{"id":31990,"date":"2026-09-04T07:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=31990"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:33:40","slug":"pastor-claims-god-had-a-wife-king-josiah-was-wrong-for-smashing-asherah-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=31990","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPastor\u201d Claims God Had a Wife, King Josiah Was Wrong for Smashing Asherah Poles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhat happens when you reject God\u2019s Word as your authority and instead base your thinking on fallen man\u2019s fallible word? Well, you might end up standing in a church pulpit and telling your congregation that God had a wife and that King Josiah was wrong for destroying the Asherah poles.<\/p>\n

Yes, this \u201cpastor\u201d really claims the Israelites worshipped Yahweh as God along with<\/em> Asherah as a female god, and that no one had a problem with it for a very long time. He then bemoans how hard it must have been for the Israelite women and girls when King Josiah ordered the Asherah poles to be chopped down\u2014who would they now look up to and pray to without a \u201cqueen of heaven\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll share with you here the relevant four-minute clip from his sermon:<\/p>\n

Baptist ‘pastor’ CONDEMNS King Josiah for destroying the idols and statues of false gods during his reign, lamenting the impact it would have on young Israelite girls who needed a feminine deity like Asherah to look up to. pic.twitter.com\/ATg5AenbfU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Protestia (@Protestia) August 27, 2026 <\/p>\n

Did you notice what he says at the very beginning?<\/p>\n

And, no, before you dismiss it\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. this is actually a widely accepted theory in the world of historical religious scholarship.<\/p>\n

In other words, he\u2019s saying many historians and researchers believe this, so you should too. For him, it doesn\u2019t matter what the Bible says, what matters is what fallible historians say. He\u2019s saying to trust man, not God. He\u2019s succumbing to the Genesis 3 attack when the devil tempted Adam and Eve to doubt and thus not believe what God<\/span> said. God<\/span> warns us in 2 Corinthians 11:3 that the devil will use that same attack on us, as we see exhibited in this example.<\/p>\n

When you start with Scripture, this man\u2019s view is utter nonsense. No one who has read any of the Old Testament and cared about what the Author (God<\/span>) intended to communicate would believe such heresy. Consider just this smattering of verses regarding the Bible<\/span>\u2019s view of God<\/span> as the one true God<\/span> and how the Israelites were to treat false gods like Asherah:<\/p>\n

Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Beware lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst. But rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim [Asherah] \u2014for you shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God\u2014lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invite you to eat of his sacrifice, and you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. You shall make for yourself no molten gods. (Exodus 34:11\u201317)<\/p>\n

You shall have no other gods before Me.
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You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
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You shall not worship them or serve them. (Exodus 20:3\u20135) <\/p>\n

Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one! (Deuteronomy 6:4)<\/p>\n

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim [Asherah] with fire, and you shall cut the graven images of their gods in pieces and destroy their name from that place. (Deuteronomy 12:2\u20133)<\/p>\n

God was clear\u2014He alone is God and the sacred places of the Canaanite\u2019s false gods were to be utterly destroyed.<\/p>\n

God<\/span> was clear\u2014He alone is God<\/span> and the sacred places of the Canaanite\u2019s false gods were to be utterly destroyed.<\/p>\n

And if you know your Old Testament history, you\u2019ll know that King Josiah of Judah was praised by God<\/span> for smashing idols and restoring proper worship of God<\/span>. He was one of the greatest kings of Israelite history because of this!<\/p>\n

And before him there was no king like him who turned to Yahweh with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him. (2 Kings 23:25)<\/p>\n

Because of this \u201cpastor\u2019s\u201d rejection of God<\/span>\u2019s Word as the authority, along with the feminist lens through which he clearly interprets everything, he has completely rejected the truth of God<\/span>\u2019s Word and, unless he repents, will have to someday stand before God<\/span> and give account for leading others astray. This \u201cpastor\u201d is truly a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n

Now, most of us understand right away how ridiculous and utterly unbiblical this man\u2019s arguments are. But his nonsense has the same foundation as those Christian pastors and leaders who add evolution or millions of years into the Bible: Man\u2019s word is the authority. Instead of starting with God\u2019s perfect Word and allowing it to shape our thinking, so many Christians (or professing Christians) start with man\u2019s word and then reinterpret God\u2019s clear Word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever we start with something outside<\/em> Scripture\u2014whether it\u2019s a historian, researcher, scholar, or scientist\u2014and use that as our authority, we end up compromising on truth. If a Christian chooses to add millions of years into Genesis, it\u2019s not because of the text of Scripture. It\u2019s because they\u2019ve chosen to start with man\u2019s interpretation of the rocks and fossils instead of God<\/span>\u2019s eyewitness testimony. God<\/span>\u2019s Word is not their authority\u2014man is!<\/p>\n

Compromise kills. When the Israelites mixed worship of the one true God<\/span> with the worship of false gods like Asherah, they were judged by God<\/span> for their syncretism. Let us not be like the Israelites, mixing truth with lies because we have started with man\u2019s word rather than God<\/span>\u2019s perfect Word.<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
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Ken \n<\/p>\n

This item was written with the assistance of AiG\u2019s research team.<\/p>\n

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