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Thursday, 6 March 2025

The Bible Mocks False gods.

 




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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