From today’s First Five Bible study: “A life without leadership can cause us to worship something or someone other than God. We were created with a desire to worship, and it was God’s plan for us to worship Him. The Danites stole Micah’s idols and carried them to the new land.”
Reading through today’s study was quite eye-opening in regard to food. With so many beautiful foods out there and so many different “experts” encouraging different diets and food concepts, it is nearly impossible to know who is right and what diet rules to really follow.
However, God provided some great tips, if we will just acknowledge them. 1. He gave Adam & Eve dominion over the animals, & so they could eat or use them as needed for clothing (after the fall). 2. He also gave them the Garden of Eden, full of beautiful vegetables & fruits. 3. He set forth dietary guidelines in Deuteronomy & Leviticus. 4. He also set forth instructions for sacrificing the fat portion – the best portion for Himself. (See Lev. 3) 5. He accepted Abel’s offering of the animal sacrifice, but He couldn’t accept Cain’s offering of grains from the field.
Looking at these 5 facts together and not in isolation, we can see a bigger picture. We can see that God intended, from the beginning, for us to eat meat, as He’d created us with that in mind. Since we are no longer living in Old Testament times, we no longer have to offer God the best portion of the meat as sacrifice. Meat contains the most nutrient density of any food available to us. Rich in iron, vitamin B12, protein & healthy fats, red meat can provide the human body with many components for tissue healing, repair, & continued cell division for health.
Going back to Cain’s offering – why could God not accept an offering of grains? They had been planted, tended, & harvested with great effort by Cain. He harvested the best of the crop and wanted to show God what his effort had produced. Why did God refuse this offering? I believe there’s 3 major reasons: 1. Rules of sacrifice had already been set by God and obedience to His will is required. 2. Cain was prideful in his offering; Cain wanted to show God what He’d done – that’s not the purpose of worship or sacrifice. 3. Sacrifice required the shedding of blood to atone for sin.
Take all of this information and look at it from God’s perspective. Although we no longer live under the law, we can see that He set forth great tips in our early history. We can see His holiness and His authority remain. We can see that He created amazing nutrition for our bodies.
We can also review modern history and see how we’ve defiled the gift of food that He provided. We’ve “chemicaled” and altered seeds, growing processes, and manufacturing methods to create food-like items that provide no nutritional value to our bodies. To what end?
The results of all this processing and our busy lives has contributed to “the perfect storm” of disease. We’ve created our own consequences of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and more.
Learning that God provided us with terrific foods and great nutrition can be so freeing! We can go back to the farm for our foods! We can eat meat, fats & vegetables without fear! We can eat healthy animal fats without risk of heart disease – why would God give us a terrible, unhealthy way to eat that He knew would cause disease? He would NOT do so!
Humans have taken ideas about food and misconstrued and lied about them. “Experts” with strong voices & lots of money took opportunity for fame with their ideas – but we’re finding out 50 years later that they were WRONG and had no scientific evidence to boot. Yes, you read that correctly! Our low-fat diet guidelines are based on hypothesis & conjecture – NOT science or research.
So what do we do? I suggest that we go back to the farm for most of our foods. Eat plenty of vegetables and meats. Cut out grains like wheat, corn, rice, oats, barley, & rye as these trigger significant inflammatory responses in our bodies. Cut out processed oils like vegetable, corn, canola oils as these are also highly inflammatory and raise triglyceride levels.
(Thanks to @FructoseNo for the cool photo.)
The first question patients ask when they hear this advice is, what about cholesterol? Remember, diet guidelines were based on thoughts, NOT science; therefore, no scientific evidence has confirmed links to high cholesterol & fat intake. In fact, studies confirm the exact opposite. Higher fat intakes in multiple studies have shown lower rates of obesity and heart disease. Cholesterol is required and even made by our bodies for all sorts of processes, including hormone function, balanced brain chemistry, and tissue healing/repair.
In summary, God made a delicious and nutritious way for us to eat. If we listen to His leadership and heed His guidance, we can actually heal our bodies and reverse many health conditions!
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