Timeline of Pagan Heresies That are now Dogma (which cannot be found in Scripture, without distorting or downright lying about it!)
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A.D. 330 Prayers for the dead
A.D. 330 The sign of the Cross
A.D. 431 Worship of Mary and use of title “Mother of Godâ€
A.D. 600 Latin language used exclusively in worship
A.D. 610 Title “pope†officially given to the Bishop of Rome
A.D. 709 Kissing of pope’s feet (forbidden in Acts 10:25,26; Rev. 19:10, 22:9)
A.D. 750 Temporal power of popes (Pepin, usurper of French throne, gave the city of Rome and surrounding territories to the pope – forbidden in Matt. 4:8,9; 20:25,26; John 18:48)
A.D 788 Adoration of saints
A.D. 788 Adoration of cross, images, and relics
A.D. 965 Blessing of bells
A.D. 998 Forced fasting for Lent, Advent, and Fridays
A.D. 1009 Fabrication of holy water
A.D. 1070 Marriage of priests forbidden
A.D. 1090 Rosary beads invented
A.D. 1190 Sale of Indulgences
A.D. 1215 Sacrifice of Mass officially recognized
A.D. 1215 Transubstantiation of bread
A.D. 1215 Aricular confession of sins to a priest
A.D. 1220 Adoration of the water
A.D. 1414 People forbidden to take communion wine
A.D. 1438 Purgatory proclaimed
A.D. 1545 Tradition held equal with Bible (condemned in Mark 7:1-13; Col: 2:8; Rev: 22:18)
A.D. 1546 Apocryphal books added to Bible
A.D. 1845 Immaculate conception of Mary made official
A.D. 1870 Infallibility of pope made official
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January - ME Januari(us), OE Januarius, translation of Latin Januarius, named after JANUS, god of beginnings.
February - ME OE Februarius from Latin Februarius, named for Februa, the feast of purification.
March - ME March(e), from Latin Martius, (month of) Mars.
April - ME Averil, OF Avril, Latin Aprilis mensis (month). The name may derive from the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.
May - ME OE Maius, Latin Maius mensis (month), from the Greek Maia, goddess of spring (growth).
June - ME Jun(e), OE Iunius, from Latin mensis Junius, named after the goddess Juno, Queen of the gods.
July - ME Julie, OE Julius, from Latin Julius (Caesar) after whom it was named in 44 BC. The original name was quintilis, fifth month in the early Roman calendar.
August - ME OE Agustus from Latin Augustus (Caesar) 8 BC. The original name was sextilis, sixth month in the early Roman calendar.
September - ME Septembre from Latin September, seventh month in the early Roman calendar
October - ME OE from Latin October, eighth month in the early Roman calendar
November - ME OE from Latin November, ninth month of the early Roman calendar, from novem NINE
December - ME Decembre from OF and Latin December, tenth month of the early Roman calendar (decem TEN + membri from mens MONTH + ri suffix)
Sunday - Sun's Day (Note: xtians/Roman catholics worship on this day. this was the day of the Roman Sun God)
Monday - Moon's Day
Tuesday - Tiw's Day (Norse God)
Wednesday - Woden's Day (Anglo-Saxon God)
Thursday - Thor's Day (Norse God)
Friday - Freyja's Day (Norse God)
Saturday - Saturn's Day
Valentines day-http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.
Christmas Tree- Lutheran- Taken from the Druids.
Souls going to heaven-http://www.ucg.org/vertical-thought/paganism-in-christianity
Unfortunately, some of the most basic things believed by most professing Christians derive from ancient paganism rather than from the Bible. The idea that people have immortal souls was first taught in ancient Egypt and Babylon. The Greeks likewise taught that at death the soul would separate from the physical body ( Jewish Encyclopedia , 1941, Vol. 6, pp. 564, 566, “Immortality of the Soulâ€). That idea was merged into Christianity from Greek philosophy. It did not come from inspired Scripture.
The ancient Egyptians developed the concept of going to heaven. In their mythology, the god Osiris was killed but then raised back to life, whereupon he went to a distant heavenly realm. The Egyptians concluded that if he could do this, then human beings could follow ( Lewis Browne, This Believing World , pp. 83-84). This heavenly reward was a central teaching of several ancient mystery religions—
Revelation 7:2-4 Then I saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.†I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the Israelites (, New American Bible, Rev. Ed.)
Rev 14:1Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.
Rev 22:4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
In 2 Corinthians 1:22, Paul writes that, “the one who gives us security with you in Christ and who anointed us is God; he has also put his seal upon us and given the Spirit in our hearts as a first installment.†Similar language is used in Ephesians 1:13 and 4:30, in which Paul talks about how Christians have been “sealed†with the Holy Spirit.
Although often translated as sealed, the Greek word in these three texts is the same as the one used in Revelation 7:3, sphragizÅ, which one biblical concordance defines as to set a seal upon, mark with a seal, to seal for a number of purposes, including security from Satan and to prove one’s testimony to a person that he is what he professes to be. Now, in Ezekiel 9, the mark was to be put on the foreheads of those who grieved and lamented the idolatry and abominations of their fellow Israelites. Those so marked would be saved from the destructed that was to be visited upon the sinners. For Catholic Christians reading the Old Testament, it’s all just too much of a coincidence that the Hebrew word mark is also the Hebrew word for a letter of its alphabet that was shaped like a cross—the instrument with which salvation is offered to all men.
and Catholic commentary before you claim the addition:
Tertullian (d. ca. 250) described the commonness of the sign of the cross: "In all our travels and movements, in all our coming in and going out, in putting on our shoes, at the bath, at the table, in lighting our candles, in lying down, in sitting down, whatever employment occupies us, we mark our foreheads with the sign of the cross" (De corona, 30).
St. Cyril of Jerusalem (d. 386) in his Catechetical Lectures stated, "Let us then not be ashamed to confess the Crucified. Be the cross our seal, made with boldness by our fingers on our brow and in everything; over the bread we eat and the cups we drink, in our comings and in our goings out; before our sleep, when we lie down and when we awake; when we are traveling, and when we are at rest" (Catecheses, 13).