Troublesome Topic: WHAT TYPE OF GODS DID THE NATIONS END UP UNDER?

If Michael Heiser’s theory about the disinherited nations is correct, it appears that several of the very prominent gods that the nations in the Ancient Near East ended up under were gods that were thought to demand child sacrifice. Among these were Baal, Chemosh, Molech, Asherah, Tanit, Tammuz, and probably others as well.

Michael Heiser would have us believe that, at the tower of Babel, the God of Creation knowingly gave all the nations into the hands of gods that “demanded” child sacrifice. Rather than teaching that it was the perverse belief system of the ruling class which created religious practices of the most vile kind, Heiser tells us that the Supreme God sent the nations to gods and goddesses who actually existed and really did demand such things.

That’s not the God I see in my Bible.

Dr. Heiser also wants us to believe that these vile gods who demanded child-sacrifice were part of the council of gods and that the Supreme God had to at least listen to their council. He had to give them His ear; He could not wipe them out because they were His “children”. Instead, He gave each of them authority to rule over one or more nations.

In my opinion that would make God complicit in evil. How can God judge people for doing evil if He is partially to blame for it? I believe God allows consequences of our actions to come back to us; Michael Heiser teaches that God actively participated in making the nations places consumed by, and controlled by, the most vile practices imaginable.

Again, that’s not the God I see in my Bible. Heiser found that stuff outside the Bible and introduced it into his “Bible”, which is now much thicker than mine. His “Bible” includes the books of Enoch and many other writings from pagan religions.

Mine does not.

What about your Bible? What does it include?