This time of year is holy to many. Have you ever wondered why so many religious buildings and sacred sites use GOLD to adorn their structures? Gold represented not only beauty, rarity, and value but also sacrifice of the people who built the religious spaces. To incorporate gold into their structures meant taking resources away from their private lives. Because of the sacrificial nature of the gift, to use gold in the construction of an idol was insulting. The family resources would have been devoted to a false belief.
Gold is frequently mentioned in the scriptures of the three world religions that came from the Mideast. Moses discovered a golden calf being molded and worshipped during the time he was receiving the Ten Commandments. Jesus was welcomed by the foreign wise men with a gift of gold. The second […]
