The Temple Of Baal Coming To New York

[Garland-Green]

The Temple Of Baal Coming To New York Will Be Followed By Hundreds More


The reproductions of the 50 foot arch that stood at the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria that will be erected in New York City and London next month will only be the first of many.

The article makes it sound like the whole temple, brick by brick will be raised in New York. It is a replica of an arch. Just to clear things up. I personally would still not want in due to what it has been made in connection with.  

[King Shining Heaven]

If you ask me, the guy who wrote the article is exaggerating; it's just the arches of the temple and it's just for the sake of historic replicas; it's not like suddenly people are going to start worshiping Baal or even know what the arches represent.  

[cristobela]

Young King under Heaven

If you ask me, the guy who wrote the article is exaggerating; it's just the arches of the temple and it's just for the sake of historic replicas; it's not like suddenly people are going to start worshiping Baal or even know what the arches represent.

"For the sake of historic replica", however, is not an excuse to reproduce the objects of pagan religion. The very desire to want to preserve this as "heritage", wanting replicas of it made, is saying, "this has value"; it gives honor to Baal, even if others are ignorant of the meaning.

It shows the state of America: "let's remove the Ten Commandments, but let's put up arches of Baal".

[10 Commandments removed from Okla. Capitol]

edit: idea this exchange—of what's to be displayed publicly in the country—is only a visible expression of what the people have been valuing in their hearts and what they've been living by this whole time: not God's instructions, but pagan ways of being, thinking, doing.  

[King Shining Heaven]

cristobela

Young King under Heaven

If you ask me, the guy who wrote the article is exaggerating; it's just the arches of the temple and it's just for the sake of historic replicas; it's not like suddenly people are going to start worshiping Baal or even know what the arches represent.

"For the sake of historic replica", however, is not an excuse to reproduce the objects of pagan religion. The very desire to want to preserve this as "heritage", wanting replicas of it made, is saying, "this has value"; it gives honor to Baal, even if others are ignorant of the meaning.

It shows the state of America: "let's remove the Ten Commandments, but let's put up arches of Baal".

[10 Commandments removed from Okla. Capitol]

edit: idea this exchange of what's to be displayed publicly in the country is only a visible expression of what the people have been valuing in their hearts and what they've been living by this whole time: not God's instructions, but pagan ways of being, thinking, doing.

I don't see it as giving honor to Baal; I see it as giving honor to the architecture, cut off from any religious meaning.  

[sassiebrat]

They're reproductions of the antiquities ISIS blew up.

God does not care what the reason.

But, again, we have to live in a pagan world JUST as the first believers did. Paul did not go around picketing the temple of diana or any place else. He taught us how to live in a world filled with pagan temples.  

[cristobela]

Young King under Heaven

cristobela

Young King under Heaven

If you ask me, the guy who wrote the article is exaggerating; it's just the arches of the temple and it's just for the sake of historic replicas; it's not like suddenly people are going to start worshiping Baal or even know what the arches represent.

"For the sake of historic replica", however, is not an excuse to reproduce the objects of pagan religion. The very desire to want to preserve this as "heritage", wanting replicas of it made, is saying, "this has value"; it gives honor to Baal, even if others are ignorant of the meaning.

It shows the state of America: "let's remove the Ten Commandments, but let's put up arches of Baal".

[10 Commandments removed from Okla. Capitol]

edit: idea this exchange of what's to be displayed publicly in the country is only a visible expression of what the people have been valuing in their hearts and what they've been living by this whole time: not God's instructions, but pagan ways of being, thinking, doing.

I don't see it as giving honor to Baal; I see it as giving honor to the architecture, cut off from any religious meaning.

That's not how God sees it though:

i.e. King Ahaz taking architectural inspiration from the altars in Damascus.

• 2 Kings 16:10 (NIV)
  
  10 Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction.

How did YHWH view King Ahaz?

• 2 Kings 16:1-2 (NIV)
  
  
  16 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

King Ahaz loved the ways of the nations, not the way of his God—who tells us to destroy traces of demon worship in our lives, not keep it alive (let alone make replicas of their demon worship).

Ahaz even went a step further and tried using that altar in God's very own temple (v. 11-14). But we don't have to go that far (dedicating the pagan thing to YHWH), to give honor to ways of the nations.

If it originated to honor pagan beliefs, it always continues to link back to those beliefs and thus gives honor to those gods/demons, whether we're ignorant of it or not, whether we're viewing it in a religious context or not. That altar of Damascus did not become acceptable to build just because it was taken out of its original religious context.