Post by pitbull on Oct 6, 2008 5:14:15 GMT -5
DAILY WISDOM
“Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.” [Proverbs 6:4]
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
BIG BAD WOLVES
Matthew 7:15-23
What are false prophets/pastors going to do?
1. deny using only the KJV Bible (Genesis 3:1)
2. deny practicing Biblical separation (2 Corinthians 6:14-17)
3. deny being obedient to soul winning (Proverbs 11:30)
4. deny living a holy life (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
RELIGIOUS AWARENESS
Paganism
Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "an old country dweller, rustic") is a term which, 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 polytheistic religions in particular.
The term can be defined broadly, to encompass the faith traditions outside the Abrahamic monotheistic group of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The group so defined includes the Indian religions (such as Hinduism, Jainism), Native American religions and mythologies and Shinto as well as non-Abrahamic ethnic religions in general. More narrow definitions will not include any of the world religions and restrict the term to local or rural currents not organized as civil religions. Characteristic of Pagan traditions is the absence of proselytism, and the presence of a living mythology which explains religious practice.
The term "pagan" is a Christian adaptation of the "gentile" of Judaism, and as such has an inherent Christian or Abrahamic bias, and pejorative connotations among Westerners, comparable to heathen, and infidel, mushrik and kafir (ßÇÝÑ) in Islam. For this reason, ethnologists avoid the term "paganism," with its uncertain and varied meanings, in referring to traditional or historic faiths, preferring more precise categories such as polytheism, shamanism, pantheism, or animism.
Since the later 20th century, however, the words "pagan" or "paganism" have become widely and openly used as a self-designation of adherents of polytheistic reconstructionism and neo-paganism.