To see the real origin of what is taught in most churches today we most go back to a man called Nimrod, the grandson of Ham. This man was the founder of a kingdom in Shinar with four great cities, Babel, Erech, Accad and Calnah. Nimrod had become the ruler of this kingdom because of his great hunting and leadership abilities. It is believed that he was the first to teach men to build walled cities to protect themselves from wild animals. Gen. 10:8-10
However, as in so many other situations, power leads to corruption, and soon this great leader began to teach men to abandon Yahweh and to follow him. Josephus says, "Nimrod persuaded mankind not to ascribe their happiness to Yahweh, but to think that his own excellence was the source of it. And he soon changed things into tyranny, thinking there was no other way to wean men from Yahweh and fear of him, than by making them rely upon his own power." (Josephus was a Jewish historian.)
This city of Babel was the seat of the first great apostasy against Yahweh after the flood. Here Nimrod and his queen, Semiramis, invented the Babylonian cult. It was a system claiming the highest wisdom and ability to reveal the most divine secrets. This cult was characterized by the word "Mystery," because of its system of mysteries. The objects of worship were the Supreme Father, the Queen of Heaven, and her Son. She made Babylon the seat of idolatry and sin.
Because Nimrod and Semiramis were teaching the people that they were God, the Lord sent Shem, who was Noah's son, to kill Nimrod. Shem then sent parts of Nimrod's body to various places to show that he was, indeed dead; however, Semiramis was able to recover his male part; succeeding in this, she then set up replicas of this in the form of obelisks (steeples) all over the known world. Ever wonder what that dumb looking pointed thing on top of your church was for? ASK YOUR "PASTOR" WHAT SCRIPTURE HIS STEEPLE COMES FROM. (The word pastor comes from pasatour which means mouth of Satyr, which is, of course, the mouth or spokesman of Satan. Even Strongs list some unsavory things in reference to the word 7462, to rule, use as a friend, break, devour, eat up, evil entreat,shearing house, waste.)
Semiramis gives birth to her illegitimate son, Tammuz. She had become pregnant by harlotry while Nimrod was away. After his death, she knew that she had to explain her pregnancy, since adultery was punishable by death, neither did she wish to lose her position as the “Queen of Heaven”. Therefore, she informs the public that the child who was born is none other than Nimrod resurrected (here begins the teaching of The Father incarnate as The Son), and the sign of this miracle is the miraculous growth, in one night, of an evergreen tree in her yard. Hence the adoration of the Christmas tree ever since. This also had the effect of deifying Nimrod.
This story of the death and suffering of Nimrod leading to his deification has been retold in all ages and eventually became the root of most pagan religions, even culminating in the story of Jesus that is taught today in the Great Harlot Church and by her daughters the Protestants.
The Jesus story incorporates elements from the tales of other deities recorded in history, such as the following world saviors and "sons of God," all of whom predate the Christian era, and include a number that were crucified or executed.
Horus of Egypt
‘The stories of Jesus and Horus are very similar, with Horus even contributing the name of Jesus Christ. Horus and his once-and-future Father, Osiris, are frequently interchangeable in the mythos ("I and my Father are one") The legends of Horus go back thousands of years, and he shares the following in common with Jesus:
• Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger, with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men
• He was a child teacher in the Temple and was baptized when he was 30 years old.
• Horus was also baptized by "Anup the Baptizer."
• He had 12 disciples.
• He performed miracles and raised one man, El-Azar-us, from the dead.
• He walked on water.
• Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
• He was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected.
• He was "the Fisher," and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and Fish ("Ichthys")
• Horus's personal epithet was "Iusa," the "ever-becoming son" of "Ptah," the "Father.
• Horus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One," long before the Catholics duplicated the story.
‘In fact, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis - the original "Madonna and Child - and the Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, who shares many qualities with Jesus and who existed as a deity long before the Jesus character was formalized. The Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced. Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to water to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier pagan mystery religions.
'Mithra, Sungod of Persia
The story of Mithra precedes the Christian fable by at least 600 years. According to Wheless, the cult of Mithra was, shortly before the Christian era, "the most popular and widely spread 'Pagan' religion of the times." Mithra has the following in common with the Christ character:
• Mithra was born on December 25th.
• He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
• He had 12 companions or disciples.
• He performed miracles.
• He was buried in a tomb.
• After three days he rose again.
• His resurrection was celebrated every year.
• Mithra was called "the Good Shepherd."
• He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
• His sacred day was Sunday, "the Lord's Day," hundreds of years before the appearance of Jesus.
• Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter, at which time he was resurrected.
• His religion had a Eucharist or "Lord's Supper.
2001 Acharya S
It becomes obvious that almost all of the teachings of modern religion are based on the Paganism that the Catholics have weaved into the Biblical accounts of the teaching of Y'shua.
“At a lavish Easter Friday banquet in the Vatican in 1514, and in the company of ‘seven intimates’, Pope Leo X made a declaration that the church had since tried hard to invalidate. Raising a chalice of wine high into the air, Pope Leo toasted: ‘How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors’. The pronouncement was recorded in the records of both Cardinal Bembo and Cardinal Jovius, two associates that were witnesses to Pope Leo’s celebratory confession.”
The Crucifixion of Truth
Tony Bushby
Pg. 250
Even the Christian festivals such as Christmas, Lady Day, Easter, and Lent, and many other modern rituals such as the sign of the cross, the Rosary, the Eucharist (the wine and the bread), the offer of monks and nuns, as well as most other rituals in most churches all came from these Pagan religions and were observed, under different names, for many centuries before Y'shua. Most of the doctrines in Catholic and Protestant churches had their beginning in Paganism. The worship of the mother and child began in ancient Babylon from which the cult of the goddess Semiramis and her child spread throughout the world. (The only scripturally based theory of the image of the Beast is that it is the image of the Mother and Child. See Hislops Two Babylons, Pages 263-269.)
It appeared in China as the "holy mother" Shingmoo, in Germany as Hertha, in Scandinavia as Disa, in ancient Britain as Virgo-Patitura, in India as Indrana, in ancient Greece as Aphrodite, in Egypt as Isis, in Rome as Venus, and in the Vatican as Mary. The woman and child were worshipped almost worldwide for many centuries before the birth of Y'shua.
The Phoenicians in the worship of Astarte practiced the use of a circle of beads, or rosary, when chanting to the "mother goddess". This idolatrous horror is still practiced by Catholics, when chanting "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners..." When the worship of Semiramus was introduced to pagan Rome, the clergy was constrained to be celibate, which created problems of immorality on a large scale. The same immorality problems exist in the Catholic Church today because they still teach the same doctrine. 1 Tim. 4:1-3, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; FORBIDDING TO MARRY, AND COMMANDING TO ABSTAIN FROM MEATS, which (Yahweh) hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."
The Doctrine of the Trinity, which is the cornerstone of modern religion, can be proven to have its roots in Babylon. The Mystery of the Godhead, the three in one, was started by Semiramus when she claimed to be the Holy Spirit (the Queen of Heaven), a third deity to be worshipped along with her husband Nimrod (Baal, the Father), and Tammuz (the Son). We find these three in the Old Testament where Baal worship was forbidden by God, and baking of cakes to the Queen of Heaven and weeping for Tammuz were called abominations by Yahweh and brought swift punishment on all who participated in these horrors.
Summing up the historical evidence, Alvan Lamson says in , "The Church of the First Three Centuries", "The modern popular doctrine of the Trinity derives no support from the language of Justin (Martyr): and this observation may be extended to all the ante-Nicene Fathers; that is, to all Christian writers for three centuries after the birth of Y'shua. It is true; they speak of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but not as co-equal, not as one numerical essence, not as Three in One, in any sense now admitted by Trinitarians. The very reverse is the fact".
Thus, the testimony of the Bible and of history makes clear that the Trinity was unknown throughout Biblical times and for several centuries thereafter.
It is obvious to any honest heart that the purpose of introducing the Doctrine of the Trinity was simply the re-introduction of the Pagan Deities of Nimrod, Tamuz and Semiramus in the guise of The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit of God. Thus the head of the Beast which was wounded now lives again wearing the name of New Testament Christianity.
That Catholics and Protestants and Modern Anabaptists all teach the Trinity of Mystery Babylon is shown below:
“The MYSTERY of the ONE GOD IN THREE DIVINE PERSONS-this, my brethren, is the greatest and most ADORABLE of all our MYSTERIES, because it is the basis, the foundation of the Christian religion.”
The Catechism of Rodez
Abbe’ Lutche. + Louis., pg 19
The ADORABLE Godhead – “We therefore may speak with propriety of the Lord our God, WHO IS ONE LORD, AS A TRINITY OR AS ONE BEING OF THREE PERSONS…”
“…but that this distinction and relationship, as to its mode is inscrutable and incomprehensible, because unexplained.” (Mystery)
Constitution and By-Laws
Assembly of God, Inc., pg. 8
“There is one eternal, self-existing, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, invisible, incomprehensible God, revealing Himself in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Ghost – THREE IN ONE, ONE IN THREE, coexisting from eternity to eternity.”
Principles of Faith
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, pg. 5
NO ONE IN THE BIBLE WAS BAPTIZED INTO THE TRINITY!
(The "Trinity" that is taught today is a veiled version of the teaching that was brought into the church at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D., when Constantine accepted the Egyptian Godhead message, which is, of course, the Babylonian Trinity.)
"... At the Council of Nice, (Nicea 325 A.D.) says the author of 'Nimrod,' 'The Melchite section' - that is, the representatives of the so-called Christianity of Egypt - 'held that there were three persons in the Trinity, The Father, the Virgin Mary, and Messiah their Son.'..."
"...This astounding language manifestly implies that Mary is identified with the Holy Ghost, when it speaks of her 'being poured out' on 'all the works of God;’
"Now the Holy Ghost was idolatrously worshipped in Babylon under the form of a 'Dove'. Under the same form, and with equal idolatry, the Holy Ghost is worshipped in Rome."
The Two Babylons (p. 144)
Alex. Hislop
Loizeaux Brothers
Neptune N.J. 1916
We find these three pagan deities under different names throughout history:
Babylonian: Nimrod Semiramus - The Dove Osiris
Old Testament: Baal Queen of Heaven - Ashtoreth Tammuz
Modern Trinity: The Father Holy Ghost - Mary - The Dove The Son
(Also see Jer. 7:1-20; Ezek. 8:14-15; Jer. 44:17-27; Gen. 10:8-10; Rev. 18:2-5; Judges 2:13-14; 1 Kings 18:21-22.)
"NOW AFTER ALL THIS, IS IT POSSIBLE TO DOUBT THAT THE MADONNA OF ROME, WITH THE CHILD IN HER ARMS, AND THE MADONNA (OR MARY) OF BABYLON, ARE ONE AND THE SAME GODDESS?"
The Two Babylon’s pp. 82, 85,127,141 Alexander Hislop
Mithras began to be worshipped in Persia some 4000 years ago. Mithras was also worshipped by the rulers of the Roman Empire for over 300 years by the time of Paul’s visit. Known by many names, such as Mithra, Mitra, Meitros, Mihr, Mehr, and Meher, he was referred to as “the Light of the World,” and was a symbol of truth, justice and loyalty.
We must understand that when Paul brought his corrupted Gentile version of Y'shua's teachings to Rome, although there were still temples to Diana and Zeus, the main religion already in place was Mithraism which was the culmination of and included all of the Pagan worship and false deities that had come before it. In what became the norm in latter Catholicism, the old religion was simply melded with the new religion.
It is believed that the Hebrew name of Y'shua was changed into the Greek “Iesous” at this time.
Their false God could not be called by a Jewish name because it would not be acceptable to Paul’s New Greek religion nor to the Romans who considered the Jews slaves.
“The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Messiah's name never was "Jesus" and that the name "Jesus" is actually an invention of man.
‘In the King James Version of the scriptures, we find an interesting problem in its translation:
‘Acts 7:44(KJV) Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. 45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
‘Isn't this scripture referring to Joshua, son of Nun rather than the Y'shua? Yes. Here is another instance...
‘ Heb. 4:7-8 (KJV) Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
‘Again, the context reveals that this scripture is referring to Joshua, the son of Nun and not the Messiah. All other translations put "Joshua" here. Why then is it translated 'Jesus'? The answer lies in the Greek/Latin corruption of the Messiah's original Hebrew name… When the Gentiles tried to transliterate His name into Greek, they came up with Ihsoun or "Iesous. When Iesous was transliterated into Latin, it became "Iesus", which was then carried over into English it became our modern day "Jesus" when the letter "J" developed (The letter “J” did not exist until the 16th century A.D.). ‘…It is quite evident that the modern name "Jesus" doesn't even remotely resemble the name that the Messiah was known by when he walked the earth. This is fact. Do some research and see for yourself.”
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In Luke 4:27 we find Elisha’s (Eli’Shuah) name changed to El-I-se’us (Eli’Zeus) meaning (My god is Zeus). If they will corrupt a Prophets name how much more the name of our Lord.
"Je-SUS", pronounced Gee-SOOCE, is from the Latin word/name "Ie-SUS", pronounced Ee-SOOCE.
Sadly, a case can be made that “Jesus”, in Latin, actually means 'Pig'.
As an old farm boy I am well acquainted with calling hogs with the words Soo and Sooie but I never knew where they came from until now.
In Greek the messiah's name is Iesous. Iesous or “hey-soos” in Hebrew it means “hey leaping horse”. Just look at this example: Ps.33:17, “An horse (Strong’s Heb. word 5483) (Heb. hey-soos/Grk. Iesous/ Eng. Jesus) is a vain hope for safety; neither shall he deliver any by his great strength."
Jesus is a corrupted name derived from the Greek IESOUS. Ies, or iysh in Hebrew means man, while sus -soos means leaping horse, so when you speak that name, you are referring to the Messiah as “man horse” or “man beast”.
The name Jesus in Welch is Iesu`. Jesus in Romanian is Isus. Jesus in Polish is Jezus. I think it is more than obvious that Joseph and Mary did not name their Hebrew son after a Roman god named Zeus (Je-sus)., which means praise Zeus.
Did you know that there was a Celtic demon god by the name "ESUS" pronounced Ee-SOOCE also know as "HESUS", pronounced He or Hey -SOOCE. This god was worshipped by the ancient Druids (Dictionary of Pagan Religions page 117 and page 152). This "ESUS" was found on a relief on an altar of ZEUS that was found in Paris in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Notre Dame. (Encyclopedia Britannica Macromedia page 575) On this relief you can see that on "ESUS's chest there is a CROSS.
. The worship of Satan by the title of Asherah, which Yahweh dealt with repeatedly in Israel, was called an abomination and involved the use of a cross to determine the solstice days with its shadow. On these solstice days different aspects of the story of Nimrod and Semiramus was played out. The first solstice involved intercourse between a chosen man and the current temple priestess (Valentine's Day). The next solstice showed the death of Nimrod (which included the actual death and bloody dismemberment of the chosen man which was accomplished in front of the cross (The Crucifixion)). The next solstice day, the winter solstice day (Christmas), A baby was born in front of the cross (Tammuz). These Asherah crosses or poles were even set up in Yahweh’s temple courtyard and were called an abomination by Yahweh. Have you ever seen a Babylon temple that did not have crosses or a steeple? Does this sound a little like the church on the corner with their nativity scene on display?
Recently, an ossuary (bone box) was discovered, dated to around 62-63 AD, and authenticated by numerous scholars. On it was an Aramaic inscription that read, “Ya'akov, bar Yosef, akhui di Yoshua”, translated as, “James, son of Joseph, brother of Y'shua”. This is believed to be the burial box of James the brother of Y'shua.
THE MESSIAH’S NAME IS Y'SHUA - NOT ZEUS (JESUS). Y'SHUA (MODERN ENGLISH JOSHUA) IS THE NAME THAT HE WAS KNOWN BY.
Even though the various corruptions of the Messiah's name has been ingrained in people for two thousand years, how can we, in good conscience, fail to teach the truth about this name?
The old Pagan god Mithras and most of the rituals and teachings associated with him were thereby very neatly brought into the new “Christian” religion simply by changing the name of the God. As we look at the teachings and beliefs of the followers of Mithras, we begin to see the incredible similarities with modern religion. It is also of note that Mithraism completely disappeared in Rome at the same time as this supposed “new Christian religion” became popular.
In Persian mythology, Mithras was born of a virgin (who was given the title ‘Mother of God’), and was also a member of a Holy Trinity, and was the mediator between heaven and earth.
It is a vast oversimplification to suggest that Mithraism was the single forerunner of early Christianity. Aside from Mithras, there were plenty of other deities (such as Nimrod and Semiramus also known as Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis, Balder, Attis, and Dionysus also known as Zeus.) that were said to have died and resurrected. Many classical heroic figures, such as Hercules, Perseus, and Theseus, were said to have been born through the union of a virgin mother and divine father. While much of the paganism involved with Mithraism was incorporated into Christianity, it is not the only pagan religion to have been included. Almost every pagan religious practice or festivity that existed from the Days of Nimrod and Semiramus on down to Zeus and Athena was also incorporated into what is now called the Holy Catholic Church.
Mithraism has been noted by many historians for its astonishing similarities to modern Christianity. The Greek historian Herodotus, Greek biographer Plutarch, philosopher Porphyry, Origen, and St. Jerome are some of these.
Like Christians, the Mithraists believed that their savior had descended from heaven to earth; had shared a last supper with 12 followers; had redeemed mankind from sin by shedding blood; and had risen from the dead. They (Mithrain believers) even baptized their converts (though in bull's blood) to wash away past sins.
Baptism for purification was a requirement of all followers, as was taking part in a ceremony in which they drank wine and ate bread as a symbol of the body and blood of the god. Sundays were sacred, with services held in which bells were sounded and praises offered to the god. December 25th was celebrated as his birthday. When the earthly mission of this god had been fulfilled, he took part in a ‘last supper’ with his followers before he ascended to heaven, from where he would protect his people from on high.
"He who will not eat of my body, nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved." (M. J. Vermaseren, Mithras, the Secret God).
Mithras worshipers observed the Eucharist supper, at which time they would partake of their God in the form of bread and wine.
This rebirth through the Mithraic Communion ritual was believed, then, to be the actual receiving of their god, Mithra:
". . . . IN THE EUCHARIST WE BECOME PARTAKERS OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF GOD¹S ONLY SON . . . [AND] THE PARTAKING OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST HAS NO LESS EFFECT THAN TO CHANGE US INTO WHAT WE HAVE RECEIVED" (VATICAN II).
"The setting and rising of the sun, symbol of the god Mithra, recalled Christ's death and resurrection. Moreover, the Mithraic festival in celebration of the sun god's birth was held on December 25, recognized as (Mithra’s and now Christ’s) birthday. Both religions included a baptism and a sacrament of bread and wine, and both guarded their central rites from nonbelievers" (Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects).
Today's communion service involves the round, gold or brass communion set which, of course, represents the Sun.
The amazing popularity of Paganism was primarily the result of mankind being offered a new way of salvation outside of the true God of heaven. This religion did not require a changed heart and life and adherence to God’s laws, but, rather, only required attendance at the local temple where they participated in drinking the Blood of their god Mithras (The Cup of Babylon). Today, we find the same exact thing going on in Paul’s modern religion. All that is required is somewhat regular attendance at the local temple where, again, they partake of the “Blood of God”, “Jesus” in the Eucharist or Lord’s Supper ritual for acceptance into the cult.
The eating of bread and the drinking of wine in the Catholic Communion Service (Eucharist) (the Mass) (the Unbloody Sacrifice) and the eating of the Lord's Supper in Protestant services is a major sacrament of the Babylon Whore Church. Even the "GRACE ONLY" Protestants, who vehemently deny that any works are required to be saved, will do a quick about-face when the necessity of the so-called Lord's Supper is called into question.
It is not surprising that this practice can also be traced directly to the Babylonian Mystery Religion. Does not the word of God itself picture the Great Whore with a cup in her hand? The priest of Baal would give the initiate wine to drink in a cup along with the round wafer of bread thousands of years ago. In the Catholic Church, the round wafers are inscribed with the letters, I.H.S. They will tell you that the letters stand for "Jesus the saviour of men", but let a Roman worshipper of Isis see them and he will read them as Isis, Horus and Seb. These were the Babylonian Trinity.
In the time between the testaments, the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, erected a Pagan altar in the Temple at Jerusalem, and used it to sacrifice a pig to the heathen god Zeus. On Sunday mornings, modern religionists drink and eat the symbolic blood and body of Jesus (Zeus), which means “pig” in Latin. This practice is an abomination unto God and will shortly bring destruction upon all that partake of it.
A true conversion experience occurs when our hearts are cleansed and renewed by repentance and we again receive fellowship with Yahweh. The unbloody sacrifice of the mass is no less than the replacing of this true conversion with the ungodly device of eating the supposed body of Y'shua in the form of a piece of bread. How many millions have eaten the bread, but have never partaken of the reality of Y'shua in their life?
Nowhere did the real Messiah institute the so-called Lord's Supper. Nowhere did He institute the Mithraic Eucharist. The apostles later taught that it is forbidden to drink blood. Why, then, would Y'shua command us to do so, even symbolically?
Y'shua plainly said, in Luke chapter 22, that He would not drink the Passover wine again until the Kingdom of God comes into existence on the earth (Rev. 11:15). Why are there no instructions as to how often to hold this ceremony, which is supposedly a condition of salvation? Why are there no examples of this ceremony in the early church? Why have tens of thousands suffered martyrdom rather than partake of this horror? Have you ever seen or even heard of anyone dying from taking the so-called communion "unworthily"?
The utter folly of the literal communion is demonstrated in Matt. 15:17, where Y'shua states that a man's food does not defile him as it goes through the gut and passes on. If this be true, then it follows that nothing that a man can eat will sanctify him as it also goes through the gut and passes on.
The true people of God practice none of the above mentioned Mithraic rituals.
There is no such animal as the Trinity. We do not celebrate Christmas. Actually, Y'shua was born in September, not December. Y'shua was not born of a virgin; since he is not God; neither is his mother the mother of God. We do not celebrate Easter. We certainly do not celebrate the Eucharist. God does not dwell in temples built by men, Acts 7:48. We call no man “Father” and we recognize no so-called priesthood in the earth today, except Y'shua.
“The observance of the Jewish Sabbath, again, transferred to the Mithraic Sun-day, is an important feature of many Christian cults; but (Y'shua) deliberately broke the Sabbath, and said it was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. Nor did he say a word about the worship of his mother Mary, in the guise of Isis, the Queen of Heaven. All that is most characteristically Christian in worship and usage, he ignored. ...As remarkable is the enormous prominence given by (Y'shua) to the teaching of what he called the Kingdom of Heaven and its comparative insignificance in the procedure and teaching of most of the "Christian churches."
“This Doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of (Y'shua), and which plays so small a part in the Christian creeds, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. ...It is small wonder if the hesitating convert and disciple presently went back to the old familiar ideas of temple and altar, of fierce deity and propitiatory observance, of consecrated priest and magic blessing, and-- these things being attended to reverted back to the dear old habitual life of hates and profits and competition and pride. For the doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, as (Y'shua) seems to have preached it, was no less than a bold and uncompromising demand for a complete change and cleansing of the life of our struggling race, an utter cleansing, without and within. ...Men belonged to the Kingdom; all their personal possessions belonged to the Kingdom. The righteous life for all men, the only righteous life, was the service of God's will with all that we had, and with all that we were...(Y'shua) had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love.
"The line of least resistance for the flagging convert was to intellectualize himself away from this plain doctrine, this stark proposition, into complicated theories and ceremonies--that would leave his essential self alone. How much easier it is to sprinkle oneself with blood than to purge oneself from malice and competition; to eat bread and drink wine and pretend one had absorbed divinity, to give candles rather than the heart, to shave the head and retain the scheming privacy of the brain inside it!
"...What is clearly apparent is that the teaching of (Y'shua) was a prophetic teaching of the new type that began with the Hebrew prophets. It was not priestly; it had no consecrated temple and no altar. Its sacrifice was "a broken and contrite heart." Its only organization was an organization of preachers, and its chief function was the sermon. But the fully-fledged Christianity of the fourth century...was mainly a priestly religion of a type already familiar to the world for thousands of years. The centre of its elaborate ritual was an altar, and the essential act of worship the sacrifice, by a consecrated priest, of the mass. And it had a rapidly developing organization of deacons, priests, and bishops. ...Its wide-spread altars were all addressed to the unseen universal Trinity..."
The Outline of History
H. G. Wells
Page 499-523
The Macmillian Co
New York 1921
Did the Early followers of Y'shua teach the Trinity? Note the following comments by historians and theologians: “Primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the creeds.” The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
"The early Christians, however, did not at first think of applying the (Trinity) idea to their own faith. They paid their devotions to God the Father and to (Y'shua), the Son of God, and they recognised the Holy Spirit; but there was no thought of these three being an actual Trinity, co-equal and united in One." The Paganism in Our Christianity
"At first the Christian faith was not Trinitarian. It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected in the N(ew) T(estament) and other early Christian writings." Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
"The formulation 'one God in three Persons' was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective." New Catholic Encyclopedia
The ante-Nicene Fathers were acknowledged to have been leading religious teachers in the early centuries after "Y'shua's" birth. What they taught is of interest.
Justin Martyr, who died about 165 AD, called the prehuman Y'shua a created angel who is "other than the God who made all things" He said that (Y'shua) was inferior to God and "never did anything except what the Creator willed him to do and say."
Irenaeus, who died about 200 AD, said that the prehuman (Y'shua) had a separate existence from God and was inferior to him. He showed that (Y'shua) is not equal to the "One true and only God", who is "supreme over all, and besides whom there is no other."
Clement of Alexandria, who died about 215 AD, called (Y'shua) in his prehuman existence "a creature" but called God "the uncreated and imperishable and only true God." He said that the Son "is next to the only omnipotent Father" but not equal to him.
Tertullian, who died about 230 AD taught the supremacy of God. He observed: "The Father is different from the Son (another), as he is greater; as he who begets is different from him who is begotten; he who sends is different from him who is sent". He also said: "There was a time when the Son was not. Before all things, God was alone".
Hippolytus, who died about 235 AD, said that God is "the one God, the first and the only One, the Maker and Lord of all," who "had nothing co-eval [of equal age] with him. But he was One, alone by himself; who, willing it, called into being what had no being before"..
“There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a (Trinity) within the Godhead.” The Triune God
Origen, who died about 250 AD, said that "the Father and Son are two substances, two things as to their essence," and that "compared with the Father, (the Son) is a very small light."
For more on the Trinity see "Who is the Messiah" on our website.
What do you think? Have all those so-called ‘churches’ out there really Christianized America? The homosexuals are dancing in the streets, contaminating the country with AIDS, under the protection of the law. Our Congress murders one out of every four American babies every year in "legal" abortions, and then they have the gall to pray for God's blessings on our country. America has the highest number of prison inmates in the world per-capita; it also has the most Babylonian temples. Are you aware that the pagan Asian countries have 70% less crime per-capita than so-called "Christian" America?
Is it any wonder that, in Revelation 18:1-5, we find Yahweh sending angels to warn men to "Come out of her my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues, for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and Yahweh has remembered her iniquities."
"To us then the command of the Lord is clear when He calls upon us to be separate from the evil and thus He will be our God and we shall be His sons and daughters.
"He further admonishes us to withdraw from Babylon and the earthly Egypt that we be not partakers of the pain and suffering which the Lord will bring upon them.
"From this we should learn that everything which is not united with our (Yahweh and Y'shua) cannot be other than an abomination which we should shun and flee from. By this is meant all popish (Catholic) and anti-popish (Protestant) works and church service meetings and church attendance, drinking houses, civic affairs, the commitments (made in) unbelief and other things of that kind, which are highly regarded by the world and yet are carried on in flat contradiction to the command of (Yahweh), in accordance with all the unrighteousness which is in the world. From all these things we shall be separated and have no part with them for they are nothing but an abomination…”
Great Voices of the Reformation
(The Schleitheim Confession of Faith) (16th Century Anabaptist) page 291
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Modern Library
New York
BABYLON IS WELL CALLED THE GREAT WHORE AND REALLY IS THE MOTHER OF EVERY ABOMINATION ON THE PLANET. SHE HAS BECOME THE VEHICLE OF THE GREAT DECEPTION. HER END IS PLAINLY DESCRIBED IN REV. CHAPTERS 18, 19.
JESUS IS THE CENTERPIECE
OF
SATAN'S MASTERPIECE
