What tinfoil-hat-guru is claiming he was into demon worship?What is the final verdict of King Solomon? Did he repent for his demon worship, etc.? Should we still hold him in such high regard?
I have your back Bro. Winter!What tinfoil-hat-guru is claiming he was into demon worship?
I know the Talmud (or is it the Midrash?) tells how he bound demons, and air elementals that were used to create the Temple, but I've never heard anything to sugest he was a demon worshiper.
I'll have words with anyone who talks smack about King Solomon!
Not a scholar....That's not what I heard... I heard yer a pretty smart fella.Not being a Biblical scholar,or a scholar of any kind for that matter, but it seems I've read that through his many wives he was led away from worshipping ONE GOD and delved into worshipping several but later repented.
Perhaps that is where the "demon worship" thing came in to it.
1 Kings 11, the whole chapter, esecially vs.4-9 and 31-33.What tinfoil-hat-guru is claiming he was into demon worship?
I know the Talmud (or is it the Midrash?) tells how he bound demons, and air elementals that were used to create the Temple, but I've never heard anything to sugest he was a demon worshiper.
I'll have words with anyone who talks smack about King Solomon!
That happens a lot in the Old Testament (really, it's the Tannach, but we call it the Old Testament ... well, all of us except Winter ).Wouldn't that be imply that he converted (or at least practiced) another religion, and then returned or repented? Demons....Bah!
Indeed. Solly's my boy, too.I'll have words with anyone who talks smack about King Solomon!
No kidding.I agree, he screwed up, but the entire TaNaK is full of Jews who can't follow simple instructions! My people are very contentious!
Yep.But the building of an altar to another g-d is not tantamount to demon worship.
Only in the Christian tradition, go figure.Molech is often referred to as a demon-god, as is Baal and Ashtorath.
Bro, Winter clarify this for but as I recall, the entirety of OT is not the Pentateuch/Torah, only the first 5 books. Gn, Ex, Lv Nu, Du.That happens a lot in the Old Testament (really, it's the Tannach, but we call it the Old Testament ... well, all of us except Winter ).
Heck, there's different sects of Christians with different Scriptures. Some, not all but some, Catholic Bibles have the chapters The Maccabees and Bel and the Dragon in them in addition to the Chapters most of us are familiar with. Revelations, or the Apocrapha, or The Apocalypse of St. John at Padmos (all three the same book), was extremely controversial when it was first slated for inclusion in the New Testament, and there may be variations of the NT that do not include it.Is the Book of Enoch in there? I'm currently reading Jasher and have found nothing controversial in there, just wonder why the Church of Rome picked one and not another. Are there different sects of Jews with different scriptures? I've heard the Midrashim (sp?) mentioned from time to time, but don't know what they are.
Indeed. I have a copy of the (what I believe) is the most current translation of the TaNaKh from the Jewish Publication Society. Whenever I read the Old Testament, I also refer to 'the original' as quite frequently there are word changes, etc. in the OT. I highly recommend that any student of the Scriptures get a decent translation of the TaNaKh (also sometimes spelled Tannach) for reference.What is called by Christians as the Old Testament is, to us, called the TaNaKh which is an acronym for the books that comprise it: The Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Kethuvim.
This difers not only in the translation, but in the order of books since the Christian version is based on the Greek septuigant.