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Baal

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In the Urantia Book

Word Baal means owner (97:3.3)

  • the cult was founded on the right to buy and sell land; Baal sent rain, he was a god of fertility of the soil 97:3.3 97:9.24
  • ritual prostitution took place in temples. Each Baal had a sacred place, a priesthood, and the “holy women,” the ritual prostitutes. 97:3.4
  • Samuel mocked priests of Baal and overthrow Baal sites 97:1.3
  • there was a temple dedicated to Baal in Jerusalem alongside the temple of Yahweh 97:9.21
  • there was a temple, “high place of Baal,” on hill in Nazareth one hundred years earlier from Jesus times 126:1.2

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

Where it appears

Baal is linked in 6 paragraphs of the text.

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