When my interest in health and finding food recommendations in the Bible stirred me to write to you about it, the thought came to me: “God mentions food throughout Scripture. This would be important to recognize.”
The Bible was written by “holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:21.
The challenge in our day, as I understand it, is to discern what is good and health building for us and what is harmful. Over time, the degermed grain, bleached and having chemicals added is made into bread that smells good, tastes good (is even addicting), cheap and easy to find.
Other food, also sold around every corner in many towns, is harmful over time. Fats, seed oils, bioengineered (nonfood), “natural flavor” which is now known to have chemicals hidden behind the name, sugar that is bleached, corn syrup which is sold to sweeten food…the harm of “fast food” is clearly understood if you study how fried chicken is made.
This cheap, glamorously packaged “food” is often not food at all.
Here is the reason for my passion for healthy food: God created it for our health and wellbeing from the beginning. An incentive for me to eat food that God intended for humankind from the beginning of the creation: at eighty-two, with a long history of interest in food in the Bible. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Genesis 1:27.
God changed the “rules” for food four times. Read the Bible, then read it repeatedly. Notice how often food is mentioned. When Jesus said, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." (John 6:35). The message is literal and in addition pictures figurative truth. Bread made well is a basis for good health as Jesus is the "living bread" that gives us eternal life when we accept Him.
Jesus talked about “eating” the bread which He was! "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:51. This is offering you and me eternal life.
We have freedom to choose. They are not legal rules. Food is just there in the Bible to benefit by. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." I Corinthians 10:31. Simply put be wise about your diet.
