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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

While God was giving this stern, strong, plain command to Moses, for
him to repeat to the chosen people of Israel, they were engaged in
their idolatrous worship. In the command to Israel, we see how God
regards the worship of idols. For awhile Israel regarded God’s command.
On their way to Canaan they yielded to the charms of the daughters of
Moab, and with most terribly wicked worship they bowed to the heathen
god Baal-Peor. For this they were severely punished. During the life
of Joshua they did not again yield to the temptations of idolatry.
Gideon’s father, Joash, worshiped Baal. After Gideon’s death, idolatry
became the national sin of Israel. From Samuel’s time until the reign
of Solomon, the people were loyal to Jehovah’s worship. Solomon’s
foreign wives brought with them the gods which they were accustomed to
worship, and soon all Israel was turned to worship them. From this
time until after the captivity at Babylon, idolatry was the constant
sin of Israel. Often God sent his messengers, the prophets, to warn
them of the danger of their sin. Often His judgments were shown in the
terrible calamities which came upon Israel. But it took the most awful
of all calamities, the temporary ruin of the nation, to work a complete
cure. God chose Israel as the people to preserve for the world the
pure worship of Himself, the one and the only God. How they failed to
fulfill their high calling we have seen.

God was preparing in Israel the true religion which was designed to be
universal. In Abraham’s seed all the families of the earth were to be
blessed. The Jews were made the keepers of the treasure of the promises
of the Saviour. God selected them from all the nations for this express
purpose; He gave them a territory shut off from that of other nations;
in their language, habits, ways of thinking and religion, they were
distinct from all others. They were to be kept separate until the time
when God should give the true religion to the whole world.




                              CHAPTER IV.

                      THE SUBJECT IN A NUTSHELL.

   Not in vain the nation-strivings, nor by chance the currents
     flow;
   Error-mazed, yet truth-directed, to their certain goal
     they go.
                                                     EBN-EL-FARID.

    Oh, yet we trust that somehow good
      Will be the final goal of ill,
      To pangs of nature, sins of will,
    Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;

    That nothing walks with aimless feet;
      That not one life shall be destroyed,
      Or cast as rubbish to the void,
    When God hath made the pile complete.
                              ALFRED TENNYSON.

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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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