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To: Drammach
Baal is just the old semitic word for "Lord". Just like the old semitic word for "God" is "El". Do you think the original bible is written in King James English or something? All those "thus saith the Lord" passages, say "Baal".
66 posted on 02/11/2006 4:16:53 PM PST by JasonC
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To: JasonC
All those "thus saith the Lord" passages, say "Baal".

Some may, it depends on when that book was written..
IIRC, some say Allah too.. It also means "The Lord".. in Arabic..
And some say Yahweh..
But Israelites turned away from using Baal as a word for the Hebrew God..
It became associated with a pagan religion in direct conflict with Judaism..
This happened well before Christianity, and an additional 600 years before Islam..

69 posted on 02/11/2006 4:38:46 PM PST by Drammach (In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king..)
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To: JasonC
"All those "thus saith the Lord" passages, say "Baal"."
 
Care to back that up?
 
Here is a link(s) that might help.
 
http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/t/1139709649-9107.html
 
 
http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/l/1139709661-4136.html
 
 
 
 I'd like to know where you got that notion from. I looked a bit because your post had me curious, but I could not find supporting evidence.

85 posted on 02/11/2006 6:05:44 PM PST by Radix (I really love the liberals they put the FUN in funerals.)
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To: JasonC

Not really. It wasn't Baal talking to Moses.


86 posted on 02/11/2006 6:11:28 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: JasonC

Whatever smoothes the ride on the Hell-bound Express for you.


89 posted on 02/11/2006 6:58:58 PM PST by DoNotDivide (Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.)
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