JESUS VS

JESUS vs GOLDEN CALF

Hugh Fogelman

For generation after generation the Hebrew slaves in Egypt were exposed to the many Egyptian gods. They saw the polytheistic Egyptians praying to gods of stone. ¹

The great Jewish sage, Maimonides, explained that idolatry is not a single step; rather it is a slow process. In olden days, man would carve a piece of stone and call it the “sun god,” as they wanted to pay tribute to God as creator of the Sun. But before long, they were worshipping the sun itself.

The Hebrews knew all about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but in their slave mentality, they could not see Him – He was an invisible God, not like the gods in Egypt. In their generations of brain-washing, they started to believe that something other than God was the ultimate source of strength and salvation.

That is why when Moses didn’t come down from Mount Sinai in the time-frame that he told the Jewish people, one tenth of one percent panicked. They felt they no longer had a leader to look up to, to lead them; they needed to see a physical figure. The “one percenters” regressed to their slave mentality remembering that the pagan Egyptians saw the god to which they prayed. This renegade bunch felt that they too, needed to see their god. God knew this and told Moses to descend to his people for “they have made themselves a molten calf and called it their god of Israel.” (Exodus 32:8)

Now let us relate this story to the concept of the Christian faith.

The Christian bible, their NEW testament, says that Paul went to the Gentiles. In other words, Paul knew he could not succeed in selling his new religion to the Jews, so he went to the pagan gentiles of Rome and Greece.

All good salesmen know – as all evangelical preachers know – that to sell their product to the masses, they need to show the people a concept, something they already know of, something familiar, and something to which they can relate. Paul too, understood this concept and presented his new religion to the pagans – of a demigod – of a god coming down to earth in the form of a man. Paul knew this image would be needed, along with telling his targets that to join his new religion; they did not need to follow God’s laws of the Jews, especially circumcision.

Then after the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, Constantine, ² the ex-pagan Emperor of the entire Roman Empire, snapped his fingers and made Christians of millions of pagans – to worship this demigod, the dead man-god Jesus.

Then over time, to strengthen the mind-set of the converts, this demigod was placed on a cross. In hundreds of thousands of churches today, NOW–just like the Golden Calf–Christians can now see their god.

Footnote:

1. The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. (Deuteronomy 28:36: King James Version – a Christian version of the Hebrew Bible)

2. Flavius Valerius Constantinus (born about 274-288 CE and died 337)

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