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To: expat_panama; pallis
Numerous scholars have attempted to tie Baal to Allah. My thinking for a time as well. After more study, I'm not too sure that's an accurate assumption. Baal is mentioned a number of times in the Bible and is certainly an evil/cruel deity. Worship included sacrificing children in a fire built inside the idol. Baal is also mentioned with references to the end of age "Mystery Babylon".

Regardless, one thing is certain; the Almighty isn't fond of mankind worshiping other deity's. And Allah, by any stretch, is NOT the God of Abraham as Muslim's claim. It's more likely Allah resulted from Mohammed attempting to construct a belief system from whatever knowledge of religion he had at the time best fitting his narrative on Islam.

Mohammed's Islam is akin to other fake, pagan cults, and shares similar baseless ideologies revolving around satanic lusts for sex, torture, murder, immortality, and domination of all others. Attempting to make sense of Islam is completely senseless, IMO.

Walid Shoebat has the view that Allah may actually be Tammuz - if that is who Allah really represents.

Tammuz

What's coming on the world isn't going to be the first time the Almighty chastised those worshiped this particular demon, Tammuz:

Ezekiel 8:13 And He said to me, "Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing." 14 So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord's house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+8&version=NKJV

156 posted on 12/10/2015 1:49:51 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Thank you! In my studies of Semitic mythology years ago, I understood that Tammuz was out of the Ba’al system of pagan gods, and that Tammuz is also compared to Mithra. In Psalms 83 we are told that the Ishmaelites did not worship the God Yahweh, and that makes it unlikely that the name Allah can be associated with Eloi. They did worship Allah at that time, as one of the members of their pagan system, possibly the head of it. Given that, Jesus would not have uttered the expression Eloi, Eloi if Eloi was the same as Allah.

I have been reading Shoebat’s studies, and watching some of his videos. They are very interesting. It has been decades since I have paid any attention to interpretations of prophecy, but given the times we are in, my interest has been renewed. I find the connection of Islamic worship centered in Mecca to Mystery Babylon difficult to reject. Also, the contention that the Beast will come out of Turkey as the head of an Islamic union seems well grounded in scripture.

The many twists and turns in Semitic mythology/paganism can get confounding when looking at the various names of deities. That’s why simplifying it through symbolism is useful, such as tracing the use of the crescent and star. Ba’al is as much a system of worship, as it is the name of a particular deity.


159 posted on 12/10/2015 3:06:09 PM PST by pallis
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To: amorphous
Allah, by any stretch, is NOT the God of Abraham

We can't be saying that Aramaic or Arab Christians are heathen and it doesn't make sense to imagine Jesus praying to "Dios" or "Dieu" or "Gott".  We have to deal with the facts that most Arab-Americans are Christian and Muslims in the U.S. are over four times as likely to be black as Arab.

162 posted on 12/10/2015 4:12:04 PM PST by expat_panama
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