Thursday, October 2, 2014

DOES "AMEN" MEAN "SO BE IT?"

The Christian patriarchs refer to the ancient-Egyptians as pagans. However, if the ancient-Egyptians were indeed pagans, why then do Christians end their prayers with "Amen," who's clearly an Egyptian deity?

The Christian's line of defense is that the word "Amen" is Hebrew not Egyptian, meaning "So be it" in Hebrew. The only problem with this line of defense is that when we examine Revelation 3:14, we can clearly see that "Amen" does not mean "so be it" but rather a deity. 

Enclosed is the content of Revelation 3:14 - THESE ARE THE WORDS OF THE AMEN, THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS, THE RULER OF GOD'S CREATION.

Here is Revelation 3:14 again, substituting the phrase "so be it" for "Amen." - 
THESE ARE THE WORDS OF THE "SO BE IT" THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS, THE RULER OF GOD'S CREATION.

Clearly, the verse is unintelligible having substituted the phrase "so be it" for "Amen." But this should not be the case if indeed the two have the same meaning.

It can't be clearer from Revelation 3:14 above that the writer of that verse was referring to a proper noun "Amen" or "Amen-Ra" not a phrase "so be it." In the Egyptian pantheon, Amen-Ra is the visible manifestation of the divine wisdom, without which we cannot live. In other words, Amen-Ra is the ruler of divine creation, which is consistent with what the writer of Revelation 3:14 wrote.

Amen does not mean so be it. Amen or Amen-Ra is an ancient Egyptian deity whose name the Christians had co-opted to end their prayers.  

1 comment:

  1. I'd like to share this page with my class, as an good example of "Correlation does not imply causation".

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