God, Grace, and Gardens - Vimeo Conversations

This is the link for the first discussion, Genesis 1 and John 1:3.

The KJV Quotation on the Masthead. Look for Others in the Future.

 

Tyndale and Luther did not create the deceptive and foolish "make disciples" paraphrase of the Great Commission. Similar pratfalls are found in the modernized German Bible and the hideous NIV, ESV, RSV, NRSV, and Beck (rhymes with Yuck).

Tyndale and the KJV

In 1525, William Tyndale, an English contemporary of Martin Luther, undertook a translation of the New Testament. Tyndale's translation was the first printed Bible in English. Over the next ten years, Tyndale revised his New Testament in the light of rapidly advancing biblical scholarship, and embarked on a translation of the Old Testament. Despite some controversial translation choices, and in spite of Tyndale's execution on charges of heresy for having made the translated Bible, the merits of Tyndale's work and prose style made his translation the ultimate basis for all subsequent renditions into Early Modern English. 

David Daniell (2003). The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09930-4.

Tarry Not Long in These Grocery Aisles

 

 Arnold is a good example of why we should abstain from steroids to build muscles.

I stopped at the largest Walmart in Arkansas. I was there on opening day and felt lost in its vastness. The opposite is true now when I get groceries. This is how I react to various areas. The most profitable are the most useless for food.

Pharmacy -

Nope. No meds except for eye drops. Shots? My response to "free virus shot" was a loud "HA HA HA HA." I used my outdoor voice. Vegetables, greens, fruits, and nuts are the best medicine.

Fresh Fruit -

• I would rather have too much than too little, some variety all the time. My favorite is apples, and I eat about four a day.
• Blueberries are daily habits now, mixed with the vegetables for lunch, which are often repeated for supper. Chicken is an alternative three times a week.
• I buy pineapples and oranges, but gave up on pomegranate juice, which exploded on me and made me look like a hard-working butcher when I opened the bottle at home. I asked for a refund.

Frozen Vegetables - Small Selection

• Green/red peppers and onions.
• Riced cauliflower
• Sweet peas in large bags
• Broccoli
• Frozen chopped greens - spinach, kale, turnip
• Asparagus
• Mushrooms

Beans and Tomato Paste

Canned chick peas are my favorite (when washed thoroughly in a strainer). I have tried lima beans and three beans, but the main issue is salt. Many canned beans and vegetables are loaded with salt, which pushes high blood pressure (antihistamines do too).

Tomato paste is the best form of the nightshade. Various kinds of sauce are watery and often very salty. The paste is lacking in skin and seeds, and loaded with low-cal nutrition and flavor. My watery mix becomes just thick enough when mixed with tomato paste, which is quite inexpensive.

Pasta? Flavorless white flour in many shapes

I shelved lots of pasta when I worked at a Walmart plantation. Two things appalled me - 

1. why bother with shapes? and 
2. why pay money for pressed flour?

Salad Dressing - An Essential Part of the Fat Selection

The amount of fat sold in various forms is quite appalling, remaining a major part of the entire food section.

Butter, margarine, eggs, and all cheeses are massive purveyors of fat, which goes right certain parts if not burned up from work and exercise.

Butter, as I explained to one doctor, is a gateway drug for me. It is supposedly harmless, but leads to buttered toast, buttered rolls, and butter added to many good foods to make them better - like the helpless vegetables which already have their own oil. Redundant and potentially harmful.

Once I stopped buying bread, my butter supply stretched out much longer. I eat limited amounts of rolls with chicken.

Milk, skim milk, cottage cheese, all cheeses are fat products, often with a good dose of salt. 

Sweets and Fake Sweets, Equally Bad

Opposite the frozen vegetables is a gigantic aisle of candies, fairly expensive and somewhat tempting. High blood sugar made me eat large amounts of hard candy. I no longer buy them and seldom have chocolate.

Rich sources of sweets include sugarless but just as damaging forms of the following:

• Hard, soft, and jellied candy
• Chocolate
• Juices, including orange and apple juice - all sugar or fake sugar
• So-called energy drinks and special lose-weight gimmicks (ha ha ha).
• Gum, throat lozenges, mints
• Donuts, danish, pies, puddings

Nuts

Statins are fraught with problems in "lowering cholesterol." They block the natural function of the liver. Walnuts and almonds use the heavy cholesterol to remove the dangerous, sticky light cholesterol. Quick test - 

1. Who invented statins and made billions?
2. Who created almonds and walnuts, which sell for very little?

Meats and Fish

I buy chicken from Schwan. Meats are satisfying because they provide a big wallop of fat plus a serious amount of salt. Fish are just as fatty - the plea for their therapeutic oil is easily met with vegetable sources, including walnuts and almonds.

Katy Perry was the star of a Walmart Annual Meeting. I did not get a chance to ask her about Ski and Glende.