doctrine invented by John Darby in 1830 AD However Edwards ideas, which he admitted were brand new and never before taught, had no influence in the modern population of the false doctrine. That prize to ... The one pictured below is a general overview chart to give the basic idea. click to view 2. Rapture Summary Chart. Notice that the entire New Testament period ... This is exactly opposite to what the Rapture false teachers believe. "For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ ... a period of sixteen hundred years". [230-1830 AD] (Harry Ironside, The Mysteries Of God, 1908). 7. "About 1830 a new school arose within the fold of ... TV given the changing of the Millennium and the Y2K hysteria that set in on 1999 and the popular prediction of the pagan cultist Nostradamus (d. 1566 AD). i. ... The Syriac text of Pseudo-Ephraem describes the Islamic invasion so this text cannot be earlier than about 700 AD: "The progeny of Hagar, the handmaid of Sarah; ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm | 68% Size: 134K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Nimrod and the Archaeology of the Tower of Babel by Steven Rudd ... ... I. Land of Shinar refers to the south region of Assyria near Eridu and Uruk: Gen 10:10. 145 CHAPTER 15: Nimrod in Christianity: Hell and ... English name for Inanna/Ishtar derived from Saxon/Germanic "Eostre", that Christians use for resurrection day of Christ celebrations. ... For example, a stone floor seals the pottery and objects that lay below from intrusion materials and can be dated earlier than the floor ... In 2100 BC, Ur-Nammu began to construct his own "ziggurat version" of Nimrod's ancient Tower of Babel as a pagan temple of Enki. The year ... old. m. 2091 BC: God repeats the three promises to Abraham at Haran at age 75 after the death of Terah & he leaves for Canaan: Gen 12:1-4 n. ... of the MT, accepted the resurrection of Jesus as a fact but viewed many of the stories of the Old Testament as allegorical and not literal. c. ... Enki was originally patron god of the city of Eridu, but later the influence of his cult spread throughout Mesopotamia. He stretches out his ... ... https://www.bible.ca/nimrod/welcome.htm | 68% Size: 1.4M Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries ... The fact that the word trinity is not found before 180 does not mean it was not used earlier. We simply have no record of it in the same way ... 1965, Trinity, p296) "Scholars have always recognized Greek influence not on Christian teaching, but on its "mental cast," its ... They prove man has no conscious existence after death by quoting a tiny section of a Greek dictionary that states, "spirit means wind, breath" ... Attempts have been made recently to apply the more extreme theories of comparative religion [pagan similarities] to the doctrine of the ... II PROOF OF DOCTRINE FROM SCRIPTURE-A. New Testament.-The evidence from the Gospels culminates in the baptismal commission of Matt., xxviii, ... Finally, after His resurrection, He revealed the [trinity] doctrine in explicit terms, bidding them go and teach all nations, "baptizing them ... Divine attributes are affirmed of Him. He possesses omniscience and reveals to the Church mysteries known only to God (I Cor., ii,10); it is ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Catholic.htm | 67% Size: 126K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | Historical overview of Psychiatry: 1550 BC - 2010 AD ... nature soule and body cut of from the life of God, and from the sweet influence of his favour, the fountaine of all happines and eternall felicity." (A ... Jesus story of the Rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:21 clearly show that personality, memory, thoughts, feelings etc, consciously survive the death of the body while awaiting the second coming and resurrection. When ... in "Cartesian Dualism" including the ancient Egyptians, Semites, Chinese and all world religions including Buddhism, Hinduism and that late-bloomer, Islam. ... Descartes was in fact, voicing the majority view for his time. It was not until the 1900's that psychiatry rejected Christianity for the idea that man is ... Although he made some dramatic changes from what was practiced in Bedlam, almost all of his "innovations" were in print and practice up to 100 years earlier... Instead he explained the Devil and demons to be caused by physical diseases like epilepsy or flu viruses. Farmer said, "the New Testament doth not ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-overview.htm | 67% Size: 332K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | The Exodus Route: The Archaeology of Mt. Lawz as Mt. Sinai you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death." Exodus 19:11-12 b. ... It is well documented that the oral traditions in the Mishna predate Christianity by hundreds of years. d. The correct scholarly approach ... This proves the journey was 47 days. c. "The Pentecost too we observe, that is, the fiftieth day from the passion and resurrection of the ... God the New Testament explicitly identifies with the Holy Spirit. For, when one Evangelist has: 'By the finger of God, I cast out devils,' another says this same thing thus: 'By the spirit of God, I cast out devils.' Who would not have this joy in the divine mysteries, when the ... Sinai at Jabal Baghir, following Charles Beke, who published his view one year earlier. a. "As, however, the spies "searched the land from the ... The pagan altar was built by Aaron himself (83 years old) and was "before" or in front of the platform (rock, dirt) the golden calf was ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route-mt-sinai.htm | 67% Size: 291K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | The Dugger-Porter Debate on Sunday as the Lord's Day ... He found a number of occasions in the book of Acts, in connection with Jewish worship or influence, on which Paul preached. These he introduced to prove that Paul kept the ... a drowning man you grasp at a straw to support this pagan institution christened by the Roman Catholic church, and forced upon the world to take the place of the ancient Sabbath . ... We likewise read of "the Lord's death" in 1 Cor. 11:26. This refers to the death of Jesus and to no other. Then "the Lord's body" is mentioned in 1 Cor. 11:29. To no other body ... It was on that day that Jesus arose (Mark 16:7). No other day has so great an association with Christ and Christianity as the day of his resurrection. The Lord's table does not mean the altar of the Old Testament, but it is a new table introduced in the new covenant; the ... If the reader will carefully look back over the evidence given he will see that there is not one thousandth part as much in the Bible in favor of holding religions services on the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-debate-porter-dugger.htm | 67% Size: 525K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | Saul Hunts David. Timeline, maps, chronology, sermons of Judges ... ... Saul was a descendant of those men and chose Gibeah, his home town, as his Royal city. Echoing the woman being cut up 250 years earlier from ... of Samuel marked the end of God's grace with Eli, his sons and the pagan and immoral mix of practices they had instituted at the Mosaic ... death of 70 priests of Nob of the bloodline of Eli. David deceives Achish, the king of Gath, by faking that he was insane. While David used insanity to hide his sanity, Saul surrounded himself with sanity, in order to hide his insanity. Deception is always a sin but some religions ... and Al-Hasan who said "the Tuqyah is acceptable till the Day of Resurrection." (bin Kathir, Isma'il bin 'Umar, 26 October 2002) [c. 1370], ... In the New Testament, the holy men of God were called insane: Of Jesus: i. "When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody ... Samuel was clearly the most important spiritual influence in David's life, as well in all of Israel and his death would be a major cause for ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-maps-timeline-chronology-1samuel-21-31-saul-david-on-the-run-1012-1004bc.htm | 67% Size: 283K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans! parallels. 7. Justin Martyr wrote in 150 AD on similarities between paganism and Christianity. 8. Platonic & Greek influence on Christianity as a whole, including both Trinitarians and Anti-Trinitarians! 9. Pagan, Platonic & Greek influence on JW's and Christadelphians Theology. ... In this area final clarity has not yet been achieved. As far as the New Testament is concerned, one does not find in it an actual doctrine of the Trinity. This does not mean very ... The Christian religion in the 3rd century made no compromise with any of the pagan religions and kept far away from the numerous intersections out of which, under the influence ... The redemption of man from sin and death is only then guaranteed if Christ is total God and total man (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Christianity, Vol. 4, p.485) According to ... to heaven; and when they introduce wine into his mysteries, do I not perceive that [the devil] has imitated the prophecy announced by the patriarch Jacob, and recorded by Moses? ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan.htm | 64% Size: 124K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert ... ... While acknowledging that information about Canaanite religion was important for understanding ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIONS OF CANAAN AND ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIONS OF CANAAN ... Albright's influence over his students and over the scholars with whom he had contact at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and elsewhere, was enormous. While European ... Thus, New Testament Christianity was shielded from the contaminants of a pagan past (Burrows 1941; McCown 1943).11 Biblical scholars drawn from the ranks of the Protestant ministry increasingly dominated archaeology in the United States, a fact ... Echoing Graham and May's earlier work on religion and cult, they suggested that "though of necessity excavators deal with material rather than spiritual evidence, there is no reason why ... In its time however, Frazer's formulation of the death and rebirth of the divine king made a significant contribution to the study of ancient Near Eastern religions, particularly among ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-archaeology-and-the-religions-of-Canaan-and-israel-beth-alpert-nakhai.htm | 63% Size: 576K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | "Sunday keeping" DID NOT originate in the pagan religion of Mithraism ... The central feature of this cult was the worship of the sun upon the first day of the week. Historians have written concerning the influence of Mithraism on ... Weigall Trashes the whole of Christianity as being of Pagan origin including the Sabbath! Click to View Contents of The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall Notice #28 says Sunday is of pagan origin and #29 says the Sabbath The Twelve Disciples Derived From Zodiac: p25 The 27 books of the New Testament Canon is invalid: p37 The name Mary is of pagan ... made a sacred clay of Sunday, partly because it was the day of the resurrection, but largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a ... Sure they viewed Sunday as a special day, but different pagan religions have viewed almost every day of the week including SATURDAY, as special. Sabbatarians ... time of Eusebius (ca. A.D. 260-340). Though Christ is often referred to by earlier Fathers as 'True Light' and 'Sun of Justice' no deliberate attempt was made ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-Mithraism.htm | 63% Size: 16K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | Modern Rabbinical Judaism it is a development out of the ancient Hebrew Scriptures as much as Christianity This doesn't mean, though, that the Jews no longer use the Old Testament: "The issue of Modern Judaism is not: Do Jews still believe the old myths? ... Early Christians while others fashioned testarneint4 apocriypses, each having it's own circles of influence. Judaism is even more diver - today. "The ... Perhu the only difference between the present situation and the Jewries of earlier generations is that earlier'generations were perhaps more likely to ... Judaism is not exclusive, nor do they claim that they alone shall inherit the world to come. "No Jew would say that all religions except Judaism alone, ... He who hears word [of the death of a close relative], and he who is gathering up bones immerses and eats Holy Things. A proselyte who converted on the ... of the tree of life and of resurrection of the flesh by the tree- I imagine because their master was nailed to a cross and was a carpenter by trade. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-judaism-jews-mosaic-rabbinical.htm | 62% Size: 53K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD ... He was also communist who looked forward to the classic Marxist "utopia" where religion would vanish when in the future every man will be his own god: "all religions ... of atheism, humanism, Bahai, Buddhism, John Lennon, Shirley Maclaine while firmly parroting (but disbelieving) the Christian doctrine of conscious life after death. ... Bucke lobbied 350 doctors in Ontario for support of his sterilization treatment for insanity. For the amount of actual influence he had, there wasn't much science he ... His hostile views against Christianity endure to this very day in the Canadian Mental health industry. Clarence B. Farrar, the first head of the Toronto Psychiatric ... Apparently this hairstyle was quite fashionable among McGill students even in those days. Following an incredible adventure in the Sierra Nevadas five years earlier, ... This was many years before Whitman became famous, when he was generally regarded as a pagan, or an incomprehensible poet, or both. Bucke first read Whitman in the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm | 62% Size: 413K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Johannes Greber: "The New Testament", and "Communication with ... ... translation of Matt 27:52, which is rendered to eliminate the reference to the resurrection of the dead which occurred at the time of the death of Jesus: ) 1976: References to Greber's translation appears several times in the .../Pentecostal" and occult religions around the world. Click to View Click here to see similarities between Greber's experience and the occult! The boy Greber describes was a medium, and the meeting was a seance. The spirit, speaking through the boy, answered several of Greber's questions, including one about why Christianity was no longer exerting an influence on people in his day: "The teachings of Christ are no longer found in their original purity and clearness in those documents which have come down to you. In what is called the New Testament, ... In it he carefully explained those passages in his earlier writings that had given rise to misunderstanding. But his explanations were not in accord with many erroneous doctrines that had ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Greber.htm | 62% Size: 27K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion Deceptive Quote & False Dilemma: Trinitarian Source views Logos Christology as influence by Greek paganism and an intermediate bridge between apostolic teaching and ... the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the practice of ... Christianity is not unique in believing God is "someone" rather than 11 something," but it is unique in its belief that Christ is the personal Word of God, and that through Christ's death and resurrection into new life, "God was in Christ reconciling all things to God" (2 Cor. 5:19). Christ is not looked upon as an intermediary between ... (hokhmah), and Presence (shekhinah), it would go beyond the intention and spirit of the Old Testament to correlate these notions with later trinitarian doctrine. ... Eighth, the Christian doctrine of God must be developed also within the wider purview of other world religions. Trinitarian doctrine cannot be christomonistic, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Eliade.htm | 62% Size: 27K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | Encyclopædia Britannica ... 1979, Constantine the Great, Vol. 5, p.71) During the decade following his conversion Constantine's legislation shows many signs of Christian influence. ... the evangelists, having devoted his life and office to the spreading of Christianity. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Constantine the Great, Vol. 5, p.71) In ... Constantine's Anti-Pagan stance as good as any "good" Old Testament King of Judah Nor was the visit to Rome a success. Constantine's refusal to take part in a pagan procession offended the Romans; ... The redemption of man from sin and death is only then guaranteed if Christ is total God and total man (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Christianity, Vol. 4, ... the common policy, agreed between the two emperors at Milan, of full toleration for all religions and restitution of wrongs done to the Christians. ... full meaning of his essence became man in Jesus Christ is deification of man in terms of overcoming sin and death guaranteed as the resurrection of the flesh. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm | 62% Size: 95K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | Origin of Jewish/Christian holy days: Old Testament, Christmas ... Origin of Jewish/Christian holy days: Old Testament, Christmas, Easter, Halloween See also: Click to View Mistakes commonly made in telling ... is manmade but based upon NT meanings: Palm Sunday, Trinity Sunday 4. Origin is a combination of man-made Christian ideas & pagan sources: a. ... March 22 - April 25 (celebrates Jesus resurrection) b. ASH WED: lst day of Lent, 7th Wed before Easter: ashes on head- repentance c. PALM SUNDAY: Sunday before Easter: Jesus' entry into Jerusalem d. MAUNDY THURSDAY: night Jesus broke bread with disciples before death e. GOOD FRIDAY: ... In AD 354, Philocalus wrote a Christian martyrology that dates the nativity of Jesus Christ on December 25, and cites an earlier work as ... Mithra formed the origin of the cult of Mithraism, which flourished in the Roman Empire and was for a time the chief rival of Christianity.... ... The pagan Saturnalia and Brumalia were too deeply entrenched in popular custom to be set aside by Christian influence. The recognition of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/t-holy-days-origin-christmas-easter-halloween.htm | 62% Size: 34K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Comparison list of 14 Moses/Constantine the Great Shadows, Types ... Both returned to Egypt/Rome after the death of the one who wanted to kill them Exodus 2:23, 4:19 Constantine returned to Rome after the death ... Both established true religion on a state level Judaism in 1446 BC at Mt. Sinai Christianity was adopted as official state religion when ... that of a deliverer because both Moses and Constantine liberated God's people from persecution and oppression at the hands of pagan kings. a. ... Most of Bible prophecy is where an inspired New Testament writer connects a pattern of events in Jesus life with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses ... In 322, Constantine was baptized by immersion in Rome in his own baptistry that he had built 7 years earlier in AD 315. Constantine hosted the ... A desire, moreover, to emulate the example of his father had its influence in stimulating the son to a virtuous course of conduct. His father ... of voice seemed reverently to be initiating his auditors in the mysteries of the Divine doctrine: and when they greeted him with shouts of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Messianic-prophecy-Moses-Constantine-the-Great-Jesus-Christ-types-shadows-antitypes-similarities-comparisons-1446BC-AD313.htm | 62% Size: 61K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | Discussion: Eternal torment or annihilation? Obviously, nobody likes to be told their doctrine has pagan >roots, but "facts is facts!" Those who have taken the time to truly dig >deeply into the origins of this ... The depiction of the first resurrection and the second death were not meant for expositions of the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead and the future ... One of the most enduring questions of mankind is: "What happens after we die?" Many suggest that death is a soul-sleep, or suspension of life until the final ... There is much discussion in various circles today that on the subject of the afterlife, many now claim that our Old Testament scriptures on the afterlife have more to ... The most logical scenario is that the minor similarities between Zoroaster's religion and the Hebrews' is one of the Hebrew influence on the thinking of Zoroaster. ... The image of a holding place for man is consistent with the Old Testament witness as I demonstrated earlier. The Old Testament picture of Sheol is consistent with the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/su-annihilation-refuted-discussion.htm | 61% Size: 126K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | Official creed of the Orthodox church He became man, and thus He is at once fully God and fully man. His coming to earth was foretold in the Old Testament by the prophets. Because Jesus Christ is at ... The Incarnation is indispensable to Christianity -- there is no Christianity without it. The Scriptures record, "...every spirit that does not confess that Jesus ... It is an ongoing, life-long process. Salvation is past tense in that, through the death and Resurrection of Christ, we have been saved. It is present tense, for we are "being ... If there is a remarriage, the service for a second marriage includes prayers offering repentance for the earlier divorce, asking God's forgiveness, and protection ... Holy Spirit, because they think it is not a person, but only an influence of the Father; and the Christian Scientists, who consider the Holy Trinity polytheistic. ... the fulfillment of the promise given to them that He would enlighten them to preach the Gospel and impart to the believers the Mysteries of Grace (the Sacraments). ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-Orthodox.htm | 61% Size: 149K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | The Septuagint, LXX, origin, textual transmission 282 BC ... Jesus is the Messiah because Scripture Cannot Be broken 6 Old Testament Manuscripts 300 Old Testament quotes in NT Jewish Messianic expectation Canon of the Bible ... Sinai writes book of Law in Hieroglyphic Hebrew alphabet script 1340 BC: Danites setup pagan altar at Dan 1094 BC: Shiloh Destroyed by Philistines. Tabernacle tent ... Decree of Artaxerxes in Ezra 7: Begin 70 weeks (490 yrs) of Dan 9:24 ends at resurrection of Jesus 5 April 33 AD. 458 BC: Birth of Ezra's "Quattuordecim": Ezra begins ... Gerizim temple. 300 BC: Death of Hebrew language: History of mass language conversions and failed restoration attempts 282 BC: Birth of the Septuagint (LXX): ... 160 AD: Jews corrupt the Greek Septuagint (LXX) in synagogues to counter Christianity, then abandoned it altogether. 160 AD: Jews corrupt their own Hebrew ... The unity found in the Bible is vastly superior to the sacred writings of all other world religions, including Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Bahai, and Islam. Anyone who ... ... https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/septuagint.htm | 61% Size: 161K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity: Dr. David W. T. Brattston Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity by Dr. David W. T. Brattston 2013 AD There are strongly-held differences as to whether God wishes ... The best translation is that Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Lord every Sunday, not only once a year or on Saturday. Thus it is ... Here we see a bishop, writing less than a decade after the death of the last apostle and who doubtless worked with some apostles, ... Trypho the Jew faulted Christians of his era because they did not keep the Sabbath, festivals, circumcision, or other Old Testament ordinances ... Remember that circumcision was one of the crucial differences between the two religions in the Lukan Acts and Paul's letters. Abounding in ... Another Gnostic book, the famous Gospel of Thomas 27, in the second half of the second century or earlier also inculcated "fasting as to the ... In a less ecumenical age than our own, Tertullian forbade any attendance of Christians at pagan or Jewish festivities or observing their ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/H-sunday-sabbath-and-sunday-in-early-christianity-before-400AD-DavidW.T.Brattston.htm | 61% Size: 60K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | Elijah and Elisha Chronology timeline 870-810 BC ... While Ahab is building the House of Baal for his pagan wife Jezebel, Elijah restored the altar of YHWH on Mt. Carmel for this great showdown with the prophets of ... While Elijah and Elisha, who work exclusively within the then northern tribes of Israel, perform some of the greatest miracles in the Old Testament, the Israel and ... Moab had rebelled after the death of Ahab king of Israel in 853 BC. Jehoshaphat had just defeated Moab in 852 BC in the Battle of Engedi when Moab and Ammon attacked Judah in the Battle of Engedi three years earlier. Jehoshaphat was rebuked twice for his allegiances with two previous kings of Israel (Ahab in the battle of ... Prayer is more powerful and more important than any miracle. 8. 10 miracles of resurrection from the dead in the Bible: 3 Old Testament, 7 New Testament a. Elijah: ... The influence that Athaliah was the granddaughter of pagan king Omri of Israel outweighed her marriage to a king of Judah (Jehoram). She was killed by the righteous ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/chronology/bible-chronology-timeline-Elijah-Elisha-John-the-Baptist-Jesus-types-antitypes-870-810BC.htm | 61% Size: 836K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | May Women speak in Church? 2 Tim 2:12 + 1 Cor 14:34 ... The New Testament confirms this understanding. It reveals that Adam is the one who is singled out and held responsible for the consequences of the Fall for the human race. Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. Romans ... For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. Why is such ... Although there have been some legitimate goals, one of the results of this movement is to influence our culture to ignore the fact that there is a difference in the ... metaphysical or "New Thought" religions (such as Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science.), which believed that the Bible must be interpreted symbolically or mystically. ... Josephine Henry, The Woman's Bible, II:205 "All the religions on the face of the earth [including Christianity] degrade women; and so long as woman accepts the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/marriage/f-women-speak-in-church.htm | 60% Size: 71K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | May Women speak in Church? 2 Tim 2:12 + 1 Cor 14:34 ... The New Testament confirms this understanding. It reveals that Adam is the one who is singled out and held responsible for the consequences of the Fall for the human race. Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. Romans ... For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. Why is such ... Although there have been some legitimate goals, one of the results of this movement is to influence our culture to ignore the fact that there is a difference in the ... metaphysical or "New Thought" religions (such as Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science.), which believed that the Bible must be interpreted symbolically or mystically. ... Josephine Henry, The Woman's Bible, II:205 "All the religions on the face of the earth [including Christianity] degrade women; and so long as woman accepts the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/f-women-speak-in-church.htm | 60% Size: 71K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | Acapella Responsive Singing, No Instruments in first century ... ... For human utterance can be divided into speech and song: while the words address the mind and influence it through ideas, the rhythm of the singing addresses sense perception by ... Just as Jesus refuted the Sadducees view of no conscious life after death in the story of the Rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16, which features a real time story of what was happening ... As Paul noted in 57 AD, "the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all." (Acts 23:8) e. This would drive the ... were introduced, but antagonism to instrumental music, so closely associated with pagan religions and the spectacles of the Roman colosseum, continued for several centuries (Werner IDB ... It did not use instrumental music." (Historical Evidence About Instrumental Music, Frank Walton, Christianity Magazine, December 1985 AD) 6. "The conclusion drawn from the New Testament texts and from linguistic evidence was that instrumental music was not ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Acapella-responsive-singing-non-instrumental-first-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-worship-prototype-ancient-Synagogue-ritual-liturgy-worship.htm | 60% Size: 265K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | Flavius Josephus Genesis Chronology: 70 AD Creation 5467 BC ... This is definitive. b. As a point of interest, Cainan is found in the New Testament and the LXX Tanakh but not in the Masoretic, proving once again that the Septuagint chronology ... Later this will become the New orthodox view of Jews starting formally in the Seder Olam Rabbah. c. Jews before Christianity and Christians today correctly understand that the 70 weeks of Daniel ended at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. See also the Ephesian Jewish Synagogue ... Now he, when he had lived three hundred and sixty-five years [365: LXX & Proto-Masoretic agree], departed, and went to God; whence it is that they have not written down his death. ... policy, and certainly not at this early stage; and, what is more, they were very concerned to counteract the influence of the Essenes, whose teachings were fostering the unrest. ... 5. When Josephus entered the fantasy world where the termination of the 70 weeks had pagan Roman Caesar Vespasian (69-79 AD) as the anointed one, facts matter little, like the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Josephus-Flavius-Chronology-Genesis5-Textual-variants-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Tanakh-creation-5467BC-age-earth-Daniel9-70-weeks-70AD.htm | 60% Size: 119K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | High self esteem is atheistic paganism! Psychiatry promotes Self ... I once had it all: In my home country, I had it all: money, the best education, highly respected, the best food, a nice house. I recently converted to Christianity and a Fatwa of death was issued against me of my former ... The psychiatry industry has had such an influence on society since the 1960's, that the concept of "Self-Esteem" is seen as being a truth like the law of gravity! "liberals, non-believers, and ... Christians with a healthy, godly, Christ-like low self image, are being destroyed by humanistic, atheistic, pagan counselors to view themselves as something valuable! The Devil has deceived the ... Acts 13:46 Only when we deny ourselves, do we find our worth in Christ. This is what Paul did in the New Testament, just like these Old Testament saints did: "(men of whom the world was not ... After listing all the bad stuff Paul endured with beatings, lack of recognition and honour, he tells us of how he had a pride problem and had to be given a thorn in the flesh 14 years earlier. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-atheistic-anti-christian-self-esteem-vs-biblical-selflessness.htm | 59% Size: 135K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | Why I left the Roman Catholic church! (personal testimony) ... beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection." ... Furthermore, you do not read in the New Testament of any man, or set of men, having more authority under heaven in the church of the living ... When the barbarian hordes swept down from the north in A.D. 476, the empire seemingly was "wounded to death." Babylon fell to rise no more. ... History plainly shows that, as long as pagan Rome was in the ascendancy, papal Rome was held in check. In the fourth century, Emperor Constantine recognized his version of "Christianity" as the true religion; and, by his gifts to the church and at the point of the sword, he gave ... In Peter Dens' Theology, a long list of suggested works of satisfaction practiced in the Romanist Church are given: fasting, rising earlier, ... This is no time for weak-kneed Protestantism; this is a time for courageous, concerted action in behalf of truth. Cast out that evil influence... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-why-I-left.htm | 59% Size: 114K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal and the Lead Curse Tablet ... Manuscript: 1990 AD, published: 2018 AD) b. "There are several pieces of evidence which connect the altar with the earlier circular installation. ... Perhaps the mix of Hebrew and pagan elements in the altar are typical of such times of compromise. "Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of ... The restriking was probably done after Jannaeus' death, during the reign of Queen Salome Alexandra (76-67 B.C.)." (Dictionary of New Testament Background, Craig Evans, p223, 2000 AD) 4. The oldest lead curse tablet: a. The metallurgy of ... Ebal, see Gilmour 1995: 108-20. See Zertal 1993: 377 for a brief summary of the controversy." (Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth ... Judaism sanctified Judea and Jerusalem and, during the Second Temple period, also the Galilee. Christianity attributed sanctity to the Galilee, where ... The Mesopotamian architectural influence on the structure of the altar is also very interesting, both in its stepped construction and in the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm | 58% Size: 538K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | THE PIRATES OF PRIVILEGE: Walter Rea Rocks the Seventh-day Adventist ... ... Pierson's letter sounded like some ancient pagan love song. He had been taken from the sheep fold of Adventism and exalted to the crown, yet he was poor-mouthing the ... Minutes later, Davenport spoke with James Hopps of Boring, Ore., legal counsel for the church's Northwest Conference, according to another memo. Hopps, a year earlier... We are not to make the use of flesh food a test of fellowship, but we should consider the influence that professed believers who use flesh foods have over others. . . ... But even her favorite son Willie related a different story. Years after his mother's death he told of the many setbacks in her struggle to overcome meat, of the ... Fast on the heels of the article came another in Christianity Today, "Another Scholar Is in Jeopardy over Ellen White." 19 In the article they theorize: Douglas ... A. Traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions that place revelation, God, ritual, or creed above human needs and experience are not for us. B. Moral values ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-pirates-of-privilege.htm | 57% Size: 486K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | Josh McDowell's Powerful Evidience for Resurrection A QUESTION OF HISTORY After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is either one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted on the minds of human beings-or it is the most remarkable fact of history . Here are some of the facts relevant to the resurrection: Jesus of Nazareth, a Jewish prophet who claimed to be the Christ prophesied in the Jewish Scriptures, was arrested, was judged a political criminal, and was crucified. Three days after His death and burial, some women who went to His tomb found the body gone. In subsequent weeks, His disciples claimed that God had raised Him from the dead and that He appeared to them various times before ascending into heaven. From that foundation, Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire and has continued to exert great influence down through the centuries. LIVING WITNESSES The New Testament accounts of the resurrection were being circulated within the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/d-resurrection-evidence-Josh-McDowell.htm | 55% Size: 24K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | Pentecostalism: Worshipping God with your mind in neutral! ... The Mystery-Religions and Christianity (New York: Dover, 1975), 100- 101) In other words, ecstasy could emancipate the soul from the confinement of the body and enable a person to commune with the spirit world. It created an extraordinarily buoyant sensation. In that state a person supposedly had capacity to see and understand things that only the eyes of the spirit can behold. (For further information on tongues speaking and ecstasies in the pagan world, see the Encyclopedia Britannica articles "Mystery Religions," "Mysteries," "Religions of Primitive People," and "Gift of Tongues." See also A. R. Hay, "Counterfeit Speaking in Tongues" in What is Wrong in the Church? Vol. 2 (Audubon, N.1.: New Testament Missionary Union, n.d.), ... God is not serious ... this world cannot fit with a theological god " Personal testimony of former Pentecostal Pastor Click to View While I was a student at U of M through the influence of some friends I went to a series of meetings called "Life ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-neutral-mind.htm | 55% Size: 14K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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