Main Entry: 1church
Pronunciation: \ˈchərch\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English chirche, from Old English cirice, ultimately from Late Greek kyriakon, from Greek, neuter of kyriakos of the lord, from kyrios lord, master; akin to Sanskrit śūra hero, warrior
Date: before 12th century
1 : a building for public and especially Christian worship
2 : the clergy or officialdom of a religious body
You cannot even read but a few sentences before you start running into what appears to be long dissertations about THE CHURCH, God's plan for it, God's wisdom in it, how God redeems it, how it has all these wonderful things planned for it, etc., etc. Paul a former converted "Rabbi" and remaining Pharisee, is just full of discussion about this entity called THE CHURCH! Yes, as history records, Pharisees just "LOVED" the CHURCH! They had CHURCHES all over Israel! In fact, they even BUILT THEM IN THE DESERT when fleeing EGYPT they loved them SO MUCH !!!
There are all kinds of varieties of it, the LOCAL CHURCH, the UNIVERSAL CHURCH, the INVISIBLE CHURCH, the ROMAN CHURCH, the ORTHODOX CHURCH, the STATE Church, the FREE Church , Church, Church, Church! Some Protestant Mission organizations make their slogan "A Church for every people!". Just about every version imaginable in the English Bible (Of course originally translated from the LATIN VULGATE, from where it get's this glorious term, made the center of the life of every "Christian" on earth, and endowed with all the rights and privileges of ruling the entire universe, including the United States of Ameirca, even if we have to put the US Constitution in a paper shredder to do it!) Why certainly the "Church" is more important than the U.S. Constitution! Of course!
There is only small problem of course. Just a minor detail actually. The word "Church" doesn't even exist YET ! AND it is not the meaning of the word "Ecclesia" in the Greek text. And neither the concept nor it's "building" nor even it's vocabulary word to describe it, will exist for centuries to come!!! YES CENTURIES!! It is an ANACHRONISM transposed on the Greek word to accomplish a deception! Yes, not an accidental little boo boo here, but a monstrous, henious, inexcusable, bloody deception. Jews did not have either "A Church" nor "Churches", and neither this institution, nor it's buildings existed in the New Testament era.
Main Entry: anach·ro·nism
Pronunciation: \ə-ˈna-krə-ˌni-zəm\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from Middle Greek anachronismos, from anachronizesthai to be an anachronism, from Late Greek anachronizein to be late, from Greek ana- + chronos time
Date: 1617
1 : an error in chronology; especially : a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other
2 : a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present
3 : the state or condition of being chronologically out of place
Out of place historically? Yes. Completely out of place. And the "magic" used to create this transference from one thing to another (actually it's opposite in reality) is really quite amazing. And probably no other thing in the entire Bible screams as loud as this blunder, deception, bait and switch, whatever you wish to call it. And since all of western Europe, and consequently most of civilization itself, has been either directly subjugated and ruled by, or at the very least infiltrated and influenced by the "Western Church" this lie has spread all over planet earth, virtually unchallenged except by the most observant and conscientious reformers! Some reformers even refused to use the word "Church" for "ecclesia" when translating the New Testament, recognizing it had no basis in fact.
The "institution" which sits headquartered in Rome, in London, in Copenhagen, in Oslo, in Washington DC, in Nashville, throughout the great cities of the earth, and which takes in more money collectively, and owns more land, than any government on earth, is a complete and total fraud. It is a fraud so bad that even when Protestant ministers (in the course of their education) eventually discover the fraud, the way out of the fraud looks so long and impossible, they simply remain in it, hoping "God in heaven" will forgive them for their lies and compromises, rather than tell the truth and suffer the consequences.
What is the "The Truth" that Protestant ministers today refuse to share with their "congregations"? It is that the word "CHURCH" did not even EXIST at the time the New Testament was written. If you check your "Etymology" of the word, it does not even come from the Greek word "Ecclesia" it is USED to TRANSLATE? It does have Greek roots, but actually comes from the Latin conjuction of two entirely different GREEK WORDS!
Of course, it would be LATIN.
So in other words, it's like using the word "Space Shuttle" in reference to the Pilgrims landing their "ship" at Plymouth. (The distance in time is literally the same)
"Ek" (Out of) + "Clesia" (To Call) "Ecclesia" means "Called-Out" and comes from the Hebrew word קרא Qârâ' , kara (pron. kaw-raw') - A primitive root word through the idea of accosting a person met; to call out to - See Strong's Concordance
The word "CHURCH" however, comes from an entirely different set of Greek Words. "Kurios" and "Doma", neither of which have anything to do with "ECCLESIA". The Etymology as given by Merriam-Webster's Exhaustive Third International Dictionary, 3 volume set is as follows:
CHURCH: Etymology – Middle English “CHIRCHE” from Old English “CIRICE”, from Medieval Greek “KURIKON” from Late Greek “KURIAKON” (DOMA), meaning THE LORD’S HOUSE, from Greek KURIAKOS, meaning “Of The Lord”, from “KURIOS”, meaning LORD.
Merriam-Webster Online gives it this Etymology: CHURCH Etymology: Middle English chirche, from Old English cirice, ultimately from Late Greek kyriakon, from Greek, neuter of kyriakos of the lord, from kyrios lord, master.
The Online Etymology Dictionary gives it this ETYMOLOGY: O.E. cirice "church," from W.Gmc. *kirika, from Gk. kyriake (oikia) "Lord's (house)," from kyrios "ruler, lord." Gk. kyriakon (adj.) "of the Lord"
"An earlier "Etymology" from the same publisher, Web. New Int. Dic. of the English Language 1942 ed. states:
CHURCH, from Middle English chirche, from Anglo Saxon, circe, from Greek kyriakon the Lord's house, from kyriakos concerning a master or lord, from kyrios master, lord, from kyros power, authority; akin to Sanskrit sura mighty, bold, Old Irish caur, cur, hero, confir Kirk.
QUOTE: In Smith's Dictionary of the Bible (one volume edition), which you can find in almost any Christian bookstore today, under the article "Church," Professor Smith states that the English word "church" actually comes from an early word meaning "circle" which is akin to the word "circus."
He stated a major study made by Professor Lipsius of Germany, the great historian and theologian during the Reformation, showing that our word "church" does indeed come from "circle."
We also find that Professor A. F. Fausett in his "Home Bible Study Dictionary" under the word "Church," mentions favorably this same research by Lipsius. That doesn't end the matter. Scholars who compiled the exhaustive 10 volumes of the "Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature" Under the article "Church" also subscribe to this pagan derivation of the word "Church." It says: "The word Church: The origin of the word is uncertain.
In the Germanic and Slavonic languages it is found as follows: Anglo-Saxon, cyrica, circ, cyric; English, church; Scottish, kirk; German, kirche; Low-German, karke; Frisan, tzierke; Danish, kyrke; Swedish, Kyrka; Bohemian, cyrkew; Polish, cerkiew; Russian, zerkow. There was probably some word which, in the language from which the Teutonic and Slavonic are descended, designated the old heathen places of religious assembly, and this word, having taken different forms in different dialects, was adopted by the Christian missionaries.
It was probably connected with the Latin circus, circulus, and with the Greek kuklos. Lipsius, who was the first to reject the received tradition, was probably right in his suggestion" (Volume II, p.322). <> Brewer states: "The etymology of this word is generally assumed to be from the Greek, kuriou oikos (house of God); but this is most improbable, as the word existed in all the Celtic dialects long before the introduction of Greek. No doubt the word means 'a circle.'
The places of worship among the German and Celtic nations were always circular (example Stonehenge). Compare Anglo-Saxon 'circe,' a small church, with 'circol,' a circle."END QUOTE - E.L.Martin Ph.D.
He continues…
QUOTE: An example of this is the circular Stonehenge in England. In fact, the Scottish "Kirk" or the German "Kirche," are clearly from the early word "Circe" (with the letter "c" having a "k" sound in the original vocalization). All of this historical information gives us an abundance of evidence to show where the word "Church" comes from. It is derived from "Circe." But what did the original word "Circe" actually refer to in ancient times?
The word "circe" is well known by classical historians. In his classical study, "The Myth of Kirke," Robert Brown gives extensive meanings derived from its various usages in the ancient Greek world and concludes that its simple meaning is "Circle" or "Circular" (p.22).
But there is more to it than that. It was also a proper noun. It not only referred to a building or monument that was "circular," but one of its main meanings was its reference to one of the Goddesses of the ancient world. Robert Brown's book was devoted to the exploits of this early Goddess called "Kirke" or "Circe." She was the great heathen Goddess who was the daughter of the Sun God. She was famous for taming wild animals in her circus.
She also met Ulysses returning from the Trojan War and had an adulterous relationship with him that produced, as one of the children, Latinus the supposed founder of the Latin race. And how is Circe pictured in the classical accounts? She is shown holding a golden cup in her hand mixed with wine and drugs through which she controlled the kings of the world (among whom was supposed to be Ulysses). END QUOTE - E.L.Martin Ph.D., The Anatomy of a Church, September 27, 1998"
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It is interesting, however, that in the newest version, the movie The Son of God which I watched last Spring, they made it CLEAR that the Church feared Jesus, the Church that claimed to follow one true God, already existed. And they were upset that Jesus was performing hands on healing, giving voice to victims, standing up to corruption and the tax man, and trying to be an example in which all could do the same. ~ The "church" is a place that is sacred to that group of people. Rejecting the word church because of those who have used "the Church" to persecute you, your family or friends, is really not logical as many things can be used for the bad and all "churches", all "religions" have the potential to be dark or light. You must learn discernment, develop intuition and strengthen your personal relationship with God, Goddess, the Great Spirit, Buddha ... so that you won't be duped, let into the dark, misled, manipulated, guilted or shamed. If you are strong in you then no one can rock you. That does not mean that you don't want to have "church" in your life, be it down by the river, out on the lake, on the mountain or in a building. ~ Reverend Crystal Cox
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