

### The Major Satanic Practices in Christianity

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### Copyright 2017 David Solomon

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### Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Author's Foreword

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE: The Adoption of 'Saturnalia' As Christmas

CHAPTER TWO: The Adoption of 'Ishtar' As Easter

CHAPTER THREE: The Adoption of the Pagan Sunday Worship

CHAPTER FOUR: Conclusion

About the Author

Other Titles from the Author

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The Trinity: Why Men Made Jesus God

Dedication

This little book is dedicated to the Almighty God and all faithful Christians who have been misled by the teachings of men and those who mislead them.

Acknowledgements

I wish to acknowledge Almighty God for giving me the grace to write this book.

I am also thankful to the hundreds of writers and the authors of the various articles and books I have read, most especially some that emanated from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and Ellen G. White, the Author of the book, 'The Great Controversy'. Perhaps in the history of mankind, no single organization or person on earth has done so much research on the issues discussed in this book like they have done.

While we must not believe everything people want us to believe, we can always find some truths in what many of them write, no matter how few.

I also wish to thank my entire family for their motivation in so many ways, most especially my wife who is the first person to proofread the book and make valuable suggestions and my elder brother, who believes, more than anyone else on earth apart from me, that I can do this.
Author's Foreword

My intention is not to ridicule anyone's beliefs. If I have done so it is unintentional. The truth is one cannot tell the truth without offending those who believe in the existing lies.

After I gave out my other book, The _Trinity: How Men Made Jesus God_ to a few Pastors for their contribution, I was not surprised that some admitted that I have a message. However, most of them believe I cannot change the beliefs held by many Churches about the Trinity Doctrine with 'just a book'. I accepted that I cannot but the Almighty God can use the book to bring about a great awareness of His truth. It is up to anyone to accept this truth or dismiss it.

Verily I did not necessarily write _The Trinity: How Men Made Jesus God_ or this book, _The Major Satanic Practices in Christianity_ , because I want to change the beliefs of my Christian brothers and sisters. I cannot change anyone's beliefs. Only God can do that. I wrote the books simply because I want everyone to know the truth.

If you believe in a triune God and you ignorantly and faithfully partake in these satanic practices, it's your mindset towards The Most High God and His truth that I pray He will change through the books. I simply cannot change what you believe. Only The Most High God can do that and I pray to Him to do just that.

I am of the opinion that, these days, knowing the truth alone is not enough to set one free. When you know the truth in your heart, and believe in it and apply or practice it, The Most High God can use that to set you free. I say this because some know the truth but either do not believe it or deliberately refuse to apply it to their Christian lives for many reasons. The truth may not set you free that way because it makes the truth of little or no value.

What's the purpose of the Truth if it makes no difference in the lives of those who were ignorant of it in the first place and now know it?

I was encouraged to also publish this book because many believe that as they celebrate Christmas, Easter and go to Church on Sundays, they are doing what God wants them to do. Unknown to many, like the Trinity Doctrine, these are also beliefs and practices that originated from the pit of darkness

It is my fervent prayers that Almighty God will grant all who read this book the wisdom to understand where I am coming from and where I intend to go. Amen.
Introduction

Quite a few numbers of Christians are becoming aware that what is happening in Christendom today is largely dictated by the Clergy rather than the Bible. Sadly, the majority of Christians today cannot differentiate between what the Bible really says and what their Pastors teach. They believe that all what they are taught by their Pastors and others are the truth of the Bible so they lack the will to question their sometimes misrepresented knowledge and man-made authority.

This is the greatest error on the part of Christians as many wolves have found their ways into the flock, tearing at those who cannot discern between biblical truths and man-made lies.

There is really not much that is new in what you are about to read in this e-book. The issues discussed, Christmas, Easter and the Sunday-Sunday worship, are well known to Christians all over the world. What they do not know is that in celebrating Christmas or Easter or worshipping on Sundays they are not only disobeying Almighty God but directly obeying the teachings of Satan the devil. This is not to say that worshipping Almighty God on Sundays is wrong. We can worship Almighty God any day, anytime and anywhere but not at the expense of the day He has set aside Himself for us to worship Him.

Genuine Christians admit that we are all sinners but when we sin and deliberately obey what the devil teaches, as against what God teaches, we are placing The Most High God beneath the devil in our lives. It's like spitting on the face of God and embracing Satan. Why do we always find it difficult to do what God wants us to do?

I implore readers to just be patient and read through all I have compiled so that they can make informed decisions by themselves. Do not wait for your Church Pastor to denounce a well accepted lie first because he may never do so. Let the change start from you and the Church will follow because you are the most important person in your Church congregation in the eyes of Almighty God.

I am a believer in our Lord Jesus Christ and his teachings in the Bible. If I have to choose between what The Most High God is quoted to say in the Bible through the Prophets, Jesus Christ himself or his Disciples and what all other preachers preach from the pulpit explaining what they _think_ of the teachings in the Bible, I would chose the former in its literal sense. Sadly, most people chose to believe what their Pastors teach them at the expense of what the Bible teaches.

The bitter truth is many Pastors are not inspired to teach all what they teach. Behind a few of whatever they preach to us is a hidden agenda that will help them achieve their personal desired goals and objectives, whatever these may be.

I am not a conformist but one who is mostly driven by biblical truth and human logic where biblical truth may not sufficiently direct me. Where there are biblical statements available to direct me I keep human reason aside. I am not perfect and I am aware that nobody is perfect. My innate desire is to know the truth in most things concerning my life, most especially those things that directly affect my existence as a person. I do not, and cannot, bring myself to believe things that I cannot support with the teachings of the Bible.

Unlike the Trinity Doctrine which many may 'insinuate' from biblical teachings, Christmas, Easter and Sunday worship are totally and completely not festivities or days of worship 'insinuated' in the Bible or instituted by Almighty God. This has made it somehow difficult to discuss it widely as one can only find a few scriptures to quote and discuss concerning these festive days.

My not having the 'misfortune' of being indoctrinated from childhood with whatever people _think_ to be the truth of God from the scriptures has now become a blessing according to God's Will. Probably, if I were indoctrinated from childhood, I would have believed everything our Pastors and Teachers preach from the pulpit, whether they are biblical truths or doctrines of demons. Teach a child the way you want him to go and he will never depart from it.

What I have written about are things you can hardly hear from the mouth of many Catholic or Protestant Church Pastors or Preachers. Though a few may agree that what I have written is mostly the truth, they will never publicly accept it. This is because they will either lose their jobs, if they are under a larger Church, or lose their main source of income if they are the 'owners' of their Churches. This is the last thing any Pastor would want if he or she must remain relevant in doing 'The work of God', a very difficult but lucrative thing to do.

Let us face the facts: some of our Pastors do not deserve the position we put them in our hearts. They are not only financially corrupt but morally perverse. Some are the least qualified to preach God's Word. I personally know some of what a few Pastors do. These are not men that can ever speak the truth as long as it will reduce or stop the inflow of the ready cash they make while they stand on the pulpit to preach the Word. If they have the option of telling a lie continuously to get more people to their Churches they would do so without considering the spiritual repercussions not only on their lives but on the lives of members of their flocks. Let us not forget that billions of Dollars change hands every Sunday in the Church business all over the world.

I am not a Pastor, a popular Preacher or a Teacher. I am just a plain Bible believing Christian whom The Most High God has blessed enough to compile this book. All I have written, I am convinced in my heart, are the truth. You may think otherwise but I am entitled to my opinions just like you are to yours. I believe it will be in the best interest of those who read what I have written to take a stand and do the right thing irrespective of what others may think. Your destiny is in your hands when it comes to making informed decisions.

I have discovered that, in most cases, many do not have enough time to reason with the scriptures on some of the teachings and doctrines forced down their throats by our Pastors, Preachers and Teachers of the Word of God. Because these groups of blessed people are not perfect, some of their interpretations of God's Words may suffer the same imperfection thereby placing us on the wrong path to God's Glory.

I have tried as much as possible to back up any statement made in this book with either the scriptures or at least historical facts. This is mainly to assist those who believe in some issues discussed to have a broader perspective of what they believe in.

This is my personal attempt to reveal the truth of scripture to the readers, as it is written:

Proverbs 3:5-6

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths".

Trusting God is trusting in His Word as it is revealed to you in the Bible and not the way men understand His Word. I belief Almighty God is directing my paths. Just put aside all sentiments and allow Him to direct yours too.Amen.

Welcome to a part of the Truths about God's Commandments.
CHAPTER ONE

The Adoption of 'Saturnalia' As Christmas

Perhaps it was the plan of Almighty God to send Jesus Christ, at a time when the Pagan Roman Empire was the reigning world power, to preach the Gospel and be killed for his unique and distinct message which even the priests of his times found very difficult to accept. After he was killed, his very few followers then had the very difficult task of carrying on his message of salvation for mankind all over the world.

Today, because of the spread of the religion and the strong belief and faith Christians have on Jesus Christ and The Most High God, we can say that his disciples successfully carried out this task. But the truth is Christianity, as it was originally meant to be practiced, did not reach the four corners of the world without the scars it sustained from the religious rituals and practices of the pagan environment from which it spread out to the inhabitants of the world.

The very bitter truth every Christian must accept today is that the wounds sustained by Christianity, after its confrontation with the pagan world of those times with their numerous pagan beliefs and practices, have now become the scars on Christians' beliefs and practices. Some of these pagan beliefs and practices are clearly still being practiced in the Catholic Churches as they have been turned into Christian doctrines.

When the Disciples of Jesus Christ left the shores of Israel for the lands of those who still practiced different forms of idolatry to preach about the Gospel they met a people who already had many feasts to celebrate to their pagan deities, 'gods', 'Mothers of gods' and 'Son's of gods'. It is quite interesting that a few of the disciples came across such idol worshippers even in the land of Israel while they were preaching.

Christians all over the world know about the existence of paganism and idol worship today but many do not know, or as I understand it, do not want to know, how the worship of idols started. It surely was a practice the early people indulged in for a reason as captured in the Bible.

Historical evidence that have not yet been debunked suggests that idol worship originated soon after the dispersal.

We all know the story of Nimrod, the great and mighty warrior in the Bible who the king when man set out to build the tower of Babel. Nimrod was so powerful that he was able to coordinate the people to achieve this goal. He was already well respected by everyone then that they do whatever he wants them to do and obey all his commandments. Because of his power and wisdom he was revered almost as a god before his shameful death.

After he died he was said to have ascended to the Sun, which is believed to be the source of life, and was being worshipped by those who do not know that God made the sun. To them the Sun was a mystery they cannot understand and that was what they worshipped. This is why they make their prayer and supplication by facing eastwards when they pray. That is where the Sun rises from.

This takes us to the question of how paganism or pagan practices found its way into Christianity.

There are as many opinions as there may be mountains on earth about how pagan practices and teachings crept into Christianity. I believe one sounds so true mainly because it has its major roots in the Old Testament.

Going back to the times the Disciples of Jesus Christ arrived in Rome and the surrounding territories we find that the guys did a very good job of spreading the Gospel of Christ. But old habits die hard. Idolatry was the most prevalent religion in the world then and was the norm. People worship their various gods in many ways not too different from the rest. When the disciples arrived with their messages, the pagans half believed their teachings but due to the fear of their pagan leaders and the many decrees from their pagan Roman leaders, they do not attend Church meetings and where they do they do so secretly.

However, the knowledge of a Supreme God became widespread and many pagans began to see the light in the new religion mostly aided by their own beliefs in the existence of gods and sons of gods.

During the times the Disciples preached the Gospel themselves, there were no compromises made between them and the new converts. It was either you accept the faith as you were being taught by those who were with Jesus Christ when he came or remain in your pagan faith.

Over time, all the Disciples were killed for their teachings of strange doctrines that called the gods the pagans were worshipping demons from the pits of hell. Killed and buried with the Disciples were the early Church fathers and the basic teachings of the Gospel. It was now replaced with a mixture of true Christianity and paganism, a strange concoction that is presently called Christianity today.

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual religious and cultural festival to celebrate the day of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated by billions of people all over the world on December 25th of every year.

While Christmas day is a public holiday in many secular countries in the world, some Christians do not celebrate that day, or any other day for that matter, as the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is primarily because the actual birth day of Jesus Christ is not specified in the scriptures neither is it explicitly known to historians, making Jesus Christ one of the very few important personalities on earth whose day of birth is not written in stone.

Many Christians who celebrate Christmas actually believe that the birth date of our Lord Jesus Christ is December 25th. But Jesus Christ and his disciples never celebrated his birthday nor is there any scriptural verse in the Bible that encourages us to celebrate his birth, death and resurrection. This means the celebration of Christmas is not biblical. Since it is not biblical then where did it originate from? Whom do we actually honor when we celebrate Christmas? In other words, who's 'Commandment' are Christians obeying when they celebrate Christmas since it was not ordained by Almighty God or Jesus Christ himself?

Some Christians would like to think that it doesn't matter if Jesus Christ himself or his disciples celebrated the day he was born or not, claiming that Christmas celebration is just to 'honor' Jesus and put the date of birth of the greatest man that ever lived in our minds forever. To these groups of Christians, it does not matter if Christ was actually born on December 25th, September 11th or July 4th. What matters is the spirit behind the celebration of that day as his birthday.

I do not think there is anyone on earth who would like to have his birthday celebrated on a day he or she was not born. Simply put, that day is not his birth date. Worse still, I do not think anyone would like to have his or her birthday celebrated on the same day his or her self-appointed enemy's birthday is being celebrated just because they do not know the day he or she was born. It is certainly the worst thing that can happen to the memory of a man or woman whose birthday is determined, not by the day they were born but by their self-imposed enemy.

No matter how we may understand this issue of Christmas day celebration, it is another clear example of how people clearly obey the doctrines of men while rejecting the Commandments of The Most High God.

On what particular date or period was Jesus Christ born? Let us see if we can learn anything about the actual date or period of his birth from the scriptures.

Reading from the scriptures, the most popular account of the birth of Jesus is given in the book of Luke.

Luke 2:1-11

"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child".

"And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord".

Two things are made very clear in the scriptures regarding the period Jesus Christ was born:

1. Just before he was born a census was due to be carried out and

2. Shepherds were in the field feeding their flocks when he was born.

In most parts of the world today December is a part of the winter season where the weather is cold, in some places, extremely cold. Historians have conducted tests on the weather condition around Bethlehem where Jesus was born to see the weather condition that possibly may have existed then.

I wish to relate the admission of Werner Keller in his book 'The Bible as History:

"Meteorologists have made exact recordings of the temperature at Hebron. This spot in the southern highlands of Judah exhibits the same climatic conditions as Bethlehem, which is not far distant. The temperature readings show over a period of three months that the incidence of frost is as follows: December -- 2.8 degrees; January -- 1.6 degrees; February ---0.1 degrees. The first two months have also the greatest rainfall in the year: approximately 6 inches in December, and nearly 8 inches in January. According to all existing information the climate of Palestine has not changed appreciably in the last 2,000 years, consequently modern meteorological observations can be taken as a basis".

All over the world there has not been a very significant change in the temperatures of many areas. While there may be very slight variations in temperatures reading in many areas over a period of time due to many factors, it is generally accepted that the winter season is the winter season while fall is fall and spring is spring.

Werner Keller continues:

"At Christmas-time Bethlehem is in the grip of frost, and in the Promised Land no cattle would have been in the fields in that temperature. This fact is borne out by a remark in the Talmud to the effect that in that neighborhood the flocks were put out to grass in March and brought in again at the beginning of November. They remained out in the open for almost eight months... Around Christmas-time nowadays both animals and shepherds are under cover in Palestine".

Many who discuss the date of birth of our Lord Jesus Christ based on the period the Bible say he was born are of the right opinion that the Roman leader of that period would not have ordered for a national taxation (some other translations say it was a census) to be carried out during the winter season because he knows people may have to travel through the extreme weather condition to their towns and villages.

This makes sense because there were no cars or trains then. While the rich can afford to travel on donkeys, camels and horses, many make their journeys on foot. They have to pass through snow filled mountainous areas in most cases with the entire members of their family including infants, and children. It just makes no sense that a King or leader would subject his people to such a difficult situation.

Another important contributor to this most probable view can be found in the Adam Clarke Commentary, volume 5, page 370, New York edition:

"It was custom among Jews to send out their sheep to the deserts about the Passover [early spring], and bring them home at the commencement of the first rain. During the time they were out, the shepherds watched them night and day. As...the first rain began early in the month of March-esvan, which answers to part of our October and November [begins sometime in October], we find that the sheep were kept out in the open country during the whole summer. And as these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of December, when no flocks were out in the fields; nor could He have been born later than September, as the flocks were still in the fields by night. On this very ground, the nativity in December should be given up. The feeding of the flocks by night in the fields is a chronological fact..."

Many historians in the past have tried to fix particular dates for the birth of Jesus from historical and scriptural calculations.

The DePascha Computus, an anonymous document believed to have been written in North Africa around 243 CE, placed Jesus birth on March 28. Clement, a Bishop of Alexandria who died in 215 CE), thought Jesus was born on November 18. Based on historical records, Fitzmyer, a scholar, guesses that Jesus birth occurred on September 11th.

The fact is the Bible did not tell us the date Jesus Christ was born. If it were a date to be celebrated I believe it would have been stated. Jesus Christ never celebrated his own birthday. None of his disciples celebrated his birthday after he died neither did the early Christians celebrate it for over three hundred years after he resurrected.

Readers must understand that because nothing is mentioned about Christmas or the birthday of Jesus in the scriptures many of those who write about its origin are forced to quote from writers of historical facts. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of such facts available tell us that Christmas was most definitely a pagan religious observance that was assimilated into Christianity for many reasons. The facts are there for anyone who wants to know to see.

Renowned historians and hundreds of commentators are on the same page on this issue that Jesus Christ most certainly was not born on December 25th and celebrating birthdays is not a Christian tradition.

The Reverend Mather of Boston observed in 1687 that:

"The early Christians who first observed the Nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking that Christ was born in that Month, but because the Heathens' Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome, and they were willing to have those Pagan Holidays metamorphosed into Christian ones'. Because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681. However, Christmas was and still is celebrated by most Christians".

How then did the December 25th date come to be associated with the birth day of Jesus Christ?

During the time of Jesus Christ, the Romans were the world rulers. They were mostly pagans because the gospel of Jesus was yet to be preached to them. However, as pagans, they have their own idols that they worship for hundreds of years after the dispersion.

Images of several of their gods were already being worshipped in so many ways and these images adorn the walls of their temples. One of the most popular gods being worshipped then was the Sun god, Mithras. Over time however, because of the influence of the religions of many conquered people, the worship of many other gods became predominant.

The worship of the Sun god dwindled for some time but was soon restored back to prominence by an Emperor by the name Aurelian, who decided, at a point, to build a befitting temple for his god Mithras, the Sun god.

In a book by historian Jack Finegan, Myth & Mystery: An Introduction to the Pagan Religions of the Biblical World, p. 211-212, he writes:

"...But the worship of the sun-god continued widely throughout the empire, and under Aurelian (A.D. 270-275), the cult was restored to its former high estate. In the year 274 Aurelian declared the god -- now called Deus Sol Invictus -- the official deity of the Roman Empire; he built a splendid temple of the sun in Rome...and set the sun's birthday celebration (naturalis solis Invicti) on December 25, the date then accepted for the winter solstice (the birthday of the Sun-god Mithras).

Finegan adds:

"In the time of Constantine the cult of Deus Sol Invictus was still at its height, and the portrait of the sun-god was on the coins of Constantine....Likewise it must have been in this time and with the intent to transform the significance of an existing sacred date that the birthday of Jesus, which had been celebrated in the East on January 6...was placed in Rome on December 25, the date of the birthday celebration of Sol Invictus. This date appears in a list of dates probably compiled in A.D. 336 and published in the Roman city calendar, edited by Filocalus, for the year 354".

Incidentally, many Christians who celebrate Christmas today agree that December 25th is not the real birthday of Jesus Christ but find nothing wrong in celebrating that day as the assumed birth day of Christ. It does not matter to them how and why December 25th was specifically chosen to be the birthday of Jesus Christ and who chose that day.

Come to think of it: Why was December 25th specifically chosen to be the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ and why do present day Christians celebrate Christmas when Almighty God did not tell us to do so? Could this be another of the numerous 'Doctrines of men' Jesus Christ and the disciples spoke about repeatedly in the Bible?

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"One theory to explain the choice of December 25 for the celebration of the birth of Jesus is that the purpose was to Christianize the pagan festival in Rome of the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, meaning "the birthday of the Unconquered Sun", a festival inaugurated by the Roman emperor Aurelian (270–275) to celebrate the sun god and celebrated at the winter solstice, December 25. According to this theory, during the reign of the emperor Constantine (306-337), Christian writers assimilated this feast as the birthday of Jesus, associating him with the "sun of righteousness" mentioned in Malachi 4:2 (Sol Iustitiae)".

This theory appears in an annotation of uncertain date added to a manuscript of a work by 12th-century Syrian Bishop Jacob Bar-Salibi. The scribe who added it wrote:

"It was a custom of the Pagans to celebrate on the same 25 December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. In these solemnities and revelries the Christians also took part. Accordingly when the doctors of the Church perceived that the Christians had a leaning to this festival, they took counsel and resolved that the true Nativity [birthday of Jesus Christ] should be solemnized on that day".

Historical records available everywhere for those who want to know reveal that hundreds of years before Jesus Christ was born the pagans have been celebrating that same day as the birthday of their Sun-god. This sun-god is being called with many names thousands of years ago depending on their environment, whether in Egypt, Rome or Germany or in the biblical areas of Judah, Israel, Damascus and Palestine.

In a paper, Unveiling the Christmas Story by Shannon Achey, the origin of this pagan practice is explained from Collier's Encyclopedia:

"The festival of Christmas was celebrated by pagan sun worshipers long before Yahshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) was ever born. It was originally called Saturnalia, or Paganalia. A great compromise started when the early Christians at Rome sought for a way to convert more pagans into Christianity. They knew that the pagans celebrated Saturnalia in late December, so they set the birth date of Yahshua to fall at that time. These pagans worshipped their sun god on December 25, as they kept the festival of Saturnalia. So the Church at Rome set Yahshua's birth date to be on December 25. They believed that this was a way to gain more converts to (the) Messiah. However, their intent was to increase the size of the Roman Church. This act allowed two major religions to become united, and everyone was happy, except for Yahweh!"

It is clear from the above that the idea to celebrate Christmas on the same day that the pagans celebrate the god that they worship was made by men for the purpose of gaining converts into Christianity and maintaining peace between the two opposing religions.

Shannon continues:

"After the triumph of Constantine, the Church at Rome assigned December 25 as the date for the celebration of the feast (Messiah's birth), possibly about 320 AD or 353 AD. By the end of the fourth century the whole Christian world was celebrating Christmas on that day.... The choice of December 25 was probably influenced by the fact that on this day the Romans celebrated the Mithraic feast of their sun god (Mithras), and that SATURNALIA also came at this time".

A brief history of the existing situation then may be of value here.

Rome was originally known as Saturnia, meaning the city of Saturn. One of Saturnia's (Rome's) greatest feasts was the feast of Saturnalia. It was celebrated from December 17-24. During this period there were exchange of gifts and wild celebrations of different kinds between worshippers of the Sun-god in preparation for the birthday of Mithras. The feast was established because the Romans were basically worshipping the Sun through the Sun god called Mithras and the religion Mithraism. Most of their pagan activities were governed by the sun.

Towards the middle and end of December when the sun was seen rising further and further to the South each year the people believe that the sun was losing its life. By December 25, it could be recognized that it was coming back north, and it was said to be reborn on this day each year. This day was called Brumalia. The followers of Mithras called this day the 'nativity of the Sun" and celebrate it as the birthday of their Sun-god Mithras.

Mithraism was the most popular religion in the Roman and Greek world before, during and after the birth of Jesus. Because of this belief that the sun is reborn there occurs a nationwide celebration in the city in which almost all forms of indecency is tolerated. It was at the peak of the worship of the Sun-god Mithras that Christianity was introduced into the Roman Empire by the Disciples of Christ.

It was a period to drink and get drunk, misbehave, move around naked in jubilation, involve in sex orgies, rape and all sorts of vices. In short, almost all forms of disorderliness were permitted. This was the pagan festival then called the festival of Saturnalia.

Along the line, a Roman called Constantine, assumed the throne of Pontifix Maximus, the high Priest of Mithraism. He later claimed to have converted to Christianity. To ensure the political and religious stability of the Roman Empire, Constantine tried to merge the beliefs of the two faiths in order to show to his disappointed followers that they are still worshipping the same gods and goddesses they have always known only with different names.

One great example of how pagan beliefs were assimilated into Christianity can be seen in the worship of mother and son in the early Roman Empire. Before the merger of Christianity with paganism the pagans already had sculptured images of Horus (Tammuz) depicted as being fed by his mother Isis (Semiramis, wife and mother of Nimrod) a powerful ungodly ruler mentioned in Gen 10:8-10).

After the ungodly merger, these same sculptural images of Isis breastfeeding Tammuz became adopted into the Catholic Church as the image of The Virgin Mary feeding the baby Christ.

This way, Christianity and the simplicity of Jesus Christ became ensnared with paganism and the complicity of their numerous gods, goddesses, and open mass idolatry, a misadventure we still suffer today through the widely held belief in the Trinity, Christmas and Easter.

This misadventure is most prevalent in the Catholic Churches which was established in the headquarters of paganism. Against the second Commandment of The Most High God which they have succeeded in wiping out of their Catholic Bibles, they adopted the worship of images of saints in their Churches till this day. Bowing down before graven images made by artists with plastics, rubbers, fiber glass, cement etc became adopted as a form of worship to the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that dwell therein. It is simply a demonic practice.

This is in total contravention of the Commandment of God which states that:

Exodus 20:4

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments".

I do not only feel sad when I see Catholic Christians kneeling down and praying before Idols made by men, I also feel pity that they have been totally brainwashed to believe that it is the spirits of the saints that they pray to. The Most High God considers this a form of idol worship. This practice was definitely assimilated into the Christian faith and is no different from the practice of the pagans in the early days, the same method of worship to Semiramis or Ishtar, the mother of their god Mithras who is now called the mother of God. This is blasphemy of the highest order. If The Most High God has a mother then the mother is the one who brought forth God into existence.

Returning to the December 25th celebration, this very same satanic festival with all its pagan attachments was adopted by the then Catholic Church who now changed its name from 'Saturnalia', attached the name of Christ to the mass of people partaking in it and called it Christmas!

But Almighty God has warned us not to copy the ways of the pagans several times in the Bible.

Lev. 18:2-4.

"I am the Lord your God. You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. You must obey my laws, and be careful to follow my decrees".

T. G. Crippen in Christmas and Christmas Lore, p. 8-9, writes that:

"Now in December and the beginning of January there were several festivals which were intimately associated with the daily life of the Roman people. First, from the 17th to the 21st December, was the Saturnalia, the great Roman holiday....One might call it the Feast of Topsy-turveydom; when slaves were allowed for a few days to enjoy the semblance of freedom, were waited upon by their masters, and chose from amongst themselves a mock king to preside over their revels. Next, on the 22nd, came Sigillaria, the Feast of Dolls, when a fair was held, and dolls and other toys, mostly of earthenware, were given to children. Then, on 25th, came Brumalia, otherwise Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, 'the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun', when the days began to lengthen after the solstice....It is believed to have been instituted ... by the emperor Aurelian, in honour of Mithras, the Persian sun-god".

In the book History of Rome, by Michael Grant, we read this startling revelation in p. 391- 392:

"Yet there was also another pagan belief during this same epoch that much more nearly competed with Christ for the control of the Western world. This was the cult of the Sun, which was revered by millions of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire, and its religion for a time even became the state worship....In Rome, the divinity of the Sun came very early on; and then, centuries afterwards, in the superb dome of Hadrian's Pantheon, the central opening, surrounded by star-like rosettes, represented the solar orb....Before long, the emperor Aurelian established a massive temple of the Unconquerable Sun as the central and focal point of the entire religious system of the state (274). The birthday of the god was to be on December 25, and this, transformed into Christmas day, was one of the heritages that Christianity owed to his cult".

Let us check the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911. Under the heading 'Christmas' we read that:

"Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church...the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt".

The 1965 edition of Encyclopedia Americana, contains the following:

"The Christian ecclesiastical calendar contains many remnants of pre-Christian festivals. Although the dating as December 25 predates pagan influence, the later development of Christmas as a festival includes elements of the Roman feast of the Saturnalia and the birthday of Mithras as described in the Roman cult of Mithraism".

"Christmas...was not observed in the first centuries of the Christian Church, since the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth...a feast was established in memory of this event [Christ's birth] in the fourth century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered the feast to be celebrated forever on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth of the sun and at the close of the Saturnalia, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ's birth existed".

The Encyclopedia further adds that:

"In 245 AD, Origen of Alexandria, writing about Leviticus 12:1–8, commented that: "Scripture mentions only sinners as celebrating their birthdays, namely Pharaoh, who then had his chief baker hanged, and Herod, who then had John the Baptist beheaded and mentions saints as cursing the day of their birth, namely Jeremiah and Job....In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world".

Other historical writers were very much interested in the origin of Christmas. For example, Alexander Hislop, in his very informative book, The Two Babylons, p. 93, helps to clarify the issues:

"Indeed, it is admitted by the most learned and candid writers of all parties that the day of our Lord's birth cannot be determined, and that within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the third century, and that not till the fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance. How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December the 25th as Christmas-day? Why, thus: Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal adherents of Christianity, the same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it only the name of Christ. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet paganism half-way was very early developed...Upright men strove to stem the tide, but in spite of all their efforts, the apostasy went on, till the Church, with the exception of a small remnant, was submerged under Pagan superstition".

Many writers share this view that Christmas day, December 25th, was already being celebrated by the pagans long before the time of Jesus. I will present the discoveries of many historical writers soon after we hear this from Hislop in the same book in p. 93-94:

"That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival is beyond all doubt. The time of the year, and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, 'about the time of the winter solstice.' The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves -- Yule-day -- proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. 'Yule' is the Chaldee name for an 'infant' or 'little child;' and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo- Saxon ancestors, 'Yule-day,' or the "Child's day,' and the night that preceded it, 'Mother-night,' long BEFORE they came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character".

Lev. 18:24-30.

"Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled, so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants....anyone who does any of these detestable things -- such persons must be cut off from their people. Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God".

In adopting a day set aside for the worship of a demon god called Mithras as the birthday of Jesus Christ, we Christians are openly rejecting the Words of The Most High God and obeying the commandments of the devil:

Deut. 12:29-31.

"...Be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, 'how do these nations serve their gods? we will do the same.' You must not worship the lord your god in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the lord hates".

Many practices being carried out today as part of the Christmas celebrations are pagan practices that were carried out when Christmas day was being celebrated as the birthday of Mithras.

With regards to the Christmas practices of that period the Encyclopedia Americana says:

"Many popular customs associated with Christmas developed independently of the commemoration of Jesus' birth, with certain elements having origins in pre-Christian festivals that were celebrated around the winter solstice by pagan populations who were later converted to Christianity. These elements, including the Yule log from Yule and gift giving from Saturnalia, became syncretized into Christmas over the centuries. The prevailing atmosphere of Christmas has also continually evolved since the holiday's inception, ranging from a sometimes raucous, drunken, carnival-like state in the middle Ages, to a tamer family-oriented and children-centered theme introduced in a 19th-century transformation. Additionally, the celebration of Christmas was banned on more than one occasion within certain Protestant groups, such as the Puritans, due to concerns that it was too pagan or unbiblical. Also Jehovah's Witnesses reject Christmas celebration".

From country to country, region to region, continent to continent, there are very many practices associated with Christmas celebration. Most common among these tens of practices are, the Christmas tree decoration, Santa Claus, popularly known as Father Christmas, singing of Christmas Carols and exchange of gifts. In addition to many other practices not mentioned here, all these very practices mentioned were done when December 25th was a day set aside for the worship of the Sun-god. In other words nothing changed but the name of the festival, from the feast of the 'nativity of the Sun' (Saturnalia) to Christmas!

As regards the decoration of the Christmas tree, many Christians are not aware that the practice is an abomination unto The Most High God.

Walsh, Curiosities of Popular Customs, p. 242 writes about one possible origin of the Christmas tree:

"An old Babylonish fable told of an evergreen tree which sprang out of a dead tree stump. The old stump symbolized the dead Nimrod, the new evergreen tree symbolized that Nimrod had come to life again in Tammuz! Among the Druids the oak was sacred, among the Egyptians it was the palm, and in Rome it was the fir, which was decorated with red berries during the Saturnalia!"

Frederick J. Haskin's Answers to Questions states:

"The Christmas tree is from Egypt, and its origin dates from a period long anterior to the Christmas Era".

While this may come as a surprise to many, those who read the Bible sparingly may have come across God's direct words:

Jer. 10:1-5.

"Hear ye the word which the lord speaketh unto you, o house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them, for the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good".

The fact I am trying to bring to the fore here is that the decoration of Christmas trees is not a God –approved act. It is not done to honor The Most High God but to honor the agents of the devil. To us, it is just a simple act but the truth is, it is not. Like every practices The Most High God says He detests, there is a history attached. The fact that we see such practices as harmless does not mean we should do them when God says we should not.

When next you place a decorated Christmas tree in your house know that you are not honoring Almighty God with it but the devil. This is the bitter truth.

Mark 7:9.

"Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition".

Regarding Santa Claus who is also popularly known as Father Christmas in some climes, the Bible says nothing. But history tells us something about why the pagans adopted him into their pagan celebrations which the Catholic Church later absorbed into Christianity.

According to Langer's Encyclopedia of World History in the article "Santa", we read that:

"Santa" was a common name for Nimrod throughout Asia Minor. This was also the same fire god who came down the chimneys of the ancient pagans and the same fire god to whom infants were burned and eaten in human sacrifice among those who were once God's people".

Many Christians today are unaware that the red cloth mainly identified with Father Christmas is due to an advert Coca-Cola made scores of years back, using its trademark red color to attract buyers to its products. The color, like the image of Santa Claus itself, has nothing to do with Christianity.

Revelation 2:6 and 15 tells us about a "doctrine of the Nicolaitanes," which Christ tells us is despicable. The word Nicolaitane means "follower of Nicholas". Nikos, means "conqueror, destroyer". Laos means "people". Nicolaitians, then, are people who follow the conqueror or destroyer—Nimrod or the devil. It is noteworthy that in the good old days the devil was sometimes referred to as 'Old Nick', that is 'old destroyer'".

It is beyond the scope of this book to discuss the origin of all the practices currently taking place during Christmas celebration all over the world. Further studies may be made by those interested in knowing more about the issues discussed briefly above and determine for themselves if they want to obey the commandments of God or that of men.

Ezek. 20:30-39.

"Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after the manner of their abominations?...Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day....but as for you, o house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God: Go ye, serve ye everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols".

It is interesting to note that because of its direct pagan origin, Christmas celebrations were banned in the past in some European countries principal of which was England.

In 17th century England, some groups such as the Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast". They were greatly opposed by the Anglican Church and of course the Catholic Church. However, after the Parliamentarian victory over Charles I during the English Civil War, England's Puritan rulers banned Christmas in 1647 though large protests erupted as a result of that decision. The ban in England ended in 1660 when King Charles II was restored to power.

In Scotland, the Presbyterian Church discouraged the observance of Christmas and the parliament of Scotland officially abolished all observances of Christmas in 1640, claiming that the Church had been "purged of all superstitious observation of days". It was not until 1958 that Christmas again became a Scottish public holiday.

Yahshua the Messiah said to his disciples in John 8:32, New International Version:

"If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free".

Another truth that should be known about one of the most solemn celebrations in Christianity today, Easter, is that it is also adopted from the pagans. While efforts were made to change the festival called Saturnalia to Christmas, the Easter festival still retains its pagan name till this day.
CHAPTER TWO

The Adoption of 'Ishtar' As Easter

Today, as far as majority of Christians are concerned, Easter is the celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. For these groups of Christians, Easter Friday is seen as the day Jesus Christ was crucified and Easter Sunday his resurrection.

There is no doubt even amongst critics of the Easter day celebration that the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ occurred during the Jewish Passover festivities and this is principally why Easter is celebrated during that period, a day that coincides with Nisan 14 in the Jewish calendar.

However, unlike the fixed date of December 25th the Catholic Church ordained for the birthday of Jesus Christ, there is no fixed date set for his crucifixion and resurrection. This raises a very important question that has escaped the minds of many who believe that they are really celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ during Easter. Why was the birthday of Jesus Christ fixed on a particular date while there is no particular date fixed for his crucifixion and resurrection? Most certainly, if Jesus Christ was born on a fixed day, he must have been crucified on a fixed date and must have resurrected on a fixed date three days later.

This brings us to the question, is Easter celebration the actual date for the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ?

First and foremost, the celebration of a period known as the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ is never mentioned in the Bible. While the word 'Christmas' can never be found in the Bible, the word 'Easter' was mentioned only in the King James version of the Bible just once. However, it must be noted that the King James Version mistranslated the word 'Pascha' which means 'Passover' for Easter deliberately to justify its celebration as the day of Jesus' crucifixion and death.

Let us see the Bible verse where those who translated the original Greek Bible into English made this misinterpretation in the King James Version.

Acts 12:4:

"And when he [King Herod Agrippa I] had apprehended him [the apostle Peter], he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people".

Readers may wonder why I said those who wrote the King James Version of the New Testament deliberately misinterpreted the word 'Pascha' for Easter. It is simply because they correctly interpreted this same Greek word 'Pascha' as 'Passover' in other verses where the same Greek word appears.

In Adams Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, we read that:

"Perhaps there never was a more unhappy, not to say absurd, translation than that in our text".

Christmas and Easter are major holidays celebrated by majority of Christians all over the world but there is nowhere in the Bible that they were mentioned as being celebrated by either Jesus Christ himself, his disciples or the early Christians.

Most certainly, if the Bible does not recognize these days of celebration, if Christ, his disciples and the early Christians never celebrated Christmas and Easter, then they must be some of the 'Doctrines of men' being thought by our Church Leaders in fulfillment of the words of Christ.

Like Christmas day celebration, we must also look at how the celebration of Easter crept into Christianity. To do this we must first ask ourselves, what does the word Easter actually mean? Where did it come from?

Because the exact date of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not mentioned in the Bible, those who really want to know the truth about this issue have the internet at their disposal to check from.

Many believe that Easter is actually a pagan festival that was assimilated into Christianity for various reasons some of which I will discuss briefly in this chapter.

W.E Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, 1985, in its entry "Easter," states:

"The term 'Easter' is not of Christian origin. It is another form of Astarte, one of the titles of the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven. The festival of Pasch [Passover] held by Christians in post-apostolic times was a continuation of the Jewish feast... From this Pasch the pagan festival of 'Easter' was quite distinct and was introduced into the apostate Western religion, as part of the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to Christianity".

The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, p. 828, under the topic "Easter", talks about this transition from Easter day celebration to the Resurrection day of Jesus' celebration:

"There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals, though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals foreshadowed. The Gentile Christians, on the other hand, unfettered by Jewish traditions, identified the first day of the week [Sunday] with the Resurrection, and kept the preceding Friday as the commemoration of the crucifixion, irrespective of the day of the month".

According to the New Unger's Bible Dictionary:

"The word Easter is of Saxon origin, Eastra, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered about Passover time each year. By the eighth century Anglo–Saxons had adopted the name to designate the celebration of Christ's resurrection".

Writers on ancient history are unanimous in their beliefs that the word Easter itself is not only of a pagan origin but is also a pagan practice that was assimilated into Christianity without a pretence of at least 'Christianizing' the pagan name like the celebration of the pagan Saturnalia was Christianized into Christmas.

The word 'Easter' in itself is derived from the name 'Ishtar' which also has many variations like Ashtaroth, Astarte, Diana, Isis, Venus, Virgo, Shingmoo etc depending on language and location.

So who is Astaroth, Diana, Ishtar or Isis?

Whoever she is, the Bible mentions her as a person that was being worshipped by some people in the Old Testament days.

Judges 2:13

"And they forsook the Lord and served Baal and Astaroth".

Jeremiah 44:17-19.

"But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem... but when we left to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine, and when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her...".

Apostle Paul also mentioned a certain queen of heaven called Diana in his epistle to the Ephesians.

So, who actually is Ashtaroth, Ishtar or Astarte from which the word Easter originated and why do some people celebrate Easter day hundreds of years, perhaps thousands, before Jesus was born and before he died?

To answer this important question, we must, once again, refer to history.

The groups of Christians who do not believe in Easter day celebrations present several historical evidences that Easter is closely linked to the pagan festivities that originated from the worship of Ashtaroth mentioned in the Old Testament.

The Bible tells us the story of Noah his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth and the story of one of his grandsons, Nimrod, from one of his sons Cush.

In the book of Genesis 10:8-10:

"And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar".

Cush was married to Semiramis who gave birth to the great warrior called Nimrod. After Cush died, Nimrod became a powerful king, parted with the ways of God and eventually married his own mother, Semiramis, an act that was an abomination unto The Most High God. As a King, his mother and wife, Semiramis, became the Queen of the lands Nimrod founded, the lands of ancient Babylon.

Nimrod was the King who decided to build the tower of Babel until The Most High God destroyed the tower and confounded the language of the people according to the Bible accounts in Genesis 11:1-9.

Because Nimrod is now being seen and obeyed by the people in his Kingdom as a mini-god so The Most High God got him to be killed by one of his enemies. Non-Biblical records that cannot be verified claim that his body was cut into pieces and distributed to various parts of his kingdom.

Though this particular account was not stated in the Bible, it is a historical fact that his wife and mother, Semiramis, who was highly respected by her people, told them that Nimrod, her son and husband, had ascended unto the sun and was then to be called Baal, the sun-god.

Basically, like their ruler, having fallen out with God, the people needed something to worship. Because Semiramis had told them that their dead ruler has ascended to the sun the people started to worship the sun, making prayers and supplications to their dead King whom they now believe is the sun-god. Semiramis called herself the moon-goddess and many others render worship to her. The Book of Sirach, one of the apocryphal gospels that were made so also by the commandment of men, gives an insight into how pagan worship originated.

The arguments surrounding the non-inclusion of the book of Sirach in the Protestant Bibles is still a thing of wonder to me. This is just an example of how men will sit over a few drinks after lunch and make decisions about the truth of The Most High God. It was a group of men who decided, for reasons best understood by them, to add or remove some Books from the Bible. One needs to simply read the Book of Sirach currently in the Catholic Bibles to understand what I am saying because, like the book of Psalms, it is a book that impacts wisdom.

It is beyond the scope of this book to discuss the canonization of the Bible. So much damage has been done to the faith already.

Over time, Semiramis gave birth to an illegitimate son who was called Tammuz and claimed that she conceived him through the powerful rays of the sun, in other words, from the sun-god Baal.

Over time after they were dispersed to other parts of the earth for their abominable acts they took their beliefs along and started making images in the likeness of their sun-god and moon-goddess to worship in their physical absence wherever they settled. The book of Sirach mentions something like this as the recorded history of the beginning of the worship of idols.

In the different lands that the people dispersed to, Semiramis became known with various names including the name Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Venus and Diana which the Apostle Paul mentioned as a goddess being worshipped in Ephesus as the Queen of Heaven.

Back in the land of Babylon, the remnants of those who remained there continued to worship Semiramis and her son Tammuz. Then Tammuz, who was also a hunter like his father, was killed and Semiramis told her people to celebrate his death and ascension to his father, the sun-god Baal. These heathen days of celebration were called Ishtar celebration in commemoration of her name and deity. Presently it is called Easter, almost same pronunciation but different spelling.

The above was the story of culmination of how the death and reincarnation of a 'god' permeated the pagan nations such that when the people in ancient Babylon continued to migrate, those who went to other lands introduced the Easter festivity to their brethrens and continued to worship them as gods.

I am stunned, like many other people who have studied a little part of history, that people in different nations thousands of miles apart worshipped mother goddesses with different names. This may be a clear testimony that they must have something in common at one time in their history.

The Bible says that Baal (Nimrod) and Ashtaroth (Semiramis) were also worshipped by the children of Israel.

Judges 2:11-14

"And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim. And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people who were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and He delivered them into the hands of despoilers who despoiled them, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies".

It must be noted that today the three, Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz are being called with many different names all over the world due to linguistic differences. These three are the originators of the worship of triads of gods prevalent in many societies in the olden days before the advent of 'Christianity'.

There are other versions of this story but all points to the fact that the origin of Easter is directly connected to the worship of Ashtaroth who is also known as Ishtar, a powerful goddess under the inspiration of the devil.

The next question that should be asked at this stage is: If Easter were originally a pagan festival, how did it find its way into Christianity to the extent that it is being regarded as one of the most important day of celebration for members of the faith?

To answer this question, we must again go back to world history.

After over a century after Jesus was crucified and resurrected, many Jews dispersed over all parts of the world. Some lived in Rome under the Romans and continued to worship God as preached by the disciples. They got many Gentile converts into the fold of the Christian religion. As the religion continued to grow, and like all forcefully conquered people, the Jews revolted against their pagan rulers.

According to Eusebius in The Church History; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 1, page 178:

"Emperor Hadrian ruthlessly crushed a Jewish revolt In Palestine in 135 A.D. After crushing this revolt the Emperor rebuilt the ruins of Jerusalem and expelled all the Jews and Jewish Christians. Being the second attempt by the Jews to liberate themselves from the rule of the Romans, the first being in 70 A.D which Jesus had predicted in the New Testament, it became expedient to tame the Jews 'forever' once and for all times. To this end the Emperor condemned anything 'Jewish' including their festive Holidays (Passover and Sabbath). He prescribed the death penalty for those who observe the Sabbath or any 'Jewish' Passover, and decreed that any Jew who enters Jerusalem should be killed and any gathering of Christians unlawful".

As a result of these punishments, the then Church Leaders, for fear of being molested or killed, changed Nisan 14, the traditional date of the Jewish Passover celebration, to the first Sunday after that date. This was acceptable to the Roman leaders as it is closely tied to the day they worship their Sun-god Mithras.

The law making it mandatory for Easter to be celebrated particularly on Sundays was entrenched in stone in the year 325 A.D by the pagan Emperor Constantine.

As The Encyclopedia Britannica further explains:

"A final settlement of the dispute [over whether and when to keep Easter or Passover] was one among the other reasons which led [the Roman emperor] Constantine to summon the council of Nicaea in 325. The decision of the council was unanimous that Easter was to be kept on Sunday, and on the same Sunday throughout the world, and 'that none should hereafter follow the blindness of the Jews' " (ibid., pp. 828-829).

This was accepted by the Church Leaders then in order to practically distance themselves from 'Jewish' practices and obey the traditional Sunday observances as proclaimed by the Romans. This is why, unlike the fixed Christmas day of December 25th that could occur on any day between Monday to Sunday, the Easter day celebration observed by the pagans, and now also by the Christians, became 'fixed' to occur only on Sundays irrespective of the actual day of the week Nisan 14 falls on in the present calendar.

About this change, the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, page 828, under the heading 'Easter' says:

"The Gentile Christians, on the other hand, unfettered by Jewish traditions, identified the first day of the week [Sunday] with the Resurrection, and kept the preceding Friday as the commemoration of the crucifixion, irrespective of the day of the month".

Later, this forced change was adopted by all non-Jewish Christians and the Church in Rome. And so the process of eliminating all 'Jewish' practices and observances, which were actually ordained by God, began and eventually they were replaced by the pagan festivals. This was how the pagan celebration of Easter became the Christian 'Resurrection day' worship which includes the pagan use of Rabbits and painted eggs as part of the celebrations.

The pagans believe that rabbits and eggs are a symbol of productivity so they were made a part of the celebration of Easter. What does the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ have to do with Rabbits and eggs if the festival were not originally pagan? Christianity has absolutely nothing to do with rabbits.

According to The Golden Bough, 1993, p. 361:

"The inflexible Protestantism of the primitive missionaries, with their fiery denunciation of heathendom, had been exchanged for the supple policy, the easy tolerance, the comprehensive charity of shrewd ecclesiastics, who clearly perceived that if Christianity was to conquer the world it could do so only by relaxing the too rigid principles of its Founder, by widening a little the narrow gate which leads to salvation".

The powerful Roman Christian religious authorities, with the backing of the powerful pagan Roman leaders, simply converted the rites and practices of pagan religions, renamed them as "Christian" and established a new brand of Christianity with customs and teachings far removed from the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Disciples. This was done to stimulate the interests of the common citizens in the new religion of Christianity so as to win more converts, and of course, fill their coffers.

Honoring Jesus Christ and serving The Most High God was never the reason the early Christian Leaders introduced the Easter celebration into Christianity as it was never celebrated by the early Christians. Making more money from the people was the primary reason.

One fact that many Christians do not know is that the date of Easter in our present era is determined by the spring equinox, in other words, the appearance of the moon, a thing totally disliked by The Most High God.

Isaiah 1:10-20

"Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?"

"Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood".

"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it".

How can The Most High God who detests the use of the moon to determine times from ages past now suddenly make a law that allows Christians to use the moon to determine when the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ should be celebrated? It is simply a doctrine of demons in Christianity!

From the yearly celebrations of the Christianized pagan festivals of Saturnalia and Easter, we move to the weekly Sunday-Sunday worship that actually started with the pagan religion of Mithraism.
CHAPTER THREE

The Adoption of the Pagan Sunday Worship

One of the most important commandments that The Most High God gave to mankind from creation that has now been abandoned by over ninety-five percent of Christians all over the world is the commandment about the Sabbath day of rest.

The Sabbath day of rest is the first amongst the acts The Most High God performed Himself after He created the world. According to the scriptures:

Genesis 2: 2-3

"By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made".

As regards this chapter it is beyond the scope of this book to argue about which of the days is the Sabbath day as many Christians now seem to agree that Saturday is the seventh day of the week spoken of by The Most High God in the book of Genesis. However it is interesting to know that there are a handful of Christians who still believe that Sunday is the original Sabbath day of rest spoken of by God. These are the Christians who do not read the Bible themselves but only believe in the teachings of their Pastors.

The fourth commandment of The Most High God in the Bible explicitly states that:

Exodus 20:8-11

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it Holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your works but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work... for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them. But he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it Holy".

Apart from verbally instituting the Sabbath day of rest, he wrote it down with his own hands.

Exodus 31:18

"And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God".

For reasons that will be made clear later I intend to list the Ten Commandments, the well documented first rules The Most High God gave to mankind when He decided to once again intervene in the lives of His creations after He rescued the children of Israel from the Egyptians.

The Ten Commandments are listed in the book of Exodus.

Exodus 20:1-17.

"And God spake all these words, saying, "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage".

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me".

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments".

"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain".

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it".

" Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee".

"Thou shalt not kill".

"Thou shalt not commit adultery".

"Thou shalt not steal".

" Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor".

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's".

The Ten Commandments are the first set of straightforward commandments given to mankind by The Most High God . They are to be observed till the end of times, that is to say forever, so says the God that does not change.

For the benefit of the millions of Christians who do not read the Bible and as a consequence do not know when, why and how The Most High God made a Sabbath day of rest for man and the particular day it is, I would like to relate a few verses that establishes God's Sabbath day of rest as an institution in His statutes. This is because it is so important to God that He repeatedly gave specific instructions about that Holy day and made His Son teach us that it is to be observed till the end of days, that is, forever.

Matthew 5:17-18

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled".

This verse comes as a food for thought to those who think that the same Christ has nailed the commandments to the cross and delivered us from the law because of his grace. I will get to that later but for now let us see more verses that expresses the importance and divine relevance of the Sabbath.

In the words of Christ:

Matthew 5:19.

"Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven".

There can be no other clear explanation for the verse above than that 'whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven'. If you are a Church leader or Pastor and you teach your congregation not to obey the fourth commandment then you are the least in the kingdom of heaven. That is if you ever make it there.

The Sabbath is a divine order from The Most High God. He not only wrote it down with His hands, He clearly said it with His own mouth.

Deuteronomy 4:11-13

"Then came you near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burnt with fire unto the midst of heaven, and there was darkness, clouds and mist. And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire and ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude, save a voice. Then he declared unto you his covenant which he commanded you to do, even the Ten Commandments, and wrote them upon two Tables of stone".

Exodus 35:2

"For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death".

The worst sins man can commit are punishable by death in the days of the Old Testament Prophets. Such sins include murder, adultery, blasphemy and of course the breaking of the seventh day Sabbath. Stealing, dishonoring parents, failure to worship God and many other disobedience do not carry the death punishment but breaking the Sabbath does. This is to show how important the Sabbath day is to The Most High God and it is not for us to judge why it is that important to Him.

If a father, as the head of a family, makes specific rules for his children, no man, as an outsider, has the right to tell his children to break such rules, though some men try it and are successful. The Most High God made the Sabbath Holy for reasons best known to Him just as He decided to make Jesus Christ His Son. Can we ever ask God why he made the moon, the stars, the sun and the earth? Can a pot ask the Potter why he designed it the way he did?

For the avoidance of doubt, Saturday is the Sabbath day ordained by God. There is absolutely no need to argue about this fact.

According to Eudle's Biblical Cyclopedia, 1872 ed., p. 561:

"Sunday was a name given by the heathen to the first day of the week, because it was the day on which they worshiped the sun... the seventh day was blessed and hallowed by God Himself, and... He requires His creatures to keep it holy to Him. This Commandment is of universal and perpetual obligation".

However many people, in dishonoring the Sabbath day of rest ordained by The Most High God, claim that it was made for the Israelites and the Jews. But this is a lie from the pit of hell deliberately concocted by those who prefer to obey the doctrines of man than the Commandments of The Most High God for obvious reasons.

I have spoken to a few so-called 'Born-again' Christians who believe that the Sabbath was created basically to punish the Jews. They believe that after the death of Jesus Christ, the laws become null, void and of no effect. That they do not know when, why and how the Sabbath came to be is a clear indication that many who profess to have given their lives to Christ do not read the Bible. I refrained from saying they do not understand the Bible because the Bible is explicitly clear about the Sabbath commandment.

It is interesting that what many Christians believe to be true today were beliefs held by pagans, people who worship the devil, in the days of old.

For the records those who believe that the Sabbath was instituted as punishment to the Jews are totally in great error. The Sabbath was instituted thousands of years before the Jews became a people or a nation. There was not a single Jew on earth when The Most High God made and sanctified the Holy day of Sabbath. The Jews became a people thousands of years after the Sabbath day was honored by God.

Truly a few verses about the Sabbath give many people the impression that it was made for the sons of Israel and the Jews.

Exodus 31:16–17.

"The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested".

As can be clearly observed, The Most High God was particularly addressing the Israelites and He made it clear that they must observe the Sabbath. The Most High God was speaking directly to His people, the children of Israel, as at that time. The fourth commandment was not made for them alone; they were made for all of mankind, just like the other nine.

There are other verses where The Most High God directed His statements straight to the Israelites, like the ones below.

Exodus 31:13-16

"Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death".

Leviticus 24:8

"Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel".

Deuteronomy 5:15.

"And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day".

According to our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sabbath was made for mankind and not the Jews only.

Mark 2:27-28

"And he said unto them, the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath".

The Sabbath was instituted to remind mankind about the goodness of the Creator of mankind who understands that man must rest after working. It is not only the Jews that need rest. It is the innate desire of most of our Church Leaders to follow the doctrines of men that has led to the teaching that the fourth commandment has been made void through the grace of our lord Jesus Christ.

The Holy Bible is very clear about God's commandments. Our Church Leaders deliberately mystify God's simple teachings for their own benefit. They want to make us believe that they are the only ones anointed by The Most High God to understand Scriptures more than anyone else. By mystifying what The Most High God made plain, we the 'laymen', are left to wonder why we cannot understand the Bible the way they do. The fact is, many of us understand the basic teachings of the Bible. What we mostly find difficult to understand are the man-made mysteries added by the adversary of our Creator, Satan, and taught by our Church Leaders.

I have not seen a father who will deliberately make things difficult for his children to understand when he truly wants them to understand those things. But I have seen children who hide some facts from their younger ones just to make them believe that they are the anointed ones chosen by their fathers to lead the family.

Jesus Christ told his disciples that what he told them in secret they are to announce at the rooftops. And they did just that. In this chapter, I will discuss the very few verses many who say the Sabbath day of rest has been cancelled use to buttress their claims and the tens of verses where God and our Lord Jesus Christ repeatedly tell us that it is to be observed till the end of days, that is, forever.

Isaiah 56:1-6

"Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed. Blessed is the one who does this —the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil. Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say, 'The LORD will surely exclude me from his people'. And let no eunuch complain, 'I am only a dry tree'".

"For this is what the LORD says: 'To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant— to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters ; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever. And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer".

"Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say 'the LORD will surely exclude me from his people'".

The above verses say it all. Oftentimes The Most High God gives Laws particularly directed at Israel but generally they mean the whole of mankind. When Jesus Christ said that he was sent to the lost sheep of Israel he never meant that the Gospel was for only the Israelites. It is mostly agreed that the term 'Israelites' refer to the Children of God.

Observance of the Sabbath day of rest pleases The Most High God such that He promises to bless all those who are perceived to be the scum of the society if they obey it.

Exodus 23:12.

"Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed".

Exodus 20:10

"But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates".

Nehemiah 13:19

"And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day".

Jeremiah 17:21-23

"Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction".

People are not permitted to sell or do any strenuous work on the on Sabbath days.

Leviticus 23:3

"Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings".

Nehemiah 13:15-18

"In those days I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs and all kinds of loads, and they brought them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day So I admonished them on the day they sold food. Also men of Tyre were living there who imported fish and all kinds of merchandise, and sold them to the sons of Judah on the sabbath, even in Jerusalem. Then I reprimanded the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing you are doing, by profaning the sabbath day?"

Nehemiah 10:31

"As for the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the seventh year and the exaction of every debt".

Jeremiah 17:21

"Thus says the LORD, "Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem".

Jeremiah 17:27

"But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched".

Just like The Most High God blesses those who observe the Sabbath commandment He had poured out His wrath on His children for breaking the Sabbath.

Ezekiel 20:13

"But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them".

God also said of His people in Ezekiel 22:26:

"Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them".

Our Church Leaders of today have hidden the true Sabbath day from the hearts and minds of Christians. They have made it to look like there is no difference between Saturdays and Sundays, the 'clean' and the 'unclean', all for their selfish interests. Today, the very day God made for man to rest from his works, Saturday, has been so profaned that many Christians now believe that the Holy day is on Sunday. Saturdays are now days to do every other thing but rest while man has made Sunday the actual day of worship and rest.

Ezekiel 22:8

"You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths".

Nehemiah 9:14-16

"And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments".

The Sabbath day ordained by The Most High God is so important to Him that some Christians may not enter God's kingdom because they do not observe it.

Matthew 19:17.

"And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments".

Jesus Christ did not say 'keep a part of the commandments'. He said 'keep the commandments'. That means all of them. Who is man therefore to tell us which of the commandments should be kept and which to be broken? Whom do we obey, Jesus Christ or man ordained Bishops and Popes?

Hebrews 4:4-9

"For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a day of rest to the people of God".

Jesus Christ himself observed the Sabbath despite the fact that he was Lord of the Sabbath. During and after his lifetime the disciples also observed the Sabbath as a day set aside for worshiping our Creator and reading the Scriptures

Luke 4:16

"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read".

Acts 13:27

"For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him".

Acts 15:21

"For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day".

Acts 16:13

"And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither".

Acts 17:2

"And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures".

Acts 18:4

"And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks".

It is also a day to sanctify the name of our God, Yahweh and exercising mercy on those who have offended us in any way".

John 7:23

"If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?"

Matthew 12:5

"Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?"

Matthew 12:12-16

"And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days".

John 7:23

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?".

The Sabbath is meant to be in operation forever and the scriptures clearly tell us that The Most High God blesses those who observe that Holy day. Contrary to what many think, Jesus Christ never broke the Sabbath rules set by His Father. He only broke the rules added to the Sabbath rules by the scribes and Pharisees. And when they challenged him when he broke the laws added to the commandments, he gave a scathing statement about what they believed.

Matt. 15:7-9.

"Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, 'This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouths, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men".

Jesus Christ knew what he was talking about when he made this statement. If I may ask, what are the commandments of men Jesus spoke about in the above verses?

It will be plain stupidity for us to believe that there are no commandments from men that our Church Leaders preach today. The Pharisees and the Sadducees preached many of them and they came to be acknowledged as the commandments of God during the time of Christ until he spoke against them. Today, some of these commandments of men are still being preached in the Churches as the commandments of God!

Matthew 7:21-23

"Not everyone who says to Me, Master, Master will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the sons who do the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say unto Me in that day, Master, Master, did we not prophecy in your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, ye that work iniquity!"

Jesus Christ made it clear in the above verse that it is only those who do the will of the Father that will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. What is the will of the Father? One of them is certainly that we should obey His Commandments. What are His Commandments? One of them is that we should observe the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. Do you or you prefer to obey the doctrines of men?

The rejection of the God made Sabbath is one clear example of these commandments of God that has been replaced by the commandments of men. The most interesting part of this clear rejection of the commandments of God for the commandments of men is that those who did it openly claim it was not a Biblical injunction but an injunction from a man like you and I. We shall get to that later.

All Christians are supposed to observe the Sabbath forever! As it is written:

Isaiah 56:2

"Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil".

During the lifetime of Jesus Christ many people find the Sabbath to be a burden upon them and thus do whatever pleases them on it, including doing work on Sabbath.

Amos 8:5

"Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?". Also see Nehemiah 13:15-17.

It must be understood that the Pharisees during the time of our Lord Jesus Christ added so many rules to be observed by the Christians and these additions made the observance of the Sabbath day of rest too burdensome.

The Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary describes how extreme these measures had become by Christ's day. The religious code regarding the Sabbath listed almost forty other rules that must be observed including:

"... sowing, plowing, reaping, gathering into sheaves, threshing, winnowing, cleansing, grinding, sifting, kneading, baking... Each of these chief enactments was further discussed and elaborated, so that actually there were several hundred things a conscientious, law-abiding Jew could not do on the sabbath".

The book also gives a few specific examples of such extra rules.

"... For example, the prohibition about tying a knot was much too general, and so it became necessary to state what kinds of knots were prohibited and what kind not. It was accordingly laid down that allowable knots were those that could be untied with one hand... the prohibition regarding writing on the sabbath was further defined as follows: 'He who writes two letters with his right or his left hand, whether of one kind [of letter] or of two kinds,... is guilty. He even who should from forgetfulness write two letters is guilty... Also he who writes on two walls which form an angle, or on the two tablets of his account-book, so that they can be read together, is guilty".

There were many more prohibited activities added to the fourth commandment that made it more difficult for the masses to observe.

Some argue that the tens of other additional rules and regulations to the Sabbath were occasioned by the earlier punishment The Most High God meted out to His people for desecrating the Sabbath. After the Jews returned from their captivity in Babylon they decided that they were not going to allow themselves to be punished for disobeying the commandments of God, principal of which is the breaking of the Sabbath rules. They therefore added so many burdens on the people to discourage them from 'nearly' breaking the Sabbath day commandment and the consequence was widespread discontent with the additional burdens.

This was the prevailing situation when Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Knowing that the Sabbath was not made to burden men, he set out to make things clear and started to do things that were hitherto regarded as profaning the Sabbath day of rest as 'ordained' by The Most High God. His actions were met with strict resistance by the Pharisees of his time who believe Christ was publicly breaking the rules against the Sabbath. This led to so many confrontations between the Son of God who they never knew was master of the Sabbath and those who overzealously keep the Sabbath.

In so many verses in the Bible they confronted Jesus Christ with accusations that he and his disciples profane the Sabbath with their actions.

Luke 4:31-37

"And He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath days. And they were astonished at His doctrine, for His word was with power. And in the synagogue there was a man, who had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,. saying, "Let us alone! What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee and who Thou art — the Holy One of God!"5 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Hold thy peace, and come out of him!" And when the devil had thrown him in their midst, he came out of him and hurt him not. And they were all amazed, and spoke among themselves, saying, "What a word is this! For with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out". And His fame went out into every place in the country round about".

While many see this action of Jesus Christ as a blessing to the man who was possessed, the Church Leaders of his time saw it as a public display of rebellion against their self-imposed rules. He was not supposed to do anything on the Sabbath but rest, why should he heal someone on that day? Who does he think he is?

To add insult to injury Jesus Christ performed another Miracle on that day.

Luke 4:38-41

"And He arose out of the synagogue and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought Him for her. And He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and ministered unto them. Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them, and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out and saying, "Thou art Christ, the Son of God!" And He, rebuking them, suffered them not to speak; for they knew that He was Christ".

The Pharisees were quiet but counting the perceived offences. Then Jesus' disciples apparently broke their rules again as it was written.

Mark 2:23-24.

"He went through the grain fields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. And the Pharisees said to Him, 'Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?'".

The Most High God never said it was unlawful to pick and eat fruit heads from farms during the Sabbath. He said people should not harvest during the Sabbath. A hungry man is permitted to eat fruits or grains from another man's farm provided he is hungry. He can eat enough but not take any grain away. That is stealing which is against the commandments.

Then Jesus Christ performed another miracle on the Sabbath and the Pharisees cried out this time.

Matthew 12:9-14

"And when He had departed thence, He went into their synagogue. And behold, there was a man who had his hand withered. And they asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath days?" — that they might accuse Him. And He said unto them, "What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will not lay hold on it and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days". Then He said to the man, "Stretch forth thine hand". And he stretched it forth, and it was restored whole like the other. Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against Him, how they might destroy Him".

The Sabbath was held with high respects by the Jews of his time to the point that they are legally allowed to kill those who broke the laws. Contrary to what many believe, Jesus Christ and his disciples did not show any disdain for the Sabbath, rather he showed that the people had made it too burdensome. The Sabbath was made to help man, not to make man suffer.

Isaiah 66:23

"And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD".

Those who strictly follow the commandments of God are those who still keep the Sabbath as a Holy day.

Revelation 12:17.

"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ".

The Most High God is disappointed when His children do not obey His Sabbath. He has repeatedly spoken about them and promised that those who do not obey the Sabbath will face His judgment.

Ezekiel 20:12-20

"Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out".

The message continues:

"Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God".

James 2:8-12.

"If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, do not commit adultery, said also, do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty".

We are deceived by the present crop of Church Leaders who teach that we are not obliged to observe the Sabbath because of the Grace of Jesus Christ. But they admit we must keep the other commandments not to kill, steal or commit adultery. Why is it that it is only the Sabbath day keeping commandment that we are free to disobey?

According to D.L Moody in his work Weighed and Wanting page 87:

"The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word 'remember,' showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?".

This question needs an answer.

Sabbath is a test of obedience.

Exodus 16:4

"Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no".

However, we are warned that someone or some people will try to change the times and laws of God. It is sad to know that these people we were warned about have succeeded.

Presently almost all Christians go to Church on Sundays for their weekly worship. While some believe that it is to honor the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, others believe that Sunday is the Sabbath day The Most High God spoke about in the fourth commandment.

While many well informed Christians who read the Bible now agree that the Sabbath ordained by The Most High God is supposed to be on Saturday, they nonetheless attend Churches on Sundays, thereby clearly abandoning the law of God for the doctrines of men. However, like every other person who has neglected the Commandments of God for the doctrines of men, they refuse to accept that fact, saying it is not important on the day we chose to worship The Most High God as long as we worship Him. But it matters to God and He personally made it Saturday.

Those who advocate this unscriptural practice of worshipping on Sundays, as usual, have scriptures to back up this well accepted error. They say that Jesus Christ resurrected on a Sunday and that Sunday, the first day of the week, was the day the Disciples of Christ meet to reason out the scriptures.

Some of the verses they readily point out to back up their disobedience to God's divine commandments include:

Mark 16:9

"Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils".

Another closely related verse is in the book of Matthew.

Luke 24:

"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them".

Matthew 28:1

"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher".

As regards Matthew 28:1 many who still observe the Sabbath argue that Jesus Christ actually rose on the Sabbath day because Mary went to his grave early in the morning 'as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week' and he was not there. At what particular time did he rise, 1: 21 Am. 2: 34 AM, 3:45 AM? Nobody knows. What we know is that he rose before dawn of the first day of the week and appeared to his disciples at daybreak. Let us have it in mind that the day starts at 3:00 AM for the Jews unlike the English calendar today which has 12: AM as the beginning of the day. But that is not really relevant to me.

It was a normal practice for women to spice up the graves of the dead with perfumes and other things long before the death of Christ. It is normally done a few days after the death of loved ones to eradicate the smell of the dead as they go to pray for him or her. The rising of Jesus Christ from the dead could have fallen on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday or Saturday, and of course Sunday. The fact that, in Jesus' case, it fell on a Sunday is not an indication that a commandment of God that has been in operation for thousands of years before this event occurred should be relegated to the background.

Since Christ rose from the dead, he must one day appear to his disciples. The fact that he first appeared on a Sunday is certainly not a justification for Sunday -Sunday worship. Are we to worship God on a day Christ rose from the dead or the day God asked us to worship Him?

Does the Bible teach that the followers of Christ should now worship God in congregations on Sundays? Of course not.

Below is another verse that is used to support Sunday Worship and it is also a justification for the collection of tithes and offering during Church services. Tithes and offerings are supposed to be an all round daily event depending on when an individual willing to give has the means to give. That people should only bring tithes and offerings to the Church on Sundays is not a scriptural recommendation per se, but a practice made acceptable by our Church Leaders.

1 Corinthians 16:2

"Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come".

As regards the above verse however, it must be made clear that it is also not a justification for a change of the original day of Saturday worship to Sunday. The Apostle Paul was billed to travel back to Jerusalem to meet his brethren on that first Sunday of the week, after he must have delivered his sermon the previous Saturday, which is the Sabbath day.

A contribution is expected to be made by the Gentiles for their brothers in Jerusalem where there was an ongoing famine. It was a long journey and the apostle was only reminding the Church members to get their offerings together so that he wouldn't have to waste precious time waiting for the contributions to be collected when he arrives. He made it very clear that there was to be 'no gathering' on that day. The gathering was supposed to be done on Sabbath day.

Another popular verse they Sunday worshippers mostly used to find biblical approval for doing what they like to do is found in the book of Acts.

Acts 20:7-9

"And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead".

In these verses above the scriptures make it clear that they were gathered to break bread, an act approved to be carried out by Jesus Christ often but not necessarily on a particular day of the week. While they were gathered together Paul decided to preach to them principally because he was ready to depart the next day. It was not inferred to mean that it was a regular day of worship.

It is quite revealing to many that the above are the very few verses many have used to defend the choice of Sunday as a day of worship. But the Bible does not tell us to worship God on Sundays.

More desecrating to the Commandment of The Most High God than the misinterpreted verses justifying Sunday as a day of worship are the so-called verses being bandied about that are said to have 'cancelled' out the Sabbath day of worship ordained by God. Some are given below.

Romans 7:6

"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter".

This verse says we are delivered from the law, the law which makes us liable for our sins. The verse advises Christians to 'serve in newness o spirit', that is to say worship The Most High God with your new found faith, and 'not in the oldness of the letter', that is to say, frankly, the rusticated laws of the old testament, indirectly meaning, the abrogated laws or commandments of God given to mankind in the days of Moses.

No matter the Biblical or academic argument one would use to explain the true meaning of this verse the underlying message seems to be clear: 'we are delivered from the law'. In other words, we are free from the control of the law.

Does this mean that we can break the law at will? Does this mean that because the just shall live by faith we should abandon the commandments of God? To be very specific, which of the laws are we exactly free from as a result of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ?

Are we now free to kill? Are we now free to commit adultery? Are we now free to worship idols?

Let the same Apostle Paul enlighten us with his own words that came soon after he revealed Romans 7:6:

"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me".

"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I'".

Those who use verses in isolation to defend or support biblical teachings mostly do so out of a desire to win arguments, not to reason out what the scriptures really mean. Most of our present 'Church Leaders' quote scriptures out of context to justify their beliefs and because most Christians do not read the Bible they believe what they erroneously teach. I will give an example here.

To encourage us to pay our tithes and offerings to them they are quick to quote the book of Malachi:

Malachi 3:10

"Bring ye all the tithes and offerings to the Church"

But they most likely never add the concluding line

Malachi 3:10

"... so that there will be food and meat in my house"

This is the part of the whole verse in the Bible that explains what the tithes and offerings should be used for. But they deliberately omit it because they do not use the money to provide food and meat in God's house but to buy Jets and build magnificent Church structures to boost their ego and display their wealth while millions starve all over the world.

I would want to discuss Romans 7 with regards to Colossians 2:13-18 which is the most important verse in the Bible that these group of Christians use to defend their obedience to the doctrines of men rather than the explicit Commandment of God.

Colossians 2:13-18

"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind".

Reading from Col. 2:13-16, the impression one would have is that since Christ has 'nailed the written code with its regulations that was against us to the cross' Christians are no longer expected to keep the all the ten commandments or particularly the fourth commandment. But is this true? Did our Lord Jesus actually nail the commandments of God to the cross?

The answer to the question above is that Christ nailed the commandments to the cross for those who believe and have faith in him because the commandments will not be a torment or a temptation that they will succumb to anymore. With faith in his grace we will not be able to disobey God's commandments because "all things have become new". Nailing the commandments to the cross has never meant that we can commit adultery, steal or kill or worship images of so-called Saints and a 'Mother of God.'

Let the Bible answer this question more appropriately itself.

Romans 6:15-17

"What then? shall we sin [or break the laws], because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you".

What Paul meant in Romans 7 by 'being delivered from the law' and 'blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it' in Colossians 2:13-15 is that the Grace of God, through the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, has freed us from bondage to the law and the fear of death associated with the penalty for not keeping the law. The wages of sin is death and sin comes from the transgression of God's commandments which is carried out by those who lack faith in the grace of God and the holiness of His spiritual laws.

This is clearly evident from the fact that we now have, in Christ, an advocate for our sins. We are justified by our faith in Christ and if we have a faith that is strong enough to withstand temptations like Jesus did we shall not fall into sin. In other words, we shall not break the commandments of The Most High God, all the ten major commandments we know so much about. These verses do not mean that we should single out just the forth and desecrate it.

It is faith in God that can deliver us from our sins and not our carnal minds with our carnal desires that are contrary to the laws of God. This is why the Apostle says he keeps sinning though he doesn't want to. But he who has faith will overcome the temptation to sin. Yes, those who have Faith in the grace given to us through Jesus Christ cannot naturally break the commandments of God. With the grace of The Most High God in us through Jesus Christ sinning, which is normal to us, becomes 'unusual'.

Another verse closely related to the above verses is:

Romans 10:4

"Christ is the end of the law so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness".

Does Christ being the 'end of the law' in anyway imply that Christ has brought the laws of God to an end? Are we now free to kill and commit adultery at will?

If The Most High God's commandments make Saturday a holy day of worship to Him and Christians obey and worship Him on that day they are His slaves and children. On the other hand, if worshipping in Churches on Sundays is not a thing commanded by The Most High God but by man or the devil, then we are obeying the doctrines of man or the devil on Sundays when we go to Church. Christians who have made Sundays a day of rest and close their businesses on Sundays obey the laws of the devil. This is a truth that many people will never admit because they are ignorant of Biblical facts and do not want to know the truth.

As regards the worship and praises being rendered to The Most High God in Churches on Sundays, the actual act of worship and offering songs of praises to our God is very much acceptable in any day of the week. Really that is not the major problem. The major problem is that we have rejected God's commandments by not doing these acts of worship on a day He has set aside for it by Himself.

As a Church that obeys the rules of God we ought to congregate before Him on Saturdays, abstain from doing major work, buying, selling and merry making. Saturday is a day set aside for the remembrance of the great works of our Creator by our Creator. The devil has made sure we transferred this Holy day sanctified by our God to Sunday. As a result, we can clearly see the repercussion of our disobedience in the chaos on earth today.

Let us grasp the sayings of The Most High God in:

Ezekiel 20:24-25.

"Because they had not done My ordinances, but had despised My statutes and had polluted My Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. Wherefore I also gave them over to their own statutes that were not good, and their own ordinances which they could not live. And I defiled them in their own gifts".

The gift The Most High God initially gave to some Church Leaders has been defiled by Him because they refused to abide by His Commandments. This is why they have lost the powers to do many things like healing the sick and others. Some now use diabolic means to get powers to perform 'miracles' so that there will be a continuous inflow of Dollars in their bank accounts.

It is important to note that the first-day-of-the-week stories in the Bible appear only four times in the whole of the Bible (the same verses are repeated in four other verses in other Gospels) and is never mentioned even once in the Old Testament. The divine Sabbath day of rest, which is Saturday, is mentioned close to fifty times in the New Testament. In these numbers of times, not once was it mentioned that it has been annulled nor abandoned.

Furthermore, in the eight places the first day of the week appears in the Bible, after being repeated, not one of them is given as an injunction for people to observe but they were mentioned as days some certain events happened which had nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with God's ordained Sabbath day of rest.

With more and more people reading the Bible these days our Church Leaders are being forced to admit that going to Churches on Sundays is not ordained by The Most High God nor instituted by the early Church fathers. But they rather obey the doctrines of men as commandments of God for its earthly favors.

Mark 7:9

"You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!"

In order to cling perpetually to this flagrant disobedience of God's commandment for their selfish interests not unconnected with the large amount of money they make from the Church business, they argue that the day we chose to worship The Most High God is of no importance as long as we worship Him as a congregation in any particular day. They are quick to present some verses to support their claims. Some of such verses are given below.

Romans 14:5-7

"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. For none of us liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself".

For anyone to believe in the scriptures he or she must be fully persuaded that the scripture is from God, truthful and holy. You must not, on the account of being doubtful about a day refuse to worship God. He that regardeth the day (Saturday) regarded it to the Lord and gets the blessings of the Lord as it is written. He also that does not regard the day gets the wrath of the Lord as it is also written:

Galatians 4:8-11

"Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain".

In these verses, the Apostle was not referring to the Sabbaths instituted by The Most High God but the observances of the gentiles who have now become Christians. Some of the 'days', 'months', 'times' and 'years' Paul spoke about in the above verses, like Christmas and Easter, still found their way into the Christian faith as we will have seen in the previous chapters.

Indeed there are many blessings for those who obey the commandments of The Most High God.

Isa. 58:13-14.

"If you turn your foot away from the Sabbath, from doing your own desires on My holy day and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor pursuing your own desires, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it".

Scripture believing people who are not under the influence of the teachings of their Church Leaders, should know that Saturday, and not Sunday, is the God ordained day we should be attending Church services. Our Pastors and Bishops also believe in some errors, they do not know it all and, most importantly, they are not perfect. A simple question about why the change from Saturday to Sunday worship will reveal that they themselves are just obeying their seniors in order to maintain the status quo as deviating from established norms will make them lose their jobs and prestige.

The next question we would want answered is: "How then did the idea of Sunday worship creep into the Church such that today it is seen as a Church dogma?

Many who believe the day we choose to worship God does not matter as long as we worship The Most High God do not know and would not like to know that the Sunday- Sunday worship of God today was instituted as law by the Roman Emperor Constantine.

Constantine is a pagan who worshiped idols and his god was the sun god called Mithras whom all pagans worship on Sundays better known in pagan parlance as 'the venerable day of the sun'. Before this pagan and his ancestors were born, pagans in Rome and elsewhere were already worshipping their pagan 'God' on Sundays as an honor made to the sun god Mithras. It was Emperor Constantine who initially decreed the observance of Sunday, called 'Dies Solis' as a day of public worship to their 'God' in the roman Empire in the year 321 AD.

Note that until this edict was enacted, Christians had been banned from observing the Saturday Sabbath. Perhaps a little explanation needs be given here as to why the ban on the Saturday Sabbath was placed.

Before Paul and Peter ventured into the purely pagan Roman territories to preach the Gospel of Christ there were thousands of Jews living in Rome and observing the Sabbath. Peter and Paul came to preach Christ, not a condemnation of the Sabbath being practiced by the Jewish congregation already there. They won many pagans over and the Church of God started to grow.

In his book "God's Church Through the Ages", John Ogwyn explains this time period:

"During the last part of the first century and the beginning of the second, the Roman world became increasingly hostile to the Jews. Extremely oppressive laws and heavy taxes were directed against them by the Roman Empire as punishment. Between the first (66-73 A.D.) and second (132-135 A.D.) Jewish revolts, there were many violent anti-Jewish programs in places such as Alexandria and Antioch. Reacting to this, the Jews rioted in Mesopotamia, Israel, and Egypt".

As a result of the first widespread Jewish riots hundreds of thousands of synagogue and Church members, (those who now accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord, worshipped and studied scriptures on Sabbath days), were killed by Roman soldiers or by angry mobs. The Jewish people again revolted against the Romans sometime between 132 and 135 A.D. Emperor Hadrian, who crushed this revolt, enacted and placed harsh laws and cruel punishment upon the Jewish people for their beliefs and practices which were contrary to their pagan beliefs and practices.

In the new Laws, Jews were required to pay more taxes than anyone else, and it was unlawful to keep the Sabbath and the Festivals. All things considered 'Jewish', which were really the God ordained Sabbath and Passover festivals instituted before the Jewish Nation was first established were outlawed, became banned. With the Sabbath day of rest instituted by The Most High God now fully suppressed, the Sunday worship of the pagan god, Mithras became fully established and became the dominant day of worship in pagan Rome as it was before the infiltration of the land by the 'Jews'.

In addition to this general law were the penalties specifically targeted at Christians. These additional laws prescribed:

1. The death penalty for Sabbath keeping

2. The death penalty for studying Scripture

3. Death penalty for circumcising children

4. Death penalty for any Jew for entering, or residing in, the city of Jerusalem.

But even at the risk of death, devout Jews and Christians alike kept on observing the Sabbath in secret while the others gradually abandoned the day and joined their pagan brothers in the wild celebrations on Sundays. As it is said, 'When in Rome, behave like the Romans'.

But after over a century of being forced to abandon the observance of Sabbath under the threat of death, it was not easy to go back to the now almost forgotten practices of observing the God ordained Sabbath. Generations of those who did have passed away and the new generation of those who do not know how to carry on with the rightful observance of that Holy day are now the unlearned and inexperienced Church Leaders.

Ellen G White, in her book, 'The great Controversy', talking about the early persecutions faced by the early Christians during these hard times in page 42-43, writes that:

"Thousands were imprisoned and slain, but others sprang up to fill their places. And those who were martyred for their faith were secured to Christ and accounted of Him as conquerors. They had fought the good fight, and they were to receive the crown of glory when Christ should come. The sufferings which they endured brought Christians nearer to one another and to their Redeemer. Their living example and dying testimony were a constant witness for the truth; and where least expected, the subjects of Satan were leaving his service and enlisting under the banner of Christ. Satan therefore laid his plans to war more successfully against the government of God by planting his banner in the Christian Church. If the followers of Christ could be deceived and led to displease God, then their strength, fortitude, and firmness would fail, and they would fall an easy prey".

The woman, whom many believe wrote one of the best books about Christianity over one hundred and thirty years ago, continues:

"The great adversary now endeavored to gain by artifice what he had failed to secure by force. Persecution ceased, and in its stead were substituted the dangerous allurements of temporal prosperity and worldly honor. Idolaters were led to receive a part of the Christian faith, while they rejected other essential truths. They professed to accept Jesus as the Son of God and to believe in His death and resurrection, but they had no conviction of sin and felt no need of repentance or of a change of heart. With some concessions on their part they proposed that Christians should make concessions, that all might unite on the platform of belief in Christ".

She went on to add:

"Now the Church was in fearful peril. Prison, torture, fire, and sword were blessings in comparison with this. Some of the Christians stood firm, declaring that they could make no compromise. Others were in favor of yielding or modifying some features of their faith and uniting with those who had accepted a part of Christianity, urging that this might be the means of their full conversion. That was a time of deep anguish to the faithful followers of Christ. Under a cloak of pretended Christianity, Satan was insinuating himself into the Church, to corrupt their faith and turn their minds from the word of truth".

As at the time of Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity, the Romans were still largely pagans, the Emperor himself was still pagan at heart because he publicly continued with the normal pagan rituals and practices. However Christianity continued to spread because of this compromise with the pagans and it was apparent that there was soon going to be a confrontation between the opposite faiths as there can be no darkness where there is light.

As a direct result of this unimpeded growth and spread of Christianity 'Jewish' practices became more and more popular to the extent that a distinction needed to be made between the Jewish observance of the regular Saturdays as their day of worship and the old customs of the pagans who worship their 'god' on Sundays. To this end, due to the popular demands of majority of the die-hard pagans, Constantine had to promulgate a law banning the 'Jewish' day of worship and making the Sunday worship a universal law for all peoples under the empire.

This way the Christian professing pagan Emperor was able to establish a kind of truce in his empire: If anyone wants to worship any god or God on any particular day it must be done on a Sunday. With this law that was enacted, the Christians were forced, under threats of death, to shift their day of worship from Saturday to Sunday against the commandment of The Most High God.

Let us read the law that finally established Sunday as a Day of Worship for all peoples.

From the Codex Justianus, translated by Phillip Schaff in "History of the Christian Church", Vol. 3, page 380, the edict from a pagan Emperor that were copied and made Christian Law forever states that:

" **On the venerable day of the sun ("venerabili die solis, the sacred day of the sun) let the magistrates and the people residing in the cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however, persons engaged in Agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits, because it also happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or for vine-planting lest by neglecting the proper moments of such operations, the bounty of heaven should be lost—Given the 7th day of March (321 AD)".**

This was the first law ever enacted on earth that made Sunday a day of worship for mankind including Christians. It is not a law that was put together from the Bible. It was simply a law from a pagan Emperor to force the Christians to abandon their God-given rules and obey the doctrines of his pagan religion in which he was the chief priest and has the duty of propagating.

Constantine continues in his edict that finally nailed the coffin of worshipping on the original Sabbath day in the Roman Empire:

"For as much, then, as it is no longer possible to bear with your pernicious errors (Jews and Christians who worship on Saturdays), we give warning by this present statute that none of you henceforth presume to assemble yourselves together. We have directed, accordingly, that you be deprived of all the houses in which you are accustomed to hold your assemblies: and (we) forbid the holding of your superstitious and senseless Sabbath meetings, not in public merely, but in any private house or place whatsoever... Take the far better course of entering the Catholic Church... We have commanded... that you be positively deprived of every gathering point for your superstitious meetings. I mean all the houses of prayer... and that these be made over without delay to the Catholic Church; that any other places be confiscated to the public service, and no facility whatever be left for any future gathering, in order that from this day forward, none of your unlawful assemblies may presume to appear in any public or private place. Let this edict be made public".

Translating the meaning of this edict, it simply means that the early Christians were barred from attending their synagogues or 'Churches on Saturdays forever in the Roman empire.

The edict of Constantine was mainly targeted at the Christians who were winning souls into the faith in multitudes. It was enacted to curb their growth. As long as they do not observe the Sabbath, peace can reign. To put it more bluntly, as long as they don't obey The Most High God their lives would be spared and peace can reign.

Over time, mainly because the laws of the land does not support the Saturday day of rest ordained by God, many Christians started to adapt to the new law most especially because the original Saturday Sabbath of rest was outlawed and the death penalty was prescribed to anyone who practices it.

According to the book, 'The early Church', p. 128, Chadwick, 1967:

"This is the earliest evidence for the process by which Sunday became not merely the day on which Christians met for worship but also a day of rest, and it is noteworthy that in both law and inscription Constantine's stated motive for introducing this custom is respect for the sun".

Today over ninety-five percent of Christians have abandoned the God-made decree for this man-made decree.

According to Chambers Encyclopedia, in the article titled 'Sunday':

"Unquestionably the first law, either ecclesiastical or civil, by which the sabbatical observance of Sunday is known to have been ordained, is the sabbatical edict of Constantine in 321 AD".

In the year 337 AD, about sixteen years after Sunday was made a day of worship to the Roman 'God' Mithras, the Bishop of Rome called for a meeting of the Church Leaders where they also conferred, on that same Sunday, the title of the 'Lord's Day'.

Though historical facts available do not make it clear if the Bishops were coerced in any way to assimilate the pagan Sunday worship into Christianity, what is very clear is that there was no biblical basis for this sudden change of divinely appointed rules for man-made doctrines. They simply enacted their own version of the Law to please the world Rulers of their ages in deference to the laws of God.

In essence, the law making Sunday the day of worship for Christians as opposed to the God-ordained Saturday became effective and binding on all Christians in the year 337 AD, that is, over three hundred years after Christ died and resurrected. This is a fact that more than Ninety nine-percent of our Church Leaders today (and all those who attend Churches on Sundays) do not know.

It may be generally admitted that there was a very strong desire by our then Christian Leaders to win souls into the faith. Making the Christian day of worship same with the day the pagans worship their idol demons seemed to be the best option. But it is also true that they were not concerned if their desire to do so is a complete breach of the Commandments of The Most High God.

It is written:

Deuteronomy. 12:30-32

" **Take heed to yourself that you not be snared (trapped) by following them, after they be destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise. You shall not do unto Yahweh thy Elohim: for everything hateful to Yahweh, which He detests, they have done to their gods. For they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. What thing so ever I command you, observe to do it; you shall not add to it, or take away from it".**

The Most High God knew that the children of Israel would adopt the beliefs and practices of the pagans so He warned them before hand not to do so. This warning was also repeated hundreds of years later in the Book of Ezekiel.

Like many other non-biblical satanic commandments being practiced today in our Churches, this was another great rejection of the commandments of The Most High God for the doctrines of demons. This is because The Most High God has warned us not to go the way of the gentiles.

Ezekiel 20:17- 20

"Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God".

I am not surprised that this change from a God ordained Saturday Sabbath day to a man appointed Sunday was done. Like many renowned Pastors today who support homosexuality and gay marriages, the Church of God has long been infiltrated by agents of the devil. And these agents are ready to fight with all the connections and funds at their disposal, to stop anyone from preaching the truth.

And so it was that the worship of The Most High God on Saturdays was abandoned for the man made Sunday in direct fulfillment of the scriptures:

Daniel 7:25

" **And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time".**

The time has come for Christians to go back to the true teachings of The Most High God.

To prove to the world that the Catholic Church is behind the open display of disobedience to The Most High God's commands, I wish to quote a few statements from agents of the Church who are openly proud of their 'great achievements'.

Cardinal James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73 and 89 tells us that:

"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify".

The Catholic Church does not only oppose the fourth commandment of God, they also reject the second commandment which condemns the worship of images of anything. As if these clear disobedience of God's rules are not enough, they add another great blasphemy to their beliefs by calling a created human being, the man Jesus Christ God and Mary, the mother of God. The Catholic Church, through the actions, utterances and edicts of the Popes is the only organization on earth that has done so much damage to the original teachings of Jesus Christ.

In the book Canon and Tradition, p. 263, we read that:

"The authority of the Church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority".

One of the reasons I refrained from writing much about the sins and crimes of the Popes was because I do not want to embarrass the Catholic Church. Those who are interested in knowing about the wickedness of many Popes who made demonic laws that the Christian world today obey as God made laws should conduct a research on the issue themselves. The admittance of many Catholic Church agents that many of those laws were deliberately changed is a clear indication of the reason for the change, namely the influence of Satan in the Catholic and Protestant Churches.

The Catholic Mirror, official publication of James Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893 states:

"The Catholic Church... by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday".

What, if I may ask, is the 'divine mission' of the Catholic Church if it can deliberately change a law made by The Most High God?

Our present Pastors and Bishops cannot claim ignorance of knowing that the day of worship ordained by our Creator is Saturdays. They know that this day was deliberately changed to Sunday but instead of returning to the commandments of God, they rather continue with the errors of the past in their own selfish interests. God does not motivate them anymore; it is the amount of money they make from their Church business through the gullible public that motivates them.

The fear of admitting great errors in their present beliefs is just because they do not want to lose their members to the other tens of Churches with which they compete for membership. Thousands of members and millions of Dollars will be lost if they accept the truth and act accordingly. Can you imagine a Church accepting century-long errors and going back to the right path? I don't think they will ever agree to do so unless the Church congregation mounts a heavy pressure on them.

In Our Sunday Visitor, February 5, 1950 the Catholic Church states:

"Protestants do not realize that by observing Sunday they accept the authority of the spokesperson of the Church, the Pope".

I would love to know who made the Pope the spokesperson of God's Church.

H.F Thomas, another senior member of the Church adds:

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [Saturday Sabbath to Sunday] was her act... And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things".

In the Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept 1, 1923, agents of the Catholic Church clearly state that:

"Sunday is our mark of authority... the Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact".

The repeated use of the word 'mark' by agents of the Catholic Church is somehow scary to me because it reminds me of the 'mark' of the beast spoken of in the Bible. This 'mark' of authority lies on everyone who obeys the doctrines of the Catholic Church in clear defiance of the Commandments of The Most High God. Do you have this mark?

Thomas Enright, CSSR, President, of a Roman Catholic establishment called the Redemptorist College, in Kansas City, bragged in public on Feb. 18, 1884. He was very excited when he said:

"Prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the Catholic Church alone. The Catholic Church says, by my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the Holy Catholic Church".

From the Catholic Press in Sydney Australia comes another revelation that was published August 25 1900:

"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles.... From the beginning to the end of Scripture, there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first".

Let us hear another proud agent of the Catholic Church who believes his Pope is God on earth.

"The Pope has power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ. The Pope has authority and has often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ".

Is this not damning evidence that the Catholic Church has its roots from the pit of hell? Popes are carnal men who, in many cases, do not know much about the Bible. They were elected for many reasons, some because they had the money which they had accumulated from years of being in the Church system, some because they had links to rich families or other people (the Mafia in present day parlance) who have a great influence over the papacy while quite a number of others bullied their way into the throne by force including betrayal, treachery and mass murder. These are the Popes some people believe can change God's ordained times and Laws and Commandments. I am not ashamed to say that the throne of the Popes is the seat of the anti-Christ so much spoken about in the Bible.

In an article published in Saint Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995 we read that:

"Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. "The day of the Lord" was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church's sense of its own power ... People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority should logically become Seventh-day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy".

Apostle Paul, in the book of Thessalonians comes to mind when we see how the Popes in the Catholic Church have taken over the authority of The Most High God and claimed that their authority supersedes that of the Bible and Christ Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God".

The Catholic Church proudly believes it is sitting in the position of God's throne on earth but they deceive themselves and many other ignorant Catholics who bow before images of idols.

I John 2:4-6

"The one who says, 'I know Him,' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. On the other hand, if anyone is keeping His Word, truly in this one the love of God is being perfected. By this means we know that we are in Him. Anyone who claims to dwell in Him is obligating himself also to walk even as He Himself walked".

Most certainly many Popes do not know Jesus Christ. They have only heard of him or read a little about him. They have no idea who he really is. If they do they would never have called him The Most High God neither would they call Mary the 'Mother of God'.

The Catholic Church developed out of the myriads of demonic gods and goddesses being worshipped during that period. For the Romans, the change that occurred from paganism to Christianity was more of a formality than reality. They continued to worship the demonic images of Saints in clear deference to the second commandment of God which states that:

Exodus 20:4

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments".

A normal Catholic Church member who grew up reading the Catholic Bible will never come across the above Commandment in the Catholic Bible because it has been expunged forever. Those who deliberately expunged it did so to spite The Most High God and please the devil. Knowing that everyone knows that God gave the out Ten Commandments, they divided the tenth commandment into two to still maintain a total of ten. This is why Catholics still worship the images of idols made by human hands with woods, plastic, rubber, clay, fiber and cement and yet they faithfully think they are worshipping The Most High God!

Our Church Leaders know the truth about The Most High God's Sabbath day and many other truths of God as revealed in the Holy Bible but they will never allow themselves to 'stoop down low' to accept the truth and obey accordingly. Most of them are not bothered about what God will think if they don't obey this fourth commandment, they think more about their bank accounts and what men will think about them if they do.

How will a Church Pastor or Overseer explain to his congregation who believe he has the gift of knowing the scriptures more than anyone else that they have been worshipping on Sundays in error and must now go back to the true teachings of the Bible? If they do this they are sure to lose many of their flocks to the other Churches who will now have a larger congregation and make all the money from tithes and offerings. Since that is their major interest it is better to continue in error and maintain their source of wealth, after all, 'it does not matter the day we worship God as long as we worship Him'.

Let us consider a scenario in which a man who achieves a great breakthrough on a particular Saturday and tells his children to observe that day as the day he achieved that feat. Then imagine that after a while, his children decide that they would observe Sunday rather than Saturday because the man's next door neighbor has children whose father has achieved another feat on a Sunday. Who are the first man's children dedicating their Sunday observances to? Who do they honor with their actions, their father or their neighbor's father? Who do you obey when you go to Church on Sundays?

There is no doubt in my mind that Jesus Christ also was referring to our present crop of Church Leaders' when he said:

Matt. 7:22-23. (Good News Bible)

"Not everybody who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven but only those who do what my father in heaven wants them to do. When judgment day comes, many will say to me: 'Lord, Lord, in your name we spoke God's message, by your name we drove out many demons and performed many miracles! Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from Me, you wicked people".

Truly, they are being deliberately wicked by breaking the Sabbath law and by encouraging hundreds of millions of others to do so by not preaching the truth on the Altar of God. This makes people unintentionally worship the devil.

But the fact is, no one can defend himself on that day by saying that they believe in and practice what their Pastors and Bishops teach them and only condemn those things condemned by them, one of which is the Sabbath day of rest ordained by The Most High God.

This is not an excuse as The Most High God will not judge anybody based on what their Pastors and Bishops teach them in Church but based on what He teaches in the Bible. Contrary to what many think, our Salvation is not tied to the beliefs and practices of our Church Leaders but our obedience to the commandments of God. For it is written: To obey is better than sacrifice.

1 Samuel 15:22

"And Samuel said, Hath the LORD great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams".

No matter how much money and time you give to The Most High God, He prefers you to obey His Commandments; after all, He gave you that time and money you think you are giving to Him. He truly doesn't need them, not that He needs your obedience for His own sake, but for yours, so that He can help you.

The Word of God has left so many warnings for us in the Bible about things that will happen and are happening now.

Acts 20:29-30

"I know full well that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock. Even some of you will distort the truth in order to draw a following. Watch out! Remember the three years I was with you, my constant watch and care over you night and day, and my many tears for you".

Many Christians believe that Christianity has managed to escape all the false teachings the Apostle warned us about. This is an error. We not only believe in many of them today, we also think that those who do the right thing are the ones doing the wrong thing. Truly, the truth has been distorted by our Church Leaders in order to draw a following just for the purpose of making money.

1 Timothy 4:1-2

"Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from what we believe. They will follow lying spirits and teachings that come from demons. These teachers are hypocrites and liars. They pretend to be religious but their consciences are dead".

It is very true that our present Church 'leaders' have deliberately refused to preach the truth which they very clearly know to be the truth They are afraid to preach about so many practices The Most High God frowns against for fear of losing their flocks and hence their prestige and earnings. This is truer because many of them are not called by The Most High God; they called themselves because from the beginning they see the Church business as a means to get rich using the name of God and Christ.

2 Pet. 2:1-2.

"But there were also false prophets among the people, as indeed there will be false teachers among you, who will stealthily introduce destructive heresies, personally denying the Lord who bought them and bringing swift destruction upon themselves. And many people will follow as authoritative their destructive ways and because of them, the way of the truth will be blasphemed".

But for the Grace of The Most High God the Church today as a body of Christ would have been almost powerless to speak to God with one voice and make God answer with thunder and fire immediately like the Prophets of those days did. This is because we have profaned His Laws and made redundant His Commandments. Some of our Church Leaders go as far as visiting the devil's agents in the occult world just to get powers to do a few 'miracles' that will attract more people to their Churches. They lack the ability to perform real miracles or deliverance because their ways are not of God.

Let us listen to the Apostle called John:

I John 3:22, 24.

"And whatever we may ask we receive from Him because we keep His commandments and practice those things that are pleasing in His sight.... And the one who keeps His commandments is dwelling in Him, and He in him; and by this we know that He is dwelling in us: by the Spirit which He has given to us".

We receive blessings from our God if we obey and keep the Commandments. Some will say that going to Church on Sundays is not a sin in itself because we go there to worship Him. That is true. But on the other side we have disobeyed God's Commandments by neglecting His divinely appointed Saturday for the man ordained Sunday. There would have been nothing wrong with the Sunday worship if we also obey the Sabbath day Commandment. But today everything God said we should do on Saturdays is what we now do on Sundays. Saturdays are now for sports, merry making, partying and other celebrations instead of meditating on The Most High God and His works, praying to Him and most importantly resting according to His commands.

If the self-righteous Pharisees could boldly accuse Jesus Christ of breaking the Sabbath and go as far as having him crucified for claiming to be the Son of God, they would have certainly stoned Apostle Paul to death for teaching about a change from Saturday Sabbath to Sunday, the first day of the week. Biblical and historical records show that no such thing ever happened because Paul never nursed the idea nor taught anyone to disregard the Sabbath day of rest instituted by The Most High God from creation.

The devil wants to be worshipped and recognized as a god. Did not Lucifer say in his heart that he would be like the most High?

Isaiah 14:12

"...O Lucifer...For thou hast said in thine heart... I will be like the most High".

What better way to start his self imposed mission than to make mankind obey his commandments rather than that of God?

Colossians 2:8

"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ".

In concluding this topic and as must have been noticed by those who diligently read the Bible, there is no verse that says Christians should not work on the first day of every week as we see regarding the Sabbath neither is there any verse that tells us to keep, honor or observe the first day of the week in honor of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In all my years of reading the Bible I have also not come across any verse that denies Saturday as the seventh day of the week or any other that abolishes that day as the Sabbath day or rest. I have not read about any day designated as the 'Lord's Day' in the New Testament neither is any Sunday ever called a Sabbath day nor Christians ever urged to see that day as a specific day of worship for any reason including the reason of being the day of the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Most High God and Jesus Christ never sanctified Sunday as a holy day of worship or rest and none of the Apostles ever for once told anyone to observe the first day of the week as a special day of worship. In the Holy Bible the Sabbath day is not regarded as a Jewish Sabbath neither is any Sunday seen as a Christian Sabbath and no one has ever been encouraged to set aside the Sabbath day of rest for any other day.

I still have not seen any text in the Bible where The Most High God promised to bless those who honor Him on the first day of the week as He promised those who do on Saturdays. There is also nothing to be understood in the Bible that any of The Most High God's Commandments has been changed neither can any statement be found which authorizes Sunday observance as a holy day or where God said He will punish anyone who fails to honor Him on Sunday as He said about the Saturday Sabbath.

I cannot force anyone to believe what I have written in this chapter. I have only written what I understand from the Bible and I pray that, as The Most High God gave me the Grace to understand His teachings, may He also grant you the wisdom to understand and abide by His truth forever more. Amen.

Many Churches in the past did not obey this Sunday- Sunday worship. But some of them were forced to adopt the change when the whole Christian world started to see them as heretics. To maintain their members they had to abandon the teachings of the same God who they claim to be worshipping in their Churches.

Below, I will reproduce some of the statements made by the Churches regarding the Sunday Worship as Compiled by -Amazing Facts That Affect You- Study Guide #20 P. 13)

CONGREGATIONALIST: "The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive Church called the Sabbath".-Dwight's Theology, Vol. 4, p. 401.

EPISCOPAL:"Sunday (Dies Solis, of the Roman calendar, 'day of the sun,' because it is dedicated to the sun), the first day of the week, was adopted by the early Christians as a day of worship. No regulations for its observance are laid down in the New Testament, nor, indeed, is its observance even enjoined". "Sunday," A Religious Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, (New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1883) p. 2259.

BAPTIST: "There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday.... It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week.... Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament, absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week. "~Dt. Edward T. Hiscox, in a paper read before a New York ministers' conference held Nov. 13, 1893.

CHURCH OF CHRIST:"Finally, we have the testimony of Christ on this subject. In Mark 2:27, he says: 'The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.' From this passage it is evident that the Sabbath was made not merely for the Israelites, as Paley and Hengstenberg would have us believe.... Hence we conclude that the Sabbath was sanctified from the beginning, and that it was given to Adam, even in Eden, as one of those primeval institutions that God ordained for the happiness of all men. " - Robert Milligan, Schetne of Redempiten, (St. Louis, The Fethany Press, 1962), p. 165.

PRESBYTERIAN: "Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand. ... The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath".-T. C. Blake, D.D, Theology Condensed, pp. 474,475.

PENTECOSTAL: "'Why do we worship on Sunday? Doesn't the Bible teach us that

Saturday should be the Lord's Day?' Apparently we will have to seek the answer from some other source than the New Testament". A. Womack, "Is Sunday the Lord's Day?" The Pentecostal Evangel, Aug. 9,1959, No. 2361, p. 3.

LUTHERAN: "The observance of the Lord's day [Sunday] is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the Church,"-Augsbutg Confession of Faith, quoted in Cadzolc Sdbla - Manual, Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 10.

METHODIST: "Take the matter of Sunday. There are indications in the New Testament as to how the Church came to keep the first day of the week as its day of worship, but there is no passage telling Christians to keep that day, or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day".-Harris Franklin Fall, Christian Advocate, July 2,1942.

If you do not know these facts before now, you now know. Do the right thing.

Some may want to ask 'What is the right thing?'

Maybe the conclusion in the next chapter may help.
CHAPTER FOUR

Conclusion

I am not one to beat around the bush. I try to make myself clear as much as possible in all my dealings and relationship and that's what I intend to do here.

As regards the Christmas and Easter celebrations, the right thing to do is to stop honoring the devil by 'celebrating' those days as the birthday or the day of resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. This implies that you must stop doing all whatever you were doing to celebrate in the days when you believed you were celebrating his birth, death and resurrection.

This does not mean you should not 'enjoy' the holidays. You cannot stop that day from being a holiday and as a holiday you should at least rest and catch some fun after the previous months' hard work.

In your hearts take the break as you would any other break but to do the things 'people' expect you to do, the Christmas trees, sharing of gifts, adorning yourselves with the Christmas hats, caps, clothing and indulging yourselves in all other decorations related to Christmas and Easter is honoring the devil.

You may not be good in serving The Most High God as He wants, you may not be a regular Church going Christian as you should be, you may not be praying regularly as you should but at least, deep in your hearts, you appreciate Almighty God somehow. This may be the reason you don't steal, you don't cheat, you don't lust after other's properties, you don't bow down to pray before images of people or things made with human hands, you don't kill and you don't do many other things The Most High God doesn't want you to do even though you do some.

To celebrate the devil despite all what The Most High God has done for you all through the months and years is an insult to Him. It clearly shows you do not know Him. And you do not know Him simply because you do not read His 'manual' on how you should live, the Bible. If you do you will know that celebrating Christmas and Easter as the days of Jesus' birth, death and resurrection are not His teachings. He condemned those practices in so many ways long before they became 'Church dogma'.

When you 'celebrate' these pagan holidays you are not only honoring the devil you are also directly teaching the younger generation to do so. Perhaps this is why you are doing it, you have been made to believe it is worth celebrating because your parents and grandparents and their grandparents also celebrated it. You have been 'indoctrinated' to believe you are celebrating and honoring Jesus Christ from your days as a child so you don't see anything wrong in teaching your children same. It has been a long time tradition. This does not make it right in the eyes of The Most High God.

There is no single 'period' in human history that people are killed or maimed for life like the Christmas period because people are 'celebrating' the birthday of Jesus Christ. When we consider the amount of damage that this 'celebrations' causes worldwide, the accidents, the deaths, the demonic revelry, sex, drunkenness, occultic occurrences etc we will know that it is only the devil that smiles to the bank after they occur. It is simply demonic.

Your family, most especially the children, may not understand when you make up your minds not to partake in these demons inspired activities but at least you know why you are abstaining from it yourself. If you cannot place Almighty God above your family interests then you are not ready to serve Him. It should be God first before you or your family. He is the one that is solely responsible for keeping them alive and healthy through you and not you. Why should you allow them to honor another god and not the Almighty God who gives you and them the grace to live?

When it comes to matters relating to The Most High God, in most cases, what the majority do to serve Him are wrong. The path to His glory is narrow while that to doom is wide. Do not think of what others will think about you if you decide to tow the narrow path that leads to His glory. Rather think of what you will get at the end of the journey. No man on earth can intercede for you on that day. It will be between you and your God. If your God is The Most High God then do not honour the devil.

One of the worst sins one can ever commit, perhaps worse than taking the life of another, is to honor, serve and worship the devil. If you worship the devil in any way by celebrating his satanic holidays for example, you may end up in hell. It doesn't matter what you think or believe. It is written.

As regards congregating in Churches on Sundays to worship God, we are honoring the day Satan set apart for his followers to worship him. Yes, we can worship Almighty God any day, anytime, anywhere, but in congregating on Sundays, particularly on Sundays, we are not obeying the age-long Commandments of The Most High God who said we should congregate on Saturdays to worship Him.

The only reason we congregate on Sundays to worship our God is because, and only because, that is the day a powerful agent of the devil set aside for us to worship Him. It is not the day The Most High God set aside for us to worship Him. So whom do we obey when we go to Church on Sundays to worship our God? It is the devil because he was the one who told us to abandon God's Holy Day which is Saturday.

We have allowed our Church Leaders to deceive us, for over one thousand seven hundred years that the day we chose to worship The Most High God in a congregation is not important. That is a lie orchestrated from the camp of Satan. If the day we should gather together to worship Almighty is not important why did He fix Saturday, particularly Saturdays, for us to do so? He Himself rested on a Saturday after He created everything and made it a rule that we should do same. Are we to question His Authority?

Why can't all Christians gather together all over the world on Saturdays to worship Him as He says? What is so difficult about that? If we can do it on Sundays why not do it on Saturdays? The answer is simply because the world is now under the control of Satan and his agents most of whom are now masquerading as our Church Leaders. They will never agree to worship the Almighty God as He decreed on Saturday because they are obeying the devil.

Many Pastors will not agree that they are obeying and honoring the devil when they preach in Church congregations on Sundays as opposed to the God-imposed Saturday. They give many reasons why they do what they do.

But let us look at it this way: why not just go back to the true day set aside by The Most High God, Saturday, which they agree is the day actually set apart by God to worship Him in a congregation?

They will never agree to obey this particular commandment of God because if they do they will lose lots of money to those Pastors who will continue to obey the commandments of the devil. It's all a function of money. God is second place in their lives.

So what do we do?

Each and every Christian should first access his or her stand with God. Are we trying to please our Church Leaders or trying to please The Most High God?

Those who attend Churches on Sundays because it is convenient for them to do so on that day must also examine themselves and determine who they want to please. If you want to please yourselves or your Church Leaders or the devil by all means do so. But if you want to obey The Most High God go personally to your Church and spend a few hours with Him alone on Saturdays where there is no Saturday Sabbath Church in your area. Otherwise you can observe the Sabbath alone in your room alone or with your family. This is the bitter truth.

Going to Churches on Sundays will become more fun when you know you have obeyed His Commandments by privately observing the Sabbath or attending Church on Saturdays. When you do what God asks you to do on Saturdays going to Church on Sundays will be added blessings.

Several names have been given to Christians who obey the Commandments of God by going to Church on Saturdays. Call them whatever you like but they are obeying their God. You that call them names obey the devil.

I have said it before that I am not on earth to please anybody. I want to serve The Most High God the way He wants me to serve Him. I attend Church on Saturdays as He decreed and in areas where I cannot find one I observe that day by praying, reading His Word and resting. I sometimes attend Church on Sundays if I am in a good mood. For me, I believe that I am not obliged to go to Church on Sundays as long as I observe the Sabbath privately on Saturdays in obedience to God's Word.

Find a Church that congregates on Saturdays or observe the Sabbath alone or with family members. That wouldn't stop you from worshipping The Most High God on any other day, including Sundays.

Do the right thing, not what you have been taught by men to be the right thing.

Remain Blessed.

The End.

Thank you for reading my book. Please if you enjoyed it would you kindly take a moment to review it at your favorite retailer?

Thanks. May the Almighty God bless you as you obey His Commandments.

About the Author

About the Author

Evangelist David Solomon is a pen name adopted by the author in his books.

He has been a Christian for the past thirty of his almost fifty years of existence but prefers to be specifically called a Bible-believing Christian rather than just a Christian. This is because he realized that many Christians believe more in what their Pastors teach them even in clear cases where what they are being taught is contrary to what the Bible teaches. His believes his desire to write about the issues discussed in his books, is to let people know the truth about Jesus Christ and the Most High God.

His books are his personal contribution to the spread of the knowledge of the one true God.

He is happily married.

Other Titles From the Author

The Trinity: How Men Made Jesus God (View sample Pages below)

Contact the Author

The Author can be contacted through: kbanteke@gmail.com

He is open to strong positive criticisms about his views for the advancement of mankind.

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### Table of Contents

### Dedication

### Acknowledgements

### Author's Foreword

Introduction

### CHAPTER ONE: A Brief History of Why Jesus was made God
### CHAPTER TWO: The Trinity: Definition and Interpretation.

### CHAPTER THREE: Is It Really Taught In The Bible?
### CHAPTER FOUR: Old Testament Verses that Support the Trinity

### CHAPTER FIVE: New Testament Verses That Support The Trinity
### CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion

### About the Author

### Other Titles from the Author

### Contact the Author

### The Major Satanic practices in Christianity

Dedication

This book of a unique importance is dedicated to all faithful Christians who have been misled by the teachings of men and all those who mislead them deliberately or otherwise.

Acknowledgements

I wish to acknowledge the Almighty God for giving me the grace and wisdom to write this book.

I am also thankful to the hundreds of writers and the authors of the various articles and books I have read, most especially some that emanated from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and Ellen G. White, the Author of the book, 'The Great Controversy'. Perhaps, in the history of mankind, no single organization or person on earth has done so much research on the issues discussed in this book like they have done.

While we must not believe everything people want us to believe, we can always find some truths out of what they write, no matter how few.

I also wish to thank my entire family for their motivation in so many ways most especially my wife who was the first to proofread this book and make valuable suggestions and my elder brother, who believes, more than anyone else on earth apart from me, that Almighty God will make me write this book.

Author's Foreword

"The Author of this book must be Crazy!!!"

Perhaps this is one of the many thoughts that come to the minds of those who believe in the Trinity Doctrine when they come across this book. Some may also think, "I believe in the Trinity, I don't want anything to make me doubt if it's really true", while others may feel "This is the work of the devil". It is unfortunate if some feel this way.

Whatever you may think when you come across a book with a title that seems to be contrary to your beliefs it is best to read it just so that you will be well informed. If you really have an unwavering faith no kind of a lie disguised in any way can make you change your belief. But if what you read is the truth, if your earlier held beliefs are wrong, no matter how much you try, you may never succeed in getting rid of the seed sown. This is because Almighty God wants you to know the truth because He has told us to worship Him in Spirit and in truth.

So, what is this Truth Almighty God talks about?

For just this once please put aside all your sentiments and read this book. It is always better to know much more about what you believe in than assume you know it all. Nobody knows it all. Besides, whenever you read any 'nonsense' anyone writes against what you believe in so much you will be fully 'armed' to defend your faith when next you come across those who think what you call 'nonsense' makes sense. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

It really does not matter how long hundreds of millions or billions of people have believed in the Trinity or the high percentage (over ninety percent) of Christians that believe in it. Whatever majority of the people believe in may not be the truth. Because of the Scribes and their well respected religious leaders, majority of the Jews wanted Jesus Christ crucified despite all the good things he preached about and did. This is simply because the religious leaders felt he slighted them in his sermons. Also, majority of the world's population do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, which does not change the fact that he is.

The truth is the only thing that cannot be changed by man.

If you are a true Bible-believing Christian as I am, and if only you would just be patient enough to read through, I believe you will most likely agree with the views expressed in this book at the end of this exercise. It is a view held by the silent minorities who have no say in the House of God like the Pastors who hold the microphone. As a minority, no matter how hard you scream in the Church, that man who holds the microphone would be the one everybody would like to listen to. But his or her words are not final. God's Words are.

In this book I have used the Scriptures and documented historical facts to prove my point that Jesus Christ did not come to earth as the Almighty God but was made God by some religious leaders who were not really Christians. I strongly believe you will be better informed if you read through.

You may wish to recommend it to your Pastor or any learned Christian in your Church or community so that you can share your views and make a decision on it. Just read it.

I pray that Almighty God will give you the Grace, Courage and Wisdom to understand and know that Jesus Christ is Lord, but not the Almighty God. Amen.

### Introduction

Colossians 2:8

" **See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ".** (Emphasis mine)

Christianity is the religion of those who believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, (also known as Christos Yehoshua, Yoshua or Yeshua,), a man (or, according to those who believe in the Trinity, a God) who was sent by the Almighty God, the Creator of the heavens, the earth, the seas and all that dwell in it, to teach mankind the Way to obey and reach Him.

It is beyond the scope of this book to discuss the events leading to the introduction of this great man (God?) into planet earth. I will assume that every Christian knows how Almighty God sent many Prophets to preach about his coming.

I wish to make it abundantly clear I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe he is the Son of God and I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I believe I have become right with God by accepting Jesus Christ, as my Lord and Savior. I can reject God's offer of His Grace by refusing to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. It's my choice. That's the essence of the free will God gave to all of mankind. Serving Him according to His Will is not by force, it is by choice.

I am a person who is driven by biblical truth and logic. I have always had an innate desire to know the truth about most things concerning my life generally, most especially things that directly affect my existence as a person. Knowing Jesus Christ as the Son of God and knowing the Most High God as his Father affects all the known and unknown aspects of my existence as a person.

I find it sad that most of our Church leaders have turned the truth of the most High God into well designed lies for their own benefit. This is the principal reason that made me want to share my beliefs with everyone. It is a clear fulfillment of the scriptures that some Christian leaders will deliberately distort and misinterpret parts of the scriptures to justify their financially rewarding desires to disobey the Commandments of God. Some, in preaching these distorted truths about God, have no idea that they are denigrating the Spirit of Yahweh.

This would not have been a thing to worry about for me since we all have our burdens to carry but because their vain beliefs have led many astray and still continues to lead many astray, I see it as a duty to my God to write this book as my personal contribution to the advancement of humanity, most especially Christians.

I developed the passion and the zeal to write about this issue so that Christians all over the world will know the truth that will, hopefully, set them free. I used the word 'hopefully' because many may know the truth and yet refuse to accept it for plenty of reasons. Really, there is a difference between knowing and accepting the truth.

I must state here that I do not have the 'misfortune' of being indoctrinated from childhood with whatever people _think_ to be the truth of God from the scriptures though I am a true Bible-believing Christian. Probably, if I had been indoctrinated I would have believed everything our Pastors and Teachers preach from the pulpit, whether they are Biblical truths or doctrines of demons.

When I became a Born-again Christian I had a very strong desire to know the truth about the God that I was led to serve. This made me to plunge into a deep study of the Bible and many other books related to the teachings of the Bible on my own. Along the line I discovered that some of the most important teachings of the Bible have been twisted or manipulated to suit other purposes quite different from what were intended by the original writers. After over thirty years of being a Christian, and having read hundreds of Christian books, I decided that something must be done to reveal Bible truths as they are, using the Bible itself and a finite part of history.

True, I may not be a Pastor, a Preacher or a Teacher, but I really believe Almighty God gave me my own gift. What they know how to do I cannot do and what I know how to do they may not know how to do. We all have unique gifts. Striving to make God's truth known is a challenge for all Christians who believe in Him. It is all a function of God's purpose for one's life. I hope readers understand what I am trying to say.

We must understand that some so-called 'Men of God' are not called by the Most High God to do what they are doing. Many called themselves to be become Pastors and Preachers because they see the job as a fast way of making money so they use the blessed name of Jesus Christ to legitimize what they do.

One of the reasons why many doctrines of men have been accepted by Christians is that they do not study the Bible to get knowledge. They only read parts of the Bible that their Pastors refer them to when they go to Church on Sundays or the parts that encourages them in many ways in their daily lives like the Book of Psalms.

Our Pastors today are afraid of openly telling the truth lest they lose their flocks. In this era in which Churches are doing their best to get as much money as they can to satisfy their never ending financial needs, it is no surprise that no one wants to rock the boat. Tell a truth that many now view as a lie due to centuries of deception and lose your flock. This is the greatest fear of all the fake Pastors, Preachers and Teachers of God's Word all over the world. I am not trying to insinuate that the fake ones are in the majority but they are many, very many indeed.

I do not hold on to any degree of perfection in any way. Even the Pope is not perfect, same with all our Church Leaders. Because these groups of blessed people are not perfect, some of their interpretations of God's Words may suffer the same degree of imperfection thereby placing us on the wrong path directed away from the position of God's Glory. Too bad many Christians believe all they teach to be the truth and nothing but the truth.

I may accept it if someone tells me I do not have the' anointing' to understand part of the scriptures but I surely will not accept it if anyone tells me something that is not in the scriptures is in the scriptures. At least I am a graduate and I can read. Fortunately, the Bible is also written in English, a language I do understand. Why should I believe whatever someone is preaching to me when it's not in the Bible? No one can interpret the Bible the way he or she wants and expect me to believe them.

To make this book more understandable to every Christian I will start my write up with historical facts that reveal how Jesus Christ was made God by men because many Christians do not know this part of history. Later I will discuss the parts of the manipulated or misinterpreted biblical scriptures that many of our Church leaders have been useing to support the Doctrine of Trinity.

I have tried as much as possible to back up any statement I make in this book with either the scriptures or at least historical facts. This is mainly to assist those who believe in some issues discussed to have a broader perspective of what they believe in. I found out that, in most cases, many Christians do not have enough time to study the scriptures to learn more about some of the teachings and doctrines forced down their throats by Pastors, Preachers and Teachers of the Word of God. They just accept them as Biblical truths.

Why should a Pastor who may or may not have read this part of history, who is not learned enough to be a Pastor so to say, deliberately teach the Trinity if it's not the truth? The answer is obvious. They simply do not want to lose their flock. This is the driving force behind many Pastors who are not called by God to continue with the status quo.

Sadly, many of those who are truly called have allowed themselves to fall in line with the thinking of those that are not called because they feel they must follow the status quo to be accepted by their flock and their fellow colleagues or the general Overseer of the Church. Pleasing their bosses and making money is the main priority of very many Pastors and not preaching the Gospel truth about God. They believe it is a dividend of being a Preacher.

Most said, this is my personal attempt to reveal the truth of scripture to the readers, as it is written:

Proverbs 3:5-6

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

Trusting God is trusting in His Word as it is revealed to you in the Bible and not what men interpret His Word to be. This is because if they are wrong, and many of them are, there is no way you can be right with God. It is written, we must worship our God in Spirit and in Truth.

Welcome to the Truth concerning our Lord Jesus Christ and the Almighty God.
CHAPTER ONE

A Brief History of Why Jesus was made God

How did the Doctrine of Trinity start, what led to it, how did it find its way into Christianity and why has it been generally accepted by most Christians to be true? These are questions that are not necessarily answered in the Bible but in so many historical books.

The major reason why Jesus Christ was made Almighty God is easy to understand but we must go back in history to the ancient days to fully understand it.

History tells us that the belief in the existence of gods which later metamorphosized into the belief in a triune god, which gradually developed into the belief that the Creator of the universe is a three-in-one entity, originated from the pagans in ancient times long before the first words in the Bible were penned down. Thousands of years later this belief found its way into Christianity, not by coincidence, but by careful planning by the one who created the idea of a trinity of gods in the first place.

Note that, and this is very important, the Creator of the universe during those times before the belief was introduced into Christianity was not recognized as the God we worship today in Christianity, Yahweh. Those who worship the 'gods', or a triad of gods then, mostly see the Sun, some the Moon, as the source of life.

I can only urge readers to patiently read on objectively without sentiments. I guarantee most of them will agree with most of the contents of this book when they get to the end.

The Bible tells us the story of Noah his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth and the story of one of his great grandsons, Nimrod, from one of his grandsons, Cush, the son of Ham.

In the book of Genesis 10:8-10:

"And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar".

Cush was married to Semiramis who gave birth to the great warrior called Nimrod. Nimrod parted with the ways of God and eventually became a great leader of his people. After Cush, his father, died Nimrod became a powerful king and married his own mother, Semiramis, an act that was an abomination unto the Almighty God. As a King, his mother and wife, Semiramis, became the Queen of the lands Nimrod founded, the lands of ancient Babylon.

Nimrod was the King who decided to build the tower of Babel until Almighty God destroyed the tower and confounded the language of the people according to the Bible accounts in Genesis 11:1-9. Because Nimrod is now being seen and obeyed by the people in his Kingdom as a mini-god, Almighty God made him to be killed by one of his enemies. Non-Biblical records that cannot be verified claim that his body was cut into pieces and distributed to various parts of his kingdom.

Though this particular account was not stated in the Bible, it is a historical fact that his wife and mother, Semiramis, who was highly respected by her people, told them that Nimrod, after he died, had ascended unto the sun and was then to be called Baal, the sun-god.

Basically, like their ruler, having fallen out with God, the people needed something to worship. Because Semiramis had told them that their dead ruler has ascended to the sun the people started to worship the sun, making prayers and supplications to their dead King whom they now believe is the sun-god. Semiramis called herself the moon-goddess and many others render worship to her.

After they were dispersed for their abominable acts they took their beliefs along and started making images in the likeness of their sun-god and moon-goddess to worship in their physical absence wherever they settled. The book of Sirach mentions something like this as the biblically recorded history of the beginning of the worship of the Sun. perhaps I should briefly talk about the Book of Sirach. I am sure many protestant Christians have no idea that such a book exists because it's not in their Bible.

The Book of Sirach gives an insight into how pagan worship originated. The arguments surrounding the non-inclusion of the book of Sirach in the Protestant Bibles is still a thing of wonder to me. This is just an example of how men will sit over lunch and make decisions about the truth of Almighty God. It was a group of men who decided, for reasons best understood by them, to add or remove some Books from the Bible. One needs to simply read the Book of Sirach to understand what I am saying because, like the book of Psalms, it is a book that impacts wisdom. Why remove a book like the Book of Sirach from the Bible simply because, as it is alleged, the author is not known? This is not saying that what they did was completely wrong. Who am I to judge?

Let us go back to our story.

Not all the people left the kingdom of Babylon however . Some stayed behind in nearby settlements and continued to worship Nimrod as the Sun-god and Semiramis as the goddess of the moon.

Over time, Semiramis gave birth to a son who was called Tammuz and claimed that she conceived him through the powerful rays of the sun, in other words, from the sun-god Baal, another name for Nimrod. Later Tammuz, who was also a hunter like his father, was killed and Semiramis told her people to celebrate his death and ascension back to his father, the sun-god Baal. These heathen days of celebration were called Easter celebration in commemoration of her name and deity. Presently it is still called Easter and Christians all over the world celebrate the same day as the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is a historical fact.

The above was how the story of the death and reincarnation of a 'god' permeated the pagan nations such that when the people were dispersed by Almighty God, those who went to other lands made images of Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz, father, mother and son, in different forms and continued to worship them as gods.

In the different lands that the people dispersed to, Semiramis became known with various names including the name Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Venus and Diana which the Apostle Paul mentioned as a goddess being worshipped in Ephesus as the Queen of Heaven. "Easter' was derived from one of her names 'Astarte'

The Greeks call their mother goddess Aphrodite, the ancient Germans call her Hertha, the Romans Venus and her child Tammuz was given the name Jupiter. The Chinese prefer to call her with the name Shingmoo. To the Indians she was known as Isi with the name Iswara given to her son.

I am stunned, like many other people who have studied a little part of history, that people in different nations thousands of miles apart worship mother goddesses with different names. This may be a clear testimony that they must have something in common at one time in their history.

Whoever doubts all that are written above should check out the facts themselves from any source.

The Bible says that Baal (Nimrod) and Ashtaroth (Semiramis) were also worshipped by the children of Israel.

Judges 2:11-14

"And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baalim. And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people who were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger. And they forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He delivered them into the hands of despoilers who despoiled them, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies".

Over a few thousand years before Jesus was born, nations all over the continent were already worshipping triune gods with different names. Many believe that the Doctrine of Trinity started gradually from the period Semiramis declared Nimrod the Sun-god and made herself the moon goddess. Together with her son, the trio became the first human beings from the same family that were worshipped in the history of mankind. This ancient rite of worship, over time, fueled the worldwide worship of a Trinity of gods.

In Egypt their triune gods were Isiris, Isis and Horus, another name for Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz.

In _The Ancient Myths_ , A Mentor Book, 1960, Goodrich, p. 25, says that:

"This triad of Abydos [Horus, Isis, and Osiris] is apparently much older than even the earliest records ... These 3 main gods were skillfully incorporated into the Great Ennead or State religion of Egypt ... particularly during the first 5 [3110-2342 B.C.] or 6 dynasties when the worship of this triad was prominent".

Many other references may be found in many books. A popular Bible historian, M.G Easton, in _Easton's Bible Dictionary_ published by Thomas Nelson tells us:

"The Egyptians believed in a  resurrection and future life, as well as in a state of rewards and punishments dependent on our conduct in this world. The judge of the dead was Osiris, who had been slain by Set, the representative of evil, and afterwards restored to life. His death was avenged by his son Horus, whom the Egyptians invoked as their "Redeemer."Osiris and Horus, along with Isis, formed a Trinity, who were regarded as representing the sun-God under different forms".

In India worship was being, and is still being, rendered to Brahman, Vishnu and Siva. Coincidentally their triune gods are called 'Trimurti'. The book The Symbolism of Hindu Gods and Rituals, Published by A. Parthasarathy, admits in page 12, regarding the ancient Hindu Trinity that was taught centuries before the first Christians that:

"Siva is one of the gods of the Trinity. He is said to be the god of destruction. The other two gods are Brahma, the god of creation and Vishnu, the god of maintenance.... To indicate that these three processes are one and the same the three gods are combined in one form".

The Greeks have more than a football team of different gods the most popular of which are Zeus (Nimrod), the mother goddess Artemis (Semiramis) and their son Ganymede (Tammuz).

With this brief background of the various triune gods being worshipped by pagans all over the world thousands of years before Jesus Christ was born, how did this doctrine find its way into Christianity?

Dr. Paul R. Eddy writes in an article entitled "Was Early Christianity Corrupted by Hellenism:

"Throughout the ancient world, as far back as Babylonia, the worship of pagan gods grouped in threes or triads, was common. That influence was also prevalent in Egypt, Greece and Rome in the centuries before, during, and after Christ. After the death of the apostles, such pagan beliefs began to invade Christianity... While [Plato] did not teach the Trinity in its present form, his philosophies paved the way for it".

Many Trinitarians argue that though majority of the world population in those times worship a triune 'God', in many ways, it has nothing to do with the kind of Trinity in the Bible. Griffiths, in 1996, a Scholar, posited that:

"Sometimes popular anti-Trinitarian literature paints the doctrine as strongly influenced by, or even illicitly extricated from some non-Christian religious or philosophical tradition. Divine threesomes abound in the religious writings and art of ancient Europe, Egypt, the near east, and Asia. These include various threesomes of male deities, of female deities, of Father-Mother-Son groups, or of one body with three heads, or three faces on one head. However, similarity alone doesn't prove Christian copying or even indirect influence, and many of these examples are, because of their time and place, unlikely to have influenced the development of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity".

His statement that the trinity the pagans worship has no influence on the Christian Trinity cannot hold because Rome, where Christianity faced its greatest battle for survival, was the headquarters of all Trinity worship in the world. I have mentioned it in my previous book, 'The Major Satanic Practices in Christianity', that those who believe in the Trinity will never agree that paganism influenced the wide acceptance of the demonic Trinity concept in the early years of Christianity.

Some historians do not agree with the last sentence of Griffiths' scholarly work. In _Egyptian Religion,_ Morenz tells us that:

"The Trinity was a major preoccupation of Egyptian theologians .... Three gods are combined and treated as a single being, addressed in the singular. In this way the spiritual force of Egyptian religion shows a direct link with Christian theology".

Unknown to scores of millions of Christians regrettably, the concept of Trinity found its way into Christianity gradually over three hundred years after the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. It crept in at first as a result of the compromise Christians made with the pagans in order to be accepted as a faith worthy of worship in the Roman Empire.

History tells us that after the death of Jesus Christ the most popular belief amongst Christians at that time was that Jesus was created and was the Son of the living God as stated in the Bible just as it was revealed to Peter who went to Rome personally to preach the Gospel. It was the same Peter that God revealed the identity of Jesus Christ as His Son so he would never have gone to Rome to preach anything contrary.

Matthew 16:13-18

"When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some _say that thou art_ John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God".

"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed _it_ unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".

Jesus Christ did not correct Peter when he called him the Christ, Son of the Living God, Yahweh. Rather he said it was upon that statement, that fact of being the Christ and Son of God that he would build his Church.

When the Christians went about preaching that Jesus Christ is the son of God bla, bla, bla, the pagans were not impressed in many ways. This is because they had their multitudes of gods, mother goddesses and sons of gods in abundance. It was like they were thinking 'So what if Jesus Christ is the son of your god? We have our sons of gods too!

It was easy for them to be converted into the new faith because they have heard about the numerous miracles that were performed by the disciples of Jesus as good news travels fast. Besides, this new faith also has beliefs similar to theirs since they also have a collection of 'sons of gods' who they worship.

Scriptural proofs that some of those who embraced the teachings of the Apostles in the developing stages of Christianity thought them to be 'gods' because of the miracles they perform are stated in the book of Acts.

Acts 14:8-15

"And there sat at Lystra a certain man, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. This same one heard Paul speak who, steadfastly beholding him and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on thy feet!" And he leaped and walked".

"And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the language of Lycaonia, 'The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men'. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, who was in front of the city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates and would have done sacrifice along with the people".

"But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they rent their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out and saying, 'Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions as you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all things that are therein".

In another pagan city, the pagans also thought Apostle Paul to be a god.

Acts 28:3-6

"And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand, And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live".

"And he shook off the beast unto the fire and felt no harm. Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god".

We can see that for a little 'miracle' like this they started to believe Paul was a god. Such was the situation in many places that the disciples went to preach. The people saw them as 'gods' most especially when they perform miracles.

This perception became so widespread that Jesus himself, whom these disciples claim to be their master and Son of God, became widely perceived as a 'higher god'. This view of Jesus Christ as a higher or supreme 'god' was mostly predominant in the Western Greek speaking areas of the Roman Empire and largely became the Christian religious view of most of those who accepted Christianity in those areas.

Despite this misconception of Jesus Christ held by the Western Greek speaking Christians that he was a god, the Latin speaking Christians in the Eastern areas held on to the true teachings of the disciples that Jesus is the Son of God as clearly stated in the Bible.

In addition to this error of judgment the Greek speaking areas where also the champions of the Sunday worship and the Christmas and Easter celebrations which were largely being practiced already at the headquarters of the world's pagan religious worship, Rome. Orthodox Christianity accepted and inculcated all these pagan religious practices into the faith and they have become the norm till today.

Truly old habits, they say, die hard. How could the pagans forsake their beliefs in their various gods, mother goddesses and sons of gods and accept that of an unknown God who they cannot see? Many of the pagans still preferred to worship their idols of Venus and Artemis and the likes of their various sons as those who got converted seem never to have completely forgotten their roots. They still celebrated the days of the births and deaths of their gods, goddesses and sons of gods even as Christians.

Due to space I cannot go into much details about the prevailing religious practices and beliefs prevalent in those days when Christianity was introduced to the then world capital city, Rome. Those interested in knowing more about this should read my other book, 'the Major Satanic Practices in Christianity' or simply Google the topic.

The position of Jesus Christ in relation to God Almighty, whether he was a god, God Himself, divine, human or simply God's Son was the prevailing situation on ground when a certain man of questionable beliefs, Caesar Flavius Constantine, became the Emperor of Rome, something akin to the selected President of the world.

Perhaps no one can talk about the origin of the Christian Trinity without mentioning the name of the man who laid the foundation that made the doctrine a law that must be obeyed in the Roman Empire, Emperor Constantine the Great. This is the man, history tells us, that almost single handedly converted the Son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, to God the Son. But he was not the one that created the Trinity Doctrine. The Doctrine was created almost fifty years later.

Caesar Flavius Constantine is a pagan who worshiped idols and his god was the sun god called Mithras. As a pagan, he claimed he saw a vision of, and used a kind of symbol that many claim was a Cross symbol, as a war banner and won a war against his adversaries. Convinced that it was a Christian symbol, the Emperor claimed he had accepted Christianity in the year 313 AD.

With his conversion the victimization, arrest and torture of Christians in the whole of the Roman Empire which the early Churches faced, as a result of which many of the Disciples and their new followers were slaughtered, were ordered to stop.

Christians became open friends with their pagan hosts and their faiths became united with that of the pagans who saw in the new Christian religion of their converted Emperor many similarities with that of theirs. Many of them unfaithfully accepted the new faith but continued with their pagan practices openly because, in truth, old habits die hard.

Majority of the Romans essentially remained pagans and continued with their pagan festivals and rituals without hindrance as no new laws were enacted to ban the practice of idolatry. They were Christians not necessarily by faith but by word of mouth.

Christianity became officially recognized when the Emperor subsequently enacted the 'Edict of Milan or 'the edict of tolerance' where he made a law that anyone can practice the religion of his or her choice.

This gave the Jews and the converted Gentiles freedom to resume worshipping their God as they were taught by the early Church fathers without fear. They were now automatically made equal citizens with the native Romans by one single edict and all persecutions against them were stopped overnight. No more excessive taxes or death sentences for being a practicing Jew or Christians. This was almost unbelievable news.

But this was also the beginning of the rot that led to the introduction of many pagan practices into Christianity from that year up to the next two hundred and fifty years.

Before and during the reign of Emperor Constantine there was already discord in the Christian Churches. Most of the Western Greek speaking Christians already view Jesus and his mother Mary as another form of their mother goddess and her son, a belief which their Eastern Latin counterparts do not share.

The argument about the deity or divinity of Jesus Christ, though in circulation much more outside the churches then, came into focus when two prominent opposition figures in Christianity confronted each other over the matter in the year 318 A.D, This occurred when the deity of Jesus Christ was first preached in a church in Alexandria by the Bishop of Alexandria. This was seven years before the matter was brought before a Church Council organized by the pagan Emperor Constantine in 325A.D.

The controversy broke out in the church in Alexandria when one of the church members, Arianus (also known as Arius), verbally attacked the choice of words used by the Bishop of Alexandria to describe Jesus in relation to God. Arianus was a strong believer in the original teachings of the Bible and a well respected clergyman whose views about the growing Greek philosophies made him reject the position of Bishop of Alexandria.

The Bishop not only sacked Arianus from the church for daring to oppose his newly discovered teachings about the equality of Jesus Christ with the Father, he also condemned him as a heretic, making Arianus flee to the non-Trinitarian part of the territory for his dear life.

The new belief that Jesus Christ is equal with the Father started to gain grounds in the Western churches and was being publicly preached to the astonishment of the Greek speaking people who see Jesus already as a god.

Meanwhile, in the Eastern parts of the empire, the parts surrounding and closest to the Palestine region where the gospel of Jesus Christ emanated from, the belief that Jesus was the Son of God and not God the Son was much more widely accepted.

Later, among the clergy, this controversy continued with the church members totally ignorant about what was going on because they were not permitted to own Bibles as at that time. Because only the Clergy had access to the Bible, the controversy raged between them, each with their own die-hard supporters who believe anything they teach. How fortunate we are today that we can buy the Bible and read ourselves on the streets.

Though the Arian belief, which was championed by Arianus, (that Jesus was the son of God, was created by God and was thus subordinate to him), was the most popular belief then, the three-in-one-god believing Greeks, championed by Bishop Athanasius, (a close friend of Bishop Alexander, and many of the Greek speaking Bishops), that Jesus Christ was God himself also reigned supreme in the Greek speaking areas.

Let us remember that the Greeks were the ones who were already worshipping gods, mothers of gods and sons of gods.

These were the prevailing situation on ground when Emperor Constantine called for a meeting with almost all the Bishops in his enclave in his palace. Despite the fact that he was the head of the pagan cult of Mithras, the sun-god, the Bishops obeyed his call as the head of the empire. It was clear to all then that the most important thing the Emperor wanted was peace in his domain. The warring factions needed to come together to agree on some specific issues that were causing discord and threatening the peace of the empire then. These issues included, the Christmas and Easter day celebrations and the Saturday Sabbath and the Sunday worship of the Sun-god, Mithras, another name for Baal.

As regards the divinity of Jesus Christ, there were actually three opposing groups at the conference but only two of the groups were quite vociferous and fanatical in their beliefs. The major stands championed by the leaders of the vociferous two groups may be summarized below:

Arianus' major stand was that:

"Jesus is not God, although he could be called 'divine.' He was **made by God** so there was a time when he did not exist! He was made out of nothing and is, therefore, of an **entirely different substance (or Essence) from that of God**. He must **not** be worshiped as the One True God".

Athanasius' stand was that:

"Jesus is absolutely equal to the Father. He has always existed beside the Father. He is of the very same substance or essence as the Father. **He is** **absolute** **God and must be** **worshiped** **as God** **".**

The American People's Encyclopedia, 1954, says that almost two-thirds of Bishops at the council belong to the third group which does not subscribe to the views of these two learned but opposing parties. These were known as the **Semi-Arians** and were led by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea.

This group did not believe that Jesus Christ was made out of nothing. They believe that Jesus did not always exist as he was begotten at a certain time and strongly agreed with the Arians that Jesus was not God and must not be worshipped as God.

The summary of the belief of the Semi-Arians was that:

"The Father generated Jesus from a substance **similar**. ( _Homoiousios_ _)_ to His own. He is **not** equal to God, but is **subordinate** to Him, even though he is above all the rest of creation. Jesus must not be worshiped as the One True God.

The Greek speaking Bishops who believed that Jesus Christ was the Almighty God (this is not surprising because the Greeks already have a pantheon of 'gods', sons of gods and mothers of gods which they were worshipping long before Christianity was preached to them) were the least in number of the three groups while the Semi-Arians had about two hundred of the about three hundred men in attendance.

Many of the Latin speaking Bishops, including the Bishop of Rome himself, refused to attend the meeting that was held in the year 325 A.D. In his absence, Bishop Hosius, the Bishop of Cordova, a special adviser to the Emperor on Church matters, stood for him as the head of the Christian Bishops.

It was at that meeting, chaired by a largely pagan Emperor, Constantine the Great, that it was decided that Jesus Christ and Almighty God were one and the same being, none was greater than the other. With this conclusion, the Bishops unanimously passed the Nicene Creed by force and claimed that it was the decision of God. Anyone who opposed their view became State enemy and must be killed. And truly, tens of thousands were killed.

The Nicene Creed, a part of the conclusion of that meeting regarding the deity of Jesus Christ , was issued and made a law that must be obeyed. A part of the Nicene Creed, is given below:

The Nicene Creed

"We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible".

"And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end".

"And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen".

In _Christianity Through the Ages_ , p. 50-51,1965, Harper Chapel Books, historian Kenneth Latourette describes the situation after the 'decision' of God was reached at Nicaea:

"Constantine banished Arius, **ordered** **the** death penalty **for those who did not conform, and commanded the burning of the books composed by Arius".**

Trinitarian Robert M. Grant writes on p. 243, _Augustus to Constantine_ , Harper and Row, 1990:

"The books of Arius ... were to be burned; the discovery of such writings if concealed was to result in the application of the death penalty".

So it was that all the writings of Arianus, his mentors and his supporters were destroyed from the face of the earth. The views of Arianus would have made a great positive difference in Christian Theology today if it were allowed to co-exist with the writings against it. This is because his views were totally derived from the Bible.

From Brittanica.com, we read:

"In his theological interpretation of the idea of God, Arius [Arianus] was interested in maintaining a formal understanding of the oneness of God. In defense of the oneness of God, he was obliged to dispute the sameness of essence of the Son and the Holy Spirit with God the Father, as stressed by the theologians of the Neoplatonic influenced Alexandrian school. From the outset, the controversy between both parties took place upon the common basis of the Napoleonic concept of substance, which was foreign to the New Testament itself. It is no wonder that the continuation of the dispute on the basis of the metaphysics of substance likewise led to concepts that have no foundation in the New Testament--such as the question of the sameness of essence (homoousia) or similarity of essence (homoiousia) of the divine persons".

This meeting and the subsequent resolutions of the Council on Sunday Worship, Christmas and Easter day Celebration amongst others, was a political and moral victory for the Emperor who was able to settle the dispute by choosing a neutral stand; Almighty God was not greater than Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ was not also greater than Almighty God.

Essentially, what happened at that meeting was that a group of selected Bishops held a meeting, presided and moderated by a very pagan Emperor, and decided that Jesus was the Almighty God.

To show that there was nothing Christian or civil about Emperor Constantine who signed most of the doctrines of demons into Christianity, he was reported to have murdered some of his relatives including his son, Crispus, his wife, Faustina and his father-in-law maximian.

The way he killed them was totally inhuman. He ordered his wife thrown into a large pot of boiling water where she was cooked alive and imprisoned and tortured her father, Maximian, until he was forced to commit suicide rather than endure his pains. This was the character of the man who officially decreed that Jesus was equal with Almighty God.

The book, _When Jesus Became God_ , Harcourt, 1999, p. 75 says:

"The Council of Nicaea, then, was not universal. Nevertheless, it is everywhere considered the first ecumenical (or universal) council of the Catholic Church. Several later gatherings would be more representative of the entire Church; one of them, the joint council of Rimini-Seleucia (359 AD), was attended by more than five hundred bishops from both the East and West. If any meeting deserves the title "ecumenical," that one seems to qualify, but its result **-** **the adoption of an Arian creed** **-** was later repudiated by the Church. Councils whose products were later deemed unorthodox not only lost the "ecumenical" label but virtually disappeared from the official Church history".

The Nicene Creed became the document that was 'developed' to become the Athanasian Creed, the Creed that added the Holy Spirit to the argument and thus created the Trinity Doctrine, though Athanasius himself died before the creed that carried his name was made.

It should be noted that after Jesus Christ was made equal with God in the year 325 AD against biblical teachings, the idea of a Triune God was never discussed in Christian circles prior to that period and it came up over fifty years after that conference in 325 AD. The Greek Bishops were still planning how to introduce the concept into the new religion to conform to the earlier held beliefs of their people about a three in one god which they were already worshipping.

Now, before we get to the Doctrine of Trinity that was made law in the year 381 AD it should be known that the Word 'Trinity' was never mentioned in both the Old and the New Testaments. The word Trinity, 'Trinitas' in Greek, was first suggested by Tertullian in 215 AD. He was a well respected and influential Christian who, before he became a Christian, was a pagan very much intrigued with Greek Philosophies as he was said to belong to a cult called the 'Montanists' who were later judged to be heretics.

Eerdmans Handbook to the History of Christianity, 1977, p. 112 quotes Tertullian to have said in his Apology, XXl:

"God made this universe by his word, reason and power .... We also claim that the word, reason and virtue, by which we have said that God made all things, have spirit as their substance ... This Word we have learnt, was produced from God, and was generated by being produced, and therefore is called the Son of God and God from unity of substance with God. For God too is spirit".

Tertullian used the Latin word 'Substansia' (meaning of same essence or substance) to describe the relationship between Jesus Christ and Almighty despite the fact that that very word was never used in the Bible. It was not only ever used to explain or describe the relationship between Jesus Christ and Almighty God; it was never used to describe anything in the Bible but featured prominently in Greek philosophy.

In the Latin parlance of that period the word 'Substansia' simply means that Jesus was of the same 'Thing', 'Being', 'Energy', 'Power', 'Substance', 'Essence' etc with the Almighty God and so was equal with God. When Athanasius started using the word 'Homoosios' (the Greek word for 'Substansia) to describe the relationship between Jesus Christ and Almighty God Arianus insisted then that a word that was not used to describe the relationship between God and Jesus Christ in the Bible should not be used by man to describe that relationship.

His insistence that the scriptures must be the basis of any statement regarding the relationship between Jesus Christ and Almighty God drew the ire of the Western Bishops. After he was excommunicated from the Church by Constantine, he was pardoned by Constantine's son upon his father's death and ordered to return to Rome. He eventually died on the day he was to celebrate his pardon by the State for his stance on the truth of the Bible. Many suspected Bishop Athanasius and his men who were very influential and had more fanatical followers to have poisoned him because was a threat to them.

It seems Bishop Athanasius got most of his ideas from the writings of Tertullian. In the book, _When Jesus became God_ , Harcourt, 1999, p. 117-118, we read:

" **Athanasius** argues that God the Father is also God the Son. He says God actually _became_ Jesus despite the fact that, throughout the Gospels, the Son describes himself as being other than the Father and less than Him. He ransacks the New Testament for evidence to support his position, but the only texts he can find are two lines from the Book of John: "I and the Father are one," and "He who has seen me has seen the Father". But it is perfectly clear from the context of these statements that Christ is talking about _representing_ God, not about _being_ him [the Most High God] .... so, although he claims to believe that the New Testament is the word of God, he simply ignores the words that are inconsistent with his theory! In fact, since he cannot find any basis in Scripture for his contraption, he and his friends **borrow a word from Greek philosophy -** _homoousios_ \- to express it".

The Bible never used the word 'God the Son' to describe Jesus Christ. It was truly a formulation of man so when next you hear a pastor call Jesus Christ 'God the Son' you must know that the Pastor is simply using a term that those who call Jesus Christ God use to belittle God. This is because there is nothing like 'God the Son' in the Bible but the 'Son of God'. These are terms that completely mean two different things.

Though Emperor Constantine Chaired the meeting held in his palace in 325 A.D by virtue of his position, he had an adviser on Church matters by his side in the person of Bishop Hosius of Cordova. The _Catholic Encyclopedia_ tells us that:

"It is significant that the leading Bishop at Elvira [Bishop Hosius] was to preside at the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325".

Bishop Hosius was the one who presided over an earlier Council in Elvira held in 306 A.D where it was decreed that all priests in the Catholic Church must be celibate, a practice that still exists today that is making Priests and Bishops lust over children and having sex with them. We know that there is nowhere in the Old Testament Bible where this is practiced but it became the norm due to his influence.

We must know that many so-called Bishops then automatically migrated from their positions as priests of the religion of Mithraism to Pastors in the Churches that were formally the temples where their gods were being worshipped. This is why we see that many Temples that turned into Churches still had the images of their mother goddesses and their sons on their walls. Some never read the Bible. In fact there were Popes then that never read the Bible at all before they were made Popes. This Bishop who introduced the practice of celibacy into the Catholic Church only did what he knew was being done in his old religion.

Celibacy was one of the criteria for employing pagan priests in the cult of Mithraism. It was imposed on the Catholic Church under the influence of this Bishop despite the fact that Apostle Paul warned against the practice. Like many Bishops during his time, Bishop Hosius was not made Bishop because he was called by God or because he knew the Bible: he was made Bishop because he was a highly respected rich priest who made his money from pagan worshippers when he was a priest in the pagan religion of Mithraism.

1 Timothy 4:1-7

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth".

"For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness". (Emphasis mine).

The truth of the matter is that, in many writings of the early Christian fathers, they do not seem to support the equality of Jesus Christ and Almighty God. Apart from Tertullian, none of the other twelve major early Christian fathers, popularly known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers, ever mentioned the word 'Trinity' or 'Homoosios' in their very many writings. The idea was totally unknown to them.

Proponents of the Trinity however do not agree with the above statement. They have brought forth quite a relatively few quotes from the writings of these great men whose writings were sometimes used to preach the Word of God those days in some places. I am not unaware that if they can input some words that support their pagan beliefs in the Bible, they can also fabricate more in the books of many of such writers.

I wish to briefly state the view of a few of the thoughts of a few of some of the early Christian fathers.

Polycarp, (69-160 A.D.) in _The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians:_ Introduction - ANF translated by A. Cleveland Coxe, in his greetings says:

"Polycarp, and the presbyters with him, to the Church of God sojourning at Philippi: Mercy to you, and peace from _God Almighty_ , and from the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, be multiplied".

Saint Irenaeus, in Against Heresies, Book V, chapter 18,(ca. 130-200), another early Christian father born in the year 130 AD, died 200 AD, had no inkling that Jesus was equally God:

"'How then was the Son produced by the Father?' We reply to him, that no man understands that production, or generation, or calling, or revelation, or by whatever name one may describe His generation, which is in fact altogether indescribable".

Irenaeus continues in another place, (Vol. 1, p. 11 of _Ante-Nicene Fathers_ , Roberts, Eerdmans Publishing.):

"But there is only one God, the creator... He it is ... whom Christ reveals .... he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ .... But the Son, eternally co-existing with the Father, from of old ... always reveals the Father to ... all to whom He wills that God should be revealed".

Many had previously argued for and against the perceived deity of Jesus Christ at other earlier Councils of Church synods organized by the then Church leaders themselves sometime in 268 AD. Because the arguments of the proponents of Trinity had no definite scriptural backing to support their claims, the idea was thrown to the dogs and the views of those who believed he was not equal with God held sway.

Despite the Nicene Creed the Doctrine of Trinity was still very much not much of an issue as it was not yet fully developed. It was only in the hearts of the then well educated Christians many of whom were well versed in Greek Philosophies. They include the Platonists, Neo-Platonist etc. They kept on researching the Old and New Testaments to find some scriptural backings for their ideology. Unfortunately, they found quite a few and sometimes deceitfully interpret Hebrew and Greek words like , 'Theos' and 'Elohim', (the words used for God, which is also sometimes used for 'god', 'Judges', magistrates, 'Kings', 'Mighty' men, etc), as referring to Jesus Christ as God.

The truth is, in places where the Old or New Testament writers have to differentiate the interpretation of the Hebrew and Greek words, 'Theos' and 'Elohim', they precede the names with the definite articles, _'ha' and 'ho'_ (Hotheos and ha-Elohim) to make it clear that they are referring to the Almighty God. Wherever the definite articles do not appear, interpreters are allowed to sort out its meaning from the context of the verses before and after.

In most cases, wherever Jesus is involved, Trinity believing interpreters, who are educated enough to translate the Bible in the good old days, choose to make us believe that the words refers to Jesus and it means Jesus is God as we can see in John 1:1 and many others.

At the Church synod organized by the Pagan Emperor Constantine the Bishops did not deliberate on the Holy Spirit being equal with Almighty God. This is most probably because they knew then that the Arians will still defeat their arguments so they did not push their luck, after all, there was a lot to be pushed down the throats of the Arians and semi-Arians by force. They must first prove that Jesus Christ is God before all else. This they did at the conference held in Nicene in 325.

With regards to the various conclusions arrived at during the following synods held after 325 A.D. several conflicting decisions were made in subsequent conferences depending on whose side the Emperor was on.

In 325 AD, after the conference of Bishops, Arianus was expelled from the city and exiled to Illyria. In the year 328 AD Athanasius was made the Bishop of Alexandria by the clergy. That same year Emperor Constantine recalled Arianus from Illyria probably because of growing alliance with his beliefs by many. A few years after Arianus' return, the Emperor used his powers to exile Athanasius to Trier.

After the death of Constantine in 337 AD, his son Constantius, took over and under pressure from those who claim Jesus Christ is God, he pardoned Athanasius and orders his return to Alexandria. In the year 339 AD Athanasius flees Alexandria in anticipation of being expelled because of growing dissent with his beliefs about the nature of God. Two years later, in 341 AD, two other Councils were held and the Arian stand was adopted. The Councils arrived at a conclusion in which the Arian Confessions were accepted as sound doctrine. Two years later again in 343 AD, the Eastern Bishops who never really accepted the Athanasian views that Jesus Christ is God himself forced Athanasius off his seat at the Council of Sardica.

The disputes over the 'Godness' of Jesus Christ were most times violent and bloody. Historian Will Durant, in _The Story of Civilization, Vol. 4: The Age of Faith,_ 1950, p. 8, writes:

"Probably more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in these two years (342-3) than by all the persecutions of Christians by pagans in the history of Rome".

When another Emperor was selected he favored Athanasius and had him restated back as Bishop of Alexandria in 346 AD. During the next four Councils held in 351, 353, 355 and 356 AD the views of Athanasius were totally condemned and at the last meeting he was exiled again for the third time.

In 357 AD during the Council held at Sirmium, the words 'homoousios' and 'Homoiousios' were considered unbiblical and discarded, maintaining the teachings of the Disciples that the Father is greater than Jesus who is subordinate to the Father.

Readers must note that during all these period, the doctrine of trinity never existed and was never discussed in Church circles.

Professor Harold Brown, cited earlier, in p. 199 writes that:

"During the middle decades of this century, from 340 to 380, the history of doctrine looks more like the history of court and church intrigues and social unrest. The central doctrines hammered out in this period often appear to have been put through by intrigue or mob violence rather than by the common consent of Christendom led by the Holy Spirit".

In the year 380, Emperor Theodosius the Great, who was elected a year earlier, made Christianity the state religion and called all those who believed that Jesus Christ was not God 'madmen'. He stopped them from attending their churches which he handed over to those who call Jesus Christ the Almighty God, the Catholic Church.

As a Christian then, if you do not join the Catholic Church you were considered a 'Heretic' and your punishment was death by torture. So it was either you believe that Jesus Christ was the Almighty God as a Christian or you remain a pagan. Many joined the Catholic Church then because it was better than remaining a pagan.

In the year 381 AD, after totally suppressing any semblance of a belief in the Arian Creed, the Emperor gathered about a hundred and fifty Bishops, those who basically agreed that Jesus Christ was the Almighty God out of force or fear, for another meeting. It was at this meeting that the mostly Greek philosophy influenced Christian Bishops finally ingrafted the idea that Almighty God, Jesus Christ, who the majority of Christians knew was the Messiah and Son of God, and the Holy Spirit, were one and the same.

This was how the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed was enacted and made a law that over ninety percent of Christians believe today.

I wish to relate a part of that Creed that has divided Christians once again.

"Whoever wants to be saved should above all cling to the catholic faith. Whoever does not guard it whole and inviolable will doubtless perish eternally. Now this is the catholic faith: We worship one God in Trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being. For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Spirit is still another. But the deity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, equal in glory, coeternal in majesty. What the Father is, the Son is, and so is the Holy Spirit. Uncreated... infinite... eternal... And yet there are not three eternal beings, but one who is eternal... Almighty is the Father... And yet there are not three almighty beings, but one who is almighty. Thus the Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God: And yet there are not three gods, but one God....not three lords, but one Lord".

The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, also popularly called the Athanasian Creed, continues in a language that is a concoction of a great part of Greek Philosophy mixed with a little part of Christian scriptures:

"As Christians, truth compels us to acknowledge each distinct person as God and Lord, so catholic religion forbids us to say that there are three gods or lords. The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten; the Son was neither made nor created, but was alone begotten of the Father; the Spirit was neither made nor created, but is proceeding from the Father and the Son. Thus there is one Father, not three fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three spirits. And in this Trinity, no one is before or after, greater or less than the other; but all three persons are in themselves, coeternal and coequal; and so we must worship the Trinity in unity and the one God in three persons. Whoever wants to be saved should think thus about the Trinity".

To ensure that no one will ever oppose the decision of his Council Emperor Theodosius issued his own edict that reads:

"We now order that all churches are to be handed over to the bishops who profess Father, Son and Holy Spirit of a single majesty, of the same glory, of one splendor, who establish no difference by sacrilegious separation, but (who affirm) the order of the Trinity by recognizing the Persons and uniting the Godhead".

This was how the final so-called Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, derived from the Nicene Creed, was established and signed it into law. It became a crime to publicly profess to believe that Jesus Christ is subordinate to the Father. The penalty to be paid for believing or professing that Jesus Christ is not God was... death! If we were still living in the dark ages this would have been the punishment that would have befallen me. But thank the Almighty God for His mercies, the Catholic Church cannot condemn me anymore and those who do cannot harm me because there is freedom of speech.

As a state religion, it would not have been in the interest of the faith to again ever change what most people see as the most important doctrine which had cost the lives of several hundreds of thousands of people. The matter seems settled finally as the Father was made equal with His Son in age and every other thing, making this doctrine the first ever of such a phenomenon ever known on planet earth. They made the truth of God a lie and made their lies the truth of God.

In essence, it took about fifty-five years after Jesus Christ was made equal with Almighty God by a man-made decree before the supposedly learned Christian leaders discovered that Almighty God is a triune God. Till date, in the Roman Catholic world, Jesus Christ remains Almighty God and Mary the 'Mother of God'. What a calamity. The Trinity is indeed a deception orchestrated from the pit of hell.

Emperor Theodosius the Great who greatly aided the belief in this demonic doctrine was not a Christian before he was made Emperor in 379 A.D. He was baptized on the throne after he fell sick by a Trinity believing Bishop and when he came out of wherever he was baptized in the name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, a spirit seemed to have seized him and made him brutal against his opponents those who believed that Jesus Christ was not the Almighty God but His Son..

The Encyclopedia Britannica' 9th edition, vol. 23, page 259, article "Theodosius," records these about him:

"It was not, however, till his illness at Thessalonica that the emperor received baptism at the hands of Bishop Ascholius, whereupon, says the historian Sozomen, he issued a decree (February, 380) in favor of the faith of St. Peter and Pope Damasus of Rome".

"This was to be the true catholic faith; the adherents of other creeds were to be reckoned as heretics and punished".

"Other edicts forbade the unorthodox to hold assemblies in the towns and enjoined the surrender of all churches to the catholic bishops".

Historian Gibbon, also mentioned earlier, in chapter 27 of his book affirms that:

"Theodosius was the first of the emperors baptized into the true faith of the Trinity. As the emperor ascended from the holy font, he dictated a solemn edict:

"Let us believe the sole deity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, under an equal majesty and a pious Trinity.

"We authorize the followers of this doctrine to assume the title of Catholic Christians; and as we judge that all others are extravagant madmen, we brand them with the infamous name of Heretics, and declare that their conventicles [gatherings or Churches] shall no longer usurp the respectable appellation of churches...Besides the condemnation of Divine Justice, they must expect to suffer the severe penalties, which our authority, guided by heavenly wisdom, shall think proper to inflict upon them!". (Emphasis mine).

Emperor Theodosius seemed to be more Christian than Constantine because he was reported to be the first pagan influenced Christian Emperor that gave an order to the Bishop of Milan to burn all pagan temples and shrines to ashes. While this order was eventually upturned with a return to the status quo, which was image worship in the Christian Churches, Theodosius became popular amongst the Christians who knew that pagan image worship was wrong.

But the real spirit controlling the Emperor manifested itself when he ordered the execution of almost seven thousand heretics in a gruesome massacre in the circus of the town of Thessalonica to whom Apostle Paul once wrote a letter. The people he massacred believed in the teachings of the Apostle that Jesus Christ was not the Almighty God.

With Jesus Christ now made equal with Almighty God and now being seen as God, the Greek speaking Bishops simply made Mary automatically and officially the Mother of God. All the various gory images of Artemis, Venus and Diana etc breastfeeding and/or carrying their sons automatically became the same images of Mary breastfeeding her son Jesus Christ.

To further show how simply irrational this Doctrine of Trinity is, almost all Christians in the Protestant Churches who believe Jesus Christ is the Almighty God do not accept Mary as being the mother of God.

If Jesus Christ is the Almighty God and Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ then common sense dictates that Mary is the mother of Almighty God. But those who believe in the Trinity say no, Almighty God does not have a mother. Jesus Christ is the Almighty God, they agree, but Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, is not the Mother of Almighty God who, they claim, Jesus is. They dubiously try not to make this an issue whenever they preach that Jesus Christ is the Almighty God so as not to embarrass themselves.

But since they admit that the Doctrine of Trinity is beyond human comprehension why not also believe that Mary is the mother of Jesus aka Almighty God as this is also beyond comprehension? To accept Mary as the mother of God will give more credibility to an already confusing and incomprehensible destabilizing belief in the Trinity.

Up till this very moment, the Catholic Churches still bow down and worship images of Mary and Jesus Christ without recourse to the commandment of God that condemns the worship of any kind of images in its totality. In other words, they still teach, as doctrines of God, the commandments of men. The worst part of the story is that hundreds of millions of people attend the Catholic Church, bowing down in prayers to these images. In truth, they are bowing down before idols crafted with hands by men. They bow down before demons so to say.

It is worthy to note that in the space of about fifteen years Theodosius promulgated at least ten severe edicts against the heretics, more especially against those who rejected the doctrine of the Trinity simply because he wanted to wipe out the real truth about the Most High God. Thus the Trinity is borne and for hundreds of years no one had the evidence again to disproof the doctrine because they had no access to the Bible.

But as men gained access to the Bible and started to read it, the many lies of the Catholic Church were gradually exposed including that which states that sinners could be forgiven for their sins if they pay money to the Church leaders to pray for them. That great lie was exposed by Martin Luther, the founder of the Lutherian Church about one thousand five hundred years ago. I wish to say that the death of the Trinity Doctrine is also imminent.

May the Almighty Yahweh, who is never the Author of confusion, grant Trinitarians more understanding. Amen!!!

It will be most unwise for Christians to believe that the devil will allow the messages of God in the Bible to reach mankind intact as they were meant to be. That is simply underrating the devil and his many cunning ways. The devil may be stupid to disobey Almighty God but he is also smart enough to turn man away from the Way of God.

We know, as the devil does too, that Almighty God wants us to serve and worship Him in Spirit and in truth. We also know that the devil has vowed to turn man away from God so he has distorted the teachings of God so Christians today cannot worship the Almighty God in Spirit and in truth. Unknown to many Christians, they worship God under the lies Satan has prepared for them.

Satan has established many of his own religions but that is not enough. The prized price is in making people to believe in a created being using the Bible thereby denying God the worship and reverence due to Him.

But the Law that elevated Jesus Christ to the position of Almighty God in a conference chaired by a pagan Emperor was not the only law that the Emperor made at that faith changing meeting. The supposedly Christian leaders present at the meeting, whose arguments were based primarily on existing Greek philosophies, also made other laws that have continued to shape the faith of Christians today. Note that these laws are not based on the scriptures as we will soon see.

In my other book, 'The major Satanic Practices in Christianity' I wrote about these laws, one of which was the change of the Sabbath day of rest ordained by the Almighty God from Saturday to Sunday. I will not be surprised if you have been taught not to listen to this kind of arguments by those who have fallen for the doctrines of Satan. Once they know they cannot counter an obvious scriptural fact, they order their flocks to reject reading or discussing anything related to that issue and, like fools, their Church members obey. How can a man like you control what you choose to read? Is he your God?

It grieves my heart that majority of Christians today believe that it was Yahweh that made the Sunday-Sunday worship a law for Christians to uphold. Many of them do not know that Sunday is not the Sabbath day ordained by God to rest and worship Him. For those who know that Saturday is the original Sabbath day of rest and worship ordained by Almighty God, they have been told that, the day we worship God does not matter as long as we worship Him. Now most of them believe what their Pastors teach them about ignoring the Sabbath instituted by Almighty God.

It is sad that we have now chosen a day reserved for the worship of the sun-god of Mithraism to worship Almighty God.

As the few Christian and many pagan Bishops decided to make Jesus Christ Almighty God in that conference held in the year 325AD, they also made it law that the Saturday ordained by Almighty God for man to rest and worship Himwas null, void and of no effect and then made the day in which many of them worship their sun-god the day of worship for Christians. What an insult. And this is all because Almighty God does not strike His enemies down immediately they sin against Him.

Till this day, hundreds of millions of Christians go to Church on Sundays and no questions are asked because it is what they grew up to know. Worse still, the original Sabbath day of rest ordained by God is the day that people use to commit all sorts of sins worldwide because they know they have the next day, Sunday, to rest and prepare for work on Monday.

While discussing the Sabbath is beyond the scope of this book, I would like to include the law enacted on that very sad day in World history that has changed the Law of God, maybe forever unless people take heed and do the right thing.

Let us read the law that finally established Sunday as a Day of Worship for all peoples.

From the Codex Justianus, translated by Phillip Schaff in "History of the Christian Church", Vol. 3, page 380, the edict from a pagan Emperor that were copied and made Christian Law forever states that:

" **On the venerable day of the sun (venerabili die solis, the sacred day of the sun) let the magistrates and the people residing in the cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however, persons engaged in Agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits, because it also happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or for vine-planting lest by neglecting the proper moments of such operations, the bounty of heaven should be lost—Given the 7th day of March (321 AD)".**

This was the first law ever enacted on earth that made Sunday a day of worship for mankind including Christians. It is not a law that was put together from the Bible. It was simply a law from a pagan Emperor to force the Christians to abandon their God-given rules and obey the doctrines of his pagan religion in which he was the chief priest and has the duty of propagating.

Constantine continues in his edict that finally nailed the coffin of worshipping on the original Sabbath day in the Roman Empire:

"For as much, then, as it is no longer possible to bear with your pernicious errors (Jews and Christians who worship on Saturdays), we give warning by this present statute that none of you henceforth presume to assemble yourselves together. We have directed, accordingly, that you be deprived of all the houses in which you are accustomed to hold your assemblies: and (we) forbid the holding of your superstitious and senseless Sabbath meetings, not in public merely, but in any private house or place whatsoever... Take the far better course of entering the Catholic Church... We have commanded... that you be positively deprived of every gathering point for your superstitious meetings. I mean all the houses of prayer... and that these be made over without delay to the Catholic Church; that any other places be confiscated to the public service, and no facility whatever be left for any future gathering, in order that from this day forward, none of your unlawful assemblies may presume to appear in any public or private place. Let this edict be made public".

Translating the meaning of this edict, it simply means that the early Christians were barred from attending their synagogues or Churches on Saturdays forever in the Roman empire as at that time.

Now, for almost all Christians, it has become Law all over the world to worship on Sundays and those who worship on the original Saturday ordained by Almighty God are seen as heretics.

According to the book, 'The early Church', p. 128, Chadwick, 1967:

"This is the earliest evidence for the process by which Sunday became not merely the day on which Christians met for worship but also a day of rest, and it is noteworthy that in both law and inscription Constantine's stated motive for introducing this custom is respect for the sun".

Today over ninety-five percent of Christians have abandoned the God-made decree of Saturday Sabbath for this man-made decree of Sunday worship.

According to Chambers Encyclopedia, in the article titled 'Sunday':

"Unquestionably the first law, either ecclesiastical or civil, by which the sabbatical observance of Sunday is known to have been ordained, is the sabbatical edict of Constantine in 321 AD".

In the year 337 AD, about sixteen years after Sunday was made a day of worship to the Roman 'God' Mithras, the Bishop of Rome called for a meeting of the Church Leaders where they also conferred, on that same Sunday, the title of the 'Lord's Day'".

They took after what the pagans were doing in disobedience to the Laws of God. It may be generally admitted that there was a very strong desire by our then Christian Leaders to win souls into the faith. Making the Christian day of worship same with the day the pagans worship their idol demons seemed to be the best option of bringing people to the church and filling their pockets. But it is also true that they were not concerned if their desire to do so is a complete breach of the Commandments of The Most High God.

It is written:

Deuteronomy. 12:30-32.

" **Take heed to yourself that you not be snared (trapped) by following them, after they be destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise. You shall not do unto Yahweh thy Elohim: for everything hateful to Yahweh, which He detests, they have done to their gods. For they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. What thing so ever I command you, observe to do it; you shall not add to it, or take away from it".**

The Most High God knew that the children of Israel would adopt the beliefs and practices of the pagans so He warned them before hand not to do so. This warning was also repeated hundreds of years later in the Book of Ezekiel.

Like many other non-biblical satanic commandments being practiced today in our Churches, this was another great rejection of the commandments of The Most High God for the doctrines of demons. In the Book of Ezekiel we see that The Most High God has warned us not to go the way of the gentiles.

Ezekiel 20:17- 20

"Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God".

I am not surprised that this change from a God ordained Saturday Sabbath day to a man appointed Sunday was done. Like many renowned Pastors today who support the Trinity doctrine against biblical teachings, many other Pastors now also support homosexuality, Lesbianism and gay marriages. The Church of God has long been infiltrated by agents of the devil. And these agents are ready to fight with all the connections and funds at their disposal, to stop anyone from preaching the truth. Many have long hated me for telling the truth about these things.

And so it was that Jesus Christ was deliberately converted to Almighty God and the Saturday worship ordained by The Most High God was abandoned for the man made Sunday in direct fulfillment of the scriptures:

Daniel 7:25

" **And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time".**

The time has come for Christians to go back to the true teachings of The Most High God.

To prove to the world that the Catholic Church is behind the open display of disobedience to the commands of The Most High God, I wish to quote a few statements from agents of the Church who are openly proud of their 'great achievements'.

Cardinal James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73 and 89 tells us that:

"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify".

The Catholic Church does not only oppose the fourth commandment of God, they also reject the second commandment which condemns the worship of images of anything.

As if these clear disobedience of God's rules are not enough, they add another great blasphemy to their beliefs by calling a created human being, the man Jesus Christ, the Almighty God and Mary, the mother of God. The Catholic Church, through the actions, utterances and edicts of the Popes is the only organization on earth that has done so much damage to the original teachings of Jesus Christ. They introduced this demonic doctrine of trinity into the Christian Faith and today all Christians agree with them.

In the book Canon and Tradition, p. 263, we read that:

" **The authority of the Church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority".**

One of the reasons I refrained from writing much about the sins and crimes of some of the Popes was because I do not want to embarrass the Catholic Church. Those who are interested in knowing about the character and wickedness of many Popes who made demonic laws that the Christian world today obey as God made laws should conduct a research on the issue themselves.

The admittance of many Catholic Church agents that many of those laws were deliberately changed is a clear indication of the reason for the change, namely the influence of Satan in the Catholic and Protestant Churches we have today.

The Catholic Mirror, official publication of James Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893 states:

"The Catholic Church... by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday".

What, if I may ask, is the 'divine mission' of the Catholic Church if it can deliberately change a law made by The Most High God?

In Our Sunday Visitor, February 5, 1950 the Catholic Church states:

"Protestants do not realize that by observing Sunday they accept the authority of the spokesperson of the Church, the Pope".

I would love to know who made the Pope the spokesperson of God's Church.

H.F Thomas, another senior member of the Church adds:

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [Saturday Sabbath to Sunday] was her act... And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things".

In the Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept 1, 1923, agents of the Catholic Church clearly state that:

"Sunday is our mark of authority... the Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact".

The repeated use of the word 'mark' by agents of the Catholic Church is somehow scary to me because it reminds me of the 'mark' of the beast spoken of in the Bible. This 'mark' of authority lies on everyone who obeys the doctrines of the Catholic Church in clear defiance of the Commandments of The Most High God.

Do you have this mark?

Thomas Enright, CSSR, President, of a Roman Catholic establishment called the Redemptorist College, in Kansas City, bragged in public on Feb. 18, 1884. He was very excited when he said:

"Prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the Catholic Church alone. The Catholic Church says, by my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the Holy Catholic Church".

From the Catholic Press in Sydney Australia comes another revelation that was published August 25 1900:

"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles. From the beginning to the end of Scripture, there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first".

But those who support the transfer of the original Saturday Sabbath to Sunday-Sunday worship have brought out misinterpreted scriptures to support this unscriptural change just like they have manipulated scriptures to support the demonic Trinity Doctrine.

Let us hear another proud agent of the Catholic Church who believes his Pope is God on earth.

"The Pope has power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ. The Pope has authority and has often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ".

If they truly believe that Jesus Christ is the Almighty God, what they are trying to tell us is that the Pope has power to change the Laws of God. As devilish as this may sound, that is the truth the agents of Satan believe.

Daniel 7:25

" **And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time".**

The time has come for us to repudiate these laws and go back to the Truth of God as written in the Bible.

I have included this part of history to prove to readers that the conversion or remaking of Jesus Christ to Almighty God, Christmas, Easter and Sunday-Sunday worship were all deliberately ingrafted into the Christian faith by the devil. This is why even the Bishops and Pastors who call Jesus Christ Almighty God will never call Mary the Mother of God. Their God-consciousness will not permit them to do so. But in order to keep the money from tithes and offerings constant and consistent they must obey the devil's laws.

In the next chapter we will talk more about the definition of the Trinity as was revealed by the Catholic Church that introduced this doctrine of Demons into Christianity. Readers will find out that even the strongest supporters of the doctrine are at a loss about how to define it. After then, if we accept their definition, we then move on to how they have tried to find biblical scriptures to support the doctrine and how they have gone so far in manipulating the words of Yahweh to defend their diabolic faith in a satanic three-in-one god that the Bible never ever mentioned.

I temporarily rest my case lest I be seen to be a heretic

