The Battle of the Gods: Paganism’s Seduction of Israel
The call had gone out nationwide to assemble at Mount Carmel. Now the peak was bustling with thousands of people. King Ahab was there. Also present were 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah. Standing before the throng was a man wearing a hairy garment and a leather belt around his waist. It was Elijah the Tishbite. Approaching the wary onlookers, Elijah’s voice boomed out: “HowGet More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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This article was excellent!
Living today, I think it’s easy to think of how evil the world is. BUT if we truly understand what was taking place during the OT times, we would see that the evil they experienced was just as evil, if not more so… so many things seemed like it was just OUT IN THE OPEN. I know we are there too especially with all of the sexualization of everything. But this helped me have a visual of how CONFUSED these people were. When I read Judges 17 and 18, I was jaw dropped at all that was taking place. But 17:6 sums it all all up: “ In this days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their OWN eyes” sound familiar… this is to a T what we see today… this article was excellent! Thank you!!
Yahweh was also a pagan god, who once was worshiped alongside his wife, Asherah, a goddess of fertility. You can google this. He is not our Heavenly Father and the Father of Jesus, our Savior. At least, I don’t believe this to be true. I think Jesus was trying to tell us this. ” In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” John 1-5 (KJV). How else can you explain the blood sacrifices and slaughtering of innocent women and children by “Yahweh” in the old Testament? He even calls himself a “God of War”. Jesus is the exact opposite. He said: “I and the Father are one and the same.” For bible verses that prove this, see the “Good God” videos on youtube.
Yahweh was not a “pagan” god in the way that you presume. Yahweh was king of the gods; multiple verses state that he created all the “gods” that later governed what we now call “pagan” nations.
Yahweh did not command that every city conquered by the Israelites be subjected to the same mass-slaughter that you mention above. Those massacres were reserved for specific cities that were rendered “kherem,” meaning “set apart to the Lord for destruction.” From the biblical text you can see that these cities that were to be “kherem” were those who had religious or genetic ties to the Nephilim, the Anakim, the Rephaim . . . “heroes of old, men of renown” which Genesis 6 states are the offspring of cohabitation between rebellious angels and human women. God told the Israelites to completely eradicate THOSE people groups. He was very merciful, comparitively speaking, with the rest of the cities that they were told to conquer. The conquest of the promised land was NOT a genocide as you and others make it out to be. But it definitely WAS an extermination of an evil race of half human half deity warrior demi-gods. Again, from the biblical text, you can see that Israel kept on fighting these Nephilim/Anakim/Rephaim well into the establishment of the Kingdom. Goliath and his siblings were members of these tribes.
Is not Yahweh the Tetragrammaton?
For the personal name of Jesus father ,
Yahweh pagan ? A delusional and misguided thought indeed !
Mr. Scott:
Thank you very much for this very insightful and well-researched article. This will be very helpful to me in ministry.
Blessings in Christ.
Brig Jones
Thank you, this fills a lot of holes I had that connotes a relationship with paganism and the Jews. I believe a push is being made by the royal family to bring the commonwealth back to paganism and to once again lure Israel in. Just look at the opening ceremonies to the commonwealth games – 70 nations all actively worshipping Moloch.