So often when one reads about the fact that the children of Israel chose to worship Baal, in ancient times it’s a bit difficult to picture. Let’s take some time to show that the worship of Baal has in ...

Christmas is always a happy moment for people everywhere in the world, religion notwithstanding. It’s a time people look forward to. It however baffles me why some in the Christian faith have chosen ...

Readers of the Bible are probably familiar with the god, Baal, who was one of the chief rivals of the Hebrew God. The term “baal” appears over 90 times in the Hebrew Bible. Perhaps the best known ...

Q: Can you tell me where to find some information on the ancient god Baal? A: Today’s question comes to me by email from a Protestant minister, although she does not tell me if she is local or distant ...

WHEN I wrote in a recent short online piece that there is nothing like Christmas in Christianity, I did not realise it would generate the very pleasing response it got. There I said that Christmas is ...

To the Biblical student, the name Jezebel is attributed to an evil queen married to king Ahab of Israel (see 1 Kings 16). Jezebel convinced her husband to abandon worship to Jehovah God and introduced ...

One of the most frequently recurring themes in the Hebrew Bible, from beginning to end, is man’s disloyalty to God via idolatrous worship. Yet the fact that we do not worship idols, nor know anyone ...

WHEN I wrote in a recent short online piece that there is nothing like Christmas in Christianity, I did not realise it would generate the very pleasing response it got. There I said that Christmas is ...