Over the next couple of weeks, I will post a short book written by David Alsobrook who has given permission to do so. They will be the only posts I will be doing on Ask God thread right now, so if you are interested, please write down the scripture for future reference.
WHAT IS THE BIBLE TRUTH ON ABORTION
MODERN MOLECH WORSHIP
One of the abominations ancient Israel sometimes copied from their neighbors was the practice of molech-ism. From what I have been able to gather, it was a large idol, half man and half bull, with a hollow abdomen. Under the enlarged genitals of the bull part of the image, a fire burned until the hollow abdomen glowed with heat.
The ancient idolaters danced and performed various types of sexual activity with several partners in front of this false god. The reveling continued until a small child, a son or daughter of one of the participants, was thrown into the red hot abdominal cavity. The child was seared to death-it's shrieks and cries only inciting greater mass hysteria. The burnt remains were removed from the other side of Molech the following day, after the idol had cooled.
As shocking as it may sound, God's ancient people, Israel, who had experienced the One and True God through His covenant with the Patriarchs, sometimes backslid into molech worship!
Such a base form of idolatry may be partially understood in the ignorant heathen unto whom the Living God was not revealed. What is difficult to comprehend is how a people who had seen the wondrous acts of Yahweh could be so greatly deceived! In either case, the conscience was seared because basic morality teaches man to care for his young.
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