Paganism Not Abolished in the Roman Empire, or the Christian World

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Excerpt from Paganism Not Abolished in the Roman Empire, or the Christian World: A LectureChristian soil a strange assertion, yet a true one, as I proceed to prove.The circumstances under which these inspired words of Holy Scripture were written, were somewhat as follow The greater number of the little band called the Church at Thessalonica, had been, previous to their acceptation of the Gospel, heathen Gentiles, and thus the holy apostle, speaking of their past condition - that of worshiping dumb idols, contrasts it with their present - that of serving the living and true God, and consequently holds out to them a hope of reward for their present service.It is now more than eighteen hundred years since the introduction of the only perfect I and successful religion. Previous to, and at the foundation of this system, the whole world, with the exception of a few of Abraham's descendants, was lying in the darkness of heathendom. The great object of Christianity was to abolish the worship of dumb idols, gods that see and hear not, lifeless gods and to establish among mankind the worship of the true and living God, to reconcile to God through the media tion of His Son, the Founder of this true religion, the whole Human family. The Revealer of God to ¿esh, and God revealed in ¿esh, as the foundation for the future immortality of the race (as many as was the immutable design of the Infinite.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.