As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Prayer Is For You, Not God
God already knows exactly what we need before we ask Him (Matthew 6:8). Yet still we pray to Him as if He were in the dark. He is infinitely more familiar with our problems than even we are ourselves. So prayer is not for God … Continue reading
Why Did Jesus Surround Himself With Prostitutes?
Mary Magdalene, The Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:7-26), the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and dried them with her hair (Luke 7:37-38), the woman Jesus saved from stoning (John 8:1-11) — we are all familiar … Continue reading