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Podcast: Spiritual Awakening Radio
Episode: Evidence That John the Baptist Was A Vegetarian -- Beans, Not Bugs!
Description: Evidence That John the Baptist Was A Vegetarian -- Beans, Not Bugs!Due to a mistranslation of a particular Greek work in certain gospel manuscripts John the Baptist has gained the most unfortunate cave-man reputation of being a bug eater, an eater of locusts. It's supposed to be locust beans ("egkrides"), used to make a kind of Middle Eastern flat bread or cake from carob flour, not bugs ("akrides")! If we examine early Christian writings and learn of the Nasoraean movement the Prophet John was associated with, a wilderness sect operating near the Jordan River apparently related...