christians are sun worshipers?

Question

i found this article showing how christians are actully sun worshippers....http://www.seiyaku.com/customs/crosses/sun.html
heres a section of what it says - "The Sun is clearly seen on the banner of the evangelical Christian organisation, the Salvation Army. It repeats itself in the construction of church buildings, and images of the Virgin Mary often show her heart, or baby Jesus, radiating like the Sun. For the Roman Catholic 'Society of Jesus' (Order of Jesuits), the Sun is central to their symbol"
"And to 'prove' Christians are really Sun-worshippers, let's remember what day of the week Christians reserve for their Lord Of course, we are not supporting this Sun-worshipping view. But if it's not Sun worship, then why do Christians use the Sun symbol so much?
so are christians sun worshippers unknowningly?

Answer 1

In regards to someone's previous comment, this isn't a dumb questions - obviously someone hasn't an argument against it so she claims it's "dumb". How intelligent!

Our ancient ancestors worshiped the sun. All religions are "evolutions" of the older ones. So it makes sense that Christianity took a major aspect of the old religions and built it into something seemingly different. So in answer to the question, I believe that they are sun worshipers and because that ties them with Paganism, they will refuse to acknowledge that.

Did you know that Lucifer, in Greek mythology, is actually the evening star - so Lucifer falls every night when it sets! The evening star, often associated with the moon, may be seen as anti-sun (if it is up when the sun is out, you can't see it). It is the brightest "star" in the night sky (it is actually a planet) besides the moon. I found this to be pretty interesting. Both the Christ and the anti-Christ are based on Astronomy myths.

Answer 2

Tertullian answered this in the early THIRD CENTURY. Where have you been?

Ad Nationes, CHAP. XIII.--THE CHARGE OF WORSHIPPING THE SUN MET BY A RETORT.

Others, with greater regard to good manners, it must be confessed, suppose that the sun is the god of the Christians, because it is a well-known fact that we pray towards the east, or because we make Sunday a day of festivity. What then? Do you do less than this? Do not many among you, with an affectation of sometimes worshipping the heavenly bodies likewise, move your lips in the direction of the sunrise? It is you, at all events, who have even admitted the sun into the calendar of the week; and you have selected its day, in preference to the preceding day as the most suitable in the week for either an entire abstinence from the bath, or for its postponement until the evening, or for taking rest and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious rites to those of strangers. For the Jewish feasts an the Sabbath and "the Purification," and Jewish also are the ceremonies of the lamps, and the fasts of unleavened bread, and the "littoral prayers," all which institutions and practices are of course foreign from your gods. Wherefore, that I may return from this digression, you who reproach us with the sun and Sunday should consider your proximity to us. We are not far off from your Saturn and your days of rest.

... This was written about 100 years BEFORE the claimed "change" of the Christian assembly from Saturday to Sunday, yet Tertullian clearly indicates that SUNDAY was "a day of festivity." How can that be if Constantine CHANGED the day as some claim?

Answer 3

Do some reasearh on astrotheology and you'll find that christianiy has it's roots in sun worship, like most popular religions.

Acharya S. is a great author who has written about this a lot.

Dr. Robert Price is another good one.

If you are really interested checking them both out would be a good idea. Or just look up astrotheology.

Astrology is at the core of most religions.

The words "holy bible" even come from "Helios Biblia" or "The book of the sun." That is to say the word holy came from helios independently of the bible being named, but it's funny that most christians don't know this.

Edit: To the people who say it's "idiotic" or such things, have you done any reaserch? Read any books on the topic? Clearly you are demonstrating that you have not.

Also, what does it matter if it's true? How exactly does it effect your religion? Just say it's a metaphor and continue believing like you do with everything else and let us people who care what is true do the research and come to rational conclusions.

As for the person who said who would worship a star, do you know another name for Jesus is the Morning Star. It is in the bible. This comes from it's astrotheological origins. So to answer your question, you.

Answer 4

Interesting. I have learned (on this website as a matter of fact) that a lot of the Christian legends are actually taken from the ancient Egyptian god Horus. The ancient Egyptians, as you know, were sun worshippers. You have given me something new to think about. Also, one of the most powerful totems (in the Catholic ceremonies) is the monstrance. That is definitely sun-related, it looks just like a caricature of the sun, with rays going out in all directions.

Answer 5

There must be reality for there to be a twisting of reality. look how society is being degraded, inflicting pointless discomfort and misery to all varieties of human beings. do no longer undesirable human beings want to pollute the reality so as that they could be pleased with there own egocentric techniques? Religions of the international play a extensive roll in this technique. So seek for a faith it is the main estranged from all of the rest, yet has the optimal standards and relives the main suffering of all. look at data of information to discover a church that has the backside abortion, teen being pregnant, fatherless properties, crime and poverty expenditures in are day. And a has the optimal charity giving, kinfolk togetherness, no longer worry-free working, power and sturdiness data interior the intier international. yet once you do, additionally endure in techniques that when it is composed of religions, truthful followers of a faith have decrease suicide expenditures. And the untrue have an more advantageous suicide data. the comparable is going with marriage and divorce too. All this archives of diverse religions is in many situations very puzzling for the conventional person to obtain. maximum folk i'm guessing, experience they could be too depressed and afraid to place forth sufficient attempt to learn a greater effective understand-how, yet. Is there such a company at present and how interior the international ought to or no longer it is achieveable? And what would the government and church homes of the international and mainstream chritianity do to purpose to renounce it? In a christian bookstall, what different christian based faith will you discover books on the thank you to handle while the come on your door? i'm conversing approximately, The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. it would be sensible to make certain as much as you may approximately this church, till now making any very final judgments on the placement. there's a severe rationalization for this, and it exhibits. .

Answer 6

In a sense, yes they are. Look at the Celtic cross which is often used by the Church. The cross is surrounded by a circle which represents either the sun (or the earth herself). You're correct that Mary is often seen surrounded by tongues of fire, with her and the Infant raidiating like the sun or the Sacred Hearts presented with holy fire.
Let's see..hmmm...sun = son.... Yes, yes they are. Well done.

Answer 7

And what of those Christians who don't use the sun as their symbol & who worship on the Sabbath?

You're going to have to find another reason to dismiss Christianity since this one doesn't work very well.

Try again.

Answer 8

NO!!!
That is just a conincidence that SUNDAY is the day. God had named that day the day of worship before that the day Sunday was created. back then it was the seventh day. Not all Christians are Roman Catholic. Roman Catholics have a lot more emphasis on saints and the virgin mary. I am a Methodist. We don't have pictures of the mary everywhere.

She came to someone radiating like the sun, but it was probably more like a heavenly glow. We DO NOT, worship the sun.

Answer 9

It is a carry over from the pagan origins of christianity.

Kind of like a vestigial organ.

Oops I used an evidentiary term that supports evolution in the mythology and folklore section. Sooo sorry.

Answer 10

Dear ETD,

No, Christians worship the Son (Jesus Christ) not the sun as you ignorantly have suggested. Christ Himself said, "For many are called, but few are chosen." One does not become a "christian" by joining a church or religious organization. One becomes Christian by God performing a miracle within the person. God must give them a new soul or spirit essence. Man is born dead in sins and trespasses (Ephesians 2:1-3). God tells us that no one single human being will seek the God of the Bible of his own accord because he/she is spiritually a corpse (Romans 3:11). Unsaved man is a servant of sin and satan (Romans 6:18-20; Isaiah 42:7), which keeps them in bondage. We read in 2 Cor. 4:4, "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

One must remember also that no man can see into the soul or heart of another. As 9-11 demostrated, just because a man wears an airline pilots uniform does not mean he is concerned for the safety and wellbeing of the passengers. The Lord Himself tells us that many people who thought they were "christians" will find out they were not on the last day. We read in Matthew 7:21-23, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

I hope this has helped you.