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March-May 1999 The Sabbath Sentinel
Paganism Surviving in Christianity
Our friend David Hill of Queensland, Australia, continues to
re-publish additional books by the great Seventh Day Baptist
writer, Dr. Abram Herbert Lewis. With David's help, the latest
Lewis book to be offered by the BSA is the 1892 work,
Paganism Surviving in Christianity, 135-page
photocopy, $8.50 donation.
Lewis had a keen interest in returning exclusively to Biblical
Christianity. Part of this task involves ridding ourselves of
pagan trappings, which infiltrated the early Church.
As shocking as it sounds, Lewis shows that pagan methods of
interpreting the Scriptures are still prevalent today. Lewis
examines pagan water worship in Asia, Greece, Northern Europe,
and Mexico, and how this was transferred to professing
Christianity. He explores the effect of sun worship, gnostic
antinomianism, Sunday observance, the pagan cross, Christmas,
Easter, Penance, Lent, the State religion, and many other pagan
ideas and practices on the Church.
A.H. Lewis presents these helpful insights in a thorough, yet
clear, easy-to-understand manner. He concludes,"When the
last stain of paganism is removed, the world will see a
Christianity which will be primarily a life of purity ,
through love for God and truth and men, rather than a
creed . . . . The Sabbath, as God's
day, free from burdensome formalism, and filled with good works
and spiritual culture will be restored; and this recognition
of-it as God's ever-recurring representative in human life will
do much to bring in that universal Sabbathism towards which God
is patiently leading His truth-loving children."
TSS
March - May 1999 The Sabbath Sentinel
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