Christian or pagan? Same thing?

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Placing bones beneath a church or other relics was a requirement for "consecrating" the ground and the building. The Castle Church at Wittenberg in Germany, to the door of which Luther nailed his famous Ninety-five Theses, had 19,000 saintly relics! [Will Durant: The Story of Civilisation: Caesar and Christ, New York, 1944-1977, Vol. 6, p. 339] Bishops were forbidden by the second Nicaean Council in 787 to dedicate a building if no relics were present; the penalty for so doing was excommunication!

Were these ideas taken from the Bible or from paganism?

In the old legends, when Nimrod, the false "saviour" of Babylon, died, his body was torn limb from limb – part being buried one place, and part in another. When he was "resurrected", becoming the sun-god, it was taught that he was now in a different body, the members of the old body being left behind. This is in stark contrast to the death of the true Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom it was prophesied: "A bone of him shall not be broken" (John 19:36), and Who was resurrected in the true sense of the word. The resurrection of Christ resulted in an empty tomb, no parts of His body being left behind for relics!

Answer 1

A lot of the Christian masses is based upon paganism. The altar, wine, breaking of the bread.....the holidays of Yule, Eostre....

Answer 2

Thats right but relics arent necicarily from jesus christ and they dont have to be bones. They can be pieces of clothing stuff he blessed and even stuff he layed his hand on. Relics are no more then a symbol and a remainder of someone who is in heaven and joined to god.

Answer 3

Jesus is the Sun of God?
The history of the sun, is the history of Jesus Christ. The sun is born on the 25th of December, the birthday of Jesus Christ
. The first and greatest of the labors of Jesus Christ is his victory over the serpent, the evil principle, or the devil. In his first labor Hercules strangled the serpent, as did Krishna, Bacchus, etc. his is the sun triumphing over the powers of hell & darkness; &, as he increases, he prevails, till he is crucified in the heavens, or is decussated in the form of a cross (according to Justin Martyr) when he passes the equator at the vernal equinox. (ibid, p. 200)
In reading the New Testament we must cease to think of the man Jesus, & even of the “Son of God”, & think of him
rather of the sun of god, for this is a solar myth, & its dying hero, a dying sun. (Lloyd Graham, Deceptions and Myths
of the Bible, p. 361)
“The divine teacher is called, is tested by the “adversary”, gathers disciples, heals the sick, preaches the Good News
about God’s kingdom, finally runs afoul of his bitter enemies, suffers, dies, & is resurrected after 3 days. This is the
total pattern of the sun god in all the ancient dramas”. (The Pagan Christ, p. 145)


When the Council of Nicea took place, the Emperor Constantine
- Declared the Roman Sun-day to be the Christian Sabbath
- Adopted the traditional birthday of the Sun-god, & the twenty-fifth of December, as the birthday of Jesus;
- Borrowed the emblem of the Sun-god, the cross of light, to be the emblem of Christianity;
- And, although the statue of Jesus replaced the idol of the Sun-god, decided to incorporate all the ceremonies which were performed at the Sub-gods birthday celebrations into their own ceremonies.

“The Christian religion contains nothing but what Christians hold in common with the heathen; nothing new” (Greek philosopher Celsus)
The parallels between the life of Krishna, as recorded in the sacred books of India, & of the life of Jesus Christ, as related in the sacred anthology of the Christians, is so close that some scholars have believed that the Christian writers copied their account from the Hindus. (John G. Jackson, Christianity Before Christ, p. 79)
The scholar Arthur Weigall describes that Osiris was crucified upon a tree, like many previous ‘man-gods’, the cross was not unique, its pagan symbol. The Jehovah Witnesses believe that Jesus was crucified upon a ‘stake’. But the ‘tree story’ was indeed plagiarized from the story of Osiris & Isis.i-e;
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, & in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: (Acts 10:39)
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree: (Galatians 3:13)
"The Popular & widespread religion of Osiris & Isis exercised considerable influence upon early Christianity, for these two great Egyptian deities, whose worship had passed into Europe were revered in Rome & in several other centres, where Christian communities were growing up. Osiris & Isis, so runs the legend, were brother & sister & also husband & wife; but Osiris was murdered, his coffined body being thrown into the Nile, & shortly afterwards the widowed & exiled Isis gave birth to a son, Horus. The coffin, meanwhile, was washed up on the Syrian coast, & became miraculously lodged in the trunk of a tree, so that Osiris, like other sacrificed gods, could be described as having been.' slain and hanged on a tree.'
Obviously, Paul himself was not a Pharisee but Gentile convert from paganism. Paul was advocating a doctrine that seemed to have far more in common with pagan myths than with Judaism: that Jesus was a divine-human person who had descended
to Earth from the heavens & experienced death for the express purpose of saving mankind. The very fact that the
Jews found this doctrine new and shocking shows that it plays no role in the Jewish scripture,
Actually they dont believe in God they believes in Fools trinity
stupid Men head has created God head

Answer 4

It is like the word Infidel to Muslims, But I guess one might say we Christians not born of any of those Arabic Blood lines, or at least not showing it would be considered Pagans to Jews or Infidels to Muslims, to Christians we are children of God.

Answer 5

All of that male bovine excrement is from man not God. It is man invented religion that has nothing to do with True Christian Faith.

Most of that stuff is from the RCs and they aint even of the Christian Faith any way.

Answer 6

The Christian faith only depends on the Bible

Answer 7

by definition, paganism is a religion other than christianity, judaism or islam

the issue you are concerned with has to do with catholicism, which has incorporated many pagan rituals, however protestants have not done so

Answer 8

Are you going to start in on Islam soon, or do you just hate Christianity?

Answer 9

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