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• Gehenna
  In ancient times, it is believed that children were sacrificed to the pagan god Molech in Gehenna, a practice that was outlawed by [[King Josiah]] ([[ ...
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• Revelation 16:5
  Speaking in defense of the Hebrew etymology of Jehovah against a pagan one, Calvin also noted in his Commentary on Genesis: * [[1671 AD|1671]] <small>Biblia Arabica. de propaganda fide. Arabic and Latin Bible printed in Rome by [[Abraham Ecchellensis]] ...
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• Article: Easter or Passover by Scott Jones
  ... hat plagues this unlearned age, as there is not a SHRED of evidence that a pagan festival ever preceded or replaced the celebration of the resurrection of ... Neither word was attached in any way to a pagan goddess, and as Hislop admitted --
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• Bodmer Papyri
  ... are not a [[gnostic]] cache, like the Nag Hammadi Library: they bear some pagan as well as Christian texts, parts of some thirty-five books in all, in [[C ... ... stian ''Vision of Dorotheus'', son of "Quintus the poet" assumed to be the pagan poet [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], written in archaising [[Homer]]ic [[hexameter] ...
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• Oxyrhynchus Papyri
  ... style="background:#eeeeee"|'''''[[Libellus|libelli]]''''' (certificates of pagan sacrifice)
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• Tertullian
  ... gs cover the whole theological field of the time—[[apologetics]] against paganism and Judaism, [[polemic]]s, polity, discipline, and morals, or the whole ... ... eloped around the 5th century. In the 2nd century writings of Tertullian ''paganus'' meant a "civilian" who was lacking self-discipline. In ''De Corona Mil ...
  35 KB (5354 words) - 12:38, 21 August 2021
• Historicity of Jesus
  ... ment, brief references in histories produced decades or centuries later by pagan and Jewish sources such as [[Josephus on Jesus|Josephus]], [[gnostic texts ...
  3 KB (475 words) - 12:11, 8 March 2016
• Saint Optatus
  ... , Optatus, Hilary?" (De Doctrina Christ., xl). Optatus probably began as a pagan rhetorician.
  8 KB (1409 words) - 11:46, 29 April 2017
• Pope Dionysius of Alexandria
  Dionysius was born to a wealthy pagan family sometime in the late 2nd, early 3rd century. Dionysius spent most o ... During 249, a major persecution was carried out in Alexandria by a pagan mob, and hundreds were assaulted, stoned, burned or cut down on account of ...
  7 KB (1030 words) - 09:44, 27 April 2019
• Vergilius Vaticanus
  The manuscript was probably made for a pagan noble. Annotations in the manuscript indicate it was in [[Italy]] until 7t ...
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• Jehovah’s Witnesses
  ... p>[24]</sup> Easter or birthdays^[25] because of their perceived pagan origins. Members commonly refer to their body of beliefs as "the Truth", a ...
  29 KB (3917 words) - 08:47, 8 March 2016
• John Chrysostom
  ... 4]</sup>^[5]^[6]. He was also active in destruction of pagan symbols and places of worship, including the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. ... 's influential connections in the city, John began his education under the pagan teacher Libanius. From Libanius John acquired the skills for a career in r ...
  14 KB (2186 words) - 03:12, 9 March 2016
• Polycarp
  ... f particular importance in understanding the position of the church in the pagan era of the Roman Empire. While the persecution is supported by the local p ...
  11 KB (1737 words) - 10:37, 28 December 2018
• Alexander Hislop
  ... s a book in 1858. Hislop's work has been described as conspiracy theory propaganda which mixed "sketchy knowledge of Middle Eastern antiquity with a vivid ... ... d child was transferred to Christianity, merging Christian characters with pagan mythology. The Goddess was renamed Mary, and Jesus was the renamed Jupiter ...
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• Ralph Woodrow
  ... rian churchman, Alexander Hislop, that Roman Catholicism is a syncretistic pagan religion in his book Babylon Mystery Religion and gained a certain notorie ...
  963 B (136 words) - 13:22, 11 March 2016
• St. Paul the Apostle
  ... f Acts contains an account of Paul's travels and deeds, his conflicts with pagans and Jews, and his interactions with the other apostles. It was written fr ... ... ome contemporary scholars hold that the Lord's supper had its origins in a pagan context, where dinners to memorialize the dead were common and the Jewish ...
  47 KB (7326 words) - 11:55, 8 March 2016
• Article: Acts 19:37 robbers of churches; 19:35 Diana or Artemis?
  ... or hallowed. According to Kittle's massive lexicon the word can refer to a pagan shrine, a temple or a synagogue, or anywhere people meet for religious rit ... ... he Greek word includes anywhere people met for religious purposes, whether pagan or Christian. The city was Ephesus. Were there Christian assemblies in the ...
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• Article: Acts 19:35 Diana or Artemis? Jupiter, Zeus or Heaven?
  Both Diana and Artemis refer to the same pagan goddess. Smith's Bible dictionary tells us that Artemis was the Greek godd ...
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• Article: The character of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus texts by Will Kinney
  Clearly the apostle was referring to certain pagan poets and not Jewish writers. The reading of YOUR own poets is that of the ...
  42 KB (7157 words) - 11:54, 8 March 2016
• Article: Romans 3:25-26; 5:11; 7:15 Atonement; remission of sins; him that believeth; I allow not by Will Kinney
  ... any Bible is the inspired and inerrant word of God, and they often employ pagan and secular usages in defining Biblical words. They also happen to frequen ...
  31 KB (5419 words) - 13:22, 12 March 2016
• Article: NO LXX - the Fictitious Use of Septuagint by Will Kinney
  ... from a heathen, Gentile language. A Greek Old Testament translation into a pagan tongue and produced by the other eleven tribes in addition to the Levites ... The letter of Aristeas is mere fabrication (Kahle calls it propaganda), and THERE IS NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT A GROUP OF SCHOLARS TRANSLATE ...
  138 KB (24391 words) - 08:24, 5 March 2016
• Article: The NKJV is a Poor Substitute for the True Bible by Will Kinney
  ... c toilet’, “a latrine’, or ‘a privy’, but they all refer to this pagan house being made into a toilet.
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• Article: Alleged Archeological errors in KJB by Will Kinney
  ... do not "plant" an idol. Groves of trees were specially dedicated altars to pagan gods. Sometimes the images of these gods were carved into the base of the ... ... ord “grove” or “groves” 18 times on its home page. Apparently the pagan creator of this site did not realize how “archaic” these words are."
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• Article: “Easter” or “Passover” in Acts 12:4? by KJV Today
  ... at predates the advent of Islam. Likewise, "[[Easter]]" may appear to be a pagan word on the surface, but a deeper study would show that it is a Christian ... ... Jesus Christ's resurrection with a name derived from "east." For example, pagans might call their gods "God," "Lord," "Helper," etc, but that would not pr ...
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• Article: Is the word "Easter" an error in the King James Bible? by Will Kinney
  ... ale, Matthews, the Great Bible, and the Bishop's Bible were referring to a pagan deity of the spring called Eastre or Ishtar when they called Christ the [[ ... It is likewise grammatically absurd to think [[Easter]] refers to a pagan deity in [[Acts 12:4]] where it says, "intending after [[Easter]] to bring ...
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• Catena (Biblical commentary)
  ... gides, Macarius, Michael Apostolios) partly from Christian and partly from pagan sources, see Krumbacher, pp. 600–4, also Elter, E. (1893), De Gnomologio ...
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• Ephesians 3:9
  :The allusion, according to him, is to the mysteries of the ancient pagan religions; and he supposes that the apostle designs to contrast those “m ...
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• Uncial script
  ... l the end of the 8th century. The early forms of half-uncial were used for pagan authors and Roman legal writing, while in the 6th century the script came ...
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• Isaiah 65:11
  ... w that these were proper nouns. Gad and Meni were indeed the names of the Pagan gods of fortune and destiny, but the names literally mean "troop" and "num ... ... or Fortune, a pagan deity. MENI - Footnote: Literally Number or Destiny, a pagan deity.
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• Article: Lucifer or Morning Star? by Will Kinney
  ... nt song. These verses, which appear to be spoken by other pagan kings to a pagan king (cf. vv. 9-11), contain several titles and motifs that resemble those ...
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• Matthew 10:14
  ... our instructions: when ye depart out of that house, or city, shake off the pagan dust from your feet. <small>([[Mace New Testament]])</small> * [[1671 AD|1671]] <small>Biblia Arabica. de propaganda fide. Arabic and Latin Bible printed in Rome by [[Abraham Ecchellensis]] ...
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• Daniel 3:25
  ... is usually translated as "God" singular. Many modern scholars state that a pagan polytheistic king like Nebuchadnezzar could not know if it was The Son of ... ... impossible that God revealed His Son to the king? [[Matthew 27:54]] has a pagan Centurion doing just that:
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• Article: Psalms 2 How Different the Versions! by Will Kinney
  ... , but now both Wallace and the TNIV make the sides of the north refer to a pagan mountain where "the gods assembled"! ... GODS' assembly', that is, the place where the GODS (PLURAL) assemble; the pagan site, not the place of government of the one true God.
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• List of Biblical commentaries
  ... ocrates, [[Plato]], etc. originated with Moses. He set about reconciling [[Pagan]] philosophy with the [[Old Testament]], and for this purpose he made exte ... ... t make the distinction between natural and revealed religion. For example, Pagan systems may have natural religion highly developed, but, from a Judeo-Chri ...
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• Article: Hosea - a Comparative Study by Will Kinney
  ... meaning is very simple - the idolatrous priests who once REJOICED on their pagan altars, shall now mourn when God brings judgment. The Hebrew word used her ...
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• Pre-Adamite
  ... le]]. This belief has a long history, probably having its origins in early pagan responses to [[Abrahamic]] claims regarding the origins of the [[human]] r ... ... ilus of Antioch]] and an [[Aegyptus (Roman province)|Egyptian]] [[paganism|pagan]] [[Apollonius]], who argued that the world was 153,075 years old. Figures ...
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• History of Eastern Orthodox Christian theology
  ... son of Constantine I) and [[Valens]]. The Eastern Empire also saw its last Pagan Emperor in [[Julian the Apostate]] after the death of Constantine I. Even ... ... of most of the Mediterranean coastline (not to mention the arrival of the pagan Slavs in the Balkans at the same time) further intensified this separation ...
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• Eastern Orthodox Christian theology
  ... ity. Orthodox Christians do not believe in becoming "separate" gods in the pagan sense; rather, they believe that humans may participate in the divine ener ...
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• Catholic Church
  ... ired its adherents to renounce all other gods. Christians' refusal to join pagan celebrations meant they were unable to participate in much of public life. ... ... ly condemned the Nazis' persecution of the Church and their ideology of neopaganism and racial superiority.^[] After the Second World War began i ...
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• Acts 14:12
  :Nave's Topical Bible -Mercurius - A pagan god; Mercury (to the Romans); Hermes (to the Greeks)) Paul taken for, in L ...
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• Acts 19:37
  According to Kittle's massive lexicon the word can refer to a pagan shrine, a temple or a synagogue, or anywhere people meet for religious rit ... ... he Greek word includes anywhere people met for religious purposes, whether pagan or Christian. The city was Ephesus. Were there Christian assemblies in the ...
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• List of the animals in the Bible
  ... ding to the original the adjective ficarii, possibly following in this the pagan idea which, supposing that [[ficus|fig]]s [[Aphrodisiac|incline to lust]], ...
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• Matthew 18:17
  ... he is not moved by the church, show him no more regard than you would to a pagan or a publican. <small>([[Mace New Testament]])</small> ... gregation; and if he despise the congregation also, let him be to you as a pagan or a publican. <small>(Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)</small>
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• Counter-Reformation
  ... everal centuries), not showing Christ seated or bearded, and including the pagan figure of [[Charon (mythology)|Charon]]. ... ral foundation was in effect prohibited, as was any inclusion of classical pagan elements in religious art, and almost all nudity, including that of the in ...
  31 KB (4871 words) - 08:39, 10 March 2016
• Augustine of Hippo
  ... f Thagaste. There he became familiar with [[Latin literature]], as well as pagan beliefs and practices.^[] While at home in 369 and 370, he read ... ... ntiating it from miracle, were crucial in the early Church's fight against paganism and became a central thesis in the later denunciation of witches and wi ...
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• Sextus Julius Africanus
  ... he wrote), Latin, and Hebrew. He was at one time a soldier and had been a pagan; he wrote all his works as a Christian.
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• Socrates of Constantinople
  ... ere they had been pagan priests. A revolt, accompanied by an attack on the pagan temples, had forced them to flee. This attack, in which the [[Serapeum]] w ...
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• Priscillian
  ... nd rich, a layman who had devoted his life to study, vain of his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings (see [[Gregory of Tours ... ... n up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom'' [http://libro.uca.edu/mckenna/pagan3.htm on-line] The present account depends on this thoroughly cited chapter ...
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• Johannes Quasten
  ... n Münster with a thesis on "Music and singing in the cults of the ancient pagan and early Christian times". Further studies followed in the years 1927-192 ...
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• Bible Historiale
  ... of the Bible and situates them chronologically with respect to events from pagan history and mythology. ... ranslator's own opinion; "incidents," which insert parallel histories from pagan history and mythology; and "histories," passages directly translated from ...
  11 KB (1708 words) - 12:42, 29 March 2018
• Palimpsest
  ... sites were overlaid with Christian churches to hallow pagan ground. Or the pagan texts may have merely appeared irrelevant. Texts most susceptible to being ...
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• Stauros
  ... t was displaced by the '''T''', the initial letter of the [[Tammuz (deity)|Pagan God Tammuz]], about the end of cent. iv."^[] Bullinger's 1877 st ...
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• Article: Galatians 5:12 by Scion of Zion
  ... were made in the image of God and are not to mar that image by any type of pagan slashing of the body.
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• 2 Crónicas 20 (RVG)
  * [[ 2 Crónicas 20:11 (RVG)|11]] he aquí, ahora ellos nos pagan viniendo a echarnos de la heredad que tú nos diste en posesión.
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• 2 Crónicas 20:11 (RVG)
  '''2 Crónicas 20:11 (RVG)''' he aquí, ahora ellos nos pagan viniendo a echarnos de la heredad que tú nos diste en posesión.
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• The Shepherd of Hermas
  ... [[Good Shepherd]]'' as well as a symbol for [[Christ]], or a traditional [[pagan]] [[kriophoros]].
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• Article: Why We Should Not Passover Easter (Part 3) by Nick Sayers
  ... them, most would speedily respond by copying and pasting something about a pagan goddess from some obscure website. So after some time I created a [http:// ... ... rticles in his newsletter after having formerly taught that [[Easter]] was pagan. His contemporary [[Jack Moorman]]^[6] also read the articles an ...
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• Oriental studies
  ... Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] thinkers characterized aspects of the pagan East as superior to the Christian West, in [[Montesquieu]]'s ''Lettres Per ...
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• Persecution in Lyon
  ... torture while the authorities continued to apprehend others. Two of their pagan servants were seized and, fearing torture, falsely charged the Christians ...
  5 KB (730 words) - 02:16, 26 February 2021
• Henry Martin
  :The Christian Hero finds a Pagan tomb.
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• Salvian
  ... up> He was certainly a Christian when he married Palladia, the daughter of pagan parents, Hypatius and Quieta, whose displeasure he incurred by persuading ... ... ns said, because the age had forsaken its old gods? Or was it, as the semi-pagan creed of some Christians taught, that God did not constantly overrule the ...
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• Article: Testimony of S. Franklin Logsdon by Scion of Zion
  Let's go back to say 352 A.D., when Constantine, the Old Pagan Wolf, as he was called, was concerned because his kingdom was threatened w ...
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• 1482
  :'''3)''' in the NT savouring of the nature of pagans, alien to the worship of the true God, heathenish ::3a) of the pagan, the Gentile
  560 B (77 words) - 08:37, 6 January 2017
• Nag Hammadi Library
  ... erives primarily from this division. Other scholars with a deeper focus on pagan and Jewish literature of the period tend to date primarily based on the ty ...
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• Lorenzo Valla
  ... st=Phillipa |title=‘Cast out into the hellish night’: Pagan Virtue and Pagan Poetics in Lorenzo Valla's De voluptate |journal=Ex Historia |url=http://h ...
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• Last Twelve Verses of Mark
  ... author of ''De Rebaptismate'' also used the "Longer Ending." In 305, the pagan writer Hierocles used Mark 16:18 in a jibe against Christians, probably re ...
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• Philopatris
  ... ment, and the invocation of [[Zeus]] by Critias leads to a discussion on [[paganism]] and Christianity, in which all the gods proposed by Critias are rejec ... There being at that time no pagans in Constantinople, the pessimists referred to must be Christians; either ...
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• Book:Revision or New Translation by Oswald T. Allis
  ... Bible is a unique book and a self-explanatory book, which owes nothing to pagan myths or legends. Fifty years ago the Pan-Babylonianists sought to derive ...
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• Koinonia
  * the blood and the body of Christ ([[1 Corinthians 10:16]]), pagan sacrifices and gods ([[1 Corinthians 10|1 Corinthians 10:18-20]])
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• Gennadius Scholarius
  ... phy, the two were opposed – Pletho advocated a partial return to Greek [[paganism]] in the form of a [[syncretic]] union between Christianity and [[Zoroa ... ... on and partly defending Christianity against Muslims, Jews, and [[Paganism|pagan]]s), in addition to numerous [[homily|homilies]], [[hymn]]s, and letters.
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• God forbid
  ... ek. Whereas the Athenians directed the plea "μη γενοιτο" to their pagan gods, the writers of the New Testament direct this same prayer phrase to G ...
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