PAGANS ONLY: Please list the pagan references in the Bible that you're aware of?

Question

This is an honest question for research purposes. Anyone preaching in here to try and "save my soul" will be promptly ignored.

Answer 1

I am not a Pagan and am not sure of bible references as far as Pagan as a religion. But using the term loosely as to refer to polytheism religions I know that the food of life which was a plant from the ancient Sumerians=tree of life in Eden. The wise serpent as in Eden was worshiped in many ancient religions. The Sumerians, the Babylonians, Chaldeans and Mayans all have a tower of Babel story that is very similar, too much so to be coincidence along with the story of Noah (and their stories are far older than the bible and that is documented by science). The Sumerians had the 7 tablets of creation that tell the story of creation where everything was created in 6 days and then on the 7th day they worshiped. In this story there was a war in heaven. Their story of how man was created out of clay. They have a story about the Adapa and the food of life and how he missed out on immortality. The Sumerians were the first to come up with the Shepard and the flock analogies.

There are many references from the ancients Egyptians in the bible. Their concept of the lakes of fire, the second death, the Valley of the Shadow, the rod and the staff, your sins being judged, (the heart being weighed against the feather). Horus was a son of a god, and a god, born of a virgin on December 25; he walked on the water, healed the sick and the blind, and raised Lasuras from the dead. The 10 commandments appear to have come from them.

December 25th was the day that all savior gods were born, because of astrological influence. This is symbolic of December the 21 is the shortest day of the year and the day the sun disappears or dies and rises or is reborn again 3 days later on the 25th. Symbolic for the SUN or SON dying and rising again in 3 days.

Answer 2

Easter is the biggest one. And proves, to me anyway, that the Bible is not 100% gods word. The "crucifixion" is a common theme in many pagan religions, especially during that time. They were everywhere. To claim the Son of God IS God, is exactly what all the Pharoah's and Ceasar's did to establish their leadership fully. They were Son's of God AND God... most claimed to be born of a God and a virgin (Look up Alexander the Great for better details on this... and any Egyptian Pharoah. They all did it)

There are others, but this is the basics. If you want to have a closer look, check out the book called The Worlds 16 Crucified Saviors.

Answer 3

I wish I could help you but I am a pagan who has never studied the Christian bible, Hindu Vedas, Muslim Quran or any other holy texts of religions that I haven't practiced. Some day if I ever have the time I may look into it. Maybe.

Answer 4

Well there is the part in the book of Genesis where Yahweh says "Let US create man in our image" or something. I can't remember the verse. Then the entire book of Proverbs is basically Soloman praising Wisdom, how "she" is so great and some Gnostics have taken that to mean he was talking about wisdom personified (in fact Gnostic Christians honor Wisdom in the form of Sophia). Then (I can't remember the book, chapter, or verse...sorry) there is the story of Paul when he was in Ephesus preaching and there were people down there who were worshippers of Artemis afraid he was going to badmouth them or tell people not to worship Artemis anymore and he was just like "I don't care if you worship her...I ain't saying nothing bad about her, and won't". That's about all I can think of right now.

I'll also add that the verse that says "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" is a mistranslation from the original Hebrew. The original Hebrew verse was "thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live", and in other words was an injunction against murder, not witchcraft.

Answer 5

Why do you think only pagans would be able to contribute to this effort?

In John 21:3-12, "the number of the fish" hauled in is 153, which was known by pagan Pythagoreans as ...drum roll... "the number of the fish". It represents the dimensions of the mystical Vesica Pisces which just happens to be identical to ...drum roll... the Jesus fish symbol Christians plaster all over their cars.

Answer 6

You've gotten it reversed. The bible has many things taken from pagan practices.

Answer 7

The story of Abraham could be considered pagan by Christinans. In Ur they worshipped a pantheon of gods, not just one like tradition would have you believe.

Abraham chose the chief god, El, as his patron god. He always acknowledged the veracity of other gods and even respected them. This tradition diminished little by little through the centuries, until about the time of the prophet Isaiah who steered the Hebrews towards real monotheism.

Answer 8

I'm not sure what you mean. You mean references that reflect Pagan ideals, or references that talk about Pagans?

Answer 9

Here is a link to a search I did on biblegateway.com (an online bible concordance) along with a few other terms that might prove useful for your research:

"pagan"

http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=Pagan&qs_version=31

"witch":

http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=witch

"heathen":

http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=heathen

"divination":

http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=divination

"diviner":

http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=diviner



And to all of the Fundamentalists Christians posting the quote, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live", it should be known that King James altered that passed and interchanged the word 'fool' with 'witch'. This was during the time that they were attempting to eradicate all the pagan religions and killing witchs. (Witch hysteria.) So, please dont' use that passage as it is inaccurate to what the bible originally said.

Answer 10

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"
Ex. 22:18


"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch," Deut. 18: 10