Alexander Hislop

Alexander Hislop (* 1807 in Duns ( Berwickshire ), † March 13 1865 in Arbroath ) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, which was known for its harsh criticism of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Alexander Hislop was a son of Stephen Hislop († 1837), a mason and elders of the Relief Church. Alexander's brother was also named Stephen Hislop (1817-1863) was known as India missionary and naturalist.

Alexander was at first community school director in Wick ( Highlands, Caithness ). In 1831 he married Jane Pearson. For a time he worked as editor of the Scottish Guardian. As Vicar ( probationer ) of the Church of Scotland, he decided at the schism in 1843 for the Free Church of Scotland. In 1844 he was ordained as pastor of the East Free Church in Arbroath in 1864 and senior pastor. A year later he died after two years of illness on a paralytic stroke.

Hislop wrote several books. Best known for his work, The Two Babylons: Papal worship Revealed to be the worship of Nimrod and His wife ( The Two Babylons: Adoration of the Pope revealed as worship of Nimrod and his wife )

The Two Babylons

The book was originally published in 1853 as a treatise and appeared for basic revisions and expansions in 1858 as a book.

Hislop makes the assertion that the Roman Catholic Church a Babylonian mystery cult and pagan one, while the Protestants the true Jesus and the true God worshiped. The Roman Catholic religion practices are in fact pagan practices that had been grafted to true Christianity during the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great. At this time, the mixture of the Roman state religion and their worship of the mother and the child was transferred to Christianity, with a mixing had taken place with pagan mythology. The goddess had been renamed to " Maria " and the boy ( "Jupiter - Puer ", " the boy Jupiter" ) to Jesus.

Hislop took the position that the goddess who had been called in Rome as Venus or Fortuna, was the Roman name of the even more ancient Babylonian cult of Ishtar, whose origins go back to a blonde blue-eyed woman named Semiramis.

According to Hislop, Semiramis was an extraordinarily beautiful white woman who gave birth to a son named Nimrod, a large, ugly black man, and I married him later to found as Babylon and its religion, including an alleged virgin birth. This was a foreshadowing of Christ's birth that Satan had prompted. Later, Nimrod was killed, and Semiramis claimed that the child that she gave birth shortly thereafter, the rebirth of Nimrod would have been.

Hislop claims that the cult and the worship of Semiramis had spread worldwide, of which their name had changed with the culture. In Egypt she was Isis, in Greece and Rome, Venus, Diana, Athena and a number of other names, but they were everywhere worshiped and was central to the faith that was based in each case on the Babylonian mystery religion.

After Constantine Hislop has indeed claimed to be converted to Christianity, but he was a pagan and have remained only the gods and goddesses named Christian names to the two religions under Satan's guidance to unite for political gain.

Hislop is a popular source for Jack Chick, who ordered the compilation of reprints of his book and for Dave Hunt, who indicating Hislop sometimes. Although numerous reviews have appeared on this book, it is still regarded by many as an authoritative guide Protestant apologetics.

Criticism

The book was very much criticized for his lack of evidence, and it contradicts in many cases, the current findings: as the Roman state religion has no central revered mother goddess before Christianity and Jupiter was never designated as "Jupiter - Puer ". Likewise Semiramis lived centuries after Nimrod and could not have been his mother still have married him. In addition, Hislop takes unacceptable linguistic links and makes illogical word games; so the letters IHS, the circumstances in the Catholic Holy Communion on the hosts, would relate to Isis, Horus and Seth but in reality it is an abbreviation for IHSOUS, the Latinized spelling of the name of Jesus in Greek ( ἰησοῦς, in capital letters: ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ), but they are popularly known for " Jesus Hominum Salvator " ( "Jesus savior of mankind ").

Instead, the book would be if it would turn out to be true, discredit the Christian traditions in their entirety because the positions to attack it with the Roman Catholic Church are also held by some Protestants. 2011 published a critical edition of Hislop's work, which also offers the works of Ralph Woodrow and Dr. Eddy Lanz.

Publications

( Sources of information include COPAC )

• Christ 's Crown and Covenant: or national covenanting Essentially connected with national revival; Arbroath and Edinburgh, 1860
• Infant Baptism, accor ding to the Word of God and confession of faith. Being a review, in five letters, of the new theory of Professor Lumsden, as Advocated in his Treatise Entitled, " Infant baptism: its nature and objects "; Edinburgh, 1856
• The Light of Prophecy let in on the dark places of the Papacy; Edinburgh, 1846 ( interpretation of 2 Thessalonians 2.3 to 12 )
• The Moral Identity of Babylon and Rome; London, 1855
• The Red Republic; or Scarlet Coloured Beast of the Apocalypse; Edinburgh, 1849
• The Rev. E.B. Elliott and the "Red Republic "; Arbroath, 1850
• The Scriptural Principles of the Solemn League and Covenant: In Their bearing on the present state of the Episcopal churches; Glasgow, 1858
• The Trial of Bishop Forbes; Edinburgh, 1860 ( story from the East Free Church in Arbroath )
• Truth and Peace ( in reply to a pamphlet, Entitled " charity and mutual forbearance " by " Irenicus "); Arbroath, 1858
• The Two Babylons; or, the Papal Worship Proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife; Edinburgh, 18531 (18582); ISBN 1-881316 -36- X
• Unto the Venerable the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland: the petition of the undersigned; Edinburgh, 1860 ( The work refers to James Lumsdens Infant Baptism; Hislop was one of the signers of the petition. )