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Baptism: A Pre-Christian History Toward the beginning of the Christian era, the Jews adopted (as a custom unrelated to Divine guidance) the custom of baptizing proselytes seven days after their circumcision. A series of specific interrogations made it possible to judge the real intentions of the candidate who wished to adopt the Jewish religion. The use of water for cleansing was used symbolically as well in such passages as Eze 36:25 where God says, " I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities. www.korrnet.org /lcoc/news/00n0509.htm

Christmas Eve Pre-Christian Traditions More often than not these are without connection with the Nativity; sometimes they have a Christian form and tell of the doings of God, the Virgin and the saints, but frequently they are or an entirely secular or even pagan character. In one part of Norway it used to be believed that on Christmas Eve, at rare intervals, the old Norse gods made war on Christians, coming down from the mountains with great blasts of wind and wild shouts, and carrying off any human being who might be about. Into some the sun, moon, and stars and other natural objects are introduced, and they seem to be based on myths to which a Christian appearance has been given by a sprinkling of names of holy persons of the Church. www.abcog.org /xmas2.htm

The Pre-Christian Inferno Christianity after Dante had a darkness, a fantastical drama that it must owe at least in part to its greatest poet. Dante is the Christian poet; his world so thoroughly detailed, so powerfully evoked, so relentlessly consistent that it helped create Church canon. In feeding his imagination on Roman scholarship and second hand Greek literature, in imparting a fearsome symmetry to the Christian life-after-death, in borrowing the grotesques of the cultures ancestral to his own, in creating such a vivid and detailed classification of crime and punishment, he succeeds. indagabo.orcon.net.nz /lit/Dante.htm

Pre-Christian Eastern Slavic Reflections on Nature The arrival of Christianity as the official religion and the establishment of the Russian Orthodox Church culminated in the banning of many folk ritual practices which were pre-Christian in origin, and in the persecution of those who practised them. Pre-Christian beliefs and gods exerted such a strong influence upon the Russian mind that the only way to come to terms with them was through incorporating them in the mainstream of the Christian order. Water, Fire, and the Mother Earth Goddess were, and have remained, the most powerful images of Russian religious beliefs and practices, and folk memory has remained loyal to the personified and non-personified images of these elements. www.ignca.nic.in /ps_05018.htm

Equinox and Solstice: Festivals Christianity had taken hold in most of the towns and cities of the old Roman Empire but, by no means, was embraced outside of those enclaves. www.equinox-and-solstice.com

Gnosis & Christianity: Pre-Christian Systems Hence, Christianity does not present the "only instance" of such a consummation of God's work -- albeit, as this work shows, there was more philosophy and less materialism, or rather anthropomorphism, in it. If, leaving for the present the prominent founders of Christian sects, we now turn to that of the Ophites, which assumed a definite form about the time of Marcion and the Basilideans, we may find in it the reason for the heresies of all others. With the Gnostic philosophy there were but two, but the Christians have improved and perfected the system by making it completely "heathen," for it is the Chaldean AnuóBelóHoa, merging into Mylitta. www.wisdomworld.org /additional/christianity/Pre-ChristianSystems.html

Pre-Christian Cults in the Ancient World The cult of Mithras came from Persia and spread during the IIIrd and IVth centuries B.C. The cult has many similarities with Christian ceremonies and rites: baptism, communion wafer, Sunday rest. Before Christianity, there were many pagan religious festivals around December 25. The best known were those of Saturnalia from December 17 to 24, the cult of Mithras which is celebrated on December 25 and the festival of the sigillaria at the end of December. www.culture.fr /culture/noel/angl/cultes.htm

The Pre-Christian Era It is mentioned several times in the Annals of the Four Masters, Keating's History of Ireland, and in several of the older Annals, both in reference to pre-Christian times and the earlier ages of Christianity. Long before the castle was built, however, the hill upon which it stood was well known in Irish history under the name of Cnucha. Here we are told, during the Milesain era, Conmhael of the race of Ebher defeated the descendants of Eremhon, and later, it is described as the dumha of the sons of Eremhon, implying that it was a place of note and used as a residence. www.iol.ie /~svc/history2.html

index The literature of that period provided some of our greatest prose and gave a clear insight into how many early english christians fused their new faith with the old. It is our task to rediscover this and to celebrate it in the modern world. www.englishfolkchurch.com

BBC - History - Pre-Christian beliefs c.400 The coming of Christianity - up to 500 There were many sacred oak groves, where druids made incantations and gave tasks to those who had done wrong. Colum Cille and the monasteries - up to 600 www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/ni/pre_christian_beliefs.shtml

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eschatology The latter deals with events like the resurrection and the general judgment, in which, according to Christian Revelation, all men will participate, and with the signs and portents in the moral and physical order that are to precede and accompany those events. Without going into details either by way of exposition or of criticism, it will be sufficient to point out how Old Testament eschatology compares with ethnic systems, and how notwithstanding its deficiencies in point of clearness and completeness, it was not an unworthy preparation for the fullness of Christian Revelation. The precious elements of eschatological truth contained in the Egyptian religion were associated with error and superstition, and were unable to save the religion from sinking to the state of utter degeneration in which it is found at the approach of the Christian Era. www.newadvent.org /cathen/05528b.htm

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism As Christianity grew within and without the Roman Empire, Gnosticism spread as a fungus at its root, and claimed to be the only true form of Christianity, unfit, indeed, for the vulgar crowd, but set apart for the gifted and the elect. Christianity survived, and not Gnosticism, because the former was the fittest -- immeasurably, nay infinitely, so. Whereas formerly Gnosticism was considered mostly a corruption of Christianity, it now seems clear that the first traces of Gnostic systems can be discerned some centuries before the Christian Era. www.newadvent.org /cathen/06592a.htm

GO BRITANNIA! Earth Mysteries: Druids Although since Christian times Druids have been identified as wizards and soothsayers, in pre-Christian Celtic society they formed an intellectual class comprising philosophers, judges, educators, historians, doctors, seers, astronomers, and astrologers. The earliest surviving Classical references to Druids date to the 2nd century B.C. The word "Druidae" is of Celtic origin. www.britannia.com /wonder/druids.html

Christian Campaigns against Others Attempts to purify the church and society also led to efforts to rid the Christian world of all non-Christians, who were considered "infidels." This included Jews, Muslims, and people labelled pagans or gypsies--anyone who practiced pre-Christian or non-Christian traditions. Christians interpreted Christ crucified as their model, but differed on how to follow his example. In a non-scientific world where many bishops, scholars, and warriors routinely believed in magic, astrology, and alchemy--the ancient attempt to turn ordinary metal into gold--the lines defining who was Christian, and who was not, could shift rapidly according to the fears and desires of those in power. gbgm-umc.org /umw/bible/campaigns.stm

The Cult of Joshua - Christianity Revealed - AskWhy! Publications Early Christians quickly saw their messiah had the same name as both Moses's general who succeeded him as leader of the Israelites, and the mysterious high priest in Zechariah, a scriptural book full of Christian precedents. Christian clergymen are not keen to make it known that Jesus is Joshua because their flocks might come to see that Jesus was not as unique as they like to make out. Most modern Christians do not know this simple fact, so what was clear to the first Christians is obscure to modern ones. essenes.net /m86.htm

...Pre-Christian Traditions... Easter, a Christian festival, embodies many pre-Christian traditions. The Christian festival of Easter probably embodies a number of converging traditions; most scholars emphasize the original relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name for Easter. The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets. easter-room.50megs.com /page5.html

March 14, 2003 - Ask the Editors - Christian History While Christians may relate to baptism as a sign of covenant and purity before God, these still don't bridge the gap to John the Baptist's "baptism of repentance"-or to the messianic thrust of his message. Sign up for Christian History and Biography's e-mail newsletter, Behind the News. of the Church with Christian History and Biography magazine. www.christianitytoday.com /history/features/ask/2003/mar14.html

Christmas As Christianity spread, the feast of winter solstice, the time when the day begins to increase and light to triumph over darkness was easily turned into the feast of Christ, the light of life. This idea was easily turned from a pagan to a Christian one since Christians consider Christ as the light of life.' (The World Book) 'The real birthday of Christ is unknown. After Christianity was introduced into Europe, these festivals became Christian celebrations. www.seedofabraham.net /christmas.html

Christian Geology: KJV Bible and Gap Theory of Creationism Explains the operation of God and the three-part nature of man, what happens when you become saved, and how a born-again Christian cannot loose his/her salvation or commit the unpardonable sin. Christian Geology: KJV Bible and Gap Theory of Creationism Statement of Faith and a Message to Christian Geologists www.kjvbible.org

CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS AND THEIR PAGAN ORIGINS Christian symbols and earlier historical layers of Germanic mythological figures began to meld, or to live side by side. The result is a wide array of coexisting customs, Christian and Germanic. Part of the modern American picture of Christmas is that of a magnificent sleigh pulled by eight reindeer carrying a bushy-bearded Santa Claus. www.serve.com /shea/germusa/pagan.htm

pre-christian roots - www.ezboard.com Regarding pre-christian roots: When Patrick converted the Celts (Irish) he also consecrated many christianized Druids to the Episcopate. John O'Donohue has written one of the books I treasure most. pub12.ezboard.com /fonebodyandonespiritcelticchristianity.showMessage?topicID=5.topic&index=1

RAMBAUD ON THE KIEVAN RUS' IN THE PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA Christianity, which had already triumphed over some Slav peoples, was being handed on from one to the other. Christianity had made but little progress in that country. There existed then, in the "mother of Russian cities," a Christian community, though a very weak one., if it is true that Olga refused to be baptized in Kief 'If or fear of the pagans." The mass of warriors kept Christianity at a distance. www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/PagKiev.html

Iron Crosses: Pre-Christian History and Beliefs It was the last country to accept Christianity, in 1387, as part of the marriage agreement between Grand Duke Jogaila and Jadwiga, Queen of Poland. The new faith lived in conjunction with the old nature-based beliefs; and well into the twentieth century in certain regions. www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/3503

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Booklet > What Happens After Death? > Pre-Christian Belief Concerning Heaven The idea that "souls" go to heaven upon death long predates Christianity. A brief look at ancient history reveals that the people of Babylon and Egypt, as well as subjects of other ancient kingdoms, held similar beliefs. www.ucg.org /booklets/AD/concerningheaven.htm

PreChristian.html "Alongside the official presence and doctrines of the Catholic Church, an entire system of traditional beliefs and customs still flourished, overlain by only a thin veneer of formal Christianity. Irish country people still celebrated archaic spring and harvest festivals, practiced magical cures to combat sickness and witchcraft, and most prevalent of all, believed in the existence of fairies. www.people.virginia.edu /~eas5e/Sadlier/PreChristian.html

Christian Responses to Witchcraft and Sorcery The term "neopagan" is used for those who have sought to revive pre-Christian religions in a post-Christian era, and "paleopagan" refers to religions that existed before contact with Christianity. Christians in Southern Africa have often argued in the past that individual conversions are not enough - the unjust structures of society need to be changed. Christianity, paganism and literature - some thoughts about literature and links between Christianity and neopaganism by Stephen Hayes, the author of the article above. www.geocities.com /Athens/7734/witch1.htm

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