Did you ever notice?
November 13th, 2015 at 12:07:04 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
You must be joking, it's ALL from pagan origins. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_33.htm "The core of Christianity—the worship of a miracle working, walking, talking godman who brings salvation—was also the core of other ancient religions that began a thousand years before Jesus." http://pocm.info/ "Christianity borrowed salvation, baptism, the eucharist, heaven, hell, a virgin born Jesus Christ the Son of God from ancient Pagan religions. Copycat." http://pocm.info/getting_started_pocm.html http://articles.exchristian.net/2003/04/is-christianity-based-on-pagan-roots.php There is lots of actual evidence that every belief Christians hold predates Jesus by centuries. And after he died, they rolled merrily along stealing every bit of paganism they could and calling it their own. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 13th, 2015 at 1:16:05 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Oh Bob, you are so very mislead. Please read this brief article: Is Catholicism Pagan? "Ultimately, all attempts to prove Catholicism "pagan" fail. Catholic doctrines are neither borrowed from the mystery religions nor introduced from pagans after the conversion of Constantine. To make a charge of paganism stick, one must be able to show more than a similarity between something in the Church and something in the non-Christian world. One must be able to demonstrate a legitimate connection between the two, showing clearly that one is a result of the other, and that there is something wrong with the non-Christian item. In the final analysis, nobody has been able to prove these things regarding a doctrine of the Catholic faith, or even its officially authorized practices. The charge of paganism just doesn’t work." “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
November 13th, 2015 at 2:34:23 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
lol! You have drank so much of the Kool Aid that you believe your own hype now. The fact that people still believe all the pagan superstitious crap in the 21st century is embarrassing. I'm still waiting for the whereabouts of all those Jewish saints that came flying out of their tombs and graves when Jesus was supposedly resurrected. Too funny.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 13th, 2015 at 7:05:51 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Even the apostles raised others from the dead, and one was raised himself. http://www.biblestudy.org/question/who-has-been-resurrected-from-the-dead.html I wonder why they stopped that tradition? "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
November 13th, 2015 at 10:08:36 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Meton (ca. 440 BC) made the amazing observation that 235 lunar months made up almost exactly 19 solar years. Modern measurements calculate 19 solar years = 234.997 lunar months. or 19*12+7=235 So lunar calendars added months in years 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, and 19 of the cycle , the lunar cycles were synched with the solar cycles to within a week or two each year. So technically the older calendars were called "lunisolar calendars" since they did make corrections every 2 or 3 years. Athens was at 38° N, so it wasn't tropical, but it was fairly warm. So the deviations didn't matter a whole lot for cycles of planting crops. |
November 13th, 2015 at 11:11:41 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
lol. I'd become a believer tomorrow if they still had all those powers today. All they seem to be able to do now is bankrupt themselves from paying off people who were molested by priests. Not very impressive. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 14th, 2015 at 3:42:49 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | The power to resurrect people from the dead is very much alive today. I regularly see people whose lives were dead in sin rise to a new life of grace. I have seen many lives joyfully transformed by the love of Jesus Christ! “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
November 14th, 2015 at 4:05:10 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | As I said, I occasionally peek.
That's the most ineffectual argument to be made against religion. Yes, it's ALL from pagan origins. All of it. ALL of Western civilization is of pagan, Greco-Roman origins (with assorted influences). Why would you expect religion to be any different? Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
November 14th, 2015 at 5:48:52 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I don't. FrG says Christianity is not rooted deeply in pagan religions. There is not a thing unique in his religion. Nothing. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 14th, 2015 at 5:50:29 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
You know they aren't really dead, right? Like Jesus was dead? And they aren't dead in sin either, sin doesn't exist. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |