There are certainly some positives to being a Cult founder; you usually get pretty rich, have an unquestioning following, and usually go out with a bang… but it never lasts, after all look at Artemis (Diana). She got her own temple, it was massive, one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World!
But look, there’s hardly anything left… just a few stones piled on one another, plenty of tourists, strange Turkish men trying to sell programmes and postcards, oh and it’s a bit boggy!
Interestingly the reason the temple got into disrepair and eventually fell down was because Christianity took hold and people released actually there’s a living God, who doesn’t meet in elaborate temples but meets in our hearts, and they didn’t need to come and offer fertility sacrifices but actually Jesus was the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice.
The point is, it’s a bad idea to start a cult, because it will just end up like this!
More from Ephesus to follow…
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