Also, if you think about it. What about Mary? She's Jesus's mother, She could be considered a goddess. And the '7 Angels' can be considered gods too since they brought about change like the pagan and wiccan gods.
Actually, in my religion, (I'm LDS, AKA Mormon, (not the polygamy ones)) which is a sect of Christianity, we believe there is a goddess. But for us, we believe we are not privileged to know her name, so that we cannot abuse it like we do with God. I don't know if she's his sister, mother or even wife, but the fact is, both Wicca and (and at least some of) Christianity acknowledges a goddess.
Hope that helps?
Your theory got some meet into it, nice.. come to think of it, the semblance of that two religion is uncanny, well knowing that pagan beliefs and monarchical influence gave birth to catholicism its not that far fetch..
I happen to be Christian and I also practice Wicca, I have for many years, we are not all close minded, and the commandments say put no other god before me, which means it is a possibility.
In the bible is also says "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." From Revelation 22:13 and in Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me." Exodus 20:23 "Remember, you must not make any idols of silver or gold to rival me." Deuteronomy 6:14 "You must not worship any of the gods of neighboring nations" And most importantly in relation to this topic from Jeremiah 25:6 "Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not provoke me to anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you."
Although I'm fully aware of the beginnings of both religions and know about the overlapping and the undertones of pagan mythology within Christianity, I would have to say that, most (not all) Christians won't buy the idea Atevon. There are tons of bibles verses that prohibit them from believing such. I just showed a few of them. The version of Christianity that I was raised in, I was told that all other "dieties" were actually demons in disguise and was satans way of confusing Christians. My personal view on the matter is that, I don't believe in demons nor angels, I just believe in energy and spirits, that's it.
We have to take a few things into consideration when looking at biblical text. 1. It's been translated and re-written god knows how many times (no pun intended). 2. The New Testament didn't pop up until centuries after Christ's death. 3. Time period.
As far as what means what, back then, murder meant murder just the same as it does now. The difference is, then you could kill a man for stealing your property if you are unable to reclaim the loss any other way and it was acceptable under the law. So when God said not to murder, it didn't meant slander. It meant, literally don't kill the guy for stealing your goat.
Keep in mind, the Ten Commandments are not Gods original word to Moses. Moses came down the mountain, saw everyone basically acting a fool, smashed the tablets and walked back up to get more information from God. That, is when God laid down his laws.
There are many references in the bible to the effect of not putting another god before him, he is a jealous god, ect. This too, is a literal and direct statement. Back then, the Christian god had to contend with many pagan gods. The word and orders were literally saying that you could not worship both. You had to have one or the other and it better be the Christian god.
Nowadays, Christianity teaches that there are no other gods period. Back then, it was new, fresh and trying to get off the ground. It does acknowledge the existence of pagan gods in the bible, it just tells you to turn away from them.
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding him. ( 1 John 3:15 )
To hate or to have anger for someone without a reason was murder. I don't believe actual murder is what it was talking about because murder was allowed under some circumstances. But it may be both, or just actual murder.
i can agree to this. we celebrate holidays on mostly similar dates and the "spell casting" seems like praying as they are both tecnically asking a god through a direct action, really. i couldn't agree more with you!
