Let's move on (Was: Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,andother languages.))
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, April 29, 2000, 22:32 |
Raymond Brown wrote:
> My dictionary defines 'pagan' as: "one who is not a Christian, Jew or
> Muslim."
From what I gather, a lot of people use it to include some sort of
nature-worship, either animism or worship of some sort of nature
deit(-y/-ies)
> There is no evidence that I'm aware of that Jesus of Nazareth practiced any
> of the non-Jewish religions around him or subscribed to any of their
> beliefs.
Indeed not. Certainly not in the Bible, and very little extrabiblical
evidence exists to judge.
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