Path from Babel to the COUNTERFEIT RELIGIONS

Path from Babel to 

the COUNTERFEIT RELIGIONS:

ROOT of Their REBELLION
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven;
and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:4

3 Goals:

-1- A City

-2- A Tower

-3- A Name

--The city was in direct rebellion against the word of God - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Genesis 9:1
--The tower they tried to build up to heaven by their own might.

So too does the sins of Babylon in the end reach unto heaven - For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Revelation 18:5 

We don't need a man-made tower...we already have a strong tower - The name of the LORD is a strong tower: 

Proverbs 18:10
--The name they tried to make for themselves was rooted in pride...pride is how this war all began - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!,..For thou hast said in thine heart, ...I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Isaiah 14:12-14
"I" is the Root of this REBELLION----- Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God. Psalm 10:4 NIV

"They lost God, because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21.

They attributed everything to themselves,

--and as self was advanced,

--faith in God decreased,

till they were in the darkness of idolatry." -- And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
E.J. Waggoner/Romans 1:23

"The principle that man can save himself by his own works lay at the foundation of every heathen religion." 

E.G.W.

REINCARNATION (where you never really die) -- The Quest for Immortality:
1) Which in his times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only

Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

1 Timothy 6:15,16

2) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, 

but after this the judgment: 

Hebrews 9:27

"Fifteenth chapter of Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, paragraph 17; he says of the heathen in the inquiry after the immortality of the soul:
"In the sublime inquiry, their reason had been often guided by their imagination, and their imagination had been prompted by their vanity."

--The Formula--

Vanity the root of the inquiry,

and self the root of the vanity.

I read on:
*When they viewed with complacency the extent of their own mental powers,
-a-when they exercised the various faculties of

memory, of fancy, and of judgment, in the most profound speculations, or the most important labors,
-b- and when they reflected on the desire of fame, which transported them into future ages, far beyond the bonds of death and of the grave;
-c- they were unwilling to confound themselves with the beasts of the field or to suppose that a being, for whose dignity they entertained the most sincere admiration,
-d- could be limited to a spot of earth and to a few years of duration.
*What is that but the description of Satan's career when he started.
-a- His reason prompted by his imagination; his imagination guided by his vanity,

-b- and viewing with complacency the extent of his own mental powers; the desire for fame beyond that of God,
-c- and unwilling to allow that a person for whose dignity he entertained the most sincere admiration
-d- could be properly confined to a subordinate place in the universe of God.
Q: Is not this an exact description of mankind in a heathen condition, written by a philosopher, looking only at the question from man's side of it?
Q: Could there be a clearer description of the working of Satan in his original career?"
A.T. Jones 1893 Sermon

And many false prophets shall rise,

and shall deceive many.

Matthew 24:11

Ever learning,

and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.....

2 Timothy 3:7

Wherefore come out from among them,

and be ye separate, saith the Lord,

and touch not the unclean thing;

2 Corinthians 6:17

THOUGHTS ON THE HINDU TRINITY:

[This is just my opinion] Hinduism seems to have began in the Indus River Valley civilization based on their pictographs with images similar to the their gods poses, sacred cows and the swastika of Hinduism.

We know many people venerated ancestors.
Could it be a vague memory of the trinity of brothers who populated the world post-flood? (Vishnu was elevated years later in this pantheon).
*Remember they have a story where Vishnu comes in an avatar of a

fish to save Manu during a global flood by guiding his boat filled with seeds, animals and 8 people.
Q: So could it be that the eldest, Japheth, became the creator god Brahma?
Q: And Vishnu the preserver god modelled after Shem of whom the Messianic line was to come?
Q: And finally Shiva modelled after a vague memory of Ham, the bad boy of the brothers? 

Remember that Ham (like Shiva had) would obviously have a good side at times but

made some sort of terrible mistake that resulted in Noah (Hindu Manu) cursing him.
*Another possibility is that Brahma could be a vague memory of Noah who was the progenitor of the post-flood race and Shiva representing Ham (because if you remember, Ham did something to Noah) and Shiva cut off one of Bahama's heads.....later to make a trinity Vishnu was elevated to make 3. Sort of blending the vague memory of the three who populated the earth with the Noah/Ham story.
----Just an thought.....