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.”

2 comments:

  1. The reference to a house of Cedar is probably a temple in Lebanon to Baal. And the Jews just copied it in Jebus. The temple in Jerusalem was made of cedars of lebanon. Lol. Jews are mere plagiarists

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    1. The problem with that assertion is that when David lived and wrote this Psalm, the temple had not yet been built. And the Bible is clear, and God is especially clear, no house built by man is his true house.

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