ISBN: 0-916938-17-4
TITLE: THE BABYLON CONNECTION?
SUBJECT: Babylon/Catholic connection debunked. Misinformation and an over-emphasis of a "paganism" mixture with Christianity is brought to light through meticulous research of supposed and distorted sources.
PAGES: 121
PUBLISHER: Ralph Woodrow Evangelistic Association, Inc.
BINDING: Trade Paper
LIST PRICE: $8.00
PUBLICATION DATE: 1997
The above is a text you might wish to read.
Ralph Woodrow wrote the book Babylonian Mystery religion based off of the book the two babylons by your friend Alexander Hislop. Woodrow later withdrew the book babylonian mystery religion from print and published the book I have listed above.
EXCERPT: Suppose we could go back in timeback to the days of ancient Babylon. What kind of religion would we find being practiced there?
According to Alexander Hislop, we would find people attending mass, partaking of a little round wafer, worshipping a cross, going to confession, being baptized with water for the remission of sins, burning wax candles, and bowing before a divine Mother and Child. We would notice that places of worship featured a tower. Priests, wearing a circular tonsure, dressed in black garments, would give those who died the last rites. With monks and nuns in abundance, the Babylonians would be practicing essentially all the rites that are known today in the Roman Catholic Church!
According to Hislop, it all started with Nimrod and his wife Semiramis, thus the subtitle of The Two Babylons: "The Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife." But, any information about Nimrod and Semiramis in history books is, at best, sketchy. In the Bible, Nimrod "the mighty hunter," is only mentioned four timesand his wife is never mentioned! Nevertheless, Hislop claims to know all kinds of detailed information about Nimrod and his wife . By now the reader may be asking the obvious question: Where does Hislop get all this information? The answer is clear. Based on mere similarities, he merges a variety of mythological stories together so that the hero in each becomes Nimrod.
The Bible says Nimrod was "a mighty one"; in mythology, Hercules was a mighty one or giantso Hercules must have been Nimrod! Nimrod was known as "a mighty hunter"; in mythology, Orion is called the Hunterso Orion must have been Nimrod! The building of the tower of Babel is commonly linked with Nimrod; in mythology, Kronos was the king of the Cyclops who invented tower-buildingso Kronos must have been Nimrod! .
And so, by citing similarities, and ignoring differences, Hislop supposes that all kinds of goddesses were but variations of one goddessa deified Semiramis of Babylon! But by this method, one could conclude that Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, and Aimee Semple McPherson were the same woman! .
Bearing in mind that Hislops subtitle is "The papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife," I have carefully checked the articles on "Nimrod" and "Semiramis" in many recognized reference works . NOT ONE SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT NIMROD AND SEMIRAMIS BEING HUSBAND AND WIFE! Not only is there no mention of Nimrod being married to Semiramis, the information given tends to rule this out entirely. The Encyclopedia Britannica and The Encyclopedia Americana say Semiramis or Sammu-ramat, as she was called by the Assyrians, was the wife of Shamshi-Adad V who reigned 823-811 B.C. Nimrod by all accounts, would have lived much earlier than this! Instead of Nimrod and Semiramis being husband and wife, they did not even live in the same century!
TITLE: THE BABYLON CONNECTION?
SUBJECT: Babylon/Catholic connection debunked. Misinformation and an over-emphasis of a "paganism" mixture with Christianity is brought to light through meticulous research of supposed and distorted sources.
PAGES: 121
PUBLISHER: Ralph Woodrow Evangelistic Association, Inc.
BINDING: Trade Paper
LIST PRICE: $8.00
PUBLICATION DATE: 1997
The above is a text you might wish to read.
Ralph Woodrow wrote the book Babylonian Mystery religion based off of the book the two babylons by your friend Alexander Hislop. Woodrow later withdrew the book babylonian mystery religion from print and published the book I have listed above.
EXCERPT: Suppose we could go back in timeback to the days of ancient Babylon. What kind of religion would we find being practiced there?
According to Alexander Hislop, we would find people attending mass, partaking of a little round wafer, worshipping a cross, going to confession, being baptized with water for the remission of sins, burning wax candles, and bowing before a divine Mother and Child. We would notice that places of worship featured a tower. Priests, wearing a circular tonsure, dressed in black garments, would give those who died the last rites. With monks and nuns in abundance, the Babylonians would be practicing essentially all the rites that are known today in the Roman Catholic Church!
According to Hislop, it all started with Nimrod and his wife Semiramis, thus the subtitle of The Two Babylons: "The Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife." But, any information about Nimrod and Semiramis in history books is, at best, sketchy. In the Bible, Nimrod "the mighty hunter," is only mentioned four timesand his wife is never mentioned! Nevertheless, Hislop claims to know all kinds of detailed information about Nimrod and his wife . By now the reader may be asking the obvious question: Where does Hislop get all this information? The answer is clear. Based on mere similarities, he merges a variety of mythological stories together so that the hero in each becomes Nimrod.
The Bible says Nimrod was "a mighty one"; in mythology, Hercules was a mighty one or giantso Hercules must have been Nimrod! Nimrod was known as "a mighty hunter"; in mythology, Orion is called the Hunterso Orion must have been Nimrod! The building of the tower of Babel is commonly linked with Nimrod; in mythology, Kronos was the king of the Cyclops who invented tower-buildingso Kronos must have been Nimrod! .
And so, by citing similarities, and ignoring differences, Hislop supposes that all kinds of goddesses were but variations of one goddessa deified Semiramis of Babylon! But by this method, one could conclude that Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, and Aimee Semple McPherson were the same woman! .
Bearing in mind that Hislops subtitle is "The papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife," I have carefully checked the articles on "Nimrod" and "Semiramis" in many recognized reference works . NOT ONE SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT NIMROD AND SEMIRAMIS BEING HUSBAND AND WIFE! Not only is there no mention of Nimrod being married to Semiramis, the information given tends to rule this out entirely. The Encyclopedia Britannica and The Encyclopedia Americana say Semiramis or Sammu-ramat, as she was called by the Assyrians, was the wife of Shamshi-Adad V who reigned 823-811 B.C. Nimrod by all accounts, would have lived much earlier than this! Instead of Nimrod and Semiramis being husband and wife, they did not even live in the same century!
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I never posted in the Messianic forum much before) Should we delete letters from pronouns referring, like H_m instead if Him?
