Comments on: Jezebel: True Believer? http://morningglories.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/jezebel-true-believer/ Let the Morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Ps 143:8 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:25:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: morningglories http://morningglories.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/jezebel-true-believer/#comment-69 morningglories Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:29:31 +0000 http://morningglories.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-69 Interesting comment. The Bible as a whole seems to speak to a "bachelor" God, as you put it. It is entirely possible that the Israelites added a consort during the time they were blending their monotheistic religion with the polytheistic religion of the Canaanite tribes. Interesting comment. The Bible as a whole seems to speak to a “bachelor” God, as you put it.

It is entirely possible that the Israelites added a consort during the time they were blending their monotheistic religion with the polytheistic religion of the Canaanite tribes.

]]> By: thewordofme http://morningglories.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/jezebel-true-believer/#comment-68 thewordofme Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:29:31 +0000 http://morningglories.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-68 From Wikipedia Ba'al (pronounced: [baʕal]; Hebrew: בעל) (ordinarily spelled Baal in English) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning "master" or "lord" that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant, cognate to Assyrian Bēlu. A Baalist means a worshipper of Baal. "Ba'al" can refer to any god and even to human officials; in some texts it is used as a substitute for Hadad, a god of the rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the lord of Heaven. Since only priests were allowed to utter his divine name Hadad, Ba'al was used commonly. Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of "Ba'al" refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called ba'al and regarded by the writers of the Hebrew Bible in that context as a false god. Asherah, The goddess, the Queen of heaven whose worship Jeremiah so vehemently opposed, may have been Asherah or possibly Astarte. Asherah was worshipped in ancient Israel as the consort of El and in Judah as the consort of Yahweh and Queen of Heaven (the Hebrews baked small cakes for her festival):[2] Hmmm...The consort of God, queen of Heaven. Some say she was worshipped by the Hebrews up till 500 BCE. Then she was demoted and God was made a bachelor by the Hebrew authors From Wikipedia
Ba’al (pronounced: [baʕal]; Hebrew: בעל) (ordinarily spelled Baal in English) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning “master” or “lord” that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant, cognate to Assyrian Bēlu. A Baalist means a worshipper of Baal.

“Ba’al” can refer to any god and even to human officials; in some texts it is used as a substitute for Hadad, a god of the rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the lord of Heaven. Since only priests were allowed to utter his divine name Hadad, Ba’al was used commonly. Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of “Ba’al” refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called ba’al and regarded by the writers of the Hebrew Bible in that context as a false god.

Asherah, The goddess, the Queen of heaven whose worship Jeremiah so vehemently opposed, may have been Asherah or possibly Astarte. Asherah was worshipped in ancient Israel as the consort of El and in Judah as the consort of Yahweh and Queen of Heaven (the Hebrews baked small cakes for her festival):[2]

Hmmm…The consort of God, queen of Heaven. Some say she was worshipped by the Hebrews up till 500 BCE.
Then she was demoted and God was made a bachelor by the Hebrew authors

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