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MOD warning: Post by TheVisitor has some questionable information,the rest is fiction.
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Egypt received her science and mathematics from the Chaldeans and in turn Greece received them from Egypt.
Since the priests were in charge of teaching these sciences, and since these sciences were used as a part of religion, we already know the key as to how the Babylonish religion gained its strength in these two countries.
It is also true that whenever a nation was able to overcome another nation, in due time the religion of the subduer became the religion of the subdued.
It is well known that the Greeks had the very same signs of the Zodiac as did the Babylonians; and it has been found in the ancient Egyptian records that the Egyptians gave the Greeks their knowledge of polytheism.
Thus the mysteries of Babylon spread from nation to nation until it appeared in Rome, in China, India and even in both North and South America we find the very same basic worship.
The ancient histories agree with the Bible that this Babylonish religion was most certainly not the original religion of earth's early peoples.
It was the first to drift away from the original faith; but it was not itself the original one.
Historians such as Wilkinson and Mallett have proven conclusively from the ancient documents that at one time all the peoples of the earth believed in ONE GOD, supreme, eternal, invisible, Who by the Word of His mouth spoke all things into existence, and that in His character He was loving and good and just.
But as Satan will always corrupt whatever he can, we find him corrupting the minds and hearts of men so that they reject the truth. As he has always attempted to receive worship as though he were God and not the servant and creation of God, he drew worship away from God to the end that he might draw it unto himself and so be exalted.
He certainly did accomplish his desire to spread his religion throughout the whole world. This is authenticated by God in the Book of Romans, "When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, until they became vain in their imaginations, and through darkness of heart accepted a corrupted religion to the extent that they worshipped creatures and not the Creator." Remember, Satan was a creature of God (Son of the Morning).
Thus we find that where once truth was disseminated amongst men, and all held to that one truth, there later came a day when a vast group turned from God and spread a diabolical form of worship around the world.
History bears it out that those of the tribe of Shem that stood with the unchanging truth were in solid opposition to those of Ham who turned away from truth to the devil's lie.
Monotheism turned to polytheism in Babylon.
Is it not strange that while the descendants of Ham went on their way in Satanic worship which involved a basic concept of three gods that there is not one trace of the descendants of Shem believing such a thing or having any ceremonial worship that involved even a type of it?
It is not strange that the Hebrews believed, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is ONE God", if there were three persons in the Godhead? Abraham, the descendant of Shem, in Genesis 18 saw only ONE God with two angels.
Now how was this trinity expressed? It was expressed by an equilateral triangle even as it is expressed in Rome today.
Strange, the Hebrews did not have such a concept.
Now who is right? Is it the Hebrews or the Babylonians?
In Asia the polytheistic idea of three gods in one came out in an image with three heads on one body. He is expressed as three intelligences.
In India, they found it in their hearts to express him as one god in three forms. Now that really is good modern day theology.
In Japan there is a great Buddha with three heads like the one we previously described.
The doctrine of the trinity has destroyed the multitudes and will destroy until Jesus comes.
According to history it did not take long for a change to be made in this concept of a Father and a Son and the Holy Ghost.
Satan took them a step at a time away from the truth.
The evolved concept of Deity was now: 1. The eternal father, 2. The Spirit of God incarnate in a HUMAN mother. (Does that make you think?) 3. A Divine Son, the fruit of that incarnation, (Woman's seed).
But the devil is not content. He hasn't achieved worship of himself yet, except in an indirect way. So he takes the people away from the truth still further.
Since it was not necessary to worship the creator-father, it was only natural that worship swung to the "Mother and Child" as the objects of adoration.
In Egypt there was the same combination of mother and son called Isis and Osiris.
In India it was Isi and Iswara. (Note the similarity of names even.)
In Asia it was Cybele and Deoius.
In Rome and in Greece it followed suit.
And in China.
Well, imagine the surprise of some Roman Catholic missionaries as they entered China and found there a Madonna and Child with rays of light emanating from the head of the babe.
The image could well have been exchanged for one in the Vatican except for the difference of certain facial features.
The original goddess-mother of Babylon was Semiramis who was called Rhea in the eastern countries.
In her arms she held a son, who though a babe, was described as tall, strong, handsome and especially captivating to the women.
In Ezekiel 8:14 he was called Tammuz.
Amongst classical writers he was called Bacchus.
To the Babylonians he was Ninus.
What accounts for the fact that he is represented as a babe in arms and yet described as a great and mighty man is that he is known as the "Husband-Son".
One of his titles was "Husband of the Mother", and in India where the two are known as Iswara and Isi, he (the husband) is represented as the babe at the breast of his own wife.
That this Ninus is the Nimrod of the Bible we can affirm by comparing history with the Genesis account.
Pompeius said, "Ninus, king of Assyria, changed the ancient moderate ways of life by the desire for conquest.
HE WAS THE FIRST WHO CARRIED WAR AGAINST HIS NEIGHBORS.
He conquered all nations from Assyria to Lybia as these men knew not the arts of war."
Diodorus says, "Ninus was the most ancient of Assyrian kings mentioned in history.
Being of warlike disposition he trained many young men rigorously in the arts of war.
He brought Babylonia under him while yet there was no city of Babylon."
Thus we see this Ninus started to become great in Babylon, built Babel and took over Assyria, becoming its king, and then proceeded to devour other vast territories where the people were unskilled in war and lived in a moderate way as said Pompeius.
Now in Genesis 10, speaking of the kingdom of Nimrod it says, "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Asshur and builded Nineveh, and Calah etc."
But the translators made a mistake in translating Asshur as a noun for it is a verb, and in the Chaldee means 'to make strong.'
Thus it is Nimrod, who having been made strong (he established his kingdom by building the world's first army which he trained by drilling and through the rigors of hunting) went beyond Shinar with his strong army and subdued nations and built such cities as Nineveh, which was named after him, for even today a chief part of the ruins of that city is called Nimroud!
Since we have discovered who Ninus was, it is now necessary to discover who his father was.
According to history it was Bel, the founder of Babylon. (Now it is to be noted here that Bel founded it in the sense that he started this whole move, but it was the son, Ninus, that established it and was the first king etc.)
But according to the Scripture, the father of Nimrod was Cush: "And Cush begat Nimrod." Not only is this so but we find that Ham begat Cush.
Now, in the Egyptian culture Bel was called Hermes, and Hermes means, "THE SON OF HAM".
According to history Hermes was the great prophet of idolatry.
He was the interpreter of the gods. Another name by which he was called was Mercury. (Read Acts 14:11-12)
Hyginus says this about that god who was known variously as Bel, Hermes, Mercury etc, "For many ages men lived under the government of Jove (not the Roman Jove, but Jehovah of the Hebrews who predates Roman history) without cities and without laws, and all speaking one language.
But after that Mercury (Bel, Cush) interpreted the speeches of men (whence an interpreter is called Hermeneutes) the same individual distributed the nations.
Then discord began." It is seen from this that Bel or Cush, the father of Nimrod, originally was the ring leader that led the people away from the true God and encouraged the people as the "interpreter of the gods" to take another form of religion.
He encouraged them to go ahead with the tower which his son actually built. This encouragement is what brought the confusion and the division of men, so that he was both, "interpreter and confuser".
Cush, then, was the father of the polytheistic system and when men were deified by men, he of course, became the father of the gods.
Now Cush was called Bel. And Bel in Roman mythology was Janus.
He is pictured as having two faces and he carried a club by which he confounded and "scattered" the people.
Ovid writes that Janus said concerning himself, "the ancients called me Chaos".
Thus we find that the Cush of the Bible, the original rebel against monotheism was called Bel, Belus, Hermes, Janus, etc. amongst the ancient peoples.
He purported to bring revelations and interpretations from the gods to the people.
In so doing he caused the wrath of God to scatter the people, bringing division and confusion.
Now up to this point we have seen whence polytheism or the worship of many gods came.
But did you notice that we also found a mention of a man named Cush who was given a title of "the father of the gods."?
Did you notice here the old theme of ancient mythologies, that gods identify themselves with men?
That is where ancestor worship comes from.
So we might just examine history to find out about ancestor worship.
Well, it was brought out that Cush introduced a three god worship of father, son and spirit.
Three gods who were all equal.
But he knew about the seed of the woman coming, so there would have to be a woman and her seed come into the picture.
This was brought to pass when Nimrod died. His wife, Semiramis deified him, and thus made herself the mother of the son and also the mother of the gods. (Just exactly as the Roman church has deified Mary.
They claim she was without sin and was the Mother of God.)
She (Semiramis) called Nimrod "Zeroashta" which means, "the woman's promised seed".
But it wasn't too long until the woman began to attract more attention than the son, and soon she was the one who was depicted as trampling underfoot the serpent.
They called her "the queen of the heaven" and made her divine.
How like today wherein Mary, the mother of Jesus, had been elevated to immortality.
"Mary the Mediatrix," "Mary the Mother of All Believers," or "Mother of the Church."
If there was ever Babylonish ancestor worship in a religion, it is the religion of the Church of Rome.
Not only was ancestor worship originated in Babylon but so also was the worship of nature.
It was in Babylon the gods were identified with the sun and moon, etc.
The chief object in nature was the sun which has light giving and heat giving properties and appears to man as a ball of fire in the heavens.
Thus the chief god would be the sun god whom they called Baal.
Often the sun was depicted as a circle of flame and soon around that flame there appeared a serpent. It wasn't long until the serpent became a symbol of the sun and consequently worshipped. Thus the desire of Satan's heart became full-fledged. He was worshipped as God. His throne was established. His slaves bowed to him. There in Pergamos in the form of a living serpent he was worshipped.
Now look at the symbol for Sci-Forums at the top of the page.
What do you see?
