1 Kings 18:17-40
What does this tell us about the gods that non-Christians honor?
Also notice what happens to the prophets of Baal in the end.
2007-07-23 03:01:23 · 15 answers · asked by Theophilus 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because...
He is the great "I AM." that is what makes Him God.
God will always come out victorious ...there are no other gods.
He is the one and only true God...where as all others are just man made worthless idols that men waste their time worshiping and making sacrifices to. Worthless pieces of clay,stone statues of images that can not hear their prayers for these so called false gods never were and never will be.
Haaaa..it still amazes me that so many feel the need to make comments on things that they know really nothing about . They couldn't know ..they are not Christians. They have never rendered themselves to God to know what all He can do or they wouldn't be making such ignorant remarks.
2007-07-23 03:09:46 · answer #1 · answered by Swampmoth 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whoever wins a battle gets to tell the story their way. If the Baal folks had won, the other side would have looked like real jerks in the Baal holy book, I'm sure.
None of this tells you much about anybody's God, just what happened to the people who got smushed and the people who didn't. In any case, this is a story about Jews, isn't it? Or are you going to call them pre-Christians?
2007-07-23 03:21:28 · answer #2 · answered by Insanity 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Christians understand completely properly that LORD, interior the Bible, potential the writer, the i'm, the Alpha and Omega and Saviour, Yahweh. in addition they understand that Lord is a identify and not a popularity. The call 'Jehovah' did no longer exist beforehand of 1270 A.D. and this fact is known by making use of Jehovah's Witnesses interior the foreword (internet site 25) of the 1950 New worldwide Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures: "together as inclining to view the pronunciation 'Yah.weh' because of fact the extra appropriate way, we've retained the form 'Jehovah' because of fact of people's familiarity with it because of fact the 14th century." And on internet site 18 of 'enable Your call Be Sanctified' they admit that "All obtainable info is that a Roman Catholic clergyman presented that pronunciation (Jehovah)." That Roman Catholic clergyman became Raymundus Martini, a Dominican monk, commissioned by making use of the Pope to translate the Bible. the 1st recorded use of the call Jehovah occurred in 1270 A.D. in his e book 'Pugeo Fidei'. The Douay-Rheims Bible says this relating to the Divine call: "consequently, some moderns have framed the call Jehovah, UNKNOWN TO all of the ANCIENTS, regardless of if JEWS OR CHRISTIANS; for the genuine pronunciation of the call, that's interior the Hebrew text cloth, by making use of long disuse, is now extremely lost." (Capital letters added for emphasis). The Divine call, the Tetragrammaton, isn't Jehovah. Christians do no longer worship Baal, as you completely properly understand and that i'm shocked you pays extra interest to Wikipedia than on your guy or woman classes which properly known that the extra appropriate pronunciation of the Divine call is Yahweh.
2016-11-10 04:09:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This story ends with the prophets of Baal getting killed by Elijah. I don't think our modern society can learn much religious tolerance from that. By the way, I don't trust eye witness accounts from the Bible that this ever happened anyway. I need some better evidence than second hand accounts from thousands of years ago.
2007-07-23 03:18:57 · answer #4 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure you mean YHWH God (or YHWH Elohim to be more precise), since Lord means Baal...
what does this tell you about the god Christians honor? Right, he's a composite character. Ever wonder why the word YHWH (you translate it as lord) does not appear in the first creation account even once, but in the second creation account it's never just God but always YHWH God?
2007-07-23 03:11:03 · answer #5 · answered by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The prophets of Baal are subject to human sacrifice to God. Sounds like the kind of God I would want to worship (not).
2007-07-23 03:12:45 · answer #6 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
My daughters were in a play with this back '98 at the Christian Academy. It was so cool, and yet very powerful message. They had the ball of fire come down on wire from the balcony and it got stuck...!
Great ? and well put <><
2007-07-23 05:55:54 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee I wonder how the story would be different if it was written by prophets of Baal instead of the inventors of Christianity?
Haha, you are very simple, my friend.
2007-07-23 03:05:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
To find the truth of the bible, you use the bible. It's like saying. " I'm the greatest person on earth, if you want proof, just ask me ".
Baal, Lugh, Woden, and all the rest are in the same boat as Jesus, Allah, or YHVH. Nothing but superstition.
2007-07-23 03:10:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
God is the GREAT I AM and there is no other god before him.
2007-07-23 03:20:38 · answer #10 · answered by Chokolates4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋