Post by iris89 on Sept 4, 2007 12:35:33 GMT -5
The Multitude of False Gods and Beliefs:
INTRODUCTION:
There exist many false gods and beliefs in the world today, but this article will only deal with a few of these false gods and only one false belief, the celebrating of the birth of the Sun god that wiggled into many religions to corrupt them.
The believers in these false gods get really hostile when the facts expose them for what they are, but honesty requires letting the 'chips-fall-where-they-may.' The same holds for the false practice of celebrating of the birth of the Sun god, called by some Christmas.
We will first consider the false god, Chauta, of the Chewa Religion whose name some of their adherents even wrongly put into the Chickewa Bible in place of the personal name of Almighty God (YHWH).
THE FALSE GOD CHAUTA:
It is believed by members of the false religion, Chewa Religion, that men, women, animals and all living things were created by God (Chiuta, Chauta) at Kapirintiwa, a mountain on the boundary between central Malawi and western Mozambique, during a thunderstorm. As a result of the storm, the rains softened the hard surface, but as it hardened again, their footprints remained engraved in the actual rock.
And while Chauta remains the creator god, the spirits of men and the wild animals converge in everyday life through the great dance (gule wamkulu), where masked forms represent wild animals, human beings, and spirits of the dead. In that sense, the living and the dead are in constant communication through dances, that take place at initiation, funerals, and funeral remembrances.[reference - philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/sub/chewa.html (active on 9/2/2007)].
Even, A translation, the Chickewa Bible - 'Buku Loyera' - used in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, renders the Tetragrammation (YHWH) - the name of the true God (YHWH) of Abraham's as "Chauta," the name of a tribal god meaning 'Great One of the Bow.' But the wicked translators of this version claim to be worshipping true God (YHWH) of Abraham when they are not. Their justification for using "chauta" is the fact that most local people use this term to mean god, but in fact this is wrong as there is actually another term for god strictly as a title. Also, they could have and should have used the Tetragrammation (YHWH) - the name of the true God (YHWH) of Abraham.
THE VARIOUS FALSE SUN GODS:
Here are some details on some of these false sun gods inspired by Satan the Devil and the demons to hide the true God, Almighty God (YHWH) from the minds of the people as given by an encyclopedia, <<<" A solar deity (also heliolatry or sun worship), is a god or goddess who represents the sun, or an aspect of it. People have worshipped these for all of recorded history. Hence, many beliefs have formed around this worship, such as the "missing sun" found in many cultures (below). Sun worship is a possible origin of henotheism and ultimately monotheism.
A solar barge (also solar bark, solar barque, solar boat, sun boat) is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a boat. The "Khufu ship", a 43.6 m long vessel sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2,500 BC, is a full-size surviving example which may have fulfilled the symbolic function of a solar barque.
Examples include:
* Neolithic petroglyphs have been interpreted as showing solar barges
* The Egyptian god Ra, and later Horus, rides in a solar barge. In the Egyptian myths of the afterlife, Ra rides in an underground channel from west to east every night so that he can rise there the next morning.
The Nebra sky disk has been speculated to feature a depiction of a solar barge [2]
A sun chariot is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a chariot. The concept is younger than that of the solar barge, and typically Indo-European, corresponding with the Indo-European expansion after the invention of the chariot in the 2nd millennium BC.
Examples include:
* Trundholm sun chariot
* Germanic Sol rides in a chariot, drawn by Arvak and Alsvid
* Greek Helios rides in a chariot,[1] see also Phaëton[2]
* Sol Invictus depicted riding a quadriga on the reverse of a Roman coin.[3]
* The Biblical Elijah ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire[4]
* Vedic Surya rides in a chariot, drawn by seven horses
The sun itself was also compared to a wheel, possibly in Proto-Indo-European, Greek heliou kuklos, Sanskrit suryasya cakram, Anglo-Saxon sunnan hweogul (PIE *swelyosyo kukwelos).
Male and female
Although solar deities are generally male enemies of the lunar deity (usually female) sun goddesses are found on every continent. However, some mythologists, such as Brian Branston, therefore contend that sun goddesses are more common worldwide than their male counterparts. They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies (such as those of ancient Greece and Egypt) rarely break from this rule. The dualism of sun/male/light and moon/female/darkness is found in many (but not all) European traditions that derive from Orphic and Gnostic philosophies, with a notable exception being Germanic mythology, where the Sun is female and the Moon is male. [source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
But the false worship of the sun god that should interest most people today is the Roman religion of Sol Invictus because remnants of it are found in many president day religions such as apostate (counterfeit) Christians, Religion Bahia of Brazil, Baha'i, voodoo religion, etc. Now we shall look at that, <<<" The Roman Empire began their official recognition of sun worship during the time of Aurelian when he instituted the cult of "Sol Invictus". There is virtually no difference between the cult of Sol Invictus and that of Mithraism or for that matter catholicism.
In the year 307 A.D. Emperor Diocletian, a Sun Worshipper, was involved in the dedication of a temple to Mithra, and was responsible for the burning of Holy Scripture (which made it possible for later emperors to formulate Christianity, and thus began the Roman version of the "Universal Christo-pagan Mystery Religion.") After the rein of Diocletian, the Roman Emperor Constantine, who was an early Christo-pagan (Christian) maintained the title "Pontifus Maximus" the high priest of paganism, and remained a worshipper of Apollo. His coins were inscribed: "SOL INVICTO COMITI", which is interpreted as "Committed to the Invincible Sun". During his reign pagan Sun worship was blended with the worship of the True Creator (syncretism), and officially titled "Christianity" by the (less than holy) Roman Empire and its' official church the (less than holy) catholic (universal) church." [source - The Cult of Sol Invictus,
by Dan J. Love, Minister, SCY, www.sabbatarian.com/Paganism/SolInvictus.html (on 9/2/2007)]
Now all the various sun gods and other celestial god(s) and their daughter goddesses such as Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat of one celestial moon god most popular in the middle east; the two son gods of a south American celestial moon god, etc. like all other so called celestial god(s) and their off springs are all mythical and have no physical existence.[references - "Islam", by Professor Guillaume, p. 7; Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend; The Religion of the Semites. The Fundamental Institutions (London, 1902), by William Robertson Smith; Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics].
WHAT SOME WOULD FALSELY LABEL BLASPHEMY - THE TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTMAS:
As one writer, S. Mortensen, put it, <<<"It is plain that the extravagant follies, the Christmas candles, the Christmas boar, the Christmas goose, the Christmas decoration of the churches, gluttony and drunkenness, yes, even the date of the festival, the twenty-fifth of December, are not only of Roman Catholic, but also of a decidedly pagan origin. Is it not reasonable to demand that Protestants should protest against superstitions which have no foundation in the Bible? The Lord certainly demands it. "Well, they may be right," I hear some one say, "but you are too extreme; many good Christians before our time celebrated Christmas, and even the Reformers did so." But that is no reason why we should continue the practice. Those who began the Reformation could not in such a short time break away from all these traditions. The Lord demands more of us than of them, because we have come into existence in the age of wonderful research and discovery, when knowledge should increase (Dan. 12:4), and the Bible has been in our mother tongue several centuries. In the light of this situation, we would certainly deserve severe criticism for our ignorance if we should continue to honour old traditions or relic worship.[source - Origin and Character of Christmas--No Foundation in the Bible,
By S. Mortensen, (on 9/02/2007 - www.nisbett.com/holidays/christmas.htm)]>>>.
And the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge says, <<<"How much the date of the festival depended upon the pagan Brumalia [The December 25 celebration], following the Saturnalia [an eight-day December 17-24 festival preceding it], and celebrating the shortest day of the year and the 'new sun' . . . cannot be accurately determined. The pagan Saturnalia and Brumalia were too deeply entrenched in popular custom to be set aside by Christian influence . . . The pagan festival with its riot and merrymaking was so popular that Christians were glad of an excuse to continue its celebration with little change in spirit and in manner. Christian preachers of the West and the Near East protested against the unseemly frivolity with which Christ's birthday was celebrated, while Christians of Mesopotamia accused their Western brethren of idolatry and sun worship for adopting as Christian this pagan festival." [source -- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, art: "Christmas."]
So as can be seen, Christmas is just a pagan holiday celebration masquerading as the birth of Jesus (Yeshua) Christ which it definitely is not - are you surprised? If so, go do research on this or anything else in this article and see for yourself that I have let the true facts 'fall where they may.'
Your Friend in Christ Iris89
INTRODUCTION:
There exist many false gods and beliefs in the world today, but this article will only deal with a few of these false gods and only one false belief, the celebrating of the birth of the Sun god that wiggled into many religions to corrupt them.
The believers in these false gods get really hostile when the facts expose them for what they are, but honesty requires letting the 'chips-fall-where-they-may.' The same holds for the false practice of celebrating of the birth of the Sun god, called by some Christmas.
We will first consider the false god, Chauta, of the Chewa Religion whose name some of their adherents even wrongly put into the Chickewa Bible in place of the personal name of Almighty God (YHWH).
THE FALSE GOD CHAUTA:
It is believed by members of the false religion, Chewa Religion, that men, women, animals and all living things were created by God (Chiuta, Chauta) at Kapirintiwa, a mountain on the boundary between central Malawi and western Mozambique, during a thunderstorm. As a result of the storm, the rains softened the hard surface, but as it hardened again, their footprints remained engraved in the actual rock.
And while Chauta remains the creator god, the spirits of men and the wild animals converge in everyday life through the great dance (gule wamkulu), where masked forms represent wild animals, human beings, and spirits of the dead. In that sense, the living and the dead are in constant communication through dances, that take place at initiation, funerals, and funeral remembrances.[reference - philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/sub/chewa.html (active on 9/2/2007)].
Even, A translation, the Chickewa Bible - 'Buku Loyera' - used in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, renders the Tetragrammation (YHWH) - the name of the true God (YHWH) of Abraham's as "Chauta," the name of a tribal god meaning 'Great One of the Bow.' But the wicked translators of this version claim to be worshipping true God (YHWH) of Abraham when they are not. Their justification for using "chauta" is the fact that most local people use this term to mean god, but in fact this is wrong as there is actually another term for god strictly as a title. Also, they could have and should have used the Tetragrammation (YHWH) - the name of the true God (YHWH) of Abraham.
THE VARIOUS FALSE SUN GODS:
Here are some details on some of these false sun gods inspired by Satan the Devil and the demons to hide the true God, Almighty God (YHWH) from the minds of the people as given by an encyclopedia, <<<" A solar deity (also heliolatry or sun worship), is a god or goddess who represents the sun, or an aspect of it. People have worshipped these for all of recorded history. Hence, many beliefs have formed around this worship, such as the "missing sun" found in many cultures (below). Sun worship is a possible origin of henotheism and ultimately monotheism.
A solar barge (also solar bark, solar barque, solar boat, sun boat) is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a boat. The "Khufu ship", a 43.6 m long vessel sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2,500 BC, is a full-size surviving example which may have fulfilled the symbolic function of a solar barque.
Examples include:
* Neolithic petroglyphs have been interpreted as showing solar barges
* The Egyptian god Ra, and later Horus, rides in a solar barge. In the Egyptian myths of the afterlife, Ra rides in an underground channel from west to east every night so that he can rise there the next morning.
The Nebra sky disk has been speculated to feature a depiction of a solar barge [2]
A sun chariot is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a chariot. The concept is younger than that of the solar barge, and typically Indo-European, corresponding with the Indo-European expansion after the invention of the chariot in the 2nd millennium BC.
Examples include:
* Trundholm sun chariot
* Germanic Sol rides in a chariot, drawn by Arvak and Alsvid
* Greek Helios rides in a chariot,[1] see also Phaëton[2]
* Sol Invictus depicted riding a quadriga on the reverse of a Roman coin.[3]
* The Biblical Elijah ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire[4]
* Vedic Surya rides in a chariot, drawn by seven horses
The sun itself was also compared to a wheel, possibly in Proto-Indo-European, Greek heliou kuklos, Sanskrit suryasya cakram, Anglo-Saxon sunnan hweogul (PIE *swelyosyo kukwelos).
Male and female
Although solar deities are generally male enemies of the lunar deity (usually female) sun goddesses are found on every continent. However, some mythologists, such as Brian Branston, therefore contend that sun goddesses are more common worldwide than their male counterparts. They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies (such as those of ancient Greece and Egypt) rarely break from this rule. The dualism of sun/male/light and moon/female/darkness is found in many (but not all) European traditions that derive from Orphic and Gnostic philosophies, with a notable exception being Germanic mythology, where the Sun is female and the Moon is male. [source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
But the false worship of the sun god that should interest most people today is the Roman religion of Sol Invictus because remnants of it are found in many president day religions such as apostate (counterfeit) Christians, Religion Bahia of Brazil, Baha'i, voodoo religion, etc. Now we shall look at that, <<<" The Roman Empire began their official recognition of sun worship during the time of Aurelian when he instituted the cult of "Sol Invictus". There is virtually no difference between the cult of Sol Invictus and that of Mithraism or for that matter catholicism.
In the year 307 A.D. Emperor Diocletian, a Sun Worshipper, was involved in the dedication of a temple to Mithra, and was responsible for the burning of Holy Scripture (which made it possible for later emperors to formulate Christianity, and thus began the Roman version of the "Universal Christo-pagan Mystery Religion.") After the rein of Diocletian, the Roman Emperor Constantine, who was an early Christo-pagan (Christian) maintained the title "Pontifus Maximus" the high priest of paganism, and remained a worshipper of Apollo. His coins were inscribed: "SOL INVICTO COMITI", which is interpreted as "Committed to the Invincible Sun". During his reign pagan Sun worship was blended with the worship of the True Creator (syncretism), and officially titled "Christianity" by the (less than holy) Roman Empire and its' official church the (less than holy) catholic (universal) church." [source - The Cult of Sol Invictus,
by Dan J. Love, Minister, SCY, www.sabbatarian.com/Paganism/SolInvictus.html (on 9/2/2007)]
Now all the various sun gods and other celestial god(s) and their daughter goddesses such as Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat of one celestial moon god most popular in the middle east; the two son gods of a south American celestial moon god, etc. like all other so called celestial god(s) and their off springs are all mythical and have no physical existence.[references - "Islam", by Professor Guillaume, p. 7; Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend; The Religion of the Semites. The Fundamental Institutions (London, 1902), by William Robertson Smith; Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics].
WHAT SOME WOULD FALSELY LABEL BLASPHEMY - THE TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTMAS:
As one writer, S. Mortensen, put it, <<<"It is plain that the extravagant follies, the Christmas candles, the Christmas boar, the Christmas goose, the Christmas decoration of the churches, gluttony and drunkenness, yes, even the date of the festival, the twenty-fifth of December, are not only of Roman Catholic, but also of a decidedly pagan origin. Is it not reasonable to demand that Protestants should protest against superstitions which have no foundation in the Bible? The Lord certainly demands it. "Well, they may be right," I hear some one say, "but you are too extreme; many good Christians before our time celebrated Christmas, and even the Reformers did so." But that is no reason why we should continue the practice. Those who began the Reformation could not in such a short time break away from all these traditions. The Lord demands more of us than of them, because we have come into existence in the age of wonderful research and discovery, when knowledge should increase (Dan. 12:4), and the Bible has been in our mother tongue several centuries. In the light of this situation, we would certainly deserve severe criticism for our ignorance if we should continue to honour old traditions or relic worship.[source - Origin and Character of Christmas--No Foundation in the Bible,
By S. Mortensen, (on 9/02/2007 - www.nisbett.com/holidays/christmas.htm)]>>>.
And the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge says, <<<"How much the date of the festival depended upon the pagan Brumalia [The December 25 celebration], following the Saturnalia [an eight-day December 17-24 festival preceding it], and celebrating the shortest day of the year and the 'new sun' . . . cannot be accurately determined. The pagan Saturnalia and Brumalia were too deeply entrenched in popular custom to be set aside by Christian influence . . . The pagan festival with its riot and merrymaking was so popular that Christians were glad of an excuse to continue its celebration with little change in spirit and in manner. Christian preachers of the West and the Near East protested against the unseemly frivolity with which Christ's birthday was celebrated, while Christians of Mesopotamia accused their Western brethren of idolatry and sun worship for adopting as Christian this pagan festival." [source -- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, art: "Christmas."]
So as can be seen, Christmas is just a pagan holiday celebration masquerading as the birth of Jesus (Yeshua) Christ which it definitely is not - are you surprised? If so, go do research on this or anything else in this article and see for yourself that I have let the true facts 'fall where they may.'
Your Friend in Christ Iris89