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1 | there's many denomination yet 1 spirit | Eph 5:1 | JRdoc | 61570 | ||
Part 2: You Probably did not read the originals posts: The Tower of Babel was man’s first sophisticated, organized counterfeit of true religion (Gen. 11:9). This tower was built to God, and Nimrod was the patriarchal apostate who set it all up. He was the grandson of Ham, who was the son of Noah. They established a false system of religion as a counterfeit to the truth. Every false system since then was spawned out of that. Why? When God judged those people He scattered them all over the world and they took with them the seeds of false religion begun at Babel. They adapted it, altered it, sophisticated it even more, changed it here and there, and added to it so that it became complex in various cultures. But the seeds of it all were at Babel, and that is why Mystery Babylon is called the mother of all false systems. Nimrod spawned a network of false religious systems. That is why there is so much similarity in these false systems around the world. Nimrod had a wife—a very evil person. Her name was Semiramis I. She was the first high priestess of the Tower of Babel religion. She founded what is known today as the mystery religions. She was the mother of it all. Now, when God scattered these people, they took with them Semiramis’s system. God not only scattered them, but He changed their languages. So, she received different names because different cultures have different languages, and that means different pronunciations. So, in Assyria she was called Ishtar, in Phoenicia her name was Ashtoreth, in Egypt her name was Isis, in Greece her name was Aphrodite, and in Rome her name was Venus. They are all names for Semiramis. They were worshiping Semiramis, the priestess that spawned false religion. Tammuz Semiramis also gave birth to a son. His name was Tammuz. His name appears in the Bible in Ezekiel 8:14. In Phoenicia his name was Baal, in Egypt his name was Osiris, in Greece his name was Eros, and in Rome his name was cute, little, lovable Cupid. She said that he was conceived by a sunbeam. That is a counterfeit to the virgin birth. Supposedly he had no earthly father. Satan understood Genesis 3:15; he knew there would be a seed of a woman. Then, amazingly enough, Tammuz was killed by a wild boar and forty days later rose from the dead—another counterfeit. Those in Greece would have known about this system of religion. They would have been worshiping the same system with some sophistication. They had all kinds of sophisticated rites and rituals. For example, they believed in: (a) Baptismal regeneration—They believed that people were saved by being baptized in water, so they had systematic baptisms. (b) Sacrificial systems—They mainly slaughtered pigs, lambs, dogs, and birds. (c) Feasts and fasts (d) Mutilations and flagellations—These came from the mystery system. (e) ecstasy There was one thing that was characteristic about the mystery religions that found their way into Greece—they indulged in what they called ecstasy. Ecstasy is not what you feel when you kiss your girl friend. The word is ecstasis in the Greek and means to “cultivate a magical, sensuous communion with deity.” In other words, they would do anything they could to get themselves into a semiconscious, hallucinatory, hypnotic spell in order to sensually commune with their deity and have a euphoric feeling. They assumed that this was a union with God. Ecstasy and enthusiasm made up the system of religion in which the Corinthians had lived and grown. When they became believers they stayed the same because they were not spiritual but carnal. They manifested the same type of religious behavior as they had every other dimension of the world by dragging this into their assembly. Their kind of religion was ecstatic, orgiastic frenzy. It was chaotic and confusing. Paul said, “Let all things be done decently and in order” (1 Cor. 14:40). In addition, he said, “Let all things be done unto edifying” |
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2 | there's many denomination yet 1 spirit | Eph 5:1 | Reformer Joe | 61591 | ||
Please PLEASE tell me that your source is not Alexander Hislop. --Joe! |
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