bruce lee dieta
now let's use this episode to define anotherterm - food. i want to deal with this issue now because food is such wedge issue between the churchand the jewish people, and even causes severe dissention within the church itself. let me be unequivocal
bruce lee dieta, the lord intended for food to be used as a means to divide and polarize genesis 1:29-30 explains what food is defined as at thispoint in history. 29 then god said, "here!
throughout the whole earth i am giving youas food every seedbearing plant and every tree with seed-bearingfruit. 30 and to every wild animal, bird in the airand creature crawling on the earth, in which there is a living soul, i am givingas food every kind of green plant." and that is how it was. food for mankind and animals was plants andplants alone. now did that mean that some animals didn’t eat other animals and thatman did not eat meat at this time?
no; rather it meant that god defined food as plants andtherefore when animals or humans ate animals (or other things) they were eatingthings that were not food. not even fish was for food as of this time. let’s explore that. noach was told to bring food into the arkfor his family and for the animals again, what is food? food is what is appropriate as a source ofnutrition for our bodies.
the question that is larger, however, is:who defines what is appropriate as food and what is not. who defines it? what should be consumed as food contrastedwith what might be (but ought not to be) consumed as food. god defined food in the first chapter of genesis. however man soon decided he preferred something else to be added to his diet. but to god’s way of thinking humans (and apparently some animals) began to eat thingsthat are forbidden because they are not
food. think about it, can you eat dirt? of course you can and anyone who has a childor grandchild has probably watched in horror as they gulpeddown a mouthful of dirt before you could stop them. do you know why they ate dirt? because in some way it smelled and tastedgood to so why would you want to stop them? because it's not food; dirt is for
growing food. food, by god’s definition, is not merelyanything that you can manage to get into your mouth and swallow, or anything that mighttaste reasonably good. not even anything just because it can be digested that is the entire point of god carefullydefining what his people may and may not eat in the law of moses. god has carefully defined what food is andwhat food is not. eating
food that is not kosher (so to speak) is toeat things that are not food. now of course hebrew tradition has created a lot of rulesand regulations on the subject and much of it is of a very questionable nature. rules have been created that seem to go wellbeyond the rather simple intent of what is proper eating as described in the torah. but the bottom line is this: when the bibleuses the term food, it by definition means thingsthat god has assigned for men to eat.
that's what it means. whether old testament or new, when a hebrewspeaks of food it only means kosher food because all else is not food. you’ll never see in the bible the word “kosherâ€or “authorized†or “permitted†used as amodifier to the word “food†because it would be redundant. food is only things that are divinely authorized and clean (ritually clean) andmeant to be eaten.
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