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What is baal worship?

The name "Baal" translates as master, in Hebrew. There are only fragmentary reports surviving of some middle eastern deity named Baal, who presumably was worshipped with the s… (MORE)

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Is Baal real?

A:Gods are real to those who believe in them, and not real to those who do not believe. Keel and Uehlinger (Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel) say that Yahwe… (MORE)

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Who were Baal and Astarte?

Baal ('Lord') was the West Semitic storm god. Eventually there were many Baalim, including, for example, Baal-hanan. There are numerous references to the Hebrew worship of Ba… (MORE)

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Who is Baal in The Bible?

The term 'baal' by itself is first noted in the time of Moses as a place of pagan worship circa mid 15th Century B.C.: Numbers 22:41 New King James Version (NKJV) Ba…laam's First Prophecy 41 So it was, the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal, that from there he might observe the extent of the people. Some historians and biblical scholars have determined that this 'title' was given to Nimrod (Ninus) and means 'The Lord.' His father Cush was called 'Bel' which means 'The Confounder' and he too may have also been called Baal. This was the time of the first apostasy post the world-wide Flood. As the name baal developed further by Hosea' time, it became the most important deity of the Canaanite pantheon - one who blesses the continuance of human life, and preserves the social order. A fertility deity and provider of children, bringer of rains and makes crops grow, who could defeat the enemies of the devotees. Baal could overcome the other deities of 'Yamm,' the god of the chaotic sea and 'Mot' the god of death and the underworld. Yet the God of Israel, Yahweh, actively opposed this false religious system from the very beginning of Israel's history. Only He is God and Israel's rightful King (see Exodus 15). Only He has sovereignty over the elements of the storm (Exodus 9 and 24 etals) and demonstrated His powers over the chaotic seas and the realm of the dead (Exodus 15). And only He could provide children to the infertile (see 1 Samuel 2:5). The attack of baalism climaxed with Elijah on Mount Carmel - proving God's authority as the only real God (1Kings 18: 38, 39). Yet, physical Israel continued to fall back to their sensual nature - attraction to the base of human nature vis-a-vis the strict obedience to the moral and ethical standards of God's Law. We humans usually take the easy road and are double-minded meaning we want our cake and to eat it as well - say we follow God but do our desires right or wrong. One day in the future as the Bible says, the Laws of God will be written upon each new heart (see Ezekiel 11:19; Hebrews 8:10) and the firstfruits will be there to see we all follow it and not the ways of this world's god - ha Satan. Answer: "Baal" in Hebrew means master or owner. This idolatrous weather-deity was depicted with differing imagery in various locales, so the plural "baalim" ("baals") is sometimes used (Judges 3:7). So we find baal-zephon (Exodus 14:2), baal peor (Numbers 25:3), beelzebub (2 Kings 1:16), baal-berith (Judges 9:4), baalbeq (short for baal beqaa, lord of the Valley), baal-gad, baal-hamon, baal-hazor, baal-hermon, etc. Worship of the baal occurred intermittently among Israelites, but they were aware that they weren't supposed to be doing that. When things got bad, they habitually returned to the One God of their fathers (Judges 3:9, 3:15, 6:6, 10:10). (MORE)

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How did they worship Baal?

A: Keel and Uehlinger (Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel) say that Yahweh (YHWH) and Baal were almost synonymous in Israel during Iron Age IIB, the period fr… (MORE)

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Who was the god Baal?

A:Baal was one of the most important West Semitic gods, worshipped as the High god among Phoenicians, but also important in Judah, Israel, Aram and elsewhere. In early times, … (MORE)

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Did the Baal Shem Tov have a surname?

Jewish names traditionally do not have surnames, just first name 'son of ('ben' in Hebrew)' father's name. So the Bal Shem Tov's name was Israel ben (son of, not short for 'Be… (MORE)

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What is the meaning of Baal of Peor?

A:Baal of Peor was a Moabite god, whose temple was on the mountain of Peor. In ancient times, gods were often referred to by reference to the location of their temple. Just as… (MORE)

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What is Baal etymology?

Baal (read 'Bail') comes from old Albanian language: Ba ill, it means father star. In the old times used to pray to the stars. Even Albanians were called Yllirians. Which ha… (MORE)

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What do you mean by baal?

I don't mean anything by it. In the Semitic languages of theancient middle east, it meant something like "Lord" and was apretty common word used to refer to various tutelary g… (MORE)