An Idol is Still an Idol

There were many goddesses in Bible times. One of these was Artemis as shown in the picture. Artemis is a Greek name that identifies with the Latin Diana of classical mythology. Her temple at Ephesus was one of the seven wonders of the world. It had a hundred massive columns, some of which were sculptured. People said back then that her image just “fell from the sky”. The silversmith’s who made small sized shrines of her caused a riot when Paul was ministering there in Acts 19:23. She is the root of where we get the pagan holiday “Easter”. All you have to do is look at the picture to see where the “Easter eggs” slipped in at. She’s the goddess of fertility, so enter in the rabbits that are known for their quick reproduction. Add the eggs and the rabbits and you can guess what pagan holiday “man invented”. In the Roman culture she’s known as Semiranus, in Babylonian she’s Ishtar, in Egypt Isis, in Greece Aphrodite, and in Rome, she’s Venus. In Israel though, she was an ashtoreth (idol). They say “a rose by any other name is still a rose”, and an idol is still an idol, no matter what it’s called or what holiday it ends up in.