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I'd Like to Start a New Post on a Subject Which Most of the Board Members Have Seemed to Ignored. The Fact that Roman Catholicism was born out of the efforts of the post apostolic age by men more desposed to paganism than the Judeo culture from which it sprang. The impotance of this cannot be diminished. If for a fact or at least reasonibly assertained that Romans, under the guise of a "true apostoletic" church willing knew, disguised, or acted with subtrifuge to introduce pagans and paganism into the church (Roman Catholic) for the purpose of bringing everyone under the banner of its authority.
Jer 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Luk 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
This is a short list of various works on Religion, Myth and Ancient Culture. Which could be suppliment by others on the same subjects. Here are a few Quotes made by authors in authority that now exactly the ideas I would like to express in these posts!
The Golden Bough by James Frazier
The Making Of Religion by Andrew Lang
The Master Counterfeiter by Murl Vance
The Cult of the Mother Goddess by E.O. James
Pagan Christs and Christianity and Mythology by J. M. Robertson
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter
Heroes and Hero-Worship by Thomas Carlyle
"Pagan Religion is indeed an Allegory, a Symbol of what men felt and knew about the Universe; and all Religions are symbols of that."
The Religion of Numa by Jesse Benedict Carter
"If we realise that in a primitive religion the name of the god is usually the same as the name of the thing which he represents, the existence of a Greek god and a Roman god with names which correspond to the same Indo-Germanic word proves linguistically that the thing existed and had a name before the separation"
The Queen of the Air by John Ruskin
"To deal with Greek religion honestly, you must at once understand that this literal belief was, in the mind of the general people, as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book; and that a basis of unmiraculous event was as little suspected, and an explanatory symbolism as rarely traced, by them, as by us.
In the preface to Bulfinch's Mythology his purpose was "by [the] telling [of] the stories of mythology ... We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient authorities, so that when the reader finds them referred to he may not be at a loss to recognize the reference. Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study ... [but] to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education ... and make it a Classical Dictionary."
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH By Philip Schaff
Notwithstanding this essential apostasy from truth and holiness, heathenism was religion, a groping after "the unknown God." By its superstition it betrayed the need of faith. Its polytheism rested on a dim monotheistic background; it subjected all the gods to Jupiter, and Jupiter himself to a mysterious fate. It had at bottom the feeling of dependence on higher powers and reverence for divine things. It preserved the memory of a golden age andof a fall. It had the voice of conscience, and a sense, obscure though it was, of guilt. It felt the need of reconciliation with deity, and sought that reconciliation by prayer, penance, and sacrifice. Many of its religious traditions and usages were faint echoes of the primal religion; and its mythological dreams of the mingling of the gods with men, of demigods, of Prometheus delivered by Hercules from his helpless sufferings, were unconscious prophecies and fleshly anticipations of Christian truths. This alone explains the great readiness with which heathens embraced the gospel, to the shame of the Jews. Matt. 8:10; 15:28. Luke 7:9. Acts 10:35.
This Article for now will only deal with baptism, initiation rites and even possesion and exorcist as strange as that may sound. Then we might move on to Mary worship, or Infalliblity issues. Please site sources. If your a Catholic (or even a Non-Catholic) and you've just come here to destroy this thread don't. If you would like to show evidence against this please do. by showing a secular source that proves your point and some corresponding Bible verse that backs the Idea up. PLEASE KEEP THE ARTICLE TO SCREEN SIZE LENGTH AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE.
Jer 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Luk 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
This is a short list of various works on Religion, Myth and Ancient Culture. Which could be suppliment by others on the same subjects. Here are a few Quotes made by authors in authority that now exactly the ideas I would like to express in these posts!
The Golden Bough by James Frazier
The Making Of Religion by Andrew Lang
The Master Counterfeiter by Murl Vance
The Cult of the Mother Goddess by E.O. James
Pagan Christs and Christianity and Mythology by J. M. Robertson
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter
Heroes and Hero-Worship by Thomas Carlyle
"Pagan Religion is indeed an Allegory, a Symbol of what men felt and knew about the Universe; and all Religions are symbols of that."
The Religion of Numa by Jesse Benedict Carter
"If we realise that in a primitive religion the name of the god is usually the same as the name of the thing which he represents, the existence of a Greek god and a Roman god with names which correspond to the same Indo-Germanic word proves linguistically that the thing existed and had a name before the separation"
The Queen of the Air by John Ruskin
"To deal with Greek religion honestly, you must at once understand that this literal belief was, in the mind of the general people, as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book; and that a basis of unmiraculous event was as little suspected, and an explanatory symbolism as rarely traced, by them, as by us.
In the preface to Bulfinch's Mythology his purpose was "by [the] telling [of] the stories of mythology ... We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient authorities, so that when the reader finds them referred to he may not be at a loss to recognize the reference. Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study ... [but] to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education ... and make it a Classical Dictionary."
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH By Philip Schaff
Notwithstanding this essential apostasy from truth and holiness, heathenism was religion, a groping after "the unknown God." By its superstition it betrayed the need of faith. Its polytheism rested on a dim monotheistic background; it subjected all the gods to Jupiter, and Jupiter himself to a mysterious fate. It had at bottom the feeling of dependence on higher powers and reverence for divine things. It preserved the memory of a golden age andof a fall. It had the voice of conscience, and a sense, obscure though it was, of guilt. It felt the need of reconciliation with deity, and sought that reconciliation by prayer, penance, and sacrifice. Many of its religious traditions and usages were faint echoes of the primal religion; and its mythological dreams of the mingling of the gods with men, of demigods, of Prometheus delivered by Hercules from his helpless sufferings, were unconscious prophecies and fleshly anticipations of Christian truths. This alone explains the great readiness with which heathens embraced the gospel, to the shame of the Jews. Matt. 8:10; 15:28. Luke 7:9. Acts 10:35.
This Article for now will only deal with baptism, initiation rites and even possesion and exorcist as strange as that may sound. Then we might move on to Mary worship, or Infalliblity issues. Please site sources. If your a Catholic (or even a Non-Catholic) and you've just come here to destroy this thread don't. If you would like to show evidence against this please do. by showing a secular source that proves your point and some corresponding Bible verse that backs the Idea up. PLEASE KEEP THE ARTICLE TO SCREEN SIZE LENGTH AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE.