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Below we give an actual song or chant from the Byzantine Empire called a “Troparicon.” Note the mixing of solar sun worship with that of Christ.
“Thy birth, O Christ our God,
*rose upon the world as the light of knowledge;
for through it those who worshipped the stars
were taught by a star to adore Thee, the Sun of Righteousness, and to know Thee, the Sunrise from on high.
O Lord, glory to Thee.”
There can be no doubt about the long standing effects of pagan thought upon those that gave us Trinity baptism and Trinity Godhead teachings. It’s hard to break a very old habit or false worship after literally thousands of years of practice. We must also understand that there are unclean fallen spirits that promote and deceive many into following “doctrines of devils.” These false doctrines can become like a drug that intoxicates and enslaves its victim. Through much effort prayer study and by the power of the Holy Ghost one can be set free. Like Constantine many Roman citizens claimed to be a Christian but at the same time held on to their pagan sun god heritage and worship.
The Mysteries of Mithraism by Franz Cumont Second Revised Edition 1903 New revisions 2007 ISBN 978-158509-283-3 page 193. “Should we be astonished if the multitudes of devotees failed always to observe the subtle distinctions of the doctors, and if in obedience to a pagan custom they rendered to the radiant star of day the homage which orthodoxy reserved for God? In the fifth century, not only heretics, but (also) even faithful (Catholic) followers, were still wont to bow their heads toward its dazzling disc as it *rose above the horizon, and to murmur the prayer, “Have mercy upon us.”
Egyptian Belief, by Bonwick, page 283 states: “The early Catholic Christians were charged with being a sect of Sun-worshippers. The Emperor Hadrian could see no difference between them and the followers of the ancient Egyptian god Serapis, who was the Sun. In a letter to Consul Servianus, the Emperor says: “There are there [in Egypt] Christians [Catholics] who worship Serapis and devoted to Serapis are those who call themselves “Bishops of Christ.”
Ralph Monday Christ, Constantine, and Sol Invictus “Cults of the sun, as we know from many sources, had attained great vogue during the second, third, and fourth centuries. Sun- worshippers indeed formed one of the big groups in that religious world in which Christianity was fighting for a place. Many of them became converts to (Catholic) Christianity and in all probability carried into their new religion some remnants of their old beliefs. The complaint of Pope Leo in the fifth century that worshippers in St. Peter's turned away from the altar and faced the door so that they could adore the rising sun is not without its significance in regard to the number of Christians who at one time had been adherents of some form of sun-worship...The ancient connection to the sun as a god clearly exemplifies Constantine's adoration and admiration for such a "heavenly" deity. After his death and the later collapse of the Roman Empire, the medieval civilization that arose on the ashes of shattered Rome, in particular the Catholic Church would continue the incorporation into the Christian pantheon of religious symbols far predating the beginning of Catholicism.” (The very symbols doctrines and worship of Orthodoxy are founded upon ancient paganism and the solar Trinity.)
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