Incorrect. The original, true worship of the Creator God Jehovah was in Eden, which was likely where SE Turkey is today. After the Great Flood in Noah’s day, Mesopotamia became the new cradle of civilization. After Noah’s great-grandson, Nimrod, opposed Jehovah, telling people to disobey God - to not spread out over the earth, but to stay there and make a great city there, at Babylon, God confused their languages. People who spoke the same new language grouped together and went off to different parts of the earth together, branching off from there. When they left, they carried various teachings and practices of demon worship - which had once again sprung up in ancient Babylon - with them. However, they also carried the story of the Great Flood - and Adam and Eve, etc. with them. As a result, many different religions around the world share similar root teachings of demonism and practices of demon worship. On the other hand, there is a version of the Great Flood story found in nearly every culture on earth. Noah and his family who had stayed true to God were not made to leave the area around Babylon/ that region. Abraham and the patriarchs continued to worship the true God, and God worked with them. Then God formed a holy nation for Himself - the ancient Israelites. They would bring forth the Messiah, the Son of God. Yet the ancient Israelites broke their covenant with God, and so God left them as a whole, and formed a new spiritual nation, a new people of God, by way of a new covenant, based on the sacrifice offered by His Son, Jesus Christ - which had also ransomed mankind from sin and death, by making up for the sin of Adam, which had brought sin, imperfection, and the death sentence, for his disobeying God, onto all of his children/ progeny. Jesus Christ was sent by God to this earth, as a second perfect “Adam”. Only, unlike Adam, Jesus stayed true and obedient to God, onto his death. Therefore, God was able to apply the value of Jesus perfect and perfectly obedient human life to cover-over the sin of disobedience of Adam, and so this set Adams children free of their enslavement to sin and death. Thanks to the sacrifice of God and His Son, mankind had the opportunity again to choose to obey God and so live forever. Jesus sacrifice was also enough to atone for the sins of all persons choosing to “repent and turn around” from their sins (Acts 3:19); and choosing to learn God’s globally-delivered words, obey them, and be faithful and loyal to God and His Son. This true, scriptural Christian religion spread out from the area of Jerusalem. After the death of Christ, his disciples, who were being persecuted, scattered. In the meantime, the various demonism-incorporating false religions that had spread out globally from ancient Babylon kept doing what they were doing - teaching lies and producing evil. After the death of Christ, and as the last of the apostles and Bible penmen for God were leaving this earth; those entrenched in teachings of demons and false religious practices stemming from ancient Babylon sought to attach their false teachings onto the then very popular, trending teachings of Jesus Christ. The result was many forms of apostasized, corrupted, FALSE “Christianity”, or, Christendom. True Christian worship of Jehovah continued to be practiced by scattered, individual Christians here and there in the world. FALSE Christianity continued to be spread too - especially due to it being politicized. Churches blaspheming God and Christ, with their false teachings and practices even defied God so much as to practice “baptism by the sword” - carrying on campaigns like the Crusades and the Inquisitions - threatening to slaughter people, unless they agreed to worship Christ and conform to church laws. What a mess. God did promise, however, and it did occur, that, during the last days of this world system, the time we are living in now, He would regather a people for His name - those who would be Christian worshipers of Him, from every tribe, and nation, and tongue around the world, and that, indeed did happen. * So today, there is a global Christian congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a global spiritual family under the One true God, the Creator and Universal Sovereign. The false religions that branched out from ancient Babylon still exist though, and make much trouble for mankind, because the very much meddle in politics and wars, etc. - and they adulterously serve the “kings of the earth” and do their will (and Satan’s will) instead of doing the known scriptural will of God. So, God, in His Bible, describes the conglomerate of all of the disloyal to God, Satan-serving false religions of this earth as being a harlot - one He has deemed “Babylon the Great.” (Revelation chapters 17 and 18), for being a conglomerate of false religions with anti-God, demonic teachings and practices - many of which have been continued from ancient Babylon right on into today - only On a much greater and earthwide scale, and under the names of various false religions. The situation is not good. God Himself has charged Babylon the Great with misleading the nations with spiritism/ demonism; and with blood guilt, “for all who have been slaughtered on the earth.” (Revelation 18:23,24) Anyone still within any of the world’s anti-whole scriptural, spiritual lie teaching, evil-practicing and condoning false religions of “Babylon the Great” needs to listen to God and flee those false religions immediately, because God is ready to work His scripturally warned of punishments upon Babylon the Great, and those who keep on supporting these enemy of God false religions will share in the punishments from God they have coming, unless they leave and cut their ties to these false religious entities. (Revelation 18:4,5) After God brings “Babylon the Great” to nothing; Armageddon itself will follow, to remove all last vestiges of evil and stubbornly and heinously evil and God-insolent persons from this earth. (Revelation chapter 19; Psalm 37:10) THEN there will be true peace on earth (Psalm 37:11); and all of mankind living on this planet then will be back to the one true religion, under the One True God, just like in Eden. (Isaiah 25:6-9; Revelation 21:3,4) Soon....* (Isaiah 43:5-13) - “Do not be afraid, for I am with you. From the sunrising I shall bring your seed, and from the sunset I shall collect you together. 6 I shall say to the north, ‘Give up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not keep back. Bring my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremity of the earth, 7 everyone that is called by my name and that I have created for my own glory, that I have formed, yes, that I have made.’
8 “Bring forth a people blind though eyes themselves exist, and the ones deaf though they have ears. 9 Let the nations all be collected together at one place, and let national groups be gathered together. Who is there among them that can tell this? Or can they cause us to hear even the first things? Let them furnish their witnesses, that they may be declared righteous, or let them hear and say, ‘It is the truth!’”
10 “YOU are my witnesses,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that YOU may know and have faith in me, and that YOU may understand that I am the same One. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none. 11 I—I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no savior.”
12 “I myself have told forth and have saved and have caused [it] to be heard, when there was among YOU no strange [god]. So YOU are my witnesses,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and I am God. 13 Also, all the time I am the same One; and there is no one effecting deliverance out of my own hand. I shall get active, and who can turn it back?”
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So, the spread of religion from ancient Babylon explains why many demonic lie teachings and aspects of demon worship are found in the vast array of the world's false religions, even though they are generally concentrated in far-flung areas of the world. For example, both Buddhists in the east and Catholics in the west use prayer beads in their worship - even though God's scriptural words teach not to use any images in worship or make repetitive prayers by route. God-forbidden idol images, incantations (such as asking to turn bread and wine to actually turn into the flesh/body and blood of Christ), "blessing" with "holy water", infant baptism, praying over bones on an altar, the use of candles in worship, making "the sign of the cross", and the worship of diads and triads of gods "as one" - and/ or worshiping multiple gods - are all some of the practices of demon worship, stemming from ancient Babylon, that many of the world's far-flung false religions have in common. (Churches such as the Catholic church also infamously adopted the pagan practices, teachings, and holidays of other false religious groups too, "Christian-izing" them - even though God's words expressly condemned mixing aspects of false religions and demon worship in together with scriptural worship of Him.) THE MAIN TEACHINGS OF THE WORLD'S FALSE RELIGIONS - especially the main ones, are ARE AGAINST the scriptural words of the Creator God and Universal Sovereign, and they DO STEM FROM the teaching of DEMONISM SPREAD-OUT FROM ANCIENT BABYLON. The anti-scriptural LIE teaching that humans have SOULS, separate from their bodies, that survive the death of their bodies, to go on living as spirit beings in other realms, is demonic LIE - one actually started by Satan in Eden. The same LIE resurged and spread globally, from ancient Babylon. The idea that such "souls" then continue on to an "AFTERLIFE" - to various ideas of "heaven", "nirvana". paradise, etc. or become "REBORN"/ REINCARNATED as different creatures or persons - or go to a kind of "purgatory" or "HELL" are COMMON to different false religions, but again, all of these teachings come from demonic LIE teachings that branched-off into different parts of the earth - and into different religions - from ancient Babylon. Now they are manifested in those false religions of the world, whom God refers to collectively as "Babylon the Great". (Revelation chapters 17 and 18) God is ANGRY at "Babylon the Great", for all of its blasphemy; all of its slander, misrepresentation, and defiance of Him, His Son, and God's own scriptural truth and standards; and for serving and promoting the humanity-destroying LIES and murderous, evil will of Satan ("in the name of God"). God's destruction of "Babylon the Great" will be SOON. Heed God's warning at Revelation 18:4,5 - "And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues. 5 For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind." There is NO spiritual refuge in the also Satanic godlessness of atheism or scientism, etc., however. Those are merely forms of original Satanism and God defiance, and are increasingly popular now, due to the demonic LIE propaganda being worked by the Satanic godless/ God defiant, who own and manipulate much of the media. The Satanic godless/ God-defiant and their grave, murderous evils and God-insolence - by which they consciencelessly and demonically work, threaten and promote CRIMES AGAINST GOD and HUMANITY, and EXTREME VIOLATIONS AGAINST GOD-GIVEN HUMAN RIGHTS, etc., were EXACTLY prophesied in type. (ROMANS 1:18-32; JUDE 7,10,14-19) Some are animalistically, evilly-insanely, demonically-obsessed with working crimes against God and humanity and extreme violations against God-given human rights onto others now. They are quickly destroying human society with their WARRING AGAINST GOD - warring against everything scripturally true, righteous, innocent, and of-God. Satan strongly IS their god, even by default. Satan is also their mind-control master, and they are his willing slaves, because they prefer Satan's sin and evil-convenient LIES over God's own (disciplining against evil), righteousness-producing scriptural truth. (1John 5:19) The evil speech and behaviors of these self-made enemies of God - including the evils they are working upon their fellow human beings - are begging Jehovah to unleash His Armageddon Day vengeance against the Satanic godless/ God-defiant, and other stubbornly and heinously evil and God-insolent persons of this world. He will do that SOON. First, God will intervene in human affairs, to get rid of "Babylon the Great". (Revelation chapter 18) Then, He will bring His Armageddon Day vengeance, against the stubbornly and heinously evil persons of this world, and all last vestiges of evil in it. (Revelation chapter 19; Psalm 37:10; Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39) THEN there will be TRUE peace on earth. (Psalm 37:11) So NOW is the time to ditch the world's God-condemned FALSE religions and demonic spiritual LIE philosophies and practices; and seek and heed Divine scriptural truth from the Creator God and Universal Sovereign Himself. (Acts 17:22-31) "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ." (John 17:3) "Repent and turn around." (Acts 3:19) Learn to worship Jehovah the Creator on His own scriptural terms, "with spirit and truth." (John 4:24) "Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you." (James 4:8) Call upon the holy, personal name of the only True God in the Universe, of all this earth, Jehovah (or that same name, in the different languages of this world), learning of, knowing, heeding and proclaiming the scriptural truth about the Person of God behind His holy name. (Joel 2:32; Romans 10:13) Armageddon's soon. The false gods and false religions/ false spiritual philosophies of this world have nothing of any lasting value to offer anyone - but instead, just alienation from God and everlasting death, once Armageddon from God soon sweeps through. Jehovah, in contrast, offers everlasting life - for the most part, on this earth, made into a global Garden of Eden-like place, as the original plan of God for this planet and mankind has been. Notes: After they die, a very tiny number of persons, out of all of mankind, DO receive spirit bodies from God, and DO go up to heaven to live with Him and Christ, to help Christ rule over and help all of the innumerable humans who will be living forever on this earth, for their faithfulness and obedience to God and Christ. [Revelation 14:1-3; 5:9,10; 7:9-17; John 3:36] Other than that, those who have died before Armageddon, generally speaking, who are "sleeping in death" - who are NOT living on as spirits in another realm, but who are actually dead, "conscious of nothing at all" (Ecclesiastes 9:5) - will be RESURRECTED BACK TO LIFE by God, to be given another chance, to learn, appreciate, and obey God's truth. (John 5:28,29) Those who do will get to join the other faithful human beings on this planet, in joyfully living forever, worshipping and loving the same one True God, and loving one another, as one big human family, under One good heavenly Father, forever. (Psalm 37:11,29; Isaiah 25:6-9; Isaiah 65:17-25; Revelation 21:3,4) All of this is transpiring/ will transpire soon, so be ready!
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