Unlike traditional organized religions such as Christianity or Islam, members of pagan religions do not have a primary space designated for worship...Become a member and unlock all Study Answers Start today. Try it now Create an account Ask a question Our experts can answer your tough homewor...
And praying, do not use vain repetitions like the pagans, for they think that in their many words they will be heard.King James BibleBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.New King James VersionAnd...
⁷³African saints likeCyprian,Felicitas orPerpetua were worshiped in different places around Europe.⁷⁴As late as the tenthcentury,forty-seven bishoprics existed inIfriqiya.Thepapal chancellery in Rome cor-responded with African bishops up until the eleventh century.⁷⁵Anew military ...
If you do these things publicly, you will not have any reward from your Father in heaven. 2“So when you give something to a needy person, do not make a big show of it, as the hypocrites do in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do it so that people will praise them...
HEBREWS 9 Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle 1Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. 2A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. 3Behind the second curtain...
Many Norse Pagans believe that the dead go to another realm (such as Valhalla, where it’s said that half of those killed in combat would be taken to meet Odin). Things are definitely not as clean cut as with Christianity, which sees good people in heaven and bad people in hell. ...
I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may ...
This is even more true in the case of the Roman Empire, becoming a Christian wouldn’t win you popularity with pagan Romans. But not only that, if you’re trying to consolidate power who’s worshiped as a God in the Roman Empire, the Roman emperor, and so scuttling that in favor of...
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.1 Corinthians 8:3But the one who loves God...
7Do not be worshipers of false gods as some of them were, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink [the sacrifices offered to the golden calf at Horeb] and rose to sport (to dance and give way to jesting and hilarity). ...