>>21306723 (pb)

Baal

Baal (/ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑː.əl/),[6][a] or Baʻal[b] (Hebrew: בַּעַל baʿal), was a title and honorific meaning 'owner' or 'lord' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods.[11] Scholars previously associated the theonym with solar cults and with a variety of unrelated patron deities, but inscriptions have shown that the name Ba'al was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad and his local manifestations.[12]

The Hebrew Bible includes use of the term in reference to various Levantine deities, often with application towards Hadad, who was decried as a false god. That use was taken over into Christianity and Islam, sometimes under the form Beelzebub in demonology.

The Ugaritic god Baal is the protagonist of one of the lengthiest surviving epics from the ancient Near East, the Baal Cycle.

Baal worship continues to this very day. They may call it by a different name, but when you start looking at things closely, their SYMBOLISM is pretty much the same.

Nothing new under the sun.

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Unfortunately the Hebrews had a bad habit of picking up the false religions that were all around them. Not all, but more than should have. How did the northern kingdom come to be? The country split. There were those who wanted to worship pagan gods and those who tried to remain true to God.