The Mystical Prayer of the Early Christians ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Mystical Prayer of the Early Christians ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The first Christians were called the “saints” because they tried, and so many of them succeeded, in living saintly lives. That this fact converted a vast numbers of pagans in such a short time is as historically undeniable as it is inexplicable to secular historians. St Paul insists that once we are baptised into Christ, we are baptised into his death and Resurrection. But unlike pagan rites of initiation, Christian baptism was not seen as a mag…