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Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife
By the Late Rev. Alexander Hislop
First published as a pamphlet in 1853— expanded in 1858
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Why do you also transgress the commandment of Yahweh by your tradition? (Mattithyah [Matthew] 15:3)
You made the commandment of Yahweh of none effect by your tradition. (Verse 6)
For laying aside the commandment of Yahweh, you hold the tradition of men. (Yahchanan Mark [Mark] 7:8)
Full well you reject the commandment of Yahweh, that you may keep your own tradition. (7:9)
Making the Word of Yahweh of none effect through your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such like things do you. (7:13)
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Messiah. (Colossiains 2:8)
People seem to think that the origin of Thanksgiving is so pure and holy that everyone can now observe this day with a clear conscience -- thinking that this is pleasing to YEHOVAH God. The TRUTH is rather different...
John D. Keyser
Dr. Ray Dykes and the Personal Faith Program
Christendom's Wide Road
of Worldly Compromise
"The man...COMPROMISES with worldlings,
and to quiet his own conscience,
he invents a theory by which such compromises
are justified, even commended.
He receives the praises of the judicious,
but he has, in truth, gone over to the enemy."
-(C-H,Spurgeon, 1888, Sword and the Trowel)
"No lover of the Gospel can conceal from himself
the fact that the days are evil. A new religion has
been initiated, which is no more Christianity than
chalk is cheese, and this religion, being destitute
of moral honesty, palms itself off as the old faith
with slight improvements..."
-C.H.S., Quoted by Russell H. Conwell, 1892
in "Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
the World's great Preacher"
"We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons.
Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical
arrangement called Christmas. We find no Scriptural
warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday
of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a
superstition, because it is not of divine authority."
-(Charles Spurgeon, Sermon on Dec. 24, 1871). 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.,
PRIME EXAMPLES
OF CHRISTENDOM'S COMPROMISE
WITH PAGANISM
"The forms and ceremonies of paganism
gradually crept into the worship.
Some of the old heathen feasts became
church festivals with change of name.... "
- (Story of the Christian Church, p.79)
by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
"Subtly...the old gods had entered their churches...
And they live still in the festivals of Christianity."
--(Testament: The Bible and History, Romer,
1988, pp. 230-31).
"It is interesting that the holiest day
of the liturgical Christian year,
Easter Sunday, bears the name of
the pagan sex goddess Eastre
and the pagan sun god Solis."
-Panati, Charles.
Sacred Origins of Profound Things.
New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1996.
"It was in the fifth century
that the Roman Catholic Church
commanded that the birth of Christ
be observed forever on December 25th,
the day of the old Pagan Roman feast
of the birth of Sol, one of the names
of their pagan sun-god ! "
- Encyclopedia Americana, Vol.6, p.623
"THE BIRTHDAY OF Nimrod,
the son of the Babylonian Queen,
was adopted by the Roman Church,
giving it the name of Christ.
This tendency on the part of the apostate
Church of Rome, to compromise and meet
paganism half-way was very early developed."
-The Two Babylons; pg. 93
Alexander Hislop
"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
by Victor Paul Wierwille
"the doctrine of the Trinity...is contrary to
all common sense. It is contrary to Scripture.
Its origin is totally Pagan..."
-J.N. Loughborough, Review and Herald,
XVIII, November 5, 1861, p. 184
"The Papacy has in some of its churches,
an image of the Triune God, with three heads
on one body. The Babylonians had something
of the same. So utterly idolatrous was the Babylonian
recognition of the Triune Divine unity, that [Yahweh],
the Living God, severely condemned his own people
for giving any countenance to it."
-Alexander Hislop
The Two Babylons (pp. 16-19).
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