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Interests: Ancient Babylon was the center of false religion. - All pagan beliefs, holidays and doctrines were started there. Many of these ancient beliefs were spread around the world. - In time - even the pure faith that Christ taught - became corrupted by these teachings. ----- "When the early church departed from God and imbibed pagan errors, - she became Babylon.."-- Source - the International Sabbath School Quarterly, -- Feb. 29, 1896 Expertise: "Just as the fall of literal Babylon led to its eventual overthrow and obliteration as a nation, so the fall of its spiritual successor will lead to its destruction. The tragic end of false Christianity - along with all other false religions, - testifies to God's requirement of purity of faith...."- Source - Our Firm Foundation, - April 1987; - "BABYLON IS FALLEN", p. 21.
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| The World is in Denial "Denial" Have we become numb ? or do we prefer ignorance ? 
The world is falling apart with violent attacks, suicide bombs, and senseless murders. And yet mankind insists that nothing in the world has changed.
Have we humans become so numb that we cannot see that the world has taken a fatal turn for the worse.? We are spiraling downward in our dealings with each other.
Even the weather is exuding death-dealing blows to mankind.
Like the proverbial "monkey" who refuses to see or hear the evil that surrounds him - have we also refused to see and hear and get the sense of what is happening to mankind ?
 The World is in Denial
 Much like an alcoholic that denies he has a drinking problem - The world denies that it has unprecedented troubles.

Adaptable Denial
 Humans are adaptable to the plight we see today we do adjust - and deny so much of the world and its decay Many think the coverage of modern News they give Is very terse - and looks much worse - than the world in which we live They say that nothing's changing we have always had distress but those who are much older can recall and will confess That the world-wide situation is far different from past times there's a great increase in problems yes, a great increase in crimes It's not just isolated to a place just now and then It's not just petty larceny but a slew of murders sent Out in all directions each hour of the day the crazy senseless homocides as if children just at play The burning of our churches the bombing of the mosques beheadings and dismemberings the loss of Life it costs People stabbing people over trivial minor stuff people shoot their children there seems to be no love Arsonists starting fires that blaze and burn away miles of homes and nature nothing left for them to stay The violence has no limits they rape and sodomize pour acid on each other gouging out their crying eyes The Riots and the Protests as they rampage thru the streets smashing cars and store front windows while attacking the police
Shootings for no reason even in the malls The schools are plagued with killers no safety in their halls Parking Lots offer muggings where kidnap is a game for pedophile predators the whole world's gone insane The anger of our drivers who will shoot to kill in rage if you dare to pass their car up just a feature of our age School teachers and the clergy having sex with any child the pornography of violent acts decent values have gone wild Children beating strangers the beggars on the street killing them with hammers kicking them with their feet Mothers butcher children cutting off their arms throwing them off bridges doing them great harm Pregnant women torn apart disembowled with a knife by crazy cold and hateful ones discarding human life No one is safe anymore no matter where you live people shot while getting mail or opening their trash lid Little girls buried alive after they've been raped A mother strangled with her son then thrown into a Lake Savage men who thirst for blood eating human flesh Looking for another meal a child - small and fresh To barbeque and cut apart and stored in plastic bin Like butchered meat from Deli trays the modern latest sin The ravages of nature a plague that rules each day Tsunami torment nightmares The violent winds at play Disaster upon disaster eruptions and earthquakes Volcanic smoke and ashes flooding rivers and the lakes Rivers bursting Levees Mudslides wash away obstructing even highways tearing trees along the way Tornados wreaking havoc even bricks give way to wind homes are burst to splinters destroying everything within Trucks are blown off highways by the violent breath of storms hail the size of softballs during weather that is warm Children killed by lightening as they bowed before a cross many fried before our eyes we contemplate the loss Hurricanes and Cyclones torment the world today no place is safe from the evil face of Nature's Violent way I think you get the picture for I could go on with more as troubled times begin to mount for we know what is in store For Christ said that distress would mark the days of his return he gave us ample warning in hopes that we would learn To stay awake - and be prepared for that's what Jesus said pay attention to the world's events so you will know ahead That its time to Look for him and that's what we should do For Christ warned all to be prepared yes, everyone of you It's for this very reason that I attempt to consolidate all the clues, I find in the news before it is too late No thief can overtake you If you know that he is near you'll keep awake, and will be safe and there will be no fear The fact that Christ foretold this left nothing to dismay we'll be prepared with all he shared for his final glorious day. 
"As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They'll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they're animals." (2Timothy 3:2-5)(MSG)-BibleGateway
 "You can be certain that in the last days there will be some very hard times. People will love only themselves and money. They will be proud, stuck-up, rude, and disobedient to their parents. They will also be ungrateful, godless, heartless, and hateful. Their words will be cruel, and they will have no self-control or pity. These people will hate everything that is good. They will be sneaky, reckless, and puffed up with pride. Instead of loving God, they will love pleasure. Even though they will make a show of being religious, their religion won't be real. (2Timothy 3:1-5)(CEV)-BibleGateway

"Oblivious" to Extreme Weather Changes
 UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Extreme weather has plagued the globe this year, a U.N. agency says, causing some of the highest temperatures on record. The agency found that climate warming was unequivocal and unequaled in all recorded history. On the other hand - An unusual cold southern winter brought wind, blizzards and rare snowfall to various parts of South America, with temperatures reaching as low as 7 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Southeastern Europe did not escape the unusual weather. The area suffered record-breaking heat in June and July. In May, swell waves up to 15 feet high swept into 68 islands in the Maldives, causing severe flooding and damage. Also in May, a heat wave swept across Russia. In Sudan, floods caused 23,000 mud brick homes to collapse. The rainfall was abnormally heavy and early for this time of the year. England and Wales have experienced flooding in the May-to-July period and rainfall has broken all records since record-keeping started in 1766. Four monsoon depressions, double the normal number, caused heavy flooding in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Global surface temperatures have broken records this year." -Planet in Peril A CNN WORLDWIDE INVESTIGATION CNN BREAKING NEWS; Extreme Weather Reported 8:51 p.m. EDT, Tue August 7, 2007
"(CBS) The tsunami in Asia. This season’s Gulf Coast hurricanes. The earthquake in Pakistan. The Guatemala mudslides. The flooding in the northeastern section of the United States. There’ve been so many devastating natural disasters of late, it has some people wondering if God is angry at humankind." -CBS NEWS Is God Mad At Us? Oct. 14, 2005
"Last summer, parts of Europe experienced the worst floods in centuries, while Western Canada struggled through the most devastating drought in its recorded history. weather-related disasters have skyrocketed." -The Science and The Environment Bulletin Natural Disasters on The Rise March/April 2003
WASHINGTON AP 2008- Another week, another rumbling train of tornadoes that obliterates entire city blocks, smashing homes to their foundations and killing people even as they cower in their basements." - US on track to break record for tornadoes By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer "With the year not even half done, 2008 is already the deadliest tornado year in the United States...and seems on track to break the U.S. record for the number of twisters in a year, according to the National Weather Service. Also, this year's storms seem to be unusually powerful." - WASHINGTON DC - 2008 US on track to break record for tornadoes By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer "The twister that devastated Parkersburg was a 5 — but Global warming cannot really explain what is happening, Greg Carbin said. The strongest of those storms — those in the 136-to-200 mph range — have been more prevalent than normal, and lately they seem to be hitting populated areas more, he said. - WASHINGTON DC - 2008 US on track to break record for tornadoes By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer ABC News - May 12, 2008 -- "As communities rebuild after deadly tornadoes bulldozed their way from Oklahoma to Georgia and North Carolina over the weekend, experts say that this tornado season is bigger and deadlier than last year's, with little relief in sight. Seventy-seven tornadoes tore through the country in the past few days, according to preliminary reports at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Storm Prediction Center. In Georgia, more than 180,000 people were left without power, while 15 fatalities were reported in Missouri. This year's count is already twice the number of tornadoes logged during last year's U.S. tornado season, which generally runs from mid-spring to early summer. "So far, in terms of the number of tornadoes, this is one of the most active years to date," said Harold Bloom, a meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla." "Experts Say: Twisters are Getting Larger, and Deadlier. No End in Sight for Tornado-Ravaged Nation By ASHLEY PHILLIPS - ABC NEWS - Technology & Science; May 12,2008 "Violent Windstorms...even outside of hurricane season....tornadoes....heavy winds spread destructive fires, burning homes. All right, so what's up with the crazy weather? I think everybody is wondering, it's hot, it's cold, I don't know what to do. Is this a sign of things to come?" -CNN.com OPEN HOUSE - Transcript Aired January 21, 2006 - 09:30 ET "The devastation in recent years from hurricanes covers many states. The recent intensity of violent weather has been so great that federal, state, and local governments have been totally intimidated." -Goodness Gracious! Is God Mad at Us Again? By John T Jones, Ph.D.
"No matter where you live, your area has undoubtedly been experiencing weather that is severe and devastating....What on Earth is going on?" -Today's Extreme Weather About.com - A part of The New York Times Company. "Some force, or a combination of forces, is causing our terribly unusual, unprecedented, weather. Most professional weathermen shake their heads at this unusual phenomenon and simply say they do not know what is causing this type of weather." -The Cutting Edge Who's Controlling the Weather? "Some people are saying that.... Mother Nature (or God) is mad at the world.." -David Phillips, Canada's most renowned weather expert Senior Climatologist Author of - "Blame It On The Weather"
"WORLDWIDE - Today's wildfires are part of a worsening pattern most everywhere. The number of major wildfires has soared not only in North America but around the world. The size and ferocity of these wildfires is plaguing the world and astonishes even experienced fire chiefs. Fires the last several years "have produced fire behavior, flame links, and intensities that we HAD NEVER REALLY EXPERIENCED BEFORE. And everything we had to throw at it, we did. And it just seemed to burn right through us." -Global Disaster Watch - Week of 6/26/06 - WILDFIRES THIS WEEK - thehessians/disasterwatch a service of - the National Science...Teachers Assoc.
"Fires are burning all around Oklahoma City. In Texas, whole towns were burned out. Pray tell us....What have these heathens done to bring the fires of hell upon them?" -Fires of Hell Burning in Okla and Texas. - Is God Mad? By Last Night in Little Rock, Section Off Topic Posted -Mon Jan 02, 2006 @ 06:47 PM EST Becoming "Desensitized" to EXTREME VIOLENCE
"Statistics, such as the murder rate in Washington, D.C., bear out the apprehension with which people face the world. The brutality of crime increases almost exponentially each decade, so that what once horrified us we now accept as sadly routine." -Violent Crime Is Increasing; by Michael Hedges; national reporter for the Washington Times. “The climate is changing. We are working on a comprehensive study with Columbia University that shows our attitudes have clearly changed. We have become almost desensitized to crime and violence." --Dennis Martin, Former Police Chief President of the National Association of Chiefs of Police
"Violence in all its forms has increased dramatically worldwide in recent decades." --WHO (1997) The World Health Report 1997, Geneva: WHO. "A recent report concludes that workplace violence has also gone global, crossing borders, work settings and occupational groups." -ILO (1998) When Working Becomes Hazardous. World of Work, 26
"In many countries, violence is epidemic and is the leading cause of death among males aged 15 - 34." -2006 International Council of Nurses; A Federation of national nurses’ associations (NNAs), representing nurses in more than 128 countries.
"Whether in cities or towns, the violence is increasing. There is regression to “an eye for an eye” mentality, which agrees that violence is going to happen in schools." -Violence Increasing; by Paul J. Fink, Ph.D.
"This virus of violence is occurring worldwide." -"Trained to Kill"; Virus of Violence Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman Oxford Press, 2000 "MOUNT OLIVE TWP – The number of violence-related incidents in township schools went up significantly last year over the prior year, according to the latest state report on violence in schools around New Jersey." -05/11/2005 School violence is on the increase MIKE CONDON "Gender base violence, especially rape and other domestic violence are on the increase." -Deputy Gender Minister for Research and Technical Services, Annie Jones Demen; The Analyst(Monrovia)June 5, 2006
"There was a sharp increase in the number of violent attacks on shopworkers last year. Incidents included armed robberies, kidnap, CS gas attacks, pistol whipping, and the use of knives, iron bars and sledge hammers." -Violence against staff on increase 29 July 2002; Usdaw - uk Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers "Following a dramatic increase in domestic violence fatalities among military personnel, the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence was created." - A Guide for Safety & Justice in Arizona - June 2004 "We have an unprecedented wave of violence against journalists," - Joel Simon the Committee to Protect Journalists Worldwide, violence against journalists hits a new high; February 06, 2006 edition "I WAS born in Swindon and I've lived here most of my life. I know full well what it was like years ago in terms of violence. There's no doubt that it is more violent today than it ever was. And it's the same in every town in the country. When was the last time that a small town had a riot to deal with? I suspect never. It's the reality we are dealing with. To say that it's just the media's reporting that has raised people's fears is absolute stupidity. We see it for ourselves, mate. We hear it from our friends and colleagues and our own kids. We see it on the TV in graphic detail." - Violence IS on the increase From the Swindon Advertiser Wiltshire News 2/17/05 Wiltshire.co.uk ANDREW ROZYCKI
"Family violence in Texas has reached epidemic proportions and continues to grow. It is a significantly more serious problem than most persons expect. Currently identified cases of family violence represent only the tip of the iceberg of actual cases. Many are not reported. Texas leads the nation in rates of domestic violence. Violence against children in Texas is a severe problem and is getting worse by the year. Large numbers of existing cases of family violence are not being reported. Even though required by law, many professionals are NOT reporting cases of family violence. -FAMILY VIOLENCE AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE HEALTH LAW & POLICY INSTITUTE ADVISORY BOARD; M. DAVID LOW Director, The University of Texas—Houston, School of Public Health "INCREASING MUSLIM VIOLENCE IN EUROPE is a fact, but much of it IS NOT BEING REPORTED." -UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE;uexpress By John Leo | Mar 19, 2006 
"Men will be weak with fear. They will be afraid of the things that will be happening to the world." (Luke 21:26)(WorldWide English)(WE)-BibleGateway "Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world..." (Luke 21:26)(NIV)-BibleGateway "People will be so frightened that they will faint because of what is happening to the world. " (Luke 21:26)(CEV)-BibleGateway "It will seem like all hell has broken loose.... the earth in an uproar and everyone all over the world in a panic..." (Luke 21:25,26)(MSG)-BibleGateway "The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth..." (Luke 21:26)(NLT)-BibleGateway "Terror will make people faint. They will be worried about what is happening in the world...." (Luke 21:26)(NIRV)-BibleGateway 
Pay Attention ! 
"...You find it easy enough to forecast the weather—why can't you read the signs of the times? ..." (Matthew 16:1)(MSG)-BibleGateway "...You are good at reading the weather signs in the sky, but you can't read the obvious signs of the times!" (Matthew 16:3)(NLT)-BibleGateway “Also, there will be signs....... and on the earth anguish of nations, not knowing the way out....... while men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth..... And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. But as these things start to occur, raise yourselves erect and lift YOUR heads up, because YOUR deliverance is getting near.” (Luke 21:25-28)(NWT)
"This is going to be TROUBLE on a scale beyond what the world has ever seen, or will see again." (Matthew 24:21)(MSG)-BibleGateway
"...When you see all these things, you'll know he's at the door." (Matthew 24:33)(MSG)-BibleGateway "Following those hard times, sun will fade out, moon cloud over, Stars fall out of the sky, cosmic powers tremble. Then, the Arrival of the Son of Man! It will fill the skies -- no one will miss it." (Matthew 24:29,30)(MSG)-BibleGateway
"...The prophet Daniel described this. If you've read Daniel, you'll know what I'm talking about. This is going to be trouble on a scale beyond what the world has ever seen, or will see again." (Matthew 24:15,21)(MSG)-BibleGateway "...and he will come at a time of terrible suffering, the worst in all of history........" (Daniel 12:1)(CEV)-BibleGateway
 Scoffers Deny What They See 
"First off, you need to know that in the last days, mockers are going to have a heyday. Reducing everything to the level of their puny feelings, they'll mock, "So what's happened to the promise of his Coming? Our ancestors are dead and buried, and everything's going on just as it has from the first day of creation. Nothing's changed." (2Peter3:3,4)(MSG)-BibleGateway "But first you must realize that in the last days some people won't think about anything except their own selfish desires. They will make fun of you and say, 'Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and the world hasn't changed a bit.'" (2Peter 3:3,4)(CEV)-BibleGateway
"First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire. This will be their argument: 'Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created.'" (2Peter 3:3,4)(NLT)-BibleGateway

This World is Passing Away
 The world as we know it is passing away. It's ever so obvious with each passing day. The violence and terror have made earth a mess we need intervention we need God to bless Yes, soon He will save us from the darkness of night He'll turn back our nightmare with His blessed light. Jehovah is sending His precious son To cleanse all our problems a New world begun Mankind will reap blessings from Christ's loving rule life that's worth living an earth that's brand new No one will grow old and no one will die no pain and no crying no sorrowful sigh The dead will arise to a world filled with peace to a world filled with pleasure that never will cease. 
"The world is passing away..." (1John 2:17)(NASB) -BibleGateway
"...For this world in its present form is passing away. " (1 Corinthians 7:31) (NIV) -BibleGateway "This world as you see it - is on its way out." (1Corinthians 7:31) (MSG) --BibleGateway "And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever." (1John 2:17)(ESV)-BibleGateway "Even they will perish, but you remain forever..." (Hebrews 1:11)(NLT)-BibleGateway "And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God's will remains forever." (1John 2:17)(HCSB)-BibleGateway 
"...For there is going to come a day of judgment when God...will judge all people according to what they have done. He will give eternal life to those who persist in doing what is good...But he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey the truth." (Romans 2:5-8)(NLT)-BibleGateway
"Watch now. GOD's Judgment Day comes. Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, A day to waste the earth and clean out all the sinners." (Isaiah 13:9)(MSG)-BibleGateway "A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will "only" observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked." (Psalm 91:7,8)(NIV)-BibleGateway "Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it." (Isaiah 13:9)(Darby)-BibleGateway "But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed." (Isaiah 1:28)(ASV)-BibleGateway
"The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil." (Matthew 13:39-41) (NIV) -BibleGateway
"The time has come... for destroying those who destroy the earth." (Revelation 11:18)(NIV)-BibleGateway "...And you will destroy all who have caused destruction on the earth." (Revelation 11:18)(NLT)-BibleGateway "For the upright shall dwell in the earth, And the righteous shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it." (Proverbs 2:21,22) "...This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do NOT know God and DO NOT obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified." (2Thessalonians 1:7-10)(NIV)-BibleGateway "...The decisive issue is whether they obey my Father in heaven." (Matthew 7:21)(NLT)-BibleGateway
"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age." (Matthew 13:14)(NIV)-BibleGateway "For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth. For just a little while longer, and the wicked ones shall be no more: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace... The righteous shall inherit the earth, And dwell therein for ever... Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, And he will exalt thee to inherit the earth; When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it." (Psalm 37:9-11,29,34)(ASV) -BibleGateway 
Mankind's Chance For "Self-Rule" is About to End. How and Why ? (click-here)

"The Weather" Has He Gotten Your Attention ? (click-here) 
Why is God So Angry ? (click-here)

And The Nations Grew "Angry" and God was Angry with the Nations (click-here) 
The Nations are in Anguish Not Knowing the Way Out (click-here) 
The "Financial" Crisis Is The World Falling Apart ? (click-here) 
Pay Attention to the News (click-here)


The World is in"DENIAL" (click-here)
 33 Earthquakes Hit China on the Same Day (click-here) 
Is Violent and Destructive Weather Fulfilling Bible Prophecy ? (click-here) 
Imagine an Earthquake That Will Shale The Entire Earth (click-here) 
A "New Earth" For the Meek (click-here) 
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| The "Trinity" From Babylon to Rome
The "Trinity" From Babylon to Rome "The cult that arose in Babylon and spread its cult tentacles throughout the world was trinitarian (Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop). At first, this doctrine was merely humanism, man making himself god. The first humanism trinity of record to be setup and worshiped as gods, was that of Nimrod, Simeramus, and Tammuz. These are in the Old Testament in the Canaanite language identified as Baal, Ashtoreth, and Tammuz. At the dispersion of the people at the Tower of Babel, this trinity doctrine of humanism was spread all over the world. Each religion of all the pagan religions held two common traits: 1.) A trinity of gods and; 2.) These were in a form of human gods." -Jesus Messieh Fellowship The Trinity Doctrine Is Pagan By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor "From ancient time Mystery Babylon has tried to make God what he is not - A Trinity." -Jesus Messieh Fellowship The Trinity Doctrine Is Pagan By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor "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 Hale "Bel (Lord) was the oldest and mightiest of the gods of Babylonia, one of the earliest trinities. He was "Lord of the World. The "doctrine of the Trinity" is first met northeast of the Indus; and, tracing it to Asia Minor and Europe, one recognizes it among every people who had anything like an established religion. It was taught in the oldest Chaldean, Egyptian, and Mithraic schools. The Chaldean Sun-god, Mithra, was called "Triple" and the trinitarian idea of the Chaldeans was a doctrine of the Akkadians who, themselves, belonged to a race which was the first to conceive a metaphysical trinity. According to the archeologist Rawlinson, the Chaldeans were a tribe of the Akkadians who lived in Babylonia from earliest times..." - THEOSOPHY, Vol. 52, No. 6, April, 1964 (Pages 175-182) THE CHALDEAN LEGEND "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 "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.
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)
Rome Adopts Babylon's Errors "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 "The Babylonian pagan worship of Nimrod, Semiramis, and the god-incarnate son extended throughout the entire world and eventually assumed the name of Trinitarian Christianity." - The Two Babylons, pp. 240-252. Babylon is the source of false religion, Revelation 17:1-6. "Though the city of Babylon was destroyed, its religious concepts and customs had spread around the world. Today’s myriad of false religions have their origin in ancient Babylon." -All Roads Lead to Babylon "Ralph Woodrow, in his book, Babylon Mystery Religion (first published in 1966, now out of print), clearly traces the practices and teachings of ancient Babylon, and their modern counterparts in the Roman Catholic Church and her Protestant daughters. Babylonian ideas are by no means isolated to professing Christianity." -All Roads Lead to Babylon
"Mankind in general, has followed variations of one kind or another, of the religion of Babylon, to this day." -Ralph Woodrow; Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
"Rome...assimilated religions from her many conquered territories. All these religions had commonalities, for they all came from Babylon. These practices infiltrated and overcame the professing Christian Church, which later came to be dominated by Rome itself." -Ralph Woodrow; Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
"This is the cup which the Babylonish system has made all the world to drink. It is not limited to the Roman Catholic Church of Rome, but she certainly plays a major role in today’s religious deception." -Ralph Woodrow; Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
"The Romish system is based upon a mixture. The word "Catholic" means Universal...the true Christian goal is not religion based on mixture, but a return to the original, simple, powerful, and spiritual faith that was once delivered to the saints." -Ralph Woodrow; pg. 161 Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
The Trinity Doctine was a "CORRUPTION" of Early Christianity.
the Trinity "is a Corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and "ingrafted " on the Christian faith." -Dictionary of Religious Knowledge The Trinity " When she allowed these idolatries to be engrafted into her church, Rome re-established the teachings of Nimrod (and his Babylonian Trinity) - into the New Testament Age, and into church dogma." -Thunder Ministries The Origin and Development of the Trinity according to Trinitarian Scholars "The doctrine of the Trinity was not a teaching of the original Christians, who were either with Jesus himself or taught directly by the surviving apostles. This explains why it is not found in the Bible. If it was a fundamental, core doctrine of such great importance, it would have been clearly and unmistakably stated in scripture. The fact that the vast majority of professed Christians and church doctrine today maintain a belief in the Trinity does not prove it is correct. Rather, it suggests that corruption of Christian doctrinal truths is widespread and deep." -Is Jesus God Almighty? Is the Trinity Scriptural? By Gordon Coulson
"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. . . . From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity." (Historian Will Durant) "The pagan trinities had all the prestige of a vast antiquity and universal adoption... The Gentile converts therefore eagerly accepted the Trinity compromise, and the Church baptized it. Now at length we know its origin." --- John Newton (Origin of Triads and Trinities) Altering the Bible to Support The Pagan Trinity "Codex B (Vaticanus)...was altered by a later hand in MORE THAN two THOUSAND places. Eusebius, therefore, is not without grounds for accusing the adherents of...the newly-risen Doctrine of the Trinity of FALSIFYING the Bible..." -(Fraternal Visitor 1924, p. 148; translated from Christadelphian Monatshefte).
"We certainly know of a great number of corruptions brought into the Scriptures by the Athanasians - relating to the Doctrine of the Trinity." -Sir William Whiston Second letter to the Bishop of London, 1719, p. 15 Rewriting the Bible to Support the Trinity Doctrine: "Learned men, so called Correctores were, following the church meeting at Nicea 325 AD, selected by the church authorities to scrutinize the sacred texts and rewrite them in order to correct their meaning in accordance with the views which the church had just sanctioned." -Einfhrung in die Textkritik des griechischen Testaments: Eberhard Nestle
"Christianity's doctrine of a "holy Trinity" is simply NOT true. There is nothing in the scriptures which even suggests that it is, except to those who have already been taught to see it there. The doctrine of the Trinity is a heathen philosophical intrusion into the faith of Jesus..." -The Influence of Trinitarian Doctrine on Translations of the Bible by John David Clark, Sr.
"What I discovered in most of the versions of the Bible produced by trinitarians which I studied - is irrefutable proof of intentional mistranslation of words which refer to God... Christian trinitarians routinely and purposely mistranslate Greek pronouns, so as to promote the doctrine of the holy Trinity." -The Influence of Trinitarian Doctrine on Translations of the Bible by John David Clark, Sr. "It's interesting to see that many of the scriptural "evidences" said to be in favor of the doctrine of the Trinity, are...sometimes even outright forgery. These can often be exposed by even a cursory glance at an English/Greek interlinear Bible or a Greek concordance." -The Trinity- A Doctrine Overdue for Extinction; Part 2 "Imperfections in the King James Version" by Ted Whitten
"the doctrine of the Trinity...is contrary to common sense. It is contrary to Scripture. Its origin is Pagan..." -J.N. Loughborough, Review and Herald, XVIII, November 5, 1861, p. 184 Trinitarians - "Any true scholar can surely see that these men did NOT use the "Entire" word of God to base their theology upon. Rather they chose specific passages to build on their theology, because, influence, pagan tribute in a Roman Nation filled with paganism, and governing power was the mindset of Rome. When she allowed these idolatries to be "engrafted" into her church, Rome re-established the teachings of Nimrod into the New Testament Age, and into church dogma." -Thunder Ministries The Origin and Development of the Trinity according to Trinitarian Scholars
"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 Jehovah, the Living God, severely condemned his own people for giving any countenance to it." -Alexander Hislop The Two Babylons (pp. 16-19). THE TRINITY DOCTRINE CORRUPTS EARLY CHRISTIANITY
"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. "Platonism...was part of the general Nature worship; it was attempting to renew Paganism, and was the recognised and leading tenet in the higher Mysteries. In early Christianity, the Christ had been this Being which connected mankind with the Eternal Father." -Milman, History of Christianity, Vol. ii., p. 355. "This Platonic philosophy was adopted by... all those who in this second century presided in the schools of the Christians at Alexandria, Athenagoras, Pantaenus, and Clemens Alexandria..." -Mosheim, Fourth Century Ecclesiastical History "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., "The solemn dedication of the church of St. Sophia was celebrated by a prelate who denied the differences between the Father and the Son. The whole Christian world was in confusion; these fatal feuds penetrated almost as far as the Gospel itself had reached." -Milman, History of Christianity, Vol. ii., p. 447. "the Trinity and the Incarnation have never been learned from Scripture. Surely the sacred volume was never intended, and is not adapted to teach us our creed...From the very first, the rule has been, as a matter of fact, for the Church to teach the truth, and then appeal to Scripture in vindication of its own teaching." -Cardinal Newman Arians of the Fourth Century, pp. 55-56. "Our belief in the Trinity...are in Scripture nowhere to be found." -Richard Hooker The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, book i., sect. xiv. "...the doctrine of the Trinity...is NOT taught in the Holy Scriptures. What we profess in our prayers, we nowhere read in Scripture...There is no such text in Scripture as this." -BISHOP SMALRIDGE Sermons, No. 33, p. 348. "...the Triple Godhead... is nowhere taught in Scripture." -THE OXFORD DOCTORS Tracts for the Times, vol. i., No. 45; vol. v., No. 85. "This TRINITY doctrine does not...belong to the fundamental articles of the Christian faith; as appears from the fact that it is NOT set forth in any passage of the New Testament; for the only one in which this is done, the passage relating to the three that bear record (1 John v.), is undoubtedly spurious (false, a forged later addition)...the preaching of Jesus Christ as the Messiah; and the foundation of His religion is designated by Christ, as faith in the only true God and also in Jesus Christ whom God hath sent." -Dr. Neander History of Christian Religion and Church, vol. ii., p. 286.
"The God of the Old Testament is also the God of the New Testament. Christ and the apostles accepted what Moses and the prophets had taught concerning God; they assigned to Him no other attributes than had already been assigned to Him." -Encyclopedia Britannica, Art., "Theism." "Well, be assured that the God that the Jews worship - is the very same God that we worship. Their sacred writings, the Law and the Prophets, we revere and read aloud in our meetings. And because we worship this God of the Jews, the one thing we cannot be accused of is novelty." --Glimpses Issue #139 : Why Early Christians Were So Despised; Ken Curtis PH.D., Beth Jacobson, Diana Severance Ph.D., Ann T. Snyder and Dan Graves. ©2003 by Christian History Institute. "The Octavius of Minicius Felix" ; 2nd century A.D. "Jesus' teachings are exclusively within Jewish values and teachings. Modern Christianity . . . does not adhere to many of Jesus' original teachings. Early Christianity was an integral part of Judaism of the period. Jesus . . . never intended to either abandon Judaism, or to create a new religion. The creation of the independent Christian Church outside the framework of Judaism took place many years later by those who neither knew the man Jesus, nor the meanings of His difficult native Hebrew." -- Opher Segal, YD, vol. 5, no. 6. "...Jehovah, 'the God of your fathers', the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob......" (Exodus 3:15)(ASV) -BibleGateway
"The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 'the God of our fathers', has glorified his servant Jesus." (Acts 3:13) (NIV) -BibleGateway
"Is (Jehovah) God, the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of other people also? Yes, he is. There is only one God of all peoples." (Romans 3:29)(WE)-BibleGateway
"As a follower of Christ, Peter used Gods name, Jehovah. When Peters speech was put on record the Tetragrammaton (YHWH / Jehovah) was here used according to the practice during the first century B.C.E. and the first century C.E." - Paul Kahle; Studia Evangelica, edited by Kurt Aland, F. L. Cross, Jean Danielou, Harald Riesenfeld and W. C. van Unnik, Berlin, 1959, p. 614 (See App 1C §1.) "This Trinity dogma...We cannot be called upon to believe that which we do not understand, and which, after all, is only handed down to us by tradition." -THE DUKE OF SUSSEX Former President of Royal Society (Quoted Stannus, Origin Doctrine Trinity, pp. 20). "For that anyone should be both Father and Son... it is not a mystery - but rather a contradiction." -Dr. South; "Trinity debate" with Dr. Sherlock; -Sermons, vol. iii., p. 240. "We must not...involve ourselves in the darkness of this mystery, as to deny that glory which is clearly due unto the Father alone..." -BISHOP PEARSON Exposition of the Creed, vol. i., p. 47. "...the early Christians adopted the monotheistic views of the Jews." -Hagen History of Doctrines, vol. i., p. 124
CHRIST WAS SUBMISSIVE TO GOD "The Lord Jesus uniformly represented Himself as performing all His acts...in the most perfect subserviency to the will of His Father, and in full dependence upon Him; and this fact He stated in a variety of expressions, and on different occasions, so as to manifest and to impress it deeply on His followers." -Dr. J. Pye Smith, Scripture Testimony to the Messiah, vol. ii., p. 300. THE "TRINITY" DOCTRINE WAS USED FOR EVIL
An Eyewitness Account : Michael Servetus Villanovanus burned at the stake for rejecting "the trinity" doctrine 27th of October 1553 "Shortly after twelve o'clock, a procession started from the town-hall of Geneva -the chief magistrates of the city, the clergy in their robes, the Lieutenant Criminel and other officers on horseback... and in their midst, with arms bound, in shabby, dirty clothes, walked a man of middle age, whose intellectual face bore the marks of long suffering... Mounting the hill, the field of Champel was reached, and here on sight eminence was the fateful stake, with dangling chains and heaping bundles of faggots. At this sight the poor victim prostrated himself on the ground in prayer.... 'Misericordia, misericordia! Jesu, thou Son of the eternal God, have compassion upon me!' Bound to the stake by the iron chains, with a chaplet of straw and green twigs covered with sulphur on his head, with long dark face, it is said that he looked like the Christ in whose name he was bound. Around his waist were tied a large bundle of manuscript and a thick octavo printed book. The torch was applied, and as the flames spread to the straw and sulphur and flashed in his eyes, there was a piercing cry that struck terror into the hearts of the bystanders. The faggots were green, the burning was slow, and it was long before in a last agony he cried again, 'Jesu, thou Son of the eternal God, have mercy on me!' Thus died in his forty-fourth year, Michael Servetus Villanovanus, physician, physiologist, and heretic. ...he remained faithful unto death to what he believed was the Truth as revealed in the Bible." - The execution scene as described by Sir William Osler "To enforce the decisions (about the trinity) of the Council of Nicea, Constantine commanded, with the death penalty for disobedience......." - A History of Christianity Volume 1 1997 Kenneth Scott Latourette "The day was to come when the Nicene party won out completely and then the emperors, who wished to prevent any more such quarrels, decreed that one who denied the Trinity should be put to death." -The Church of our Fathers - 1950, pg. 46 "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 "When we look back through the long ages of the reign of the Trinity . . . we shall perceive that few doctrines have produced more unmixed evil." - (A Statement of Reasons for Not Believing the Doctrine of the Trinitarians Concerning the Nature of God and the Person of Christ); by Andrews Norton; 1833

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The "Trinity" was Invented in Babylon and then Spread to Rome. It actually spread All Over the World The "Trinity" was Invented in Babylon and then Spread to Rome. It actually spread All Over the World FROM BABYLON TO ROME The "Trinity" From Babylon to Rome "The cult that arose in Babylon and spread its cult tentacles throughout the world was trinitarian (Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop). At first, this doctrine was merely humanism, man making himself god. The first humanism trinity of record to be setup and worshiped as gods, was that of Nimrod, Simeramus, and Tammuz. These are in the Old Testament in the Canaanite language identified as Baal, Ashtoreth, and Tammuz. At the dispersion of the people at the Tower of Babel, this trinity doctrine of humanism was spread all over the world. Each religion of all the pagan religions held two common traits: 1.) A trinity of gods and; 2.) These were in a form of human gods." -Jesus Messieh Fellowship The Trinity Doctrine Is Pagan By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor "From ancient time Mystery Babylon has tried to make God what he is not - A Trinity." -Jesus Messieh Fellowship The Trinity Doctrine Is Pagan By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor "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 Hale "Bel (Lord) was the oldest and mightiest of the gods of Babylonia, one of the earliest trinities. He was "Lord of the World. The "doctrine of the Trinity" is first met northeast of the Indus; and, tracing it to Asia Minor and Europe, one recognizes it among every people who had anything like an established religion. It was taught in the oldest Chaldean, Egyptian, and Mithraic schools. The Chaldean Sun-god, Mithra, was called "Triple" and the trinitarian idea of the Chaldeans was a doctrine of the Akkadians who, themselves, belonged to a race which was the first to conceive a metaphysical trinity. According to the archeologist Rawlinson, the Chaldeans were a tribe of the Akkadians who lived in Babylonia from earliest times..." - THEOSOPHY, Vol. 52, No. 6, April, 1964 (Pages 175-182) THE CHALDEAN LEGEND "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 "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.
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)
Rome Adopts Babylon's Errors "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 "The Babylonian pagan worship of Nimrod, Semiramis, and the god-incarnate son extended throughout the entire world and eventually assumed the name of Trinitarian Christianity." - The Two Babylons, pp. 240-252. Babylon is the source of false religion, Revelation 17:1-6. "Though the city of Babylon was destroyed, its religious concepts and customs had spread around the world. Today’s myriad of false religions have their origin in ancient Babylon." -All Roads Lead to Babylon "Ralph Woodrow, in his book, Babylon Mystery Religion (first published in 1966, now out of print), clearly traces the practices and teachings of ancient Babylon, and their modern counterparts in the Roman Catholic Church and her Protestant daughters. Babylonian ideas are by no means isolated to professing Christianity." -All Roads Lead to Babylon
"Mankind in general, has followed variations of one kind or another, of the religion of Babylon, to this day." -Ralph Woodrow; Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
"Rome...assimilated religions from her many conquered territories. All these religions had commonalities, for they all came from Babylon. These practices infiltrated and overcame the professing Christian Church, which later came to be dominated by Rome itself." -Ralph Woodrow; Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
"This is the cup which the Babylonish system has made all the world to drink. It is not limited to the Roman Catholic Church of Rome, but she certainly plays a major role in today’s religious deception." -Ralph Woodrow; Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
"The Romish system is based upon a mixture. The word "Catholic" means Universal...the true Christian goal is not religion based on mixture, but a return to the original, simple, powerful, and spiritual faith that was once delivered to the saints." -Ralph Woodrow; pg. 161 Babylon Mystery Religion; 1966
The Trinity Doctine was a "CORRUPTION" of Early Christianity.
the Trinity "is a Corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and "ingrafted " on the Christian faith." -Dictionary of Religious Knowledge The Trinity " When she allowed these idolatries to be engrafted into her church, Rome re-established the teachings of Nimrod (and his Babylonian Trinity) - into the New Testament Age, and into church dogma." -Thunder Ministries The Origin and Development of the Trinity according to Trinitarian Scholars "The doctrine of the Trinity was not a teaching of the original Christians, who were either with Jesus himself or taught directly by the surviving apostles. This explains why it is not found in the Bible. If it was a fundamental, core doctrine of such great importance, it would have been clearly and unmistakably stated in scripture. The fact that the vast majority of professed Christians and church doctrine today maintain a belief in the Trinity does not prove it is correct. Rather, it suggests that corruption of Christian doctrinal truths is widespread and deep." -Is Jesus God Almighty? Is the Trinity Scriptural? By Gordon Coulson
"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. . . . From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity." (Historian Will Durant) "The pagan trinities had all the prestige of a vast antiquity and universal adoption... The Gentile converts therefore eagerly accepted the Trinity compromise, and the Church baptized it. Now at length we know its origin." --- John Newton (Origin of Triads and Trinities) Altering the Bible to Support The Pagan Trinity "Codex B (Vaticanus)...was altered by a later hand in MORE THAN two THOUSAND places. Eusebius, therefore, is not without grounds for accusing the adherents of...the newly-risen Doctrine of the Trinity of FALSIFYING the Bible..." -(Fraternal Visitor 1924, p. 148; translated from Christadelphian Monatshefte).
"We certainly know of a great number of corruptions brought into the Scriptures by the Athanasians - relating to the Doctrine of the Trinity." -Sir William Whiston Second letter to the Bishop of London, 1719, p. 15 Rewriting the Bible to Support the Trinity Doctrine: "Learned men, so called Correctores were, following the church meeting at Nicea 325 AD, selected by the church authorities to scrutinize the sacred texts and rewrite them in order to correct their meaning in accordance with the views which the church had just sanctioned." -Einfhrung in die Textkritik des griechischen Testaments: Eberhard Nestle
"Christianity's doctrine of a "holy Trinity" is simply NOT true. There is nothing in the scriptures which even suggests that it is, except to those who have already been taught to see it there. The doctrine of the Trinity is a heathen philosophical intrusion into the faith of Jesus..." -The Influence of Trinitarian Doctrine on Translations of the Bible by John David Clark, Sr.
"What I discovered in most of the versions of the Bible produced by trinitarians which I studied - is irrefutable proof of intentional mistranslation of words which refer to God... Christian trinitarians routinely and purposely mistranslate Greek pronouns, so as to promote the doctrine of the holy Trinity." -The Influence of Trinitarian Doctrine on Translations of the Bible by John David Clark, Sr. "It's interesting to see that many of the scriptural "evidences" said to be in favor of the doctrine of the Trinity, are...sometimes even outright forgery. These can often be exposed by even a cursory glance at an English/Greek interlinear Bible or a Greek concordance." -The Trinity- A Doctrine Overdue for Extinction; Part 2 "Imperfections in the King James Version" by Ted Whitten
"the doctrine of the Trinity...is contrary to common sense. It is contrary to Scripture. Its origin is Pagan..." -J.N. Loughborough, Review and Herald, XVIII, November 5, 1861, p. 184 Trinitarians - "Any true scholar can surely see that these men did NOT use the "Entire" word of God to base their theology upon. Rather they chose specific passages to build on their theology, because, influence, pagan tribute in a Roman Nation filled with paganism, and governing power was the mindset of Rome. When she allowed these idolatries to be "engrafted" into her church, Rome re-established the teachings of Nimrod into the New Testament Age, and into church dogma." -Thunder Ministries The Origin and Development of the Trinity according to Trinitarian Scholars
"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 Jehovah, the Living God, severely condemned his own people for giving any countenance to it." -Alexander Hislop The Two Babylons (pp. 16-19). THE TRINITY DOCTRINE CORRUPTS EARLY CHRISTIANITY
"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. "Platonism...was part of the general Nature worship; it was attempting to renew Paganism, and was the recognised and leading tenet in the higher Mysteries. In early Christianity, the Christ had been this Being which connected mankind with the Eternal Father." -Milman, History of Christianity, Vol. ii., p. 355. "This Platonic philosophy was adopted by... all those who in this second century presided in the schools of the Christians at Alexandria, Athenagoras, Pantaenus, and Clemens Alexandria..." -Mosheim, Fourth Century Ecclesiastical History "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., "The solemn dedication of the church of St. Sophia was celebrated by a prelate who denied the differences between the Father and the Son. The whole Christian world was in confusion; these fatal feuds penetrated almost as far as the Gospel itself had reached." -Milman, History of Christianity, Vol. ii., p. 447. "the Trinity and the Incarnation have never been learned from Scripture. Surely the sacred volume was never intended, and is not adapted to teach us our creed...From the very first, the rule has been, as a matter of fact, for the Church to teach the truth, and then appeal to Scripture in vindication of its own teaching." -Cardinal Newman Arians of the Fourth Century, pp. 55-56. "Our belief in the Trinity...are in Scripture nowhere to be found." -Richard Hooker The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, book i., sect. xiv. "...the doctrine of the Trinity...is NOT taught in the Holy Scriptures. What we profess in our prayers, we nowhere read in Scripture...There is no such text in Scripture as this." -BISHOP SMALRIDGE Sermons, No. 33, p. 348. "...the Triple Godhead... is nowhere taught in Scripture." -THE OXFORD DOCTORS Tracts for the Times, vol. i., No. 45; vol. v., No. 85. "This TRINITY doctrine does not...belong to the fundamental articles of the Christian faith; as appears from the fact that it is NOT set forth in any passage of the New Testament; for the only one in which this is done, the passage relating to the three that bear record (1 John v.), is undoubtedly spurious (false, a forged later addition)...the preaching of Jesus Christ as the Messiah; and the foundation of His religion is designated by Christ, as faith in the only true God and also in Jesus Christ whom God hath sent." -Dr. Neander History of Christian Religion and Church, vol. ii., p. 286.
"The God of the Old Testament is also the God of the New Testament. Christ and the apostles accepted what Moses and the prophets had taught concerning God; they assigned to Him no other attributes than had already been assigned to Him." -Encyclopedia Britannica, Art., "Theism." "Well, be assured that the God that the Jews worship - is the very same God that we worship. Their sacred writings, the Law and the Prophets, we revere and read aloud in our meetings. And because we worship this God of the Jews, the one thing we cannot be accused of is novelty." --Glimpses Issue #139 : Why Early Christians Were So Despised; Ken Curtis PH.D., Beth Jacobson, Diana Severance Ph.D., Ann T. Snyder and Dan Graves. ©2003 by Christian History Institute. "The Octavius of Minicius Felix" ; 2nd century A.D. "Jesus' teachings are exclusively within Jewish values and teachings. Modern Christianity . . . does not adhere to many of Jesus' original teachings. Early Christianity was an integral part of Judaism of the period. Jesus . . . never intended to either abandon Judaism, or to create a new religion. The creation of the independent Christian Church outside the framework of Judaism took place many years later by those who neither knew the man Jesus, nor the meanings of His difficult native Hebrew." -- Opher Segal, YD, vol. 5, no. 6. "...Jehovah, 'the God of your fathers', the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob......" (Exodus 3:15)(ASV) -BibleGateway
"The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 'the God of our fathers', has glorified his servant Jesus." (Acts 3:13) (NIV) -BibleGateway
"Is (Jehovah) God, the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of other people also? Yes, he is. There is only one God of all peoples." (Romans 3:29)(WE)-BibleGateway
"As a follower of Christ, Peter used Gods name, Jehovah. When Peters speech was put on record the Tetragrammaton (YHWH / Jehovah) was here used according to the practice during the first century B.C.E. and the first century C.E." - Paul Kahle; Studia Evangelica, edited by Kurt Aland, F. L. Cross, Jean Danielou, Harald Riesenfeld and W. C. van Unnik, Berlin, 1959, p. 614 (See App 1C §1.) "This Trinity dogma...We cannot be called upon to believe that which we do not understand, and which, after all, is only handed down to us by tradition." -THE DUKE OF SUSSEX Former President of Royal Society (Quoted Stannus, Origin Doctrine Trinity, pp. 20). "For that anyone should be both Father and Son... it is not a mystery - but rather a contradiction." -Dr. South; "Trinity debate" with Dr. Sherlock; -Sermons, vol. iii., p. 240. "We must not...involve ourselves in the darkness of this mystery, as to deny that glory which is clearly due unto the Father alone..." -BISHOP PEARSON Exposition of the Creed, vol. i., p. 47. "...the early Christians adopted the monotheistic views of the Jews." -Hagen History of Doctrines, vol. i., p. 124
CHRIST WAS SUBMISSIVE TO GOD "The Lord Jesus uniformly represented Himself as performing all His acts...in the most perfect subserviency to the will of His Father, and in full dependence upon Him; and this fact He stated in a variety of expressions, and on different occasions, so as to manifest and to impress it deeply on His followers." -Dr. J. Pye Smith, Scripture Testimony to the Messiah, vol. ii., p. 300. THE "TRINITY" DOCTRINE WAS USED FOR EVIL
An Eyewitness Account : Michael Servetus Villanovanus burned at the stake for rejecting "the trinity" doctrine 27th of October 1553 "Shortly after twelve o'clock, a procession started from the town-hall of Geneva -the chief magistrates of the city, the clergy in their robes, the Lieutenant Criminel and other officers on horseback... and in their midst, with arms bound, in shabby, dirty clothes, walked a man of middle age, whose intellectual face bore the marks of long suffering... Mounting the hill, the field of Champel was reached, and here on sight eminence was the fateful stake, with dangling chains and heaping bundles of faggots. At this sight the poor victim prostrated himself on the ground in prayer.... 'Misericordia, misericordia! Jesu, thou Son of the eternal God, have compassion upon me!' Bound to the stake by the iron chains, with a chaplet of straw and green twigs covered with sulphur on his head, with long dark face, it is said that he looked like the Christ in whose name he was bound. Around his waist were tied a large bundle of manuscript and a thick octavo printed book. The torch was applied, and as the flames spread to the straw and sulphur and flashed in his eyes, there was a piercing cry that struck terror into the hearts of the bystanders. The faggots were green, the burning was slow, and it was long before in a last agony he cried again, 'Jesu, thou Son of the eternal God, have mercy on me!' Thus died in his forty-fourth year, Michael Servetus Villanovanus, physician, physiologist, and heretic. ...he remained faithful unto death to what he believed was the Truth as revealed in the Bible." - The execution scene as described by Sir William Osler "To enforce the decisions (about the trinity) of the Council of Nicea, Constantine commanded, with the death penalty for disobedience......." - A History of Christianity Volume 1 1997 Kenneth Scott Latourette "The day was to come when the Nicene party won out completely and then the emperors, who wished to prevent any more such quarrels, decreed that one who denied the Trinity should be put to death." -The Church of our Fathers - 1950, pg. 46 "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 "When we look back through the long ages of the reign of the Trinity . . . we shall perceive that few doctrines have produced more unmixed evil." - (A Statement of Reasons for Not Believing the Doctrine of the Trinitarians Concerning the Nature of God and the Person of Christ); by Andrews Norton; 1833 ..................... | | |
| "MAKE SURE OF ALL THINGS HOLD FAST TO WHAT IS FINE." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
"MAKE SURE OF ALL THINGS HOLD FAST TO WHAT IS FINE." (1 Thessalonians 5:21) "MAKE SURE OF ALL THINGS HOLD FAST TO WHAT IS FINE." (1 Thessalonians 5:21) "Don't suppress the Spirit, and don't stifle those who have a word from the Master. On the other hand, don't be gullible. Check out everything, and keep only what's good." (1Thess 5:19-22)(MSG) -BibleGateway
I was recently told that Jehovah's people do not do any research outside of the Bible. I was also told that it was wrong to do any research myself - outside of the Bible in connection with my religious beliefs.
The Boreans were complimented by Paul for examining the scriptures daily to make sure that what they were learning from the apostles, was actually true. They only had the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) at that time. The Boreans were called "Noble" minded because of their research.
"Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." (Acts 17:11)(NIV)-BibleGateway
We find in the Dictionary the definition of "Noble" minded. "Noble-minded people are people who are open, people who are searching, who don't assume that they already know everything. Noble-minded, yes, but not gullible." What part does research play in our belief system ? Should we be leery or afraid of research ? Is it wrong to research outside of the Bible in our pursuit of spiritual truth?
There are many things that we have changed in our belief system because of research done outside of the Bible. And what are these ? There are several good examples. At one time we celebrated Christmas and Easter and bowed down before a cross. We no longer do that due to research done outside of the Bible.
Many once believed that Jesus died on a cross because the bible used the word "cross" when translating "stauros" and "xylon". Yet due to research outside of the Bible, we came to realize that the word "stake" was a more accurate translation of those two words that literally mean "wood", "tree", or upright pole or pale. We then began to realize that Christ was impaled on a stake and not crucified on a cross. History books outside of the Bible offered even more support to this evidence. We did not learn that Christmas and Easter were pagan holidays from the Bible. Instead we learned of their pagan origins and pagan practices by doing research outside of the Bible. Hellfire torment is another belief that has been rejected by Jehovah's people because of research done by them in secular sources.
Many Bible use the word "hell" in translating the word "Gehenna" mentioned in the Bible. The Bible speaks of Gehenna as a place where the fire never goes out - a place of eternal torment. But upon researching the word "Gehenna" we find that it was a place in Christ's day where garbage and refuse was burned. Even human bodies of dead criminals were disposed of there. The fires of Gehenna were kept burning day and night. Christ used this 'Gehenna' as an analogy of the complete and utter destruction of the wicked on Judgment Day. On the other hand we learned about "hades" and "sheol" which are used in the Bible in conjunction with burial of the dead. Through research outside of the Bible we found that these two words mean "to cover over" or to "conceal".
Christ rested in "hades" for 3 days before he was resurrected. The faithful man "Job" prayed to die and go to sheol where he could rest and escape from his pain.
So we see that our research outside of the Bible has helped in our understanding of the scriptures. It helped us to see that the belief in HellFire Torment came from the pagans and was adopted by the Roman Church during her days of Apostasy and quest to rule the world. There are many other religious beliefs (too numerous to mention here) that have been enhanced by doing research outside of the Bible. Such research improves our insight into the Scriptures.
So, yes, research outside of the Bible is very helpful in helping us to understand the Bible better and in supporting our unending faith in Jehovah God . Also, since "Correctores" were hired by the Apostate Roman Church in order to rewrite certain areas of the Bible to support their newly adopted beliefs, we realize even more so, our need to do research outside of the Bible in order to discern those spurious scriptures that have crept their way into the Bible over the years. A good example of this was their removal of God's Name "Jehovah" from the Bible in almost seven thousand places. Also their changing the word "Passover" to the word "Easter" in honor of the Fertility goddess named "Easter" or "Ashtoreth". They even changed many scriptures to support their trinity god by making sly changes like "the son of God" to "God, the son". Anyone who has ever read a Watchtower or Awake magazine is well aware of the fact that Jehovah's people do use research outside of the Bible in writing their articles. They even quote the sources of their findings for the whole world to see. So the research that we do outside of our Bibles, in conjunction with a sound mind, and deep respect for the Bible and for Jehovah, can be of real value to Christian servants of God. ................... CORRECTORES ALTERED THE BIBLE (click-here) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761047460/correctores-altered-the-bible/ ............................
WHY IS GOD'S NAME MISSING FROM MANY BIBLES ? (click-here) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761047841/item/ .............................. CHRISTMAS AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (click-here) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761048251/christmas-and-the-ten-commandments/
.............................. CHRIST WAS NOT BORN IN DECEMBER. DOES IT MATTER ? CLICK-HERE) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761048741/item/ ....... THE TRUTH ABOUT EASTER A Fertility goddess (click-here) http://easter-origins.xanga.com/761050315/item/ EASTER REPLACED PASSOVER (click-here) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761049934/item/ DID CHRIST DIE ON A STAKE OR A CROSS ? DOES IT MATTER ? (click-here)
http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761054474/item/ THE BATTLE "AGAINST" CHRIST'S NAME JEHOSHUA - VERSUS - JESUS A Hebrew Honor or a Pagan Slur Jehovah's Salvation - or ''Hail Zeus" A Jewish Messiah - or a Greek god ? (click-here) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/760345451/the-battle-against-jehoshuashellip/ IS "HELL" A PLACE OF TORMENT ? (click-here) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761055370/item/ MAKE SURE OF ALL THINGS HOLD FAST TO WHAT IS FINE Doing Research in Secular Sources Finding information outside of the Bible (click-here) http://thepreachingwork.xanga.com/761036490/research--outside--of--the--bible/ 
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| THE "SECOND" DEATH WHAT IS IT ? They will be punished with everlasting destruction ...on the day he comes to be glorified." (2Thess 1:7-10)
"...This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do NOT KNOW God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified." (2Thessalonians 1:7-10)(NIV)-BibleGateway
Christ will be the executioner of Jehovah's Will
"For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth. For just a little while longer, and the wicked ones shall be no more: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace... The righteous shall inherit the earth, And dwell therein for ever... Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, And he will exalt thee to inherit the earth; When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it." (Psalm 37:9-11,29,34)(ASV)-BibleGateway
"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age." (Matthew 13:40)(NIV)-BibleGateway
"But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed." (Luke 17:29-30)(NIV)-BibleGateway All these illustrations graphically depict the ultimate destruction of the wicked. The contrast between the destiny of the saved and that of the lost is one of life versus destruction. THE "SECOND" DEATH WHAT IS IT ? The Bible Book of "Revelation" speaks of the time when Jesus returns to the earth, and mets out rewards to those who have obeyed his Father, and have followed in Jesus' footsteps.
It also talks about a punishment for those who have refused to obey. They, like death and hell (the grave of mankind) would be thrown into a "symbolic" lake of fire - known as the "Second" Death".
"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell [Hades] delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell [Hades] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." -(Revelation 20:13, 14) The early Christians knew what this meant. Unfortunately due to the corruption of those early teachings, many today believe that the reward is "Heaven" and the punishment is eternal torture in a blazing "Hellfire".
But are these truly the meanings of what Christ taught ?
Would everyone good go to heaven ?
Would all the wicked be tormented forever - in a Hellfire torment ? 
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN the "FIRST" and "SECOND" DEATH

To determine what the "Second" Death is - it would be a good idea to start with examining the "First" Death

EXAMINING THE "FIRST" DEATH

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1st Death - Temporary - with Resurrection Hope Inherited from Adam a sleep-like state - Reversable ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A HOPE OF THE "RESURRECTION" The first death is often called "Adamic" death by many Bible scholars. This is because the First Death is what all of mankind has inherited from our forefather, Adam.
By sinning against God, Adam received a punishment or curse that he has passed on to the all of his children, and eventually to all of the human race.
"Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men..." (Romans 5:12,15)(NIV)-BibleGateway "For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man..." (Romans 5:17)(NIV)-BibleGateway "For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners..." (Romans 5:19)(NIV)-BibleGateway
Fortunately, Jehovah God, made provisions for mankind to "AWAKE" from this sleep-like Death, in the resurrection.
Those of the heavenly calling will be resurrected to heavenly life with Christ, and the rest of the dead, will be resurrected to a perfect human life on a paradise earth.
"Happy are the meek since they shall inherit the earth." (Matthew 5:5) "Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah." (Ezekiel 37:3-6) (ASV) -BibleGateway "Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits. " (Isaiah 26:19) (NASB) -BibleGateway "Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the land ... And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people. And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, saith Jehovah." (Ezekiel 37:12-14) (ASV) -BibleGateway "Don't be surprised! The time will come when all of the dead will hear the voice of the Son of Man, and they will come out of their graves. " (John 5:28) (CEV) -BibleGateway
"...the dead in Christ will rise first." (1Thessalonians 4:16)(NASB)-BibleGateway
"The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection." (Revelation 20:5)(NIV)-BibleGateway

NOW - LET'S EXAMINE THE "SECOND" DEATH

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2nd Death - PERMANENT, irreversible, Forever and COMPLETE - an - UTTER DESTRUCTION with NO CHANCE of ever RETURNING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PERMANENT - NO HOPE OF RETURN
Death as punishment of sin.
The final annihilation of impenitent sinners is indicated, first of all, by the fundamental biblical principle that the final punishment of sin is death:
“The soul that sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4, 20);
“The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).
The punishment of sin, of course, comprises not only the first death, which all experience as a result of Adam’s sin, but also what the Bible calls the second death at (Revelation 20:14; 21:8), which is the final, irreversible death experienced by un-repentent sinners.
"This means that the ultimate wages of sin is NOT eternal torment, but permanent death." -College and University Dialogue; Hell: Eternal torment or annihilation? -From the Book - Immortality or Resurrection? by Samuele Bacchiocchi Ph.D. Professor of religion Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan
The Bible teaches death to be the cessation of life. Were it not for the assurance of resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:18), the death that we experience would be the termination of our existence. It is the resurrection that turns death from being the final end of life into being a temporary sleep. But there is no resurrection from the second death, because those who experience it are consumed in “the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:14). That will be the final annihilation. The biblical vocabulary on the destruction of the wicked is the second compelling reason for believing in the annihilation of the lost at the final judgment. The rich vocabulary of destruction used in the Bible to describe the end of the wicked is plainly spoken as a permenent end of all existence. According to Basil Atkinson, the Old Testament uses more than 25 nouns and verbs to describe the final destruction of the wicked. Several psalms, for example, describe the final destruction of the wicked with dramatic imagery (Psalm 1:3-6; 2:9-12; 11:1-7; 34:8-22; 58:6-10; 69:22-28; 145:17, 20). In Psalm 37, for example, we read that the wicked “will soon fade like the grass” (vs. 2) they “shall be cut off . . . and ... will be no more” (vss. 9, 10) they will “perish. . . like smoke they vanish away” (vs. 20) “transgressors shall be altogether destroyed” (vs. 38). Psalm 1 “the wicked will not stand in the judgment” (vs. 5) they will be “like chaff which the wind drives away” (vs. 4) “the way of the wicked will perish” (vs. 6). In Psalm 145, David affirms: “all the wicked he will destroy” (vs. 20). This brief sampling of references on the final destruction of the wicked is in complete harmony with the teaching of the rest of the Scriptures. The prophets frequently announce the ultimate destruction of the wicked in conjunction with the day of the Lord. Isaiah proclaims that “rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed” (Isaiah 1:28). Similar descriptions are seen in Zephaniah (1:15, 17, 18) and Hosea (13:3). The New Testament follows closely the Old Testament in describing the end of the wicked with words and pictures denoting total annihilation.
Jesus compared the utter destruction of the wicked to such things as the weeds that are bound in bundles to be burned (Matthew 13:30, 40), the bad fish that is thrown away (Matthew 13:48), the harmful plants that are rooted up (Matthew 15:13), the fruitless trees that are cut down (Luke 13:7), the withered branches that are burned up (John 15:6), the unfaithful tenants who are destroyed (Luke 20:16), the evil servant who will be cut in pieces (Matthew 24:51), the antediluvians who were destroyed by the Flood (Luke 17:27), the people of Sodom and Gomorrah who were destroyed by fire (Luke 17:29), and the rebellious servants who were slain at the return of their master (Luke 19:14, 27). They will be punished with everlasting destruction ...on the day he comes to be glorified." (2Thess 1:7-10)
 They will be punished with everlasting destruction ...on the day he comes to be glorified." (2Thess 1:7-10)
"...This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do NOT KNOW God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified." (2Thessalonians 1:7-10)(NIV)-BibleGateway
Christ will be the executioner of Jehovah's Will "For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth. For just a little while longer, and the wicked ones shall be no more: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace... The righteous shall inherit the earth, And dwell therein for ever... Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, And he will exalt thee to inherit the earth; When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it." (Psalm 37:9-11,29,34)(ASV)-BibleGateway
"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age." (Matthew 13:40)(NIV)-BibleGateway
"But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed." (Luke 17:29-30)(NIV)-BibleGateway All these illustrations graphically depict the ultimate destruction of the wicked. The contrast between the destiny of the saved and that of the lost is one of life versus destruction. "For the wages of sin is DEATH, but the gift of God is eternal life." (Romans 6:23)(NIV)-BibleGateway
"Go in through the narrow gate. The gate to destruction is wide, and the road that leads there is easy to follow. A lot of people go through that gate. But the gate to life is very narrow. The road that leads there is so hard to follow that only a few people find it." (Matthew 7:13,14)(CEV)-BibleGateway Did you notice that the two choices are "roads" that lead to either life or death, and not heaven or hell ???? "See, I set before you today life and prosperity, (or) death and destruction." (Deuteronomy 30:15)(NIV)-BibleGateway "Thus saith Jehovah: 'Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.' " (Jeremiah 21:8)(ASV)-BibleGateway
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2nd Death - PERMANENT, irreversible, Forever and COMPLETE - an - UTTER DESTRUCTION with NO CHANCE of ever RETURNING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Another example is found in 2 Thessalonians 1:9, where Paul, speaking of those who reject the gospel, says :
“They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction...” (2Thessalonians 1:9) (RSV) -BibleGateway "It is evident that the destruction itself cannot be eternal in its duration. Instead eternal Destruction presupposes a forever type of annihilation." -College and University Dialogue; Hell: Eternal torment or annihilation? by Samuele Bacchiocchi -From the Book - Immortality or Resurrection? by Samuele Bacchiocchi Ph.D. Professor of religion Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan
"The destruction of the wicked is eternal, NOT because the process of destruction continues forever, but because the results are permanent. " -College and University Dialogue; Hell: Eternal torment or annihilation? by Samuele Bacchiocchi -From the Book - Immortality or Resurrection? by Samuele Bacchiocchi Ph.D. Professor of religion Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan The symbolic language of destruction is inescapable in the Book of Revelation. John describes with vivid imagery the consignment of the devil, the beast, the false prophet, death, Hades, and all the wicked into the lake of fire, which is “the second death” (Revelation 21:8; cf. 20:14; 2:11; 20:6).
Jews frequently used the phrase “second death” to describe the final, irreversible death. Numerous examples can be found in the Targum, the Aramaic translation and interpretation of the Old Testament. For example, the Targum on Isaiah 65:6 reads:
“Their punishment shall be in Gehenna where the fire burns all the day. Behold, it is written before me: ‘I will not give them respite during life but will render them the punishment of their transgressions and will deliver their bodies to the second death.’” -M. McNamara, The New Testament and the Palestinian Targum to the Pentateuch; pg. 123 (New York: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1978)
"The most we can say is that the rebellious will be cast from the presence of God, without any hope of restoration.” -William Crockett, Four Views of Hell; pg. 61 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992) 
Not All Good People Go To Heaven Why ? (click-here) .

A "New Earth" For the Meek (click-here) 
Mankind Faces Divine Punishment (click-here) 
This World is Passing Away (click-here) 
Just a Little While Longer (click-here) 
Why is God So Angry ? (click-here) 
Salvation Requires "Obedience" (click-here) to read more 
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