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ALL FALSE RELIGION STARTED IN ANCIENT BABYLON
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yashaenka
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It ALL Began in BABYLON
"In ancient days Satan seemed to make Babylon
the capital of his evil operation. From this
headquarters was started false religion."
-(Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain p. 224).
"the Tower of Babel was actually the worship of Satan
in the form of fire, the sun and the serpent. However,
Satan worship could not be done openly because of the
many who still believed in the true God of Noah. So a
mystery religion began at Babel where Satan could be
worshipped in secret."
- Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, 2nd American ed.
(Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1959) 5, 24.)
"The researches of modern writers.....
uniformly regard Babylon... as the cradle
of the ancient Paganism."
--The Worship of the Dead (London; 1904),
Colonel J. Garnier, pg. 8
"There in ancient Babylon were born the false beliefs
that have wormed their way into almost every religion.
Even today millions and millions of people who may want
to live according to the right ways are not aware that
their manner of worship follows very closely that of
ancient idol worship and pagan rites begun at Babel.
People today, calling themselves Christians, keep the
Babylonian festivals of the Solstice at Christmas and
of Easter, which is the festival of Ishtar (the ancient
fertility goddess of Babylon).
- Nimrod and False Religion;
Adapted from Chapters 5 of The Bible Story
Volume 1 by Basil Wolverton
Published by Ambassador College Press.
"Babylon was, at that time,
the center of the civilized world;
and thus Paganism...had opportunities
of sending forth its debased counterfeit
of the truth to all the ends of the earth."
- Hislop, A., The Two Babylons,
Loiseaux Brothers, Neptune, N.J. pg 99.
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yashaenka
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THE TRINITY -
Unlike early Christianity, which worshipped
the Jewish God, Jehovah - The apostate Church
adopted the Trinity god of Ancient Babylon.
"The trinity got its start in Ancient Babylon
with Nimrod - Tammuz - and Semiramis.
Semiramis demanded worship for both her husband
and her son as well as herself. She claimed
that her son, was both the father and the son.
Yes, he was "god the father" and "god the son" -
The first divine incomprehensible trinity."
--The Two Babylons ; Alexander Hislop; p.51
"There were triads of gods..."
-(Babylonian and Assyrian Religion,
Norman, Okla.; 1963, S. H. Hooke, pp. 14-40)
"The doctrine
that Jesus Christ the Son of God
was God the son
was decreed by worldly
and ecclesiastical powers.
Men were forced to accept it
at the point of the sword or else,
Thus, the error of the trinity
was propounded to the end
that ultimately people believed it
to be the truth.
Thus Christianity became in essence
like 'Babylonian' heathenism,
with only a veneer of Christian names."
--- Forgers of the Word -1983 Victor Paul Wierwille
"Long ago - right after the Flood, a man named Nimrod
emerged on the scene of history. His name means
"let us rebel". He led the founding of the first
great civilization – Babylon...He led them to rebel
against God. He had tremendous power, so much that he
became a god in the eyes of the people. When he died,
his wife, Semiramis, recognized that without him she
might loose power herself, so she devised a clever plan.
Semiramis was pregnant. She told everyone that the child
in her womb was none other than Nimrod being reborn.
This was the beginning of the greatest perversion...
the concept of father/son deity, the very first
incomprehensible divine trinity (the unexplainable mystery)..."
- Resurrection Sunday and
the Babylonian Connection; By Errol HaleBabylon 
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| Nov 6 @ 9:21 AM |
ALL FALSE RELIGION STARTED IN ANCIENT BABYLON
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yashaenka
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INFANT BAPTISM
Jesus baptized only adults. The apostles also,
baptized only adults. But the apostate church
decided to adopt the practice of infant baptism
from the pagans of Ancient Babylonian origin.
"The children of the ancient pagans had been ever,
by appropriate forms, soon after their birth,
solemnly presented to the gods. Infant dedication
was therefore continued, and its form of course
was now baptism. Policy demanded that Christianity
should be as much as possible, and particularly in
its ceremonials, conformed to paganism, in order that
the masses might be the more readily transferred
from one religion to the other."
- THE EVILS OF INFANT BAPTISM
By Robert Boyt C. Howell; CHAPTER 12
"We find it indelibly recorded on the pages of history,
that the practice of baptizing infants did not spread
extensively till after Christianity became the state
religion of the pagan Roman empire."
- Hinton’s History of Baptism, p. 368.
"There is a going through of certain ceremonies
NOT found in Scripture with the application of
water on the infant's head... It comes directly
from Pagan BABYLON." 
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yashaenka
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BLACK IS WHITE
AND WHITE IS BLACK
Yesterday's Heresy
Became Christendom's Accepted Faith
"The story of the Christian church between Pentecost
of 31 A.D. ad the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D.,
almost 300 years later, is an amazing story of
Compromise. It is the story of how yesterday's
orthodoxy became today's heresy and how old heresies
came to be considered orthodox Christian doctrine.
It is the story of how church tradition and the teaching
of the bishops came to supersede the Word of God
as a source of doctrine. It is a story that is stranger
then fiction, yet very much historically verifiable."
-John H. Ogwyn,
"God's Church Through The Ages."
"It is apparent to me that the Christian religion
has been corrupted from very early times, and that
these corruptions have been mistaken for essential
parts of it, and have been the cause of rendering
the whole religion incredible."
-Quoted Stannus,
Origin of Doctrine of Trinity, p. 23.
"This cultivation of pagan philosophy by Christian
teachers greatly displeased those who were attached
to the ancient simple faith, as taught by Christ
and His apostles; for they feared, what afterwards
actually happened, that the purity and excellence of
divine truth would suffer by it."
-The Translator of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History,
James Murdock, D.D., Sorry but this was just too good to pass up...  http://tradingplaces.xanga.com/667572556/item/
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Angel54214
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Sammuramat
811 - 808 BC
Queen of Assyria and the legendary wife of Nimrod
Sammuramat, or Semiramis, was the Queen of Assyria and the legendary wife of Nimrod. Of mythical proportions in her day, Sammuramat is almost forgotten in today’s history. She was famed for her beauty, and even more so for her military insight that won many battles and conquered many cities. Some believe her to have begun goddess worship, with herself as the original Ishtar, Aphrodite, Hera, etc. As legend and truth are hard to distinguish separately from that time period, what we do know about her may not even be accurate.
Legend has it that she was born in the desert and raised by doves. Although we can’t be 100% positive, it is more than likely that this and other legends, such as that she was born of the goddess Atargatis, that her army attacked and killed the sun-god Er, or that she was born because a vengeful Astarte (Ishtar, Ashtaroth, Aphrodite, Venus) caused the goddess Derceto (a mer-maid type goddess) to fall in love with a Syrian boy named Caystrus, so that Derceto abandoned the child to the doves in shame.
All of these things aside, historical fact mentions that the widow of King Shamshi-Adad V reigned for three years on the throne of Babylon. Everything else is based in Greek lore and historically unreliable, although much more interesting.
The way the Greeks have it, Semiramis was the wife of Biblical Nimrod of Assyria/ Sumeria, and was astoundingly beautiful. She always wore around her neck a silver charm in the shape of a very arrow-like dove, given to her by her first husband, and men were driven to madness by the sight of her beauty. She was discovered by shepherds after being raised by the doves, and the King’s advisor, Menos, passing through for inspections, noticed her charms and took her and married her. In some versions, they have twins, Hyapate and Hydaspe.
After Menos had one day sent for her on the battlefield, Semiramis displayed her military genius by attacking the flank of the besieged city with mountaineers, therefore winning the city for the king. King Ninus was so impressed that he first coaxed and then coerced Menos to give Semiramis to him, after which he commited suicide. With Ninus she had a son named Ninyas.
Ninus was much older and extremely jealous, and after many years under his roof, Semiramis, the apple of his eye, asked permission to rule for just one day. After Ninus agreed and Semiramis was crowned over him, she had him executed and continued to rule forcefully and intelligently for the next 42 years.
In other versions, after Sammuramat had an illegitimate son whom she named Damu (Dammuzi, Tammuz, Adonis) and was enstranged from her husband Nimrod (Ninus), she was nonetheless given permission to oversee a religious festival of a cult that she herself had started. In the ceremony, a ram was traditionally torn to pieces at the bare hands of high (read: drugged-out) priesthood, however Sammuramat slyly switched Nimrod for the ram, and he was killed instead. She then crowned her infant son and reigned as his regent for 42 years.
During her reign she is credited with both numerous military conquests and the hanging gardens of Babylon. Her life ended when her son (either Ninyas or Damu, depending on the legend) came against her and killed her, taking over the throne. The mythology of Queen Semiramis is so intertwined with that of her husband, Alexander the Great, future and previous rulers of Babylon and other great people, that it is difficult to determine how much the Greeks made up for our enjoyment. Whatever the case, it is possible to discern that Semiramis/ Sammu-ramat was an Angel of Light, described in many legends as both exceedingly beautiful and exceedingly cruel. She was deified by the ancient Chaldeans, and led them down a path increasingly dark and corrupt. The Queen of Babylon did a good imitation of the Woman of Babylon, found it Revelation 17:5 (KJV) “And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Sources:
www.earth-history.com/Babylon/bab-legend-semiramis.htm
www.Idolphin.org/semir.html
www.womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_semiramis.html
This was too good to pass up as well....
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yashaenka
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bunnybiz
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Thank you Yash and Angel.
Very interesting reading. I enjoyed it. 
".......Babylon The Great.......
'Come away from her, my people.
Do not take part in her sins,
or you will be punished with her.
For her sins are piled as high as
heaven, and God is ready to judge
her for her evil deeds.' "
(Revelation 18:1,4)(NASB)-
Every day I fight to overcome the beasts.
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Angel54214
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Semiramis - Sammu-Ramat
When: 9th century BCE
Occupation: queen, warrior
Some legends have Semiramis raised by doves in the desert, born the daughter of the goddess Atargatis. Her first husband was said to have been the governor of Nineveh, Menones or Omnes. King Ninus of Babylon became captivated by the beauty of Semiramis, and after her first husband conveniently committed suicide, he married her.
That may have been the first of his two biggest mistakes in judgment. The second came when Semiramis, now Queen of Babylon, convinced Ninus to make her "Regent for a Day." He did so - and on that day, she had him executed, and she took the throne.
Semiramis is said to have had a long string of one-night-stands with handsome soldiers. So that her power would not be threatened by a man who presumed on their relationship, she had each lover killed after a night of passion.
There's even one story that the army of Semiramis attacked and killed the sun itself (in the person of the god Er), for the crime of not returning her love. Echoing a similar myth about the goddess Ishtar, she implored the other gods to restore the sun to life.
Semiramis is also credited with a renaissance of building in Babylon and with the conquest of neighboring states, including the defeat of the Indian army at the Indus River.
When Semiramis returned from that battle, the legend has her turning over her power to her son, Ninyas, who then had her killed. She was 62 years old and had ruled alone for almost 25 years (or was it 42?).
The truth? Records show that after the reign of Shamshi-Adad V, 823-811 B.C.E., his widow served as regent from 811 - 808 B.C.E. The rest of the real history is lost, and all that remains are stories, most certainly exaggerated, from Greek historians.
The legend of Semiramis attracted not only the attention of Greek historians, but the attention of novelists, historians and other storytellers through the centuries since. Great warrior queens in history have been called the Semiramis of their times. Rossini's opera, Semiramide, premiered in 1823. In 1897, the Semiramis Hotel was opened in Egypt, built on the banks of the Nile. It remains a luxury destination today, near the Museum of Egyptology in Cairo. Many novels have featured this intriguing, shadowy queen.
Places: Assyria, Nineveh, Babylon
Period: 9th century B.C.E. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/ancientqueens/a/semiramis.htm
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