Molech, Baal, and Ashtoreth
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- 2 days ago
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Hosts: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer
Our culture in recent years has fallen victim to the philosophies of the ancient gods of Canaan. The devil hasn’t changed his tactics, and the pagan practices that Israel fell into are the same ones that our culture has adopted.
When I was young, I was brought up in a Christian home but began to ask why there were so many other religions. I reasoned that if the God of the Bible was who He claimed to be, that He was powerful enough to show himself to me in a way that I could understand. I also asked God for wisdom and the ability to discern what the truth was. As a boy, we had a set of Bible Story books that paraphrased the scriptures with illustrations, and that was helpful for me to understand what the Bible was talking about. I also wanted to know about Jesus Christ and the plan of salvation, and I desired that for myself.
I went to high school in the 1960’s and observed that there were many who rejected Christianity, and I compared their lifestyles to the loving Christian family I was brought up in, and despite challenges from evolution being taught, I chose to believe the biblical account of creation.
In the Bible story books, the Old Testament stories of Israel in the land of Canaan talked about the false gods of Molech, Baal and Ashtoreth. There are parallels to these gods in our culture.
Molech was the god of human sacrifice, and babies were sacrificed on the red-hot altar held in the arms of Molech. Our modern equivalent is abortion.
Baal was the intellectual god, that of nature worship. We have a modern equivalent in New Age worship, extreme environmentalism and evolution.
Ashtoreth was the goddess of the sexual revolution and perversion.
It is interesting the pushback we get when we point out the evils that result from these pagan practices.
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