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To: metmom; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; Dr. Eckleburg

“Mary? You mean His Mother? Now the *bride* of Christ, as in His spouse as an individual?”

This is no more than the Roman version of the Babylonian myth of Ishtar and Tammuz (a form of Baal idolatry). Ishtar, the “Queen of heaven”, gives birth to Tammuz, the eternally dieing and resurrecting god who becomes her consort.

Ecc. 3:15, “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been;..”


2,369 posted on 11/17/2010 8:28:24 AM PST by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan; metmom; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; boatbums; caww; RnMomof7; Quix; ...
This is no more than the Roman version of the Babylonian myth of Ishtar and Tammuz (a form of Baal idolatry). Ishtar, the “Queen of heaven”, gives birth to Tammuz, the eternally dieing and resurrecting god who becomes her consort.

Ecc. 3:15, “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been;..”

AMEN. One of my favorite verses. Same old, same old.

"Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" -- Acts 17:29-30


2,385 posted on 11/17/2010 9:35:00 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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