What Is Pagan in the Bible?
Person
Someone who worships false gods and does not know the true God.
A detail
- In the Bible: it speaks of the “Gentiles”: the peoples who were not Israel. Simeon said that Jesus would be a light for the Gentiles.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 2:32; Matthew 8:11
What the Bible says
Luke 2:32
A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Matthew 8:11
And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “pagan”