PURSUING FOOD WISDOM

 

“HEARKEN DILIGENTLY”: PURSUING FOOD WISDOM

Interestingly, Scripture shows that guidelines for food changed four times. First, food provided to Adam and Eve was simple. Simple in the sense that there were no chemicals, additives, bioengineered, devitalized, bleached or the big lie: “Natural Flavor.”  "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." Genesis 1:29. (Right here is basic food: any combination of vegetables will create a stir fry meal. Combine this with Olive oil, butter, salt, onions, and garlic. Add baked potatoes, fruit, and nuts).

Later, God said to Noah and his family after the Global Flood, "Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have, I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." Genesis 9:3,4. (Meat mixed with vegetables, butter, milk and cheese and wholegrains, with cut up pineapple or watermelon for dessert).

Later when Israel marched out of Egypt to Canaan, through Moses came “clean and unclean” nutritional laws. This fascinating law is in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. (I tend to pay attention to this list even though our fifteen-year-old granddaughter taught me about the freedom we have after Jesus came when her love for Octopus showed up at a restaurant one evening. Her cerebral Dad and Mom were ahead of me).

When Jesus came to earth, He changed everything when He said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." Matthew 5:17. What does this mean?

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