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[santmat]

John the Baptist's Wilderness Vegetarian Diet Explained - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

Not A Caveman Fixated on Bugs and Bees After All: John the Baptist's Wilderness Vegetarian Diet - Locust Beans Not Bugs - An Exploration of Early Christian Writings and Scholarly Texts Today on This Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast.

Nevermind the old Sunday school notion of John the Baptist being some weird caveman dude dining on bugs! John may have a tarnished caveman reputation of eating locusts and honey out in the wild, but this is really a story about copyists mistranslating a Greek word as "locust" ('a-k-r-i-d-e-s') instead of "carob" ('e-g-k-r-i-d-e-s'). (Henry Ford: "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." Albert Einstein: "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.")

Since my original research on this topic, a couple more early Christian apocryphal writings have come to light, have been made available in English. These add to the surprisingly large collection of vegetarian references in early Christian writings regarding the diet of John the Baptist. New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. III, by Tony Burke was published and some John the Baptist books are included. In one of the earlier volumes there was a John the Baptist text made available for the first time in English that has a vegetarian passage regarding John's diet in the wilderness. Included in the third volume are, The Birth of Holy John the Forerunner, and, The Decapitation of John the Forerunner, both containing plant-based passages about John's diet consisting of "locusts from the tree" (in the Middle east called "the Saint John's Tree", and "Carob Tree") and "wild honey", also "an abundance of bread and wild honey dripping from a rock". Clearly there was an understanding in early Christianity that this was referring to locust beans (carob pods), not insects. Carob pods do look a bit like locusts hanging from tree branches, hence the name. Locust beans can be ground up and used to make a kind of Middle eastern carob flour flat bread. There's a "cakes dipped in honey" reference in the Gospel of the Ebionites. The wild "honey" was not from bees but sticky desert fruit of some kind. So, as you'll hear being documented during this pod...cast, there are all these plant-based references to John's diet coming from many different sources, and scholars have noticed and discussed these: "Probably the most interesting of the changes from the familiar New Testament accounts of Jesus comes in the Gospel of the Ebionites description of John the Baptist, who, evidently, like his successor Jesus, maintained a strictly vegetarian cuisine." (Professor Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew) "His [John the Baptist's] food was wild honey that tasted like manna, like a cake cooked in olive oil." (The Other Gospels, Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament, by Bart Ehrman)

John the Baptist was a prophet with large number of followers in Israel and Transjordan regions. After his passing, several of his successors headed what became various rival Nasoraean (Nazorean) sects, one of those being Jesus and the Jesus movement. "Again Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you, among all those born of women none has arisen greater than John the Baptizer." (Matthew 11:11, George Howard's translation of Shem-Tob's Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, described as "the oldest extant Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew") 

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[avengers-21]

today’s verse ✨

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭13‬:‭8‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Eye is the Lamp of the Body

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. — Luke 11:34 | Hebrew Names Version (HNV) The Hebrew Names Version Bible is in the public domain Cross References: Proverbs 21:4; Isaiah 5:20; Matthew 6:22-23; Luke 11:35

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Luke 11:34 Commentaries

[apenitentialprayer]

[Christ's] prayer to God was pure, His alone out of all mankind, for in the midst of His suffering He prayed for His persecutors: Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing [Luke 23:34]. Is it possible to offer, or even to imagine, a purer kind of prayer than that which shows mercy to one's torturers by making intercession for them? […] Paul speaks of the sprinkled blood that calls out more eloquently than Abel's [Hebrews 12:24]. Of Abel's blood Scripture had written: The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the earth [Genesis 4:10]. The blood of Jesus calls out more eloquently than Abel's, for the blood of Abel asked for the death of Cain the fratricide, while the blood of the Lord has asked for, and obtained, life for His persecutors.

Pope Gregory the Great, Moral Reflections on Job (13.25, 26)

The dropping of His blood is as the music of heaven to the penitent sons of the earth. We are full of sin, but the Saviour bids us lift our eyes to Him, and as we gaze upon His streaming wounds each drop of blood, as it falls, cries "It is finished; I have made an end to sin; I have brought in everlasting righteousness." Oh! Sweet language of the Precious Blood of Jesus!

Charles Spurgeon

[ratnurse]

Received what I'm pretty sure is christian evangelising aimed at orthodox Jews in my mailbox today :/

[craigtowens]

Prayer Helpers

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all want us to live in the fullness and freedom of the Kingdom of God. The Father longs to give us the kingdom, and Jesus and the Holy Spirit intercede for us! 

Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. (Romans 8:26-27)  The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all want us to live in the…

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[malkahpariyz]

This world hates truth. This world will beat on anyone who knows and spreads truth. Please stay strong everyone who truly does speak the truth of God and speak on behalf of God… the reason God tells us to depart from this world is because everything and almost everyone in this world fights and challenges the truth that God tells and this world fights to uphold blatant lies. This world will try to destroy anyone and anything truly telling the truth in Gods name. Being a soldier of the light, truth, and way of God is not an easy task. Do not turn weary and do not give up. It is a blessing to suffer for the purposes of the Lord God YAH and Lord Savior Jesus Christ. We have to endure as Jesus did for truth to be accepted by all. Keep spreading the truth and don’t let your emotions fool you into thinking you have to feel anything bad about telling the truth and having those people who fight against the truth, that you live to spread for God and Jesus Christ, attack you. Keep telling the truth and let God and Christ strengthen you to continue to do so. Do not let this sick world that is so clearly against the truth and against God discourage you.

Read your scripture (and it’s okay to read at your own pace)

Pray everyday all day

Speak the truth even when it hurts and speak it with love

Keep God in your mind, body, soul, heart, spirit, and energy and keep the truth alive.

Keep being a pillar of God, and every time man tries to knock you down, remember that God is within you and with you, and you will not fall and you shall not be moved. Continue to be in Gods presence and hands. Do not ever go astray. Better to be a pillar of God, than a pillar of salt.

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[santmat]

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[avengers-21]

today’s verse ✨

“For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4‬:‭10‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Law, Grace and Truth

For the law was given through Moshe. Grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah. — John 1:17 | Hebrew Names Version (HNV) Hebrew Names Version Bible is in the public domain Cross References: John 1:14; John 7:19; John 8:32; John 14:6; John 18:37; Romans 5:21; Romans 6:14

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The Superiority of Christ

[losttranslator]

throwback to my high school philosophy teacher trying to catch me with stuff like "actually Jesus never said he was God, did you know that" and smugly prove that I (kid who was read the bible from the age of 2 and got my own by like 7) didn’t know the gospels.

like my dude, what do you think "before Abraham was, I AM" was about? you don’t know and I’M clueless about the text?

[gospel-clouds]

Happy Sunday Everyone!

I apologize for not posting last week. That Sunday, something amazing happened and I was just unable to put anything into words. And while I can definitely speak now, unfortunately I’m not in the most of high of spirits, but that’s alright.

As humans, we can all feel that way at times, but the great thing is, no matter how low we feel inside, God is always with us.

Even when it seems like no one is on our side, God is always there. It says it all in the book of Hebrews, Chapter 13. He will never leave us or forsake us. And out of all of His wonderful promises, that is the most special one to me.

I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead! -GC ☁️

[craigtowens]

The Serenity Prayer

Is the Serenity Prayer in the Bible? If it’s not, is it acceptable for Christians to pray man-made prayers?

Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Audible.  https://craigtowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/the-serenity-prayer.mp3 I am a big fan of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). They are founded on biblical principles. I would paraphrase two of the most important ones as: (1) We need a Savior to set us free and (2) We need…