Hhmmmmmmm, I gotta check this out. 8-)
Now, in my dictionary: Webster (based on the second college edition), pagan means this:
Pagan: (early Latin: paganus; peasant)
1. same as Heathen (sense 1) 2. one who has no religion ---of pagans ---paganism.
Heathen: (old English, haethen) 1. Anyone not a Jew, Christian, or Muzlim. 2. a person regarded as irreligious, uncivilized. 1. (sense 1) pagan. 2. irreligious, uncivilized, etc. ---heathenism.
So, there is the word "Terrestrial." In Latin, 'Terra' means Earth. It means "Worldly." Living on land, not water.
So right now, we are in our Terrestrial bodies (Earthly, Worldly), In Our '-Trial' (life) and hoping to go to Heaven in the end.
"40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another." I Corinthians 15:*40-44.*
Hell, is called Hell- and that is that (for anyone concerned)
I sure hope you'll see this as a 'positive' connotation.
Alicia wrote:
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No. I do appreciate your thoughts. I think, at the base, we all appreciate the same things. With any rain, I am compelled to go outside. I enjoy the changes in the type of rain within one storm. Sadly, too many are averse to expressing it. Basically, I believe we are all pagans. Definition: One who is close to the earth - from the Latin word pagani. Same thing goes for heathens. That is, until the Christians decided to give them negative connotations.