Absolutely agree—your research has been spot on during all the time hubs and I have followed you & Sharon. Thanks for making the Bible come alive!
As an avid gardner, I’m curious if the current usage of the term, “garden” meaning “yard” (mainly found in British society and many of their former colonies) might be traced to historic roots of some type? Just a thought.
Thank you for sharing this with me, I really enjoyed it! I've heard before about the garden of Eden being in Jerusalem, so that idea can't be dismissed. Again, thanks!
Good point about pigs used in pagan rituals. But I think the prohibition against pigs goes deeper than that. Science calls pigs opportunistic omnivores. They will eat literally anything, including feces and carrion. They are among the most disgustingly unclean animals on Earth. The very first requirement of a clean land animal is that it must never purposely eat other animals, whether vertebrate or invertebrate. The next requirement is that they must be a ruminant with a 4-chambered stomach. Camels don’t qualify—in spite of the fact that they are herbivores and modern science calls them ungulates—because they only have 3 chambers in their stomachs. In fact, they are known as pseudo-ruminants. Interestingly, the fact that they lack the 4th stomach chamber means that their bodies retain vast quantities of water, and that means they retain toxins in their flesh. All these idiosyncrasies are important because everything we eat has DNA in it that gets broken down into smaller components and is then assimilated into our body. The dietary laws in God’s law are there to help keep us healthy. Violating them is why people are so sick these days. Plus we’ve inherited bad DNA from our ancestors who also violated God’s law.
I’ve written extensively about this very thing in my Tree of Life, Second Edition. I appreciate seeing another author affirming it. Thanks! - Tim
Absolutely agree—your research has been spot on during all the time hubs and I have followed you & Sharon. Thanks for making the Bible come alive!
As an avid gardner, I’m curious if the current usage of the term, “garden” meaning “yard” (mainly found in British society and many of their former colonies) might be traced to historic roots of some type? Just a thought.
Thank you for sharing this with me, I really enjoyed it! I've heard before about the garden of Eden being in Jerusalem, so that idea can't be dismissed. Again, thanks!
Good point about pigs used in pagan rituals. But I think the prohibition against pigs goes deeper than that. Science calls pigs opportunistic omnivores. They will eat literally anything, including feces and carrion. They are among the most disgustingly unclean animals on Earth. The very first requirement of a clean land animal is that it must never purposely eat other animals, whether vertebrate or invertebrate. The next requirement is that they must be a ruminant with a 4-chambered stomach. Camels don’t qualify—in spite of the fact that they are herbivores and modern science calls them ungulates—because they only have 3 chambers in their stomachs. In fact, they are known as pseudo-ruminants. Interestingly, the fact that they lack the 4th stomach chamber means that their bodies retain vast quantities of water, and that means they retain toxins in their flesh. All these idiosyncrasies are important because everything we eat has DNA in it that gets broken down into smaller components and is then assimilated into our body. The dietary laws in God’s law are there to help keep us healthy. Violating them is why people are so sick these days. Plus we’ve inherited bad DNA from our ancestors who also violated God’s law.