| The pagan deities' idols Baal and Ashera, on the other hand, had no such scruples. |
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| Elijah told the Israelites that Yahweh would bring drought to the land if they continued worshipping Baal. |
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| Throughout history the tattoo bears the mark of paganism, demonism, Baal worship, shamanism, mysticism, heathenism, cannibalism and just about every other pagan belief known. |
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| Baal is a kind of oriental, dionystic cult god who lives by a cannibalistic dynamic. |
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| In the Old Testament, prophets regularly warned God's People against bowing down to the graven images of Baal that so entranced their Phoenician and Babylonian neighbors. |
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| I think he was abducted by a cult that worship the demi-god Baal and forced to spin records at their parties and compose chants and songs which praised this demonic entity. |
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| As covered earlier, they have followed the way of the worship of Baal from Old Testament times. |
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| Baal is portrayed in Ugaritic mythology as impregnating a heifer to sire the young bull god. |
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| Elijah berates the apostates who worship Baal, who is not answering their prayers. |
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| The Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement, taught that a person can come into this world for an entire lifetime just to do a kindness for another. |
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| Ugaritic texts tell of other fertility aspects of Baal, such as his relations with Anath, his consort and sister, and also his siring a divine bull calf from a heifer. |
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| Instead of being obedient to God, they turned to other religious observances and began to worship Baal, a sun god, but they did so in the pretense of serving Jehovah-the Eternal God. |
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| The Great Colonnade A grand colonnaded street measuring 1100 metres long was the main avenue for Palmyra and linked the Temple of Baal to the West Gate and the Funerary Temple. |
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| This, too, was what the Senate was for. On the mountain topIn one of his weekly online columns he mused on the beauty of mountains, where God had revealed himself to Moses and Elijah had challenged the false prophets of Baal. |
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| But the establishment of a pagan Baal temple for Jezebel and her attempt to spread her cult aroused great opposition on the part of the zealous Yahwists among the common people. |
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| Their new form of religious worship retained some of the customs of their past and still used the name of God, but it incorporated pagan ideas and concepts associated with the worship of Baal. |
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| I have before declared that Baal was the Sun, and Baal Peor, a sirname, from a particular place of his worship. |
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| Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1982 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal. |
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| Modern scholars at first associated Baal Hammon with the Egyptian god Ammon of Thebes, both the Punic and the Egyptian being gods of the sun. |
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| Yamm and Baal, the storm god of Ugaritic myth and often associated with Zeus, have an epic battle for power over the universe. |
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| For example, in Phoenicia, the tripartite division between Baal, Mot and Yam seems to have influenced the Greek division between Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. |
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| Prayers of individual Carthaginians were often addressed to Baal Hammon. |
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