Without redefining Pagan or Christian, can one be both?
Some definitions of Pagn are "other than an Abrahamic religion", or "Believing in mulitple gods".
Christian orthodoxy teaches that there is One God.
It doesn't seem to me that one can believe in the Trinity, hell and heaven, and the necessity of Christ for Salvation; and the authority of the Bible, while still practicing magick, witchcraft and other pagan practices.
There are those who claim to practice Magick, using the Chritian gods as their pantheon, but these seem to ignore Biblical prohibitions against suc practices, and seem tto redefine Christianity. It smacks of a line by Guinevere in "The Mists of Avalon"; "Neither good Christian nor good Pagan".
So, can one be both without redefining either?
2007-04-24
16:00:30
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Deirdre H
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