And Aaron received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!” So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD”(Exodus 32:4-5).
When Moses didn’t come down from Mt Sinai as expected, the Jews demanded Moses’ brother make us gods that shall go before us (Exodus 32:1). Aaron didn’t adopt Egyptian paganism, but declared the calf as a symbol of Jehovah. He combined the traditional pagan religion of Egypt familiar to Israel with the worship of the One true God. It was an acceptable compromise to please idolaters while Aaron could claim faithfulness to Jehovah.
God doesn’t compromise, and sent Moses scurrying down the mountain. When…
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WALKING BY FAITH 
Important info, Crissy! News sources report Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds in Africa and Asia, but much of it is not Biblical Christianity.
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Sad but true .
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Everytime I read that story I wondered if Aaron had temporarily lost his mind. I still cannot understand what possess him to make that golden calf. Thank you for sharing.
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Yes, hard to comprehend.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for the re-blog.
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Blessings !
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He’s right Syncretism is not Christianity.
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It’s very serious but many people are blinded to the fact.
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Agreed
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My cousin’s worse: she believes in Yehovah, Zeus, Buddha, and several other “gods”. Her parents aren’t believers, her grandfather – my great-uncle – is a New Ager, and she’s never been exposed to the Bible or any real truth (I myself only met her once). She also talks with ghosts regularly, apparently. (That said, she’s open to the possibility that her belief system is wrong – specifically, she acknowledged on the one occasion we met that it’s possible there really is only one God – so there’s still hope.)
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There is hope for your cousin. And that’s always very encouraging.
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Great discussion! I have been thinking of the many times the nation of Israel rebelled, cried out, and generally forgot about the need to remain faithful toward God.
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