Originally Posted by DD2007 View Post
… It is better to just follow it as opposed to leaning on the false crutch of the traditions of men.
There you go with that a-C polemic again.
The fact is that because SS is not taught in the Bible, you have based your entire religion upon the errant modern teachings of men because their interpretation does not hold up to the simple reading of the New Testament it claims to be based upon.
Furthermore, I am of the opinion that this passage that you have cited better applies to you and those who taught you these errors.
It is one reason that Galatians 1:8 actually applies to those who so often seek to hang it on us Catholics.
If you look in history pre Catholic you see that mother child worship is nothing new. It predated the letters of the new testament and it would be very likely that most people of the time would have been aware of it. Keeping that in mind you can see a reference in Luke as to Jesus and His reply.
Luke 11:27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”
28 But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Semiramis, who was both Nimrod’s wife and mother, was worshiped as the "mother of god"and a “fertility goddess” because she had to be extremely fertile to give birth to all the pagan incarnate gods that represented Nimrod. She was worshiped throughout the world by each the titles associated with Nimrod’s worship, in addition to many titles unique to herself (Table 2, page 15). For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Semiramis include: Aphrodite and Venus, the goddess of love; Artemis and Diana, the goddess of hunting and childbirth85; Athena and Minerva, the goddess of crafts, war and wisdom86; Demeter and Ceres, the goddess of growing things87; Gaea and Terra, symbol of the fertile earth88; Hera and Juno, the protector of marriage and women, who was the sister and wife of Zeus in Greek mythology, and the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology89; Hestia and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth90; plus Rhea or Ops, who was wife and sister of the Greek horned-god Kronos.91
The Egyptian mother and child were worshiped as Isis with the infant Osiris or Horus seated on his mother’s lap. In India, the mother and child were called Devaki and Krishna, and also Isi and Iswara as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as Cybele and Deoius; in pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms.
The image of mother with child in her arms was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that by the time Christianity appeared on the scene in 30 A.D., The virgin Mary with her god-incarnate son Jesus. Thus, the pagan mother and child mirrors, Christianity as the Roman Catholic worship of Mary with the infant Jesus. In fact, in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of the madonna and child as devoutly worshiped as they were in Rome. Shing Moo, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her, exactly as if she had been fashioned by Roman Catholic artisans.
Judges 98
Later, during the time of the prophet Jeremiah, the Jews worshiped the queen of heaven so devoutly that they could not be convinced to give up this paganism even after Jerusalem had been burnt and the land desolated due to this very pagan worship:
Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: “As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven [Semiramis] and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil. But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” And the women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?
This post is in reference to provable history in the reading of ancient script from archaeologist sites.
