Touring the Bible’s Buried Cities: Gezer 

Isn’t it the case that the whole of Christianity is predicated upon the sacrifice of a son? Why did it cause such a stir when the Amorites and Canaanites did it?

God sacrificed a perfect sinless son, @@GayorgVonTrapp, whose death washed away our sins. The children that were murdered for sacrifices weren't sinless so their deaths were worthless. They also weren't doing it to worship the one true God. God is jealous.

@@KenJackson_US Do you ever stop and read back to yourself what you have written? What you have just posted is grotesque. It’s like when you meet and have a chat with someone, and they seem all ‘normal’ and decent and grounded, then they get into a BMW and become a knob. Likewise with religion. Seemingly normal people come out with the most hideous, indoctrinated sick and mindless nonsense. Appalling.

@@GayorgVonTrapp This comment has issues. The account from Christianity is that the Romans did the killing of a man for heretical transgressions, whereas the the Amorites and Canaanites are cited for preforming child sacrifices for ritualistic reasons; this means the comment is a false comparison, as in apples are not the same as oranges.

@@KenJackson_US Jesus is King and Lord. am interesting thing though is that El, Yahweh, Adon etc were taken by the Jews from the Canaanites... Ras Shamra texts (Google) will have more info if you're interested

If your into Archeology, this is heaven (Israel).

@@steve.57 Not an archaeologist, but back around 2004 I was in Israel with a buddy of mine to take pics of Biblical sites for illustrations in a publication. One of the things I most wanted to see was Tel Gezer - at the time in between excavations, and all grown over. The site was unmarked. No tourists, no sign-posts. I only knew the general area and we drove back and forth up the road near to the site. We finally decided to take a chance and drove down a small lane in the midst of hundreds of olive trees, towards a hill I thought 'might" be Gezer. We found a small olive oil 'factory' in the midst of the trees near the bottom of the hill. We stopped and asked, and found from them that the hill was indeed Gezer. We drove our car as far up the hill as possible, got out, and climbed the rest of the way. And There, near the top and center of the hill were these Massebah! What a breathtaking thing to 'discover' them without a sign! to mark them. We spent nearly an hour on top of that hill, reading the various scriptures regarding Gezer and Massebah. It was thrilling!! I can only imagine the thrill of working with an archaeological team and learning even more as history is uncovered!! This article brought all of that back to my mind - a time I will never forget.

@@Lfrankh Great comment Frank. I'm so glad you made it to the top. You would need months to see them all (tels) Some are terrific and some are barely worked. There are new finds pretty much daily during the digging season.

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