In 1 King 21, Ahab’s story shows us that God alone deserves exclusive worship, and He is passionate about His glory. Under the reign of Ahab, the worship of Ball was state sponsored. Ahab’s reign was indeed a polytheistic culture where people wanted a little bit of everything – ‘a little goddess worship, a little Baal worship, a little Yahweh worship …’ Today, just like in the time of Ahab, people worship a little bit of everything hence, the promotion of ‘twisted theology, immorality was normalised.’ We are in such a time where people call evil good and good evil. Let us pray for revival of true worship
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Deji Okegbile
Ardent Scholar and Writer. Presbyter in Methodist Church. Chaplain of Nigerian Methodist in UK. Preacher and Minister.
Could you define what you see people calling evil good and good evil? I think many would find that helpful.
Who has the twisted theology? Which immorality do you think is being normalised? What would true worship look like?
I haven’t noticed anyone bowing down to the Baals recently. I don’t think Elijah’s purge was quite as straightforward as Kings makes it look either. There were 400 court prophets of Baal who were killed; another 450 court prophets of Asherah who seem to have remained unharmed, and native Baal shrines don’t seem to have been damaged either. It seems to have been one aspect of Sidonian influence, brought in by Jezebel, that was objected to.
Dear William, thank you for this and sorry for my late reply. In the Christian context, different Bible passages define good and evil by their fruits (Matt 7:16-29, Gal 5:19-23).