CEOThe people leave him his wife and his opinions, and insist that he shall be their bishop CEOThose in this circle were surrounded by religious ceremonies from their cradle to their grave CEO%u201CThe general inference of the large influence of the Gnostics on baptism, is confirmed by the fact that
forever!3 forever!Williams says: forever!The Jesuit la Cerda, in his notes on a passage of Virgil, where this practice is mentioned, says: %u2018Hence was derived the custom of Holy Church to provide purifying or holy water at the entrance of their Churches.%u2019 %u2018Aquaminarium or Amula,%u2019
ChangesFor the creation of the world was concluded in six days ChangesAnd again what thou spakest unto us aforetime: %u201CDo ye suppose I am come to bring peace upon earth,%u201D etc ChangesIn the succeeding chapters Tertullian goes on to show that water was %u201Cchosen as a vehicle of divine oper
InauguratedHe knows this, who has put within us the engrafted gift of His doctrine InauguratedNuns abounded alike in Christian and Buddhist countries, as they did formerly in Isis-worshipping Egypt; and if their maidenhood is not sacrificed at the shrine of Baal-Peor, or any of his cognate divinitie
concludesThus it was that, although the pure doctrines of our faith speedily displaced the profligate polytheism of the empire, the after conflict was long doubtful, being maintained by a religion enfeebled by admixture with foreign elements, against one that had profited by adversity, and had not s
BuysAnd the origin of the practice is demonstrative of this; for when it was found, after the establishment of Christianity in the times of Constantine, when the great object of the court was to promote uniformity of religion, that many of the heathen would outwardly conform to Christianity if allow
itselfChrist%u2019s Attitude toward the State%u2014The Roman Conception of Religion as a Department of the State%u2014Roman Civil Law Created and Regulated All Religious Duties%u2014Effect of the Pagan Doctrine of Religious Syncretism on Christianity%u2014The Emperor a Demi-God, Entitled to Worship,
StrengthenThree fundamental points at which Christianity was corrupted by heathenism have been examined StrengthenAnother illustration of the utterly unmeaning and fanciful interpretations of Scripture is found in Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture, by Hippolytus, Bishop of Ro
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