X-Received: by 10.107.103.4 with SMTP id b4mr15082763ioc.32.1520383430819; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:43:50 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.68.105 with SMTP id f38mr1079125otj.1.1520383430699; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:43:50 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!e10no112794itf.0!news-out.google.com!a2ni229ite.0!nntp.google.com!e10no112792itf.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: free.arabic.friends Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:43:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <13u711si87dnp84@corp.supernews.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=205.234.47.236; posting-account=v4Jc2goAAACwjyEriDGMTQovtdY4ngu5 NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.234.47.236 References: <13u711si87dnp84@corp.supernews.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <40f9436c-3930-481c-8cd7-96feaf99fd1f@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: We Worship Baal From: admetcalfe3@gmail.com Injection-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:43:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Lines: 65 Xref: csiph.com free.arabic.friends:3 On Friday, March 21, 2008 at 2:50:30 AM UTC-7, Meldon Fens wrote: > "...Aaron said to them, "Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of > your > wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." Then all the > people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to > Aaron. He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool > and made it into a molten calf; and they said, "This is your god, O Israel, > who brought you up from the land of Egypt." - Exodus 32:1-4 > > > "...There are approximately 89 references to the god Baal in the Old > Testament (OT). Further, the OT makes reference to other Canaanite deities > including the goddess Asherah (40 times) as well as the goddess Ashtoreth > (10 times).3 In total, there appears to be about 139 clear references to > major Canaanite deities in the OT.4 In a brief survey of the passages in > which reference is made to Baal worship, such things are noted as the high > places at which Baal worship occurred within Israel (e.g., Num 22:41)5, > Israel's propensity for engaging in Baal worship at certain points in her > history (cf. Judges 2:11; 3:7; 8:33; 10:6, 10, Hosea 2:13, etc.), as well as > the cultic practices of certain Baal prophets (cf. 1 Kings 18:25-29). ..." > > http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=2053 > > > "...The style of writing discovered at Ugarit is known as alphabetic > cuneiform. This is a unique blending of an alphabetic script and cuneiform; > thus it is a unique blending of two styles of writing. Most likely it came > into being as cuneiform was passing from the scene and alphabetic scripts > were making their rise. Ugaritic is thus a bridge from one to the other...." > > http://phoenicia.org/ugarbibl.html > > > "...Classical sources relate how the Carthaginians burned their children as > offerings to Ba'al Hammon. See Moloch for a discussion of these traditions > and conflicting thoughts on the matter. Such a devouring of children fits > well with the Greek traditions of Cronus. Prostitution as a form of worship > also may have been done, especially when the Carthaginians began to > recognize Ba'al as a fertility god...." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal > > > "...The sculpture was the artist's idea, not the city's. In an act of > "guerrilla art", he trucked it to Lower Manhattan and on December 15, 1989, > installed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas gift to > the people of New York. > The police seized the sculpture and placed it into an impound lot. The > ensuing public outcry led the New York City Department of Parks and > Recreation to install it two blocks south of the Exchange in the plaza at > Bowling Green. It faces up Broadway.[2]...." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull > > Meet your god face to face: GDP = C + I + G + (X-M) > > > > > -- > Help Meldon fight the WAR. > > www.myspace.com/meldons_war http://www.thelawkeepers.org/hebco.htm The Hebrew People of the Bible What Color are They?