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HARUN YAHYA

the one God turned into the belief in several.
Long before Langdon had made his translations of the
Sumerian tablets, a researcher by the name of Friedrich Delitzsch
made similar discoveries. He found that the numerous deities in the
Babylonian pantheon all devolved from the various characteristics
of Marduk, as they called the one Deity that time. Research has
shown that belief in Marduk resulted from the deterioration, over
time, of the belief in one true God.
This one Deity, Marduk, had many names. He was called Ninib,
or "the Possessor of Power," Nergal or "Lord of Battle," Bel or
"Possessor of Lordship," Nebo or "the Lord of the
Prophet," Sin or "Illuminator of the Night," Shamash
or "Lord of all that is Just," and Addu or "God of Rain."
Over the course of time, it seems that the attributes of
Marduk became detached from him and assigned to
different deities. In the same way, false deities such as
the Sun-god and the Moon-god came into being as
the products of peoples' imagination. Belief in
Marduk, along with the other names of this false
deity, shows that this belief system actually de-
veloped over time through distortion of belief in
the One God.
We can also see traces of such perversion in
ancient Egypt. Researchers have discovered that
the ancient Egyptians were first of all
monotheists, but that they later dis-
mantled this system and turned
it into Sabeism, or sun-worship.
M. de Rouge writes:

The false deity Marduk, from the
Babylonian pantheon

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