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Amen:
The Hebrew of the Old Testament reveals to us that the Scriptural Hebrew word (which means: so be it, or verily, or surely) is "Amein" and not "Amen." Likewise, the Greek equivalent in the Greek New Testament is pronounced: "Amein." The Egyptians, including the Alexandrians, had been worshiping, or been acquainted with, the head of the Egyptian pantheon, Amen-Ra, the great Sun-deity, for more than one thousand years BC Before he was known as Amen-Ra, he was known as Amen among the Thebans.
According to Funk and Wagnall's Standard College Dictionary, AMEN was the god of life and procreation in Egyptian religion, and later identified with the Sun God as the supreme deity and called "Amen-Ra." Smith's Bible Dictionary and Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought agree.
The deity, Yahushua, calls Himself "the Amein" in Revelation 3: 14.
Scripture:
The term "Scripture (or Scriptures)" was used once in the Book of Daniel and fifty-four times in the New Testament. It refers to the whole book, which is commonly known as "the Bible." The parts of The Scripture, or individual books, are called "books" or "scrolls," which are biblos or biblion in Greek. These words do not refer to the complete writ, The Scriptures.
The word "Bible" for The Scriptures was first used about AD 400. The papyrus, on which all documents were written, was imported from Egypt through the Phoenician seaport Gebal, which the Greeks called Byblos or Byblus. This seaport was the home of the Phoenician Sun God. This city was founded by Baal Chronos and was the seat of Adonis and once contained a large temple of Adonis. The Sun God is associated with the "Lady of Biblos." Both the city of Byblos in Phoenicia and the city Byblis in Egypt were named after the Goddess Byblis (also called Byble or Biblis). This deity is the granddaughter of Apollo, the Greek Sun God. Byblia is also a name for a Goddess much like Venus, the astral Goddess and a Goddess of sensuality among the Greeks.
Christ:
The Greeks used both the word Messias (a transliteration) and Christos (a translation) for the Hebrew Mashiach (Anointed). The word Christos is far more acceptable to some Pagans who worship Chreston and Chrestos.
According to The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, the word Christos was easily confused with the common Greek proper name Chrestos, meaning "good." According to a French theological dictionary, it is absolutely beyond doubt that Christus and Chrestus, and Christiani and Chrestiani were used indifferently by the profane Christian authors of the first two centuries AD The word Christianos is a Latinism, being contributed neither by the Jews nor by the Christians themselves. The word was introduced from one of three origins: the Roman police, the Roman populace, or an unspecified Pagan origin. Its infrequent use in the New Testament suggests a Pagan origin.
According to Realencyclopaedie, the inscription Chrestos is to be seen on a Mithras relief in the Vatican. According to Christianity and Mythology, Osiris, the Sun God of Egypt, was reverenced as Chrestos. In the Synagogue of the Marcionites on Mount Hermon, built in the third century AD, the Messiah's title is spelled Chrestos. According to Tertullian and Lactantius, the common people usually called Christ Chrestos.
Church:
This is the word used in most English versions as a rendering of the Greek "ekklesia." The Greek word means "a calling out," "a meeting," or "a gathering." Ekklesia is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew qahal, which means an assembly or a congregation.
The origin of the word "church" is kuriakon or kyriakon in Greek. The meaning is a building (the house of Kurios, or Lord).
Dictionaries give the origin of "church" as the Anglo-Saxon root, circe. Circe is the goddess-daughter of Helios, a Sun God. The word circe is related to "circus," "circle," "circuit," and "circulate." The common meeting place for many ancient and modern Pagans is that of a “circle.
Circe is a Greek Goddess whose name is written and pronounced as Kirke. The word "church" is known in Scotland as kirk, in Germany as Kirche, and in Netherlands as kerk.
Cross:
The words "cross" and "crucify" are mistranslation, a "later rendering," of the Greek words stauros and stauroo. According to Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, STAUROS denotes, primarily, an upright pole or stake. The shape of the two-beamed cross had its origin in ancient Chaldea and is the symbol of the God, Tammuz. In the third century AD, Pagans infiltrated the apostate ecclesiastical system and retained the Pagan signs and symbols.
According to The Companion Bible, crosses are used as symbols of the Babylonian Sun God. The evidence is complete; the Nazarene man-god was put to death upon an upright stake, not on two pieces of timber placed at a right angle.
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, in the Egyptian churches, the cross is a Pagan symbol of life incorporated into Christendom and interpreted in the Pagan manner.
According to Greek dictionaries and lexicons, the primary meaning of stauros is an upright pale, pole, or stake. The secondary meaning of "cross" is admitted to be a "later" rendering. In spite of the evidence, almost all common versions of the Scriptures persist with the Latin Vulgate's crux (meaning cross) as the rendering of the Greek stauros.
The most accepted reason for the "cross" being brought into Messianic worship is Constantine's famous vision of "the cross superimposed on the sun" in AD 312. What he saw is nowhere to be found in Christian scripture. Even after his so-called "conversion," his coins showed an even-armed cross as a symbol for the Sun God. Many scholars have doubted the "conversion" of Constantine because of the deeds that he did afterwards.
After Constantine had the "vision of the cross," he promoted another variety of the cross, the Chi-Rho or Labarum. This has been explained as representing the first letters of the name Christos (CH and R, or, in Greek, X and P). The identical symbols are found as inscriptions on stone, dating from ca. 2500 BC, being interpreted as "a combination of the two Sun-symbols." Another evidence of its Pagan origin is that the identical symbol is found on the coin of Ptolemeus III from 247-222 BC
According to An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols, the labarum is also an emblem of the Chaldean Sky-God. Emperor Constantine adopted the labarum as the imperial ensign. According to Dictionary of Mythology Folklore and Symbols, the symbol was in use long before Christianity. Chi stands for Great Fire or Sun. Rho stands for Pater or Patah (Father). The word labarum yields "everlasting Father Sun."
God:
Gad is a Syrian or Canaanite God of good luck or fortune. In Hebrew, it is written GD, but with Massoretic vowel pointing, it gives us "Gad." Other Scriptural references to a similar deity, also written GD, have a vowel pointing giving us "Gawd" or "God." Gad is cognitive with Jupiter, the Sky-God.
The word "God (or god)" is a title, translating the Hebrew Elohim (or elohim), El (or el), and Eloah. However, it is often used as a substitute for the Tetragrammaton (YHVH).
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, GOD is the common Teutonic word for a personal object of religious worship, applied to all the superhuman beings of the Pagan legend. The word "God" upon the attempted conversion of the Teutonic cultures to Christianity was adopted as the name of the “one supreme being”. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics and Webster’s Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged agrees that the origin is Teutonic Paganism.
In Indo-Germanic dictionaries, only one word resembles "God." It is ghodh and is pronounced the same. This word means union, including sexual union or mating. According to Luneburger Wörterbuch, the following are the same word: Gott, got, gode, gade, god and guth (gud).
Glory:
The Greek word doxa in the Greek translations of the Old Testament and of the New Testament is usually rendered "glory" in the English versions, a translation of the Latin gloria. The Hebrew word kabod is usually rendered "honor" when applied to man, but rendered "glory" when applied to their deity. Doxa means opinion, estimation, esteem, and repute. Kabad means to be heavy or make weighty, and esteem in its figurative sense.
Funk and Wagnall’s New Standard Dictionary of the English Language has these three definitions under "glory," as follows:
(1) in religious symbolism, the complete representation of an emanation of light from the person of a sanctified being, consisting of the aureole and the nimbus;
(2) the quality of being radiant; as the glory of the sun;
(3) any ring of light; a halo. Neither the Hebrew words kabod and kabad nor the Greek words doxa and dokeo carry these meanings.
The Church identifies Elohim with a Sun God, which is the prevailing God of the Romanus Pagans, the Roman capital, and the Roman Empire. Gloria, a Roman Goddess, is honored on an icon as a feminine form whose upper body is almost naked, holding a circle of zodiac signs. In dictionaries, encyclopedias, and ecclesiastical books are found many illustrations of our Jesus, the Virgin, and the Saints, encircled with radiant circles or emanations of light around them.
Holy:
The Hebrew word qodesh and the equivalent Greek word hagios and their derivatives have been translated as holy, hallowed, or sanctified in older English versions, and in modern versions as sacred. Bible dictionaries state that the meaning of qodesh (as well as qadash) specifies "separation." Modern scholars use the words "set apart," "set-apart," and "apartness."
According to Dictionary of Mythology Folklore and Symbols, the following is stated about the word “holy”: In practically all languages, the word "holy" has been derived from the divinely honored sun. According to Encyclopedia of Religions, HOLI is the Great Hindu spring festival, held in honor of Krishna, as the spring Sun God. Strong's Concordance refers to "heile" (the sun's rays). This form is almost identical to the German and Dutch equivalent of the English "holy." The German and Dutch word is heilig, which is derived from Heil, the name of a Saxon God.
Jesus:
The original name of the Christian savior was not Jesus or Iesous, but Jehoshua or Yehoshua. In their sacred text, his father's name was given to him. The father's name is Yahuweh.
Two factors contributed greatly to the substitution and the distortion of this name. The first was the teaching of the Jews that the Hebrew God’s name is not to be uttered and that the name must be "disguised" outside of the temple of Jerusalem. The second factor was the strong anti-Judaism feeling that prevailed amongst the Gentiles.
According to Wörterbuch der Antike, the substitute name can be traced back to the Latin Iesus and the Greek Iesous. Then, it can be traced back to an adaptation of the name of the Greek healing Goddess Ieso. This is confirmed by Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. To Greek Pagans who venerate a healing Goddess Ieso, a In spite of attempts to justify the "translating" of the Hebrew God’s name and his son's name, it cannot be done. A person's name remains the same in all languages.
The father of the Greek Goddess Ieso is Asclepius, the God of healing. The father of Asclepius is Apollo, the great Sun God. Thus, the name Iesous can be traced to its rightful place in Sun worship. There is also a relationship to the Egyptian Goddess Isis and her son Isu. According to Reallexikon der Agpyptischen Religionsgeschichte, the name of Isis appears in hieroglyphic inscriptions as ESU or ES. Isu and Esu sound exactly like "Jesu". There are other sources of stolen names in other cultures and other languages.
Esus is a Celt God cognitive to the Scandinavian Donder. The Greek abbreviation for Iesous is IHS, which is found on many inscriptions made by the Church during the Middle Ages. IHS was the worshiper’s name for Bacchus (Tammuz), another Sun God. These are but a few examples.
Lord:
The title "lord" is applied to all Heathen or Pagan Gods, if the word "God" is not used for them. In most cases "lord" and "god" are used interchangeably for Pagan Gods.
There was an Etruscan house God whose name is Lar, which signified "Lord." It is also known as Larth, who later becomes very popular in Rome and is known as Lares (plural) because of their plurality of nature. The Greek equivalent of this name is Heros, which is another name for Zeus. A feminine form is known as Lara, who is the beloved of the God, Mercury.
Lar and Larth mean Lord. The letters "th" and "d" or “dh” are virtually interchangeably used, in various cultural belief systems. It is also common to find "o" and "a" interchangeably used in Old and Middle English. The word "Lord" can also be traced back to Loride, a surname for the Teutonic God, Thor, and to Lordo, who is called Donder, another God.
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