Scholar Peter Craigie notes: “The goal of Baal’s religion was to secure his supremacy; only while he remained supreme, so his worshipers believed, would the crops and cattle so essential to human survival continue. ”
पण दोन्ही बाबतीत, बआलचे श्रेष्ठत्व मानवांच्या प्रयत्नांच्या यशाकरता महत्त्वाचे आहे असे मानले जाते.