The Christmas Day may have some pagan origins. But Christmas does not. Some peoples practices of sacrifices etc etc are all peoples practices, not Christmas itself. On Christmas Day some people just have a small tree, drink and celebrate with their wives and family. No church. And some people go...
So... only Christian worship is "pure," and Pagans worship "demons?"
Seems that your post tells us more about your prejudices than it does about Christmas.
This is an example of the sort of thing that makes so many people despise the Jehovah's Witnesses: sanctimonious, narrow-minded, exclusivist - and a bit silly: nobody has made a sacrifice to a pagan deity at Christmas for over a thousand years.:rolleyes:
I think the christian idea is the blood of the lamb (animal) that was given to god for his pardon of their sins in the OT was translated to the Lamb of God where that same "blood" is offered as a sacrifice (Eucharist) for the same reason, to ask pardon for the sins of the Church/body of christ.
The design of Solomon's temple was based on a similar design used by pagans to honor Baal and other gods at the time. Solomon even had a master craftsman from Phoenicia help him build the temple.
And it's not different with Moses ... the ark of the covenant is very similar to arks used to honor...
There have been a number of threads recently on Christmas and its pagan origins. There is plenty of information in secular history, in any Encyclopedia, in the threads on this website even, about the unbiblical practices and pagan traditions that became known as Christmas.
Most Christians from...
Well I found it more than 40 times in this form...
תורתי
תּוֹרַ֖ת
tō·w·raṯ (the law)
...and quite a number of times in other forms.
וְהַתּוֹרָה֙
wə·hat·tō·w·rāh (and the law)
בְּתוֹרָתִ֖י
bə·ṯō·w·rā·ṯî (in My law)
הַתּוֹרָ֖ה
hat·tō·w·rāh (law)
וְתוֹרָתְךָ֖
wə·ṯō·w·rā·ṯə·ḵā (and Your law)...
No, either there is no Satan, and if there is He would not be interested in anything to do with Christianity.
That's too bad . . . my religion promotes 'two eyes for an eye'
Satan is not at war with the Abrahamic god, because there is no Abrahamic god, and there is no Satan.
Satanism is not...
Brother.....once again,you are mistaken.You are taken some things literal when it is obviously a symbolic reference.
It is saying that one can not serve two masters.One can not drink from the cup of Jehovah and from the cup of demons.This means you can not be serving God, and participating in...