2007-12-05 11:33:31 · 12 answers · asked by ¸.•*´`*♥ ♥Misty Owl♥ ♥*´`*•.¸ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I can't say I have ever heard of the term "Christian Pagan". People who follow bits and pieces of multiple follow Unitarian Universalism.
Paganism is known as numerous different polytheistic based religions.
2007-12-05 11:40:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a form of eclectic belief. The person is basically mixing and matching religions. I've met a few. Normally they don't have the common take on Christianity or what it means and they normally don't follow the whole Bible. They tend to focus on specific Books, such as the Gospels and specifically what Christ said. They may also call on Mother Mary, and one I know calls on Mary Magdalen as her Matron Goddess. I've also seen them add Books from sources that had been left out of the Canonical Bible, Such as the Apocrypha and the Nag Hammâdi texts.
They are not Pagan or Christian in the traditional sense of those words and are instead a unique mix of two ideas.
It a very delicate balance, and they are normally looked down on by both the Christian and Pagan communities.
I just think they're pretty creative and skilled to be able to mix two opposing ideas.
2007-12-05 11:56:42 · answer #2 · answered by Kris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such thing.
The two are diametrically opposed. One is either Pagan OR Christian but cannot be both.
See this:------
Definitions of pagan on the Web:
*heathen: a person who does not acknowledge your god
a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew)
*heathen: not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
one motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
*from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheism religions in particular.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan
*A practitioner of an Earth Religion; from the Latin a country dweller. Also considered any religion that is not Christianity.
www.geocities.com/sorchagriannon/terminology.htm
*a follower of a nature-based religion. It is important to remember that all wiccans are pagan, but not all pagans are wiccan. There is a very wide variety of pagan religions, wicca is just one of them.
members.aol.com/fadeddragn/dictionary.html
*not belonging any of the main religions in the world
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/schools_glossary.html
2007-12-05 11:56:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Europe the historical Dual Faith period lasted from approximately 450 AD to 1100 AD, some say it began with Christianity itself. Indeed, Christianity has undeniable pagan roots. During the Dual Faith period the Europeans were able to practice both their "pagan" ancestral religions and the "New Religion" coming up from Rome.
Today's christo-pagans believe in the christian god and the goddess.. in truth, the early hebrews worshipped the god El and the goddess Asherah.. scholars are still puzzled as to why the goddess was written out of their texts later on.
2007-12-05 11:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by Kallan 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The first guy said my answer. Christian and Pagan are mutually exclusive - an oxymoron!
Anyone who claims to be one is deceived or a deceiver. A Christian is one who believes in and is devoted to Jesus Christ because Jesus is their savior.
I don't know all that much about pagans; I've heard they tend to worship many god/goddesses or they worship nature. They don't have a personal relationship to God or believe in the need for salvation from sins.
2007-12-05 20:49:00 · answer #5 · answered by LeslieAnn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian Pagans is an oxymoron.
2007-12-05 11:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Depends on which day of the week it is, I think. Sunday for Jesus, Monday thru Saturday for theirself. No doubt.
And just what about Pagan Christians? Christian Pagan and Pagan Christian are two different things, I think.
2007-12-05 11:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
In order for a pagan to be a Born again Christian he /she
would have to give up their pagan beliefs and accept
Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
2007-12-05 11:48:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
To be Christian you embrace the Bible which teaches that salvation is only through Jesus Christ and that God is a jealous god.
Pagans believe in multiple deities.
= no such thing (none credible, anyway)
2007-12-05 11:42:15 · answer #9 · answered by Aravah 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They believe I just added 2 points to my total.
2007-12-05 11:36:55 · answer #10 · answered by Halfadan 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋