A Slice of Infinity

The danger of the modern believer is gazing at the spectacular rather than the Saviour. We have become a generation dazzled by the by-products of the Kingdom while neglecting the King.

We tend to read this silence and assume Baal was merely a fictional concept or a powerless block of wood that had never done anything. But human nature is deeply pragmatic. If Baal’s altars had always been silent, if his worship had never yielded any tangible spiritual manifestation, the nation of Israel would not have abandoned Yahweh to serve him for years.

Let me try to expound a bit more on this so you can fully grasp this animosity. The tension between Jews and Samaritans was centuries old, rooted in a bitter history of compromise and division. Following the Assyrian conquest of the Northern Kingdom, the remaining Israelites intermarried with foreign captives, resulting in a mixed lineage with a synchronized religion.

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