Nimrod, the mighty hunter as he is called in the Bible, died young and his mother-wife Semiramis was accepted as the head of this apostate cult and she made it known that Nimrod had survived as a spirit being and claimed that a full grown tree had sprung up overnight from the trunk of an old dried tree in front of her palace. This she claimed was the symbol of springing forth into new life of the dead Nimrod. Her status was later raised to the “ Queen of Heaven”. Nimrod also, therefore, became the “ divine son of Heaven” as he was also suppose to be the son of Baal, the Sun-god. Thus, the “ Mother and Child” became chief objects of worship. From Babylon this worship spread to other places, but the names varied in different countries. It was in Babylon that the idea of ‘Trinity’ first appeared. This Trinity consisted of Baal, the sun-god as father, Semiramis, the Queen mother and Nimrod, the divine child. A day was set aside to rejoice over and to celebrate the re-birth of the young god. As true imitators, the Christians also adopted the same days for their Christmas celebrations. 

The worship of “mother and child” was also prevailing at the time of Jesus Christ. In Western Asia, the god Attis was worshipped as the child of miracle, born to a virgin mother Nana. He was a shepherd and the beloved of Cybele, the mother of gods. Some held that Attis was her son. He was killed in the prime of his youth by a wild bear. Some others say that he castrated himself under a pine tree and bled to death. A similar story is told about Cybele and Deoius. In Egypt, we have again the same belief with a change of names. There Isis and Osiris were worshipped as “ Mother and Child”. According to the myth, Osiris was an offspring of an intrigue between the earth-god and the sky-goddess Nut. Her husband the sun-god Ra, laid a curse that she should be delivered of child in no month and no year of the calendar. But another of her lovers, Toth by name, had, in a game of draughts, won from the moon a seventy-second part of each day. These were added to the Egyptian year of 360 days. On the first  of these five days was born  Osiris; on the second day Horus; Set was born on the third day; goddess Isis on the fourth day and the goddess Nephthys on the fifth. Set married his sister Nephthys and Isis was married to Osiris. 

In ancient art, Isis is also shown sucking the infant Horus and in the annual festivals her image as ‘Mother of god” was taken out with great pomp and show. In these processions are shown scantily covered and shaven priests; homage and devotion are expressed by them and the common man, the accompanying music and the jeweled images of the ‘Mother of god’ having striking resemblance to the pomp and ceremonies of the Catholic Church. This resemblance is in no way accidental. It is a historical fact that Rome had borrowed extensively from Egypt in everything. 

In Rome, the ‘Mother and Child’ deities are known as Fortuna and Jupiterpuer, in Greece, Demeter and Dionysus and in other countries such as India, Tibet and China, counterparts of Madona the Catholic ‘Mother of god’ can easily be found. The ‘Mother and Child ‘ concept was only an off-shoot of the belief in the ‘Trinity’. During his contemplations in the Arabian desert, Paul was forced to realise that if he wanted quick results, he must modulate his views according to the popular concepts of the Gentile races. It was on this axiom that he based his future plans and actions. As he had found preaching to the House of Israel totally fruitless, he concentrated his energies in and diverted his attention wholly to the Gentile races. His efforts were not unrewarded. They were indeed attracted to this new faith. 

It was already been stated that Paul started by revoking the law of circumcision, as this was the foremost stumbling block for the Gentiles. This he removed by saying that true righteousness did not rest merely on removing the foreskin but rather it rested on faith. He argued that Abraham was already righteous when he was commanded to undergo circumcision.   

“ He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised”   (Roman 4:11)

When elders at Jerusalem learnt about the presumptuous encroachments of Paul, they tried to undo the damage and James wrote to the new congregation: 

“ What does it profit my brethren, if a man says he has faith save him? …. Was not Abraham our father justified by work, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with works and was completed by works” (James 2:14-22)

 (ICRA) 

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