--- title: "11 Pre Christian Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Pre Christian quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Pre Christian sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/lewis-b-smedes-4850_almost_retributive-justice-did-not-arise-from-a_1779693.png" --- > [Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-b-smedes/retributive-justice-did-not-arise-from-any-christian-principle-almost/) [Lewis B. Smedes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-b-smedes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/lewis-b-smedes-4850_almost_retributive-justice-did-not-arise-from-a_1779693.png) > [What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-henrot/what-i-like-about-baroque-is-the-reemergence-of-pre-christian/) [Camille Henrot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-henrot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9d/camille-henrot-21889_ancient_what-i-like-about-baroque-is-the-reemerg_1060300.jpg) > [“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-john-courtenay/syriac-was-not-a-prominent-element-in-the-language-of-palestine-in/) [James John Courtenay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-john-courtenay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/james-john-courtenay-6996_time_syriac-was-not-a-prominent-element-in-th_2186558.jpg) > [“baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, is found in numerous pre-Christian religions/cults, dating back to ancient times. Baptism or lustration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-m-murdock/baptism-with-water-whether-by-immersion-or-sprinkling-is-found-in/) [D.M. Murdock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-m-murdock/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/d-m-murdock-20125_christian-religion_baptism-with-water-whether-by-immersion_751785.jpg) > [Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/post-christian-man-is-not-the-same-as-pre-christian-man-he-is-as-far/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/c-s-lewis-2-132_christian_post-christian-man-is-not-the-same-as-pr_3196880.png) > [Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-schoch/well-referenced-with-numerous-quotations-from-renowned-egyptologists/) [Robert M. Schoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-schoch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/robert-m-schoch-83783_ancient_well-referenced-with-numerous-quotations_2062650.png) > [“Pagan paths, of which there are many, more often than not, are based upon an acknowledgement of a Divine presence within nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carole-carlton/pagan-paths-of-which-there-are-many-more-often-than-not-are-based/) [Carole Carlton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carole-carlton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/carole-carlton-17106_beltane_pagan-paths-of-which-there-are-many-more_1071117.jpg) > [St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-urs-von-balthasar/st-paul-would-say-to-the-philosophers-that-god-created-man-so-that-he/) [Hans Urs von Balthasar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-urs-von-balthasar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/hans-urs-von-balthasar-9350_christian-philosophy_st-paul-would-say-to-the-philosophers-th_1056364.jpg) > [My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-stone/my-ego-is-nothing-look-what-alexander-the-great-achieved-and-i-felt/) [Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-stone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ff/oliver-stone-1812_christian_my-ego-is-nothing-look-what-alexander-th_1019642.jpg) > [“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/pre-christian-judaism-including-the-disciples-during-jesus-s-lifetime/) [N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-t-wright/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/071/n-t-wright-1173_death_pre-christian-judaism-including-the-disc_175721.jpg) > [“Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-drews/gnosticism-is-undeniably-pre-christian-with-both-jewish-and-gentile/) [Arthur Drews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-drews/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42b/arthur-drews-121633_christ-myth_gnosticism-is-undeniably-pre-christian-w_1986606.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pre-christian/#itemlist", "name": "Pre Christian Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lewis B. 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And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oliver Stone" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-stone/my-ego-is-nothing-look-what-alexander-the-great-achieved-and-i-felt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ff/oliver-stone-1812_christian_my-ego-is-nothing-look-what-alexander-th_1019642.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ff/oliver-stone-1812_christian_my-ego-is-nothing-look-what-alexander-th_1019642.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ff/oliver-stone-1812_christian_my-ego-is-nothing-look-what-alexander-th_1019642.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. 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The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels...God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes the Good One...A clear pre-Christian Gnosticism can be distilled from the epistles of Paul. Paul is recklessly misunderstood by those who try to read anything Historical Jesus-ish into it. The conversion of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles is a mere forgery from various Tanakh passages... [The epistles] are from Christian mystics of the middle of the second century. Paul is thus the strongest witness against the Historical Jesus hypothesis...John's Gnostic origin is more evident than that of the synoptics. 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