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The Biblical term of a pagan is one who is not enlightened spiritually or uncivilized spiritually. The characteristics of pagans are totally different things. Lord of hosts is different from storm god, there’s no proving Yahweh is a storm god unless the Bible says he’s a storm god in plain words. Yahweh is the God of the heavens and everything. So based on your logic is Yahweh a storm, earthquake, or ocean god? Baal as a title used to reffer to Yahweh and Baal as a Canaanite god are easily distinguishable as we know the god of the Caanites was called Baal Haddad. So if the worship of Baal is forbidden it’s talking about Baal Haddad.Per the dictionary
pagan
[pey-guh n]
noun
No I didn't add provincial or unintelligent, that was by the dictionary term. Hence, it is an insult in origin.
- (no longer in technical use) one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
- a member of a religious, spiritual, or cultural community based on the worship of nature or the earth; a neopagan.
- Disparaging and Offensive.
- (in historical contexts) a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; a heathen.
- an irreligious or hedonistic person.
- an uncivilized or unenlightened person.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of pagans.
- Disparaging and Offensive.
- relating to the worship or worshipers of any religion that is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim.
- irreligious or hedonistic.
- (of a person) uncivilized or unenlightened.
Baal Hadad as indicated above generally relates to royalty. Your assertion is that Baal is a term for Lord as well Yahweh is a term for Lord, however, this is not true when both terms are used in their specific cultural societies, they are specific in their societies, but those terms are also accepted beyond that.
Baal-Hadad as a deity is not referred to in Biblical texts at all, in fact if anything the worship of Baal is forbidden as seen in Numbers and later on Yahweh asserts he is Baal in Hosea. However, in Ugarit Haddu will have been the storm God, relating to the Hadad storm God in Assyria.
Both are however storm Gods, so yes Psalm 77:19 with the description of Yahweh leading through the sea and mighty waters (oceans and storms), though your footprints were not seen is an exact implication that Yahweh is a storm God.
In the Baal Cycle, from Ugarit just north of Galilee and dated to 1400 to 1200 B.C., Hadad is called “Rider of Clouds”, a title that is also used in Psalm 68:4 for Yahweh, a proper name typically translated as “the LORD” in most Bibles.
Isaiah uses the same tempest and fire language to describe “Yahweh Sabaoth”, which is translated “LORD of Hosts” in most Bibles but is sometimes given the more appropriate translation “Yahweh of Armies” in the New Jerusalem Bible, an identification that matches with the role of the storm/war gods.
Throughout all of these epic cycles of the storm/war god, the ocean is symbolically linked to ever-churning chaos and is thus identified with the enemy.
The storm god acts as a national protector by smashing the sea dragon and then constructing the world from its remains, just as the king was to defeat his enemy and construct his nation from the wealth of conquest.
“Did I not tell Thee, O Prince Baal, Nor declare, O Rider of Clouds?”
–Ba’al Cycle
Sing to God, play music to his name, build a road for the Rider of the Clouds, rejoice in Yahweh, dance before him.
–Psalm 68:4, NJB
Psalm 68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
The key word here is heavens which are clouds, as well, "And suddenly, in an instant, you will be visited by Yahweh Sabaoth [Yahweh of Armies] with thunder, earthquake, mighty din, hurricane, tempest, flame of devouring fire.
-Isaiah 29:5-6 NJB"
Isaiah 29:6 KJV Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
There is no denying that Yahweh is seen as a storm God, even in Biblical literature.
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