Paganism has false gods and may have many gods. That is anti-Christian doctrine. If you think Christianity has paganism in it, you don't understand Christianity.
Not all religions that are not christian, jew, and muslim have false gods in it.
The nature of communion is Shared among most cultures christian And non christian
The concept of baptism is Shared among most religion. It makes the initiation into the faith whether one goes through a year proces to declare oneself a believer, saying the sinners prayer, or baptism.
The concept of worship, hoeever defined, is Shared among most religions regardless if they have a god They Worship (like bahai) or gods they Do Not worship (buddhism).
Repentence is Shared among other faiths. Some do so by recieving a readings, some confession, others pray spontenously.
Having a sacred scripture is Shared among other faiths.
Big one: Sacrifice. Most pagan religions I know of (ones older than christianity) like Lukumi have sacrifice in it. Lukumi has blood sacrifice from animals. Christians do so by a human. Thats pagan in and of itself.
These pagan (not chistian, muslim, jew) overlap and in some ways borrow concepts and practices from each other christianity) have sacrifice in it whether it be human (symbolism), literal as in christian faith, or symbolic gnostic sacrifice. This is a pagan practices and is no different than christianity which shares this view of sacrifice.
A person being god is not new. Its not jewish so its not suppozed to be part of christianity. Jesus did not teach it. But the Church and protestants who broke off from the Church believe this. This is a pagan belief. Many pagan religion have the same view. Lukumi has blood sacrifices as does christianity.
However, again, like you said the
History of christianity is Not important as the message.
Each religion whether they have god(s) Or Not have their unique message. But the Point is these pagan religions share from others -just as christianity-
Christianity is Not a new religion. Before the Church, there were no christians. There were Jews. The apostles did not make jesus a god. That is all the Church.
That is also a pagan concept. God cannot be a human being. Many Roman religions that were mixed into the History of christianity believed people to have the divine in them. Santeras today sometimes during ritual become possessed by the divine.
Christians are "filled with the holy spirit." Some go as far as talking in tongues (believers in the pentacoast in Acts). Others in baptism symbol or not does Not matter; the action and result are the same whether one is JW, Catholic, or Baptist for example.
Christianity is Not a new religion. It has paganism in it. It does not have multiple gods. (Read that again) Not all religions that arent jew, christian, muslim have gods.
Buddhism is an eastern faith. It was around way before christianity. It has influenced christianity just as romanism.
The message of christianity has different meanings depending on the christian. No christian believes the same thing, unfortunatelt. Yourself included.
The only Difference mainstream christianity has with other religions is that most other religions work as a Unit. Many religions you cant be go into the faith without the help of the full community. It is not "non denominational" or "go solo."
Other than that, a lot of pagan history is part of christianity.
God(s) has NOTHING to do with it.
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