I’ve posted these comparison on a forum more that a year ago. Here you’ll see the difference in the doctrines adhered to and practiced by the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) and the Roman Catholic church and how they compare to teachings found in the bible. Here we go: God, the FatherBible: one God, the ...
Goddess worshipping religions were mostly based on being fertile and its relationship to nature. Crops yield bountifully(read fertile) because the “Mother” provided. This belief honors the females “power” to produce or “create new life”. Nature, and the earth in particular is itself a “mother” which produces bounty. Goddess worship is found in almost all the pagan ...
“Ash Wednesday” is day when Catholics receive a mark of ashes on their forehead, supposedly as a token of penitence. Ash Wednesday] was taken from Roman paganism, which took it from Vedic India. Ashes were called the seed of the fire god Agni, with power to forgive sins. Ashes were said to were a symbol ...
John Beardsly on his blog wrote, The Roman Catholic Church, in its pagan form, unofficially came into being in 312 A.D., at the time of the so-called “miraculous conversion” to Christianity of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Although Christianity was not made the official religion of the Roman Empire until the edicts of Theodosius I in 380 ...