The Babylonian Roots of "The Trinity"

Babylon has always been the enemy of God and His people. The whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, speaks of Babylon as a wicked place. Babylon always wants to change the worship of God’s true people. God’s true people have always worshipped the one true and living God. Babylon wants them to worship their gods.

Babylon did not begin in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Its history goes back to Genesis chapter 10. Here we find Nimrod, the “Mighty Hunter.” This actually refers to a mighty rebel, or one mighty in sin. Nimrod became a proverb for an Apostate, or one in rebellion against God.

Nimrod founded Babel, in the plain of Shinar. Chapter 11 of Genesis tells us of a great rebellion that took place here. The people started to build a great tower. They wanted to reach heaven. However, they were doing it man’s way, not God’s.

Nimrod had a wife named Semiramis. Legend tells us that Nimrod was killed in a violent way. The legend continues to state that he was reincarnated in the son of Semiramis. This son was called Tammuz. Nimrod, by now considered a God, was also worshipped in Tammuz as “El-Bar” or “God the Son.”

A Triad or Trinity of Gods was born in Babylon. Many nations had this same legend passed to them. They may have changed the names, but the triad remained the same. There was a father (god), a mother (god), and a son (god).

From Babylon the idea of a Triad or Trinity went far. The Chaldean sun god, called Mithra, was called “Triple”. The Trinitarian idea of the Chaldeans was a doctrine from the Akkadians. The Akkadians lived in Babylon from earliest times. (1) The Babylonians also worshipped the moon in its’ manifestation of three (3) lunar cycles, or phases. The Babylonians had three names for the sun: Babel, Arach and Akkan. The Chaldeans also had a trinity consisting of Bel-Saturn, Jupiter- Bel and Bel or Baal. (2)

In Babylon an interesting thing happened to the Father, Mother and Son. A bird came to represent the Mother God, Semiramis. That bird was a dove. Now we have a Father, a Son and a Dove. The Dove and the Mother are one and the same. To this day, among many Catholics, Mary, called the mother of God, is divine. She is considered equal to the other members of the Godhead.

In the fourth century there were many changes in the church. A Roman Emperor named Constantine was “converted” to Christianity. Before his so-called conversion he worshipped Mithra, a Chaldean sun-god. Constantine used the sun as a symbol, before and after his “conversion”. In Constantinople, a city named after him, he set up an idol of the mother-goddess Cybele. She was presented in a posture of Christian prayer. (3)

Mithraism, the pagan religion of Constantine, was the most popular religion in the 3rd and 4th centuries. In the chart at the end of this brochure you will note that Mithra was the “Son” of the Persian triad, as well as the sun god of the Chaldeans. Mithraism, and Catholicism were competing religions. When Constantine embraced Catholicism the religion called Mithraism suddenly disappeared. We would like to believe that Mithraism ceased to exist. It actually became one with Catholicism. “The Sun-God entered the Temple of his rival, and through the Apocryphal teachings that which pretended to be the Christian Church became the Catholic Church of Mithras-Christos.” (4)

Throughout the Roman Empire and around the known world, Catholicism became the official religion. However the pagan gods were still worshipped. All they did was change the name of the God. The Father, whether Jupiter or Zeus, became “God the Father”. The Son, Mithra or Tammuz, became God the Son. The Mother, or Dove, whether Isis or Ashteroth, became God the Spirit.

Babylon is among the originators of the Trinity. Beginning with Nimrod, Tammuz and Semiramis, it spread to the whole world. All heathen religions developed a triad. When the Nicean Creed was framed in 325 A.D., The Church accepted from Babylon what all the world religions had already accepted from Babylon. No wonder many converted so easily. It was the same God with a different name.

The battle continues today. Babylon wants people to forsake the One True God, and worship a triad of Gods.

“If it be so, Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us... But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy GODS, nor worship the image that thou hast set up.” Daniel 3:17,18


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