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Human excrement is mentioned a number of times in the Bible. | Human excrement is mentioned a number of times in the Bible. Some of it relates to prophecies about Jesus. | ||
[[Image:Hinnom.JPG|right|thumb|300px|This valley is called "Hinnom" in Hebrew and "Gehenna" in Greek. Gehenna is often translated as "Hell" in English.]] | [[Image:Hinnom.JPG|right|thumb|300px|This valley is called "Hinnom" in Hebrew and "Gehenna" in Greek. Gehenna is often translated as "Hell" in English.]] | ||
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==The Unclean Bread== | ==The Unclean Bread== | ||
[[Image:Brown_bread.JPG|right|thumb|150px|God told Ezekiel to take brown bread, and | [[Image:Brown_bread.JPG|right|thumb|150px|God told Ezekiel to take brown bread, and add manure to it.]] | ||
God told the prophet Ezekiel to make bread, and he gave him a specific recipe. In the scriptures, bread often represents the body of Jesus Christ. This parallel seems to work until God tells Ezekiel to take his own dung, and add it to the bread. This is too disgusting for Ezekiel, and he tells God that won’t do it, because he has never eaten anything “unclean”. So God relents and lets Ezekiel add cow manure to the recipe instead. | God told the prophet Ezekiel to make bread, and he gave him a specific recipe. In the scriptures, bread often represents the body of Jesus Christ. This parallel seems to work until God tells Ezekiel to take his own dung, and add it to the bread. This is too disgusting for Ezekiel, and he tells God that won’t do it, because he has never eaten anything “unclean”. So God relents and lets Ezekiel add cow manure to the recipe instead. | ||