God and nature. For government is an ordinance of heaven, designed by the all benevolent Creator. Abstract: This offering takes the form of a PowerPoint Photo Album presentation of 48 slides, strongly supporting the view that our Creator has provided ample evidence of His Being and Sovereignty. Morrison is also known for being a child actor during his youth in several commercials. Hosea’s references to sexual acts being metaphors for Israelite “apostasy”. However, according to others it is not certain that the name Baal was definitely applied to Yahweh in early Israelite history. In southern Israelite traditions, “Baal” was a god that was worshipped in Jerusalem. Likewise, Mark S. Smith believes Yahweh was more likely to be inspired by Baal rather than El, since both are stormy divine warriors and lack the pacifistic traits of El according to the Ugaritic texts and Hebrew Bible. However John Day states that as far as the names Eshba’al, Meriba’al, and Beeliada (that is Baaliada), are concerned it is not certain whether they simply allude to the Canaanite god Ba’al, or are intended to equate Yahweh with Ba’al, or have no connection to Ba’al.

Gideon’s name Jerubaʿal was mentioned intact but glossed as a mockery of the Canaanite god, implying that he strove in vain. In the next stage the Yahwistic religion separated itself from its Canaanite heritage, first by rejecting Baal-worship in the 9th century, then through the 8th to 6th centuries with prophetic condemnation of Baal, sun-worship, worship on the “high places”, practices pertaining to the dead, and other matters. The Hebrew Scriptures record the worship of Baʿal threatening Israel from the time of the Judges until the monarchy. There are, for example, penal sanctions for trespass on places of worship and burial, for indignity to corpses, and for disturbances at funeral ceremonies. Baal prophets appeared in Israel centuries later; but during the age of the judges when Israel is supposed to have been most deeply affected by the religion of Canaan, there are no Baal priests or prophets, nor any other intimation of a vital effect of polytheism in Israel’s life. The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that those who suggest that climate change is not a catastrophic challenge are no different than Hitler…

When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, plunging the United States into World War II, among the security measures taken was the transfer of a document from Washington, D.C., to Fort Knox, Ky. In the early Islamic history, there were many women scholars who had dominant roles in the Islamic world. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning. Similarly, 19th-century scholarship treating Baal as a personification of the sun seems to have been badly taken. The component Baal in proper names is mostly applied to worshippers of Baal, or descendants of the worshippers of Baal. According to some scholars, the early Hebrews did use the names Baʿal (“Lord”) and Baʿali (“My Lord”) in reference to the Lord of Israel, just as Baʿal farther north designated the Lord of Ugarit or Lebanon. However, as explained by Day, the texts at Ugarit revealed that they were considered “local manifestations of this particular deity, analogous to the local manifestations of the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church”. The archaeological record seems to bear out accusations in Roman sources that the Carthaginians burned their children as human sacrifices to him. Moreover, while the human intellect was seen as a judicious tool of interpretation, it was ultimately understood to be fallible.

’El (Hebrew: אל) became a generic term meaning “god”, as opposed to the name of a worshipped deity, and epithets such as El Shaddai came to be applied to Yahweh alone, while Baal’s nature as a storm and weather god became assimilated into Yahweh’s own identification with the storm. Yahweh’s mastery over the weather. According to Tabari, baal is a term used by Arabs to denote everything which is a lord over anything. For example, Sarah, wife of Abraham refers to her husband using the term. The term omnibenevolence means all-loving, and the Christian faith teaches that God loves everyone unconditionally and that God is omniscient which means that he is all-knowing. Throughout all the stories of Judges the popular faith in YHWH runs as a powerful current. This faith raises the judges, and inspires poets, prophets, and Nazirites. Continental Hall is a popular site for weddings and other events — even prime-time television shows, commercials and movies have been filmed on its premises.