The marriage metaphor in Hosea which we discussed in the previous Jewish mysticism podcast juxtaposes with a disturbing reality of idolatrous worship then and now.
Idolizing a Powerful, Masculine God of Immoral Sex
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Idolizing a Powerful, Masculine God of Immoral Sex
"It is apparent that Israel was performing sexual rituals as a fertility rite that they believed was an imitation of Ba'al's sexual acts with his consort," G.K. Beale writes.
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