{"id":2027,"date":"2009-10-09T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/ezekiel-bread-who-eats-this-crap\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T09:37:00","slug":"ezekiel-bread-who-eats-this-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/ezekiel-bread-who-eats-this-crap.html","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Bread: Who Eats This Crap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nobeliefs.com\/washingtonnews\/ezekiel412.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nobeliefs.com\/washingtonnews\/ezekiel412.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>I apologize for the pun in the title, but today I\u2019m teaching on Ezekiel, and had seen mentions before of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipe\/Ezekiel-Bread-I\/Detail.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ezekiel bread<\/a>\u201d and decided to look into it further. There <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodforlife.com\/sprouted-grain-difference\/ezekiel-4-9.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">really is such a thing<\/a>, although the <a href=\"http:\/\/nobeliefs.com\/washingtonnews\/EzekielBread.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">version featured in the picture <\/a>is, I am guessing, a spoof. But of course, if I see it advertised on Conservapedia I may have to change my mind about that.\n<p>If you want to make your own \u201cEzekiel bread\u201d you can buy a kit on Amazon. It is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002GJZYGI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002GJZYGI\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ezekiel Bread Making Kit<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002GJZYGI\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\">. I didn\u2019t see a label anywhere, but I presume that human or animal dung is not included and you have to provide that yourself. <\/p><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>For me, the scariest thing is that they are able to market <a href=\"http:\/\/krislinatin.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/07\/ezekiel-49-cereal\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ezekiel cereal<\/a>\u2026with <em>raisins<\/em>. Ugh.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>If you don\u2019t get why this is funny\/disgusting, here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ezekiel%204:9-15&amp;version=NIV\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">link to a passage in Ezekiel<\/a> that should clarify things. Presumably this is an excellent example of why interpretation in context is important. Not only is the recipe for the bread not provided because it is healthy, but I really suspect that if the person who came up with the idea for \u201cEzekiel 4:9 Bread\u201d had read all the way to v12, he or she might have thought twice about this.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2180135554369190723?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for the pun in the title, but today I\u2019m teaching on Ezekiel, and had seen mentions before of \u201cEzekiel bread\u201d and decided to look into it further. There really is such a thing, although the version featured in the picture is, I am guessing, a spoof. 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