After the flood of Noah, the religion at the tower of Babel was invented out of the imaginations of men, and, ever since that day, all religions upon the earth are inventions out of the imaginations of men; therefore, the tower of Babel was the birthplace of all religions on the face of the earth.
"And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." (Genesis 11: 5-9)
Not only have religions been a work out of the imaginations of men, but all of the gods and goddesses of all religions have also been manufactured out of the imaginations of men.
None of these gods and goddesses are real, none of them are living, but they are perceived to be real in the imaginations of people who believe in religions.
All religions on the earth, moreover, have been built on the foundation of the same religious system that was laid at the tower of Babel, for all religions have the same elements of Babel---only they have been disguised in various ways, with various titles, and with various names for gods and goddesses and spread across the earth from nation to nation that began in various language groups, so that each nation---or language group---could have its own religion, with its own gods and goddesses, and with its own collection of "sacred" texts.
Furthermore, all of religions' writings---their books, their laws, their rites and rituals---are also written out of the imaginations of men.
The common ground that all religions share is found in the fact that all of them are against God, all of them are against Christ, and all of them are against the Bible.
The Bible calls this system Babylon, and because all religions are out of Babylon, all of them are on the same team even though they appear to be operating independently.
This post today is not only the story of the blind leading the blind, but it is also the story of the blind following the blind.
"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (2nd Corinthians 4: 3-4)
Without the gospel of Christ, it is impossible for people to believe in God and that God is living in heaven.
Without the gospel of Christ, it is impossible for people to believe that Christ died for sin, that He was resurrected from death, and that He ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father in heaven.
Without the gospel of Christ, it is impossible for people to believe that the Bible is the word of the Lord from God in heaven.
Consequently, all of the people in all of the religions of the world, as well as the leaders of all religions of the world, are blind to the truth that abides in Christ Jesus, for Jesus said,
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14: 6)
None of the gods or goddesses can say that because none of the gods and goddesses exist, for not one is alive or living: for all of them are built in the imaginations of people from the imaginations from religions' founding fathers and transformed to the imaginations within their congregations by religions' ministers and priests.
The only evidence they can offer is found in the images of gods and goddesses, which are idols of stone or wood, pictures or portraits, which they have built by their own hands and out of their imaginations, and the only thing idols can do is sit on the floor or hang on the wall, yet having no ears to hear, no eyes to see, and no mouths to speak, while people will actually believe that these images are representatives of gods and goddesses even though they do not exist.
How blind can people be!
Even today, some of the most highly educated people in the world will fall on their knees in houses of religion and worship an image sitting on the floor or hanging on a wall, or an etching in a stained-glass window, such as in a temple, a shrine, and also a cathredral---with the mind of a toddler, who believes that Santa Claus is real.
We also know that in some churches and Christian religions people will fall down on their knees and worship an image of Christ hanging on a cross while never saying a word about Him when they leave the buildings.
Just how blind can they be!
They are blind to the gospel of Christ because the Bible has been hidden from them within their own institutions where Christ has been transformed to no more than on image hanging on a wall.
So we can see, then, that the religion of Babylon has entered and penetrated places that we call Christian churches, and the people within these places are the same as the people at the tower of Bable. They are blind to the gospel of Christ because their leaders are also blind to the gospel of Christ, and this is the story of the blind leading the blind.
Sadly, all of these people teach their children to believe in the same Babylonian system, but disguised in the cloak of Christianity.
These false churches, therefore, are little towers of Babel spread across the United States and in nations all over the world.
To be saved by Christ, people must come out of Babylon. They must come out of these little towers of Babel, for Jesus makes a plea unto them:
"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." (Revelation 18: 4)
"Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name
under heaven
given among men,
whereby we must be saved."
(Acts 4: 12)
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