Meaning of 'heathen' in Yoruba is: keferi

heathen: keferi

Noun:

alaimoye, Banks, keferi, ṣa.

Adjective:

keferi, odi, alaiwa-, enia buburu, buru ju, alaimoye, Banks, eya.

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Adjective(1) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam(2) not believing in Christian god
Noun(1) a person who does not acknowledge your god(2) a person who does not acknowledge your God

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(1) If I get any of the various jobs which are not at places of worship, then I'll remain a heathen .(2) McDermott writes that unless Edwards meant that these heathen men might be the beneficiaries of eternal life, the idea of a u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510benefit to their soulsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is incoherent.(3) And he had, if not a revulsion towards the pagan priesthood, then a fear of them and their devotion to their heathen religion.(4) At first glance one would say that these apostles were to go to all the heathen world and proclaim a message of salvation as we think of it.(5) I don't know how enlightening you've found it, but I hope I have given something of the heathen perspective.(6) Instead of confronting and dislodging the heathen world, now the White man's mythology as the King called it, has a parallel story, to vie with the heathen version, for attention and authority.(7) I never go where the Pagans go and I never do what the heathen do.(8) I am no witch, no heathen ; I simply have a clear eye, an eye that is clearer than any human I have encountered.(9) The assertion that Edwards provided for the salvation of the heathen discounts this fundamental premise of his thought.(10) They have abandoned their cannibalism and heathen ways and in those thirteen years since missionaries entered the area, the Biami church has grown so strong that at present over fifteen outreach churches have been formed.(11) As the Jews began to make contact with their heathen neighbors, they took their Scriptures and prophecies of a Messiah with them.(12) In order to extend the idea to provide for the salvation of the heathen , two assumptions must be made.(13) We have nothing to do with Sabbaths or the other Jewish festivals, much less with those of the heathen .(14) Despite his repeated charges, I do not insist that Edwards argued forcefully for the salvation of the heathen through the prisca theologia.(15) He also challenged the denunciatory preaching of the missionaries, which condemned the unrepentant heathen to hell, as intrinsic to the teaching of the Bible.(16) And how is Christ going to u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510inheritu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb the heathen and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510possessu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb the earth?