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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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location.In the book of Jeremiah, we read how the murderouspractice reared up again. Just outside the holy city of Jerusalem, inthe southeastern area of the Valley of Hinnom, men and womensacrificed their young children to Molech, 53 a blood thirsty deityadopted from the Ammonites. Homer W. Smith, author of Manand H<strong>is</strong> Gods wrote “the custom of burning children long pers<strong>is</strong>tedat Jerusalem,” 54 Smith described how the young victims “wererolled from the hands of a bronze image of the god into a pit offire.” 55Molech <strong>is</strong> identified with the pagan god Baal. 56 With thegoddess Ashtoreth, h<strong>is</strong> female consort, Baal was representative ofthe Semitic fertility cults popular in the region. Molech was the53Also known as Moloch.54Homer W. Smith, Man and H<strong>is</strong> Gods, (New York: Grosset’sUniversal Library, 1957), 106.55Ibid.56Cf. 2 Kings 21:3­6, 23:10; Jer. 19:4­6, 32:35.112

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