hwadj.blogg.se - The age of faith will durant

Mithraism, Neoplatonism, Stoicism, Cynicism, and the local cults of municipal or rustic gods.From Persia came millennarianism, the " ages of the world ," the " final conflagration ," the dualism of Satan and God, of Darkness and Light already in the Fourth Gospel Christ is the " Light shining in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it Out." The Mithraic ritual so closely resembled the eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass that Christian fathers charged the Devil with inventing these similarities to mislead frail minds." (The Story of Civilization, Caesar and Christ, Will Durant, Part III, 1944, p.

from Syria the resurrection drama of Adonis from Thrace, perhaps, the cult of Dionysus, the dying and saving god.

reward and punishment (The Story of Civilization, Caesar and Christ, Will Durant, Part III, 1944, p. From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity, the Last Judgment, and.

Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.

What else did they fail to quote from this source? While Christianity converted the world, the world converted Christianity and displayed the natural paganism of mankind." (Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, III, 1944, 653-664 quoted by UPCI) "Christianity was to him a means, but not an end. " ("Will Durant", quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower booklet) From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity.

" Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it. Trashes whole of Christianity and actually accuses the apostles of borrowing their doctrine from Paganism!