Are Health Principles part of Bible religion?
3John 2 “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth.”
Why did God give health rules?
Exo 23:25 “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will TAKE SICKNESS AWAY from the midst of thee.”
Do God’s Health rules have anything to do with eating and drinking?
1Cor 10:31 “Whether therefore ye EAT, or DRINK, or whatsoever ye do, do all TO THE GLORY OF GOD.”
What perfect diet did God give people to eat when He created them?
Gen 1:29 “And God said, Behold, I have given you every HERB BEARING SEED, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the FRUIT of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
Gen 2:16 “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every TREE of the garden thou mayest freely eat.”
Everything was vegetarian before sin and death. God gave man fruits, nuts and seeds for food, which were harvested without killing the plant. After sin man lost access to the tree of life and God added vegetables, “the herb of the field.” (Gen 3:18), which lose their life to feed us.
When was meat eating permitted?
Though God never intended meat to be eaten, He permitted it after the Flood “even as the green herb,” (i.e. an addition given because of sin, but which God never intended. Gen 9:3). Therefore, from Adam till meat eating was permitted after the Flood, a period of over 1600 years, all of God’s people were vegetarian.
Did God allow men to eat all kinds of animals?
No. God made a distinction between clean and unclean animals and made this known to Noah from whom all races come (Gen 7:1-2). The distinction between clean and unclean did not originate with the Jews or the Mosaic law.
Milk and eggs, which were always intended as foods - for baby animals - were also permitted. However meat requires death, and as death is the result of sin, meat was never intended as food.
Note: Cow’s milk is for growing calves. Cows don’t even drink milk. Where do cows get the calcium that is found in their milk? From plants. Milk contains lactose. Most human beings are lactose intolerant beyond the age of weaning. Many people are also allergic to milk. There is no need to drink milk if one is on a balanced vegetarian diet.
See Vegetarian Christians at the top of this page.
Because God loves us and knows how our bodies work, what items did He call unclean and forbid us to eat?
Lev 11:4 “Nevertheless these shall ye not eat...the camel...the coney...the hare...the swine...Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that [shall be] an abomination unto you.”
Could eating Pork, when one knows what God commands, jeopardize one’s salvation?
Isa 66:15-17 “For, behold, the LORD will come with fire...They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating SWINE’S FLESH, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
Didn’t the distinction between clean and unclean end at the cross?
Rev 18:2 “And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every UNCLEAN and hateful bird.”
Acts 10:14 “But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or UNCLEAN.”
Note: These passages were written long after Calvary and the distinction between clean and unclean still exists. Isa 66:15-17 shows the distinction will exist till the Second Coming.
Does the Bible forbid Alcohol?
The word “wine” in the English Bible is usually translated from the Hebrew “Yayin” and the Greek “Oinos” and can refer to fermented OR unfermented grape juice. Those texts speaking favourably of wine, or using it to symbolize good things, refer to UNFERMENTED wine (grape juice). Those texts condemning wine, or using it to symbolize evil, refer to fermented intoxicating wine.
Prov 20:1 “Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
Prov 23:31-32 “Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”
Christ’s pure truth is represented by the pure uncorrupted juice of the grape. Corrupted teachings are represented by fermented grape juice:
Rev 17:2 “With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made DRUNK with the WINE of her fornication.”
See study on Alcohol and the Christian above.
Does the Bible condemn Tobacco?
1Cor 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
What else should Christians avoid?
Caffeine is one of the world’s most widely used addictive mind-altering drugs.
Caffeine:
Increases the risk of developing many cancers. Increases the risk of miscarriages.
Increases blood pressure and the risk of heart attack.
Increases calcium loss leading to osteoporosis.
One cup of tea or coffee reduces iron absorption by 39-72%. Am. J of Clinical Nutr 37:416-420, 1983.
We should not harm our body temples (1Cor 6:19) by using Caffeine products.
What solemn reminder is given to those who ignore God’s Health Rules?
Gal 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
What fearful and shocking truth about health involves our children?
Deut 12:25 “ Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD.”
Exo 20:5 “...visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me.”
What more fearful, sobering fact does the Word of God reveal?
Rev 21:27 “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
Eze 11:21 “But [as for them] whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.”
What should every sincere Christian do at once?
2Cor 7:1 “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
1John 3:3 “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”
John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
Can I really give up these bad health habits I have?
John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:”
Php 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
What thrilling promises are given about God’s new Kingdom?
Isa 33:24 “And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.”
Rev 21:4 “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Since Health is truly a part of Christian living, are you willing to follow God’s Health rules?
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