God's Word and a Healthy Diet

God's Life Giving Word.

The holy bible is full of scriptures that teach us God wants us to eat a healthy diet according to his word. The most important scripture in my opinion is Genesis 1:29 where God says "Look! I have given you the seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food." This means to me that as God created the earth and the air, water, plants and animals; he created the best for us. He told us that we should eat fruit, vegetables and that which grows from the ground as our food. Throughout time we have rejected God and his plan for our lives and we as people have decided our way is better than his way. So we eat whatever we want.

Levitical Diet.

Then God called man in relationship with himself through Abraham and his descendants. As a result of disobedience, they went into captivity and God called Moses to be his chosen instrument of redemption and freedom for his chosen people. In that role God spoke directly to Moses (often face to face) and gave Moses laws. These laws were to protect man from himself. The law was not to be taken as a new religion but to guide man in doing the best for himself. For no one can be saved by the law. The law was only to keep order. Unfortunately, many times religious leaders have taken the law and began to serve it, instead of God. In the Levitical Laws on what to eat and what not to eat, most only people have focused on pork. Yes pork is not good for us. We aren't made to consume pork. God did not intend us to be in slaves to a law, but to be healthy. Christianity, Judism, and Islamic religions, among others, have all denounced eating pork as a religious tenant. Some religious leaders even take it to the point of teaching people will lose their relationship with God for doing so. This is not God's intention. He wanted us to be healthy. He even named a long list of foods not to eat, yet many only focus on pork. If we really wanted to follow God's Word as a law, we should follow his original law, Genesis 1:29 and all be vegetarians.

The Daniel Diet.

Even Daniel followed a vegetarian diet and proved that we would be stronger and healthier by eating fresh fruit and vegetables instead of the finest meats. But to bring it to modern times we need to understand what the New Testament teaches on eating a healthy diet. Peter, Paul, and Jesus all taught that it is not what you ate the made you unclean. This means our salvation isn't dependant on what we eat. In the New Testament we are taught that we can eat whatever we want. That doesn't make what we choose to eat good for us or even healthy. Jesus said he did not come to change any part of the law and that he was not contradicting anything that God had given us in the Old Testament. You see God did not change, nor did his word. Man is like grass and flowers that pass away at the end of their season, but the Word of God is eternal and its truth never changes.

Healthy Diet.

As a christian who studies the word I have realized that God made us to be vegetarians. As we are obedient in following God's Word the healthier we will be. Follow God's Word. Eat a healthy Diet. Be obedient to God and he will bless you with health and long life. Try him at his word. Have faith in him and his word. See for yourself.

Be Blessed. Be a Blessing.

Coach Louis.


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Louis Jeffries. As a healthy diet, fitness and weight loss professional coach, Louis publishes encouraging tips and advice to enhance our lives. Louis is committed to share how people can lose weight, get fit and stay healthy. For additional free tips and advice go to Lose Weight. Visit Louis at his blog to learn more about Healthy Weight Loss Program and Advocare Herbal Nutritional Products to help you Lose Weight.