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The Baal Theory of Christianity - Expanded
The Baal Theory of Christianity - Expanded
Theory of
Christianity
by
Glenn Young,
Enthusiastic Amateur
Religious Historian
A Blending of Political and
Cultural History with
Religious History
How The Rivalry Between The
Cult Of Yahweh and The
Worshipers of Ba’al Helped To
Create Christianity
And ….
Yahweh ..
Not Ba’al as the Devil but Ba’al as the
beloved god
Rivals – Ba’al and Yahweh
We in the Christian dominated West know
little about this rivalry except what we read
in the Bible …
so the English
still venerate Bel
… as St George
of years
• He was the dominate god far longer
then Christianity has been dominate
Old Time Religion
To understand this evolution – this
morphing … of Ba’al to both the Devil
and Christ we need to understand that
"Kuntillet`Ajrud,Sinai Caravansarai, ca. first half of 8th
centry BC. Drawing of Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah
on a pottery shard (Pithos A). Inscription in Hebrew reads:
Note the portion of bridled horse to the left of the figures (pp.225-6, "Baal, El, Yahweh,
and 'His Asherah'," Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger. Gods, Goddesses, and Images
of God in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis. Fortress Press. 1998. ISBN 0-8006-2789-X ).
Asherah – the Consort of
Yahweh or of El
Yahweh’s
wife
• The lion was the sign of the “astrological age of the time
of Gobekli Tepe – the Age of Leo
See http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&articleID
=30706129&page=6
No Understanding of The Real
History of Religion
The examples are so many … but just for a few
… see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanit
We Have Almost No Understanding
of The Real History of Religion
All groups proclaiming a new contract
with god, or a new god or gods - bring
a new good news are wrong.
• … she’s female
16,000 year old Mother Goddess
Worshiped From a Very Early
Time
Mother Goddess from oldest cities –
around 10,000 years old
We Need to Know Real History Not
Tales of the Bible
At least from 15,000 BC and lasting in many
places till about 1500 BC organized
religions is based in worship of the great
Earth Mother – alone (or almost alone)
• In these places there is little evidence, of the
concept of a Sky God, or in fact any many male
deity.
The dominance of the Mother Goddess
began to erode as early as 6,000 BC, and
almost ended in the West by 1,200 -
Ruins of Mycenae
and Troy found -
No evidence of
The first temple or
David’s
Kingdom ever found
“Jewish” States in Perspective
And again despite what the Christians
(and in this case Jews) would have us
believe
A false folk history (the first five books of
the Bible) was developed to justify Yahweh
followers’ their claim to power and
domination of a land that was for centuries
Canaanite and Ba’alist
• Their god,
• Chief of all the gods, or
• The sole and only sole god,
Creation of the Hebrew States
The disputes also involved internal fights
within the cult over
of Israelite army
The Daughter of Agamemnon
being led to her sacrifice
Few Moderns Approach the
Subject
From Flaubert’s Salammbô - 1862
novel on the results of the first Punic
war.
Describing the sacrifice of children in
Phoenicia response –
• Not all the text was cleaned up (God saying all that first
came out the matrix was his) … but the Abraham story
was changed to keep Isaac from being sacrificed.
The human
teacher
and the god
of all that is good
At least 600 year
Before Christ
“Jews” Return
Persians allow Yahwehist cult to return to
“Judea” to rebuild their temple and to
establish a colony of believers.
• who is born,
• suffers death or a death-like experience,
• passes through a phase in the underworld
among the dead,
• is subsequently reborn, in either a literal
or symbolic sense.
From Wikipedia site on the
Archetype of this type of God
Male examples include Asclepius, Orphesus,
Mithras, Osiris, Tammuz, Zalmoxi Dionysus,
Odin and … Jesus
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-death-rebirth_deity
The Christian Version
We see the ancient story retold in often called
the core of Christianity
John 3:16-18 – we see the concept laid out
sacrificed him.
The Christian Version
The concept of the sacrifice of God, or
the son of God, is core to Christianity,
but was in fact, anathema to Judaism
(or at least the Judaism of the
dominate Returnee Jews.)
Earth
• Forced conversion
• Religious terror (Inquisition)
• Wholesale killings of “non-believers”
Outcomes
In Europe
A painting
of a 1476
Auto De Fe
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_de_fé
Ba’al Rituals Continued -
Morphed
The rituals of Ba’al were morphed
• The rational and justification of the rituals
were changed to meet “Christian
concepts” but …