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| Asclepius and his rod, plagiarized from Moses |
Undeniably, even the medical profession admits that the symbol of the medical profession – the Serpent on a rod – is the symbol of Rod of Asclepius. Now, in case you are not aware, Asclepius was a Greek god, associated with astrology, and with medicine and healing. The picture on the left shows one form of that symbol.
Now, as we all know, Christians are terrified of the serpent. Anything to do what the serpent is therefore taboo. And that creates a problem for the medical profession, which uses this symbol to represent itself. And there are pastors in Malaysia who vehemently oppose the use of this sign, and preaches against the medical profession. Let’s discuss this subject today.
Have You Not Heard of Nehushtan?
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| Moses and the Nehushtan. |
Now, I wonder. What about the Nehushtan. The Nehushtan existed long before the emergence of the Greek culture and its mythology. And in case you are again not aware, Nehushtan was the bronze serpent that Moses made while in the wilderness. See Numbers 21:8. Now, God had actually instructed Moses to make this bronze serpent. (Did God tell Moses to make an evil symbol? ) And when any Israelite was bitten by a poisonous serpent, all he needed to do was to look at this bronze serpent and he would not die of the poison of the serpent. A miraculous healing took place! But about 700 years later, this serpent on a rod was destroyed by King Hezekiah when he discovered that the Israelites were worshipping it. See 2Ki 18:4
Why am I raising this matter up? Now, as I had said in an earlier article “No Medicines please, we are Christians”, I am no doctor and have nothing to do with the medical profession. They have also not paid me a bribe to write this in their defense. All I am trying to do is to bring some sanity back into Christianity and to raise awareness of how over-zealous teachings can blind rationale. Irrational Christianity surely is not Christianity. It is Phariseeism. And Phariseeism is to be condemned.
Now, why do preachers against this symbol of Asclepius not think a little deeper? Is it not possible that the pagans had plagiarized this symbol from Moses? Did not Jesus also compared His resurrection with this symbol of the serpent in Joh 3: saying
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
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| Satanic crosses, 1 and 2 |
Look again. I will present to you here 3 different satanic use of the cross. Now, using the same logic as these pastors aversion to symbol of Asclepius, would it not be right for them also to declare the use of the cross to be wrong too? Just as the followers of Asclepius had plagiarized the symbol of Nehushtan for their god, the followers of satan has also plagiarized the cross.
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| The satanic Bent Cross used by the Popes |
Obviously, paganism had hijacked the symbol of Nehushtan. And these "extremist" or "fanatical" pastors had declared its use as out of bounds to Christians. But now, here is evidence that the symbol of the cross has also been similarly hijacked. Will these silly fanatical pastors also, like the silly Jehovah Witnesses declare the use of the cross out of bounds, too?
The Pagan Names of Months and Days of Week
I should demand that these pastors and the Jehovah Witnesses must stop using the names of the days of the week because of their pagan origins:-
Sunday
From Latin "dies solis", meaning "sun's day": which is a pagan Roman holiday.
From Latin "dies solis", meaning "sun's day": which is a pagan Roman holiday.
Monday
From the Anglo-Saxon "monandaeg", which means "the moon's day", a sacred day to the goddess of the moon.
From the Anglo-Saxon "monandaeg", which means "the moon's day", a sacred day to the goddess of the moon.
Tuesday
Comes from the name of the Norse god Tyr. To the Romans it is named as "dies Martis" after their war-god Mars.
Comes from the name of the Norse god Tyr. To the Romans it is named as "dies Martis" after their war-god Mars.
Wednesday
Comes out of the name Wodan ( or Odin), to honor the Norse god. Romans called it dies Mercurii, after their god Mercury.
Comes out of the name Wodan ( or Odin), to honor the Norse god. Romans called it dies Mercurii, after their god Mercury.
Thursday
Thor is one of the sons of Odin. In the Norse languages this day is called Torsdag.
Friday
The is the day in honor of the Norse goddess Frigg. Frigg is known as Venus to the Romans, who call this day "dies veneris".
The is the day in honor of the Norse goddess Frigg. Frigg is known as Venus to the Romans, who call this day "dies veneris".
Saturday
This day was called "dies Saturni" or "Saturn's Day", in honor of the Roman god Saturn. In Anglo-Saxon: sater daeg.
( Sourced from William Morris, editor, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New College Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1976, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Portland House, New York, 1989, William Matthew O'Neil, Time and the Calendars, Sydney University Press, 1975 )
Consistency! Consistency! Consistency! Consistency is always needed! Why are you so inconsistent in your beliefs? Why are you so irrational?
And they must not use these pagan names of the following months of the year, too.
- January: named after Janus, Roman god of doors, beginnings, sunset and sunrise, who had one face looking forward and one backward,
- March: named after Mars, the Roman god of war,
- April: named after Aprilis, perhaps derived from aperire, (Latin to open, as in opening buds and blossoms) or possibly referring to Aphrodite of Roman, i.e Venus, to the Greeks
- May: named after Maia, a Roman goddess who is the mother of Mercury by Jupiter and daughter of Atlas,
- June: named after Juno, chief Roman goddess.
Should not the extra holier-than-thou pastors also stop mentioning these names and stop spelling out these names in their monthly bulletins and time-tables? So many things in the world have pagan affiliations, simply because pagan empires ruled the world successively.
Tell me, where is the consistency of your doctrine?; where is the rationality of your belief, that I may stand corrected?
The unpleasant truth is these pastors have no answer, that their inconsistency and superstition is revealed. They just adopt special rules and taboos and put them over their believers so that they can "re-brand" a niche for themselves and find a captive market.
Do you wonder why Jesus said that in the end times, the devil will do things that can even deceive the elect? Of course, in that episode Jesus was pointing to the use of signs and wonders by the devil to deceive. But it does look like the devil is also able to twist the minds of the elect against bible truths as well. The bible revealed to us that the devil can even make use of an apostle, Peter without him realizing it; not until Jesus said to him in Mat 4:10 "Get thee hence, Satan ...". So too now, we see many anointed people of God also similarly being misled by the devil and not know it.
Do you wonder why Jesus said that in the end times, the devil will do things that can even deceive the elect? Of course, in that episode Jesus was pointing to the use of signs and wonders by the devil to deceive. But it does look like the devil is also able to twist the minds of the elect against bible truths as well. The bible revealed to us that the devil can even make use of an apostle, Peter without him realizing it; not until Jesus said to him in Mat 4:10 "Get thee hence, Satan ...". So too now, we see many anointed people of God also similarly being misled by the devil and not know it.
And did Jesus not say:
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
When I was a young medical student 30+ years ago, having read the Old Testament, my first impression was that the symbol of the medical profession came from the bronze snake of Moses (the Nehushtan). If was only in recent years when I heard some extremist pastor preach that it came from Asclepius. Thanks for clarifying. The Nehushtan came first!
ReplyDeleteHistory tells us that Greek history began sometime in 1100 BC. Moses lived about 500 years before that. The Hellenistic culture with all its mythology developed much later than 1100BC.
ReplyDeleteYew-wah!!! It is not the matter of who came first, it is about the swearing by God of Asclepius by the medical profession.
ReplyDeleteGreat points expect you get derailed at the end my friend.
ReplyDeleteI don't see the basis for your following comment:
'Will these silly fanatical pastors also, like the silly Jehovah Witnesses declare the use of the cross out of bounds, too?'
It seems the premise of your argument was to discuss the value of modern medicine and the predilection for some Christian sects to be weary of utilizing the known advances in the field.
Why then make an arbitrary point about something unrelated and that has nothing to do with your argument?
Okay, that said, you make a link between the Cross and silly JW's/other beliefs. If you read on in Numbers you will see that King Hezekiah had to destroy the Nehushtan because the people were turning away from the true God and making idols of it (aka, like the Cross of today).
"If what you teach is true, it will not contradict the scriptures, and it can be applied consistently."
Well with this argument, there is not a single scripture that you will find justifies the worship of an idol such as the Cross.Quite the contrary actually, you will see multiple sources that clearly state, you must not make an image in your worship of the true God.
I don't mean to highjack your forum, because what you wrote on point with medicine is fantastic.
What you write for you reasoning points is something you should research more before offering an opinion that is clearly overturned by countless scripture.
It is true that the Nehushtan was destroyed because the people were worshiping it as a idol. But no Christian worships the cross, is there? So, the point I made is this: If pastors are against swearing by the god of Ascelepius, it is fine, but they are against the symbol of Ascelepius because there is a snake upon it. And that symbol was plagiarized from Moses . The cross has also been used by Christians long before the pope and the satanic cult made corrupted forms out of it. So, should the pastors find ground to ban the cross too, just because its use has been copied and corrupted?
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