"B" <BGKent@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> But I still fail go understandf why a person would pattern their lives
on
>> a
>> Pagan Christ or a Pagan Jesus. And I still don't understand the very
>> terms.
>> Blessings,
>> Ann
>
> B = pagan comes from the latin paganus which was used by the Romans to
> put down the simple country folk who did not wor****p the way they and
> the city folk did. It was later used to mean anyone not of the
> Abrahamic faiths.
Thank you. I have a dictionary also.
>The Pagan Christ refers to the idea that Jesus's
> STORY was not truly his but put upon him by those who wanted to take
> away the wor****p of Mithras, Apollo, Dionysus...any of the solar or
> agricultural gods...and put it on him to get more people to accept him
> as beyond human..but a god.
New age pap. And not just my opinion.
>Since in those days no one thought a man
> could be a god...they felt the need to make Jesus less human and more
> God-like. Whether his story was applied later on or the truth....there
> are some Christians who have this view.
No. They are not Christians who have this view. This is not even the
"merest" Christianity, Brenda. I'm honestly puzzled as to where you would
get this stuff, or why you would continue to bring it here. God bless you.
But this is the most simplistic, silly 'faith', and I doubt it is faith.
Sounds like a childrens fairy story.
>We have little in the way of
> proof for either..so it comes down to what you believe and what you
> know from within.
The most basic course in logic might be helpful. Think very seriously
where
such a statement leads one: I believe that mice inhabit the sky and are
sent to watch us. Now, you believe me, right, Benda, because I tell you I
believe it and it comes from within. You see, this is the very reason the
Christian doesn't just go off in a field somewhere and do some private
'wor****pping' feeling enlightened that they have something that comes
from
the _self_, from what _a_ person believes. That is a religion of the
self,
Brenda. And the 'self' dies. This is why Christian herr on this list and
Christians everywhere are wor****pping _in community_, be it RC, Orthodox,
Methodist, etc. These are _churches_. They are not off the wall separate
entities. They are traditional, reasonable, experiencial as in Christian
communal experience, and they are scriptural. What being a Christian does
_not_ mean is that you get to go around teaching, leading people,
preaching,
what you and you alone, apart from tradition or any other church authority
believe Christ is and is not. There is no reality whatsoever in a 'pagan
Jesus" or "pagan Christ".
Blessing to you, Bren. Please continue to study, and understand
Christianity, the orthodox kind- as we all are very much trying to
understand where you are coming from.
Blessings,
Ann
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