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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (17901)6/15/2004 5:51:44 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
Ezekiel gets God to change His mind and prescribe cow dung as his diet instead of people dung. God had a soft heart at times.

4:12
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

4:13
And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

4:14
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

4:15
Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

Of course, it is well known that Ezekiel was a schizophrenic...poor man.

near-death.com

"..The prophet Ezekiel has been diagnosed by psychiatrists an unmistakable schizophrenic. His life, as recorded in the Book of Ezekiel, shows a typical schizophrenic development: a deep religiosity, hallucinatory visions, increasingly bizarre behavior, isolation, and emotional collapse. He heard a voice commanding him to lie on the right side of his body for 390 days then switch to his left side for 40 more days. A voice told him to eat food cooked with human excrement. Other prophets, such as John in the Book of Revelation, see horrible monsters and devils. It is interesting that one particular near-death experiencer discovered that the Book of Revelation in the Bible is the record of a dream by John the Revelator. This becomes apparent when the same archetypal images in Revelation can be found in dream of Daniel the prophet in the Bible. We also know from near-death accounts, the Bible, and dream research that there is evidence that dreams, near-death experiences, psychedelic, psychotic, and psychic experiences are all a phenomenon of an altered level of consciousness..."