According to
the Baal Cycle, an ancient Canaanite Song, or Epic, Baal has a house made of
the mightiest trees of the day in that region, Cedar:
"Baal
sets the season,
And gives
forth His voice from the clouds.
He flashes
lightning to the earth.
As a house of cedars let Him complete it,..."
David's
response
"5 The
voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes
Lebanon to skip like a calf,
and Sirion like a young wild ox" (Psalm 29).
"Our God
is greater. Our God is stronger, God, you are higher than any other."
The Bible was
not written in a vacuum. It directly challenges the false idols and ideologies
of its day. Often mocking them. You can't get much more direct than this.
Except maybe this,
1 Kings 18:27
- "And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god.
Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or
perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
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