This post is about changing the structure of food not about how it is prepared.
Honoring God through the foods we choose
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Better yet, just skip the food altogether and pop a multi-vitamin and a protein pill and call it good.
People may have eaten better years ago without the preservatives and processing but yet their lifespan was relatively short compared to todays typical average lifespan.
This post is about choosing foods, but I have often wondered about this. They died of infections, accidents and such but while they lived they were in better health--it wasn't the diabetes, strokes, heart attacks that took them as it is today. Back then, the poor people were more robust, the ones who could afford white bread were sickly.
Now it has turned around. The poor people have to eat the processed food and the rich people can afford plain food.
As long we make no rule which food honors God most, the point is that we give God always the honor for the food he gives us. Fresh from the market ore out of a tin.
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While the consequences of poor food choices are, in some cases, known and even obvious, I still don't see the connection between what we eat and "pleasing God". Many people aren't making their own food choices but are eating poorly; are they rebellious? Is God displeased with them? No.
Please don't confuse the consequences of our choices with God's pleasure or displeasure. The one who is healthy is not necessarily the subject of God's pleasure, and the one who is sick is not necessarily the subject of God's displeasure. God's pleasure in us does not depend on the food we eat; rather, it depends on faith in the One He has sent.
It is, however, displeasing to God if we eat food that our conscience forbids. If we choose to eat unhealthy food and our conscience gives us doubt it is better to not eat it. It is displeasing to God if we go against our conscience because we did not eat it in faith.
Giving God thanks for our food is an entirely new topic, a good one. This post is about choosing things just as God creates it, and not using man's ideas to change it.
No, it's all connected. The crux of the issue of food is thankfulness. And I don't believe there is any displeasure on God's part for having chosen to eat food that has been modified.
Yet, if you decide within yourself that it is better to only eat unmodified food, that is not for me to judge as you are doing what is your conscience to honour God.
Aside from abstaining from the pollutions of idols and from blood, abstaining from gluttony and drunkenness, fasting at times the way Jesus taught, not stealing food, and respecting the consciences of others, I do not see moral obligations on all Christians (particularly Gentile Christians) on the type of food we eat. We should care for our health. Paul told Timothy to drink a little wine for his stomach's sake.
In a recent thread, someone posted a link to a study that showed that red wine contained something besides the alcohol that was good for gut bacteria. I listened to a video of the author of The Plant Paradox. He argued that a lot of health issues were related to problems with gut bacteria, including weight problems. He used to perform lots of heart surgeries, and was overweight himself. He thought whole grains were bad for you. If you eat wheat, his advice was to eat white refined flower not 'whole grains.' He lost a lot of weight by changing his diet. He eats a lot of sweet potatoes and green vegetables and douses his food with olive oil, consuming about a liter of it a week.
But his theory was based on evolutionary biology. He said you do not see gorillas eating the seeds off grass, so he preferred tubars. He says we are 90 something % the same as gorrillas with the main difference being gut bacteria. Gorillas have so much solid muscle but eat leaves. Much of our bodies are made of bacteria. I do not believe we came from apes, nor would I want to be like an ape, a less intelligent creature that might live to be 45. But from what he said, he lost a lot on his diet. And there are a lot of people with gluten allergies now. Tubars could be more gut-bacteria friendly than grains. If 'whole grain' part of the grain is less friendly to gut bacteria, it might be good to cut it out.
He was also against eating nightshades, tomatoes, bell peppers, chilli peppers, etc. He said if we did eat tomatoes to do like the Italians and remove the seeds first and that Italians did not historically have whole grain pasta. He also said not to eat beans unless you pressure cooked them, which got rid of the component he considered unfriendly to gut bacteria. As I recall, he was against squashes. No potatoes either, but sweet potatoes are okay. He was against most of the New World crops grown today.
I don't agree with the basis of his theory, but if it works for weight loss, it might help some people.
The big point to get out of this is that there are different approaches to determining what is healthy. Even the doctors disagree. Personally, I think the concern about sodium is overblown for most people.
I hadn't heard it was candle wax. I know it's not good for you, but fried chicken cooked in Crisco really tastes good.
Lots of interesting study behind this post, I'm impressed.
The thought behind my post is when I realized it is a good thing to thank the Lord for what He has created rather than tell God they can do it better and redo what God created.
But involves this not everything? God gave us the mind to change things to eat.The manhood could not live like 200 years ago. Many things where food is changed is to made it storable f.e.
I don't consider it a sin to eat the vegetables in the supermarket, but I would definitely prefer nonGMO. Pickling vegetables is a lot different than splicing genes into them so they will produce their own incecticides.
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Tourist,
you are asking 'why' people back then had a 'shorter' life span: well, they were subject to a myriad of infections, simply because
they were eating 'non-Biblical', and were certainly not adhering to the Biblical, hygienic principles...
also, of course the (((anti-biotics))) of today hadn't come into play back then nor later in the 20th century, as in today's
over-prescribed, (((counter-productive-medicine)))...
Changing food to help mankind is one thing, but changing what God creates because a man thinks his way is better than God's way is another. That is arrogant thinking, and if they were humble before their God, honoring His ways, they wouldn't think such things as that it would make wheat better if it was white, God's brown could be improved by man.
Such arrogance is true of all of how God created our world. God created a world that needs to be respected as it is created.
