Why do you doubt the pagan roots of your churches?

Question

There is a book that can help you to understand just with the title, Pagan Christianity. A 54 page work called Church Steeple Study, June 10,1986, suggested to be the work of Mike Hodges, sometime pastor in the Illinois Conference says: 1. A steeple or tower in association with a place of worship was a feature of ancient paganism, oriented to sun worship and fertility cultus. A common form, especially in Egypt, followed the geometric figure known as an obelisk, which in places served as a phallic symbol. The history says it all, don't you think?

Answer 1

Pagan Christmas and pagan easter is their most popular holiday. They don't know they're pagans.

Answer 2

I don't doubt it. I do think your choice of example is a tad odd, though. There is so much more that is less polarizing to use as examples.
Read Vardis Fisher's fictionalized 13 book series about the evolution and roots of Christianity. Easy reading and informative. Everything he puts forth there can be verified by many other sources.

Answer 3

If you're talking about the Catholic Church you are correct. I know what you're talking about. Many pagan symbols are found within many cathedrals, including the all-seeing eye, the obelisk, sun disks, the sign of Buddha (a hand signal that many statues of Jesus, Mary, and saints have), etc.
I'm glad I'm not alone in this.

Answer 4

Look deeper.Compare holidays,celebrations,divine revelations,etc.Don't stop at steeples for cripe sake.Do a thorough job.Hint;Check out the origin of St. Valentines Day,or "The Last Supper",virgin birth?Ask yourself this;When does a lie become myth to legend to truth?'Church 'politics'/market/consumer attraction.

Answer 5

cross, the bread and wine, trinity all of those have pagan roots but were renewed and not associated with christianity they are not used for the same reason unlike islam which do things with pagan roots the same as when islam was started running around mecca, kissing the black stone, mecca itself was the house of the moon god.

Answer 6

My church was established in Bible times when Jesus Christ Himself instructed the disciples to "go into all the world and preach the gospel."

I could find any book, any study, any statistic to prove any point I want to prove on any subject. What you offer is merely one argument. It doesn't matter to us that pagans try to claim everything is theirs or "they started it."

Let's consider the rainbow. God placed it in the sky as a covenant with Noah that He would never again destroy the earth with water. The Lesbians have taken it and used it as their symbol to promote their lifestyle. They perverted it just as the pagans have done with so many religious things throughout history.

Satan is alive and well and hoping to dissuade us from our beliefs in any way he can. I won't fall for it. Regardless of what pagans want to claim as theirs God is the creator of all.

Answer 7

There is a lot of history taken from other religions for every religion, not just Christianity.

Answer 8

No religion can claim that their religion is pure. It's nonsense! All religion ultimately is affected by the prevailing culture at that time. But to attact religion pointing to its pagan roots is more nonsense, because fundamentally, that religion is different from its pagan roots.

Answer 9

They doubt it because they hate the idea that their religion isn't unique and that it's related to the things they hate the most.

It's called fear.

Answer 10

paganism is older if not the oldest religion so, they all took a bit from us