The Canaanites had a literal bull god who was the chief of the pantheon. By building the golden calf and worshiping it as YHWH (who specifically forbids graven images), they were violating the commandment of not worshiping the Canaanite gods. It is not a complicated parable.

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>>18287659
Is it a god or an actual cow?

Reminder - a real benevolent God doesn’t care you worship him or not, he will still grace you with his blessings. Only an impersonator God punishes you for not being totally obsequious and worshipping some one else

>>18287659
Only persons (Saints, Angels) and things (Cross, relics, Girdle of Mary) united with God are venerated. A random bull already worshipped by pagans is not.

However, carvings and statues of oxen - as well as lions and angels - were in Solomon's Temple, in accordance with the instructions God gave him. Read the book of Kings and the book of Chronicles.

>>18287727
How would you feel if you raised your son perfectly and lovingly, but he hated you, and started treating a statue/doll/stuffed toy as his real Dad while pretending you didn't exist?

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>>18287727
God doesn't really punish the wicked or reward the faithful tbqh
Plenty of good honest folk cut down in terrible ways, while truly wretched people go on in good health for ages

>>18287659
Explicitly worship and calling it a god that delivered them from egypt instead of their regular god.

>>18287659
how did medieval jooz and christians deal with the northern Israelites worshipping god in exactly the same way and god not instantly smiting all of them out of existance?

>>18287659
Catholics be like.

>>18287851

The only good answer in this thread. And to add to this, the breaking of the 10 commandments was the reason why Moses established the Mosaic Law which totals a 613 commandments.

>>18287659

cows give:
milk
meat
leather
glue
mowing
just neat over all

kike on a stick:
"i'll torture you for eternity if you dont love me"

>>18289390
Good morning saar.

>>18287725
According to Exodus which I actually read, Aaron collected earrings from the women of the tribe and melted them in a kiln and it quote “came out as a cow.” This is the orthodox study bible btw

>>18289390
Cow worship was made up by the steppe nomads to stop their indian slaves eating their beef.

>>18287676
itt: christian unable to even understand the question.

>>18287659
worship = love for God

>>18287855
Wow son, you did a bad thing, now i must torture you in magic burning lava for all eternity