What Did God Tell Us We Should Eat?

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By Hallelujah Diet BloggerMar 8, 20150 comments

Laying the Foundation

I am a Christian! I became a Christian on May 29, 1957, almost 60 years ago.
I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God! (II Tim. 3:16)
I have been studying the Bible for almost 60 years. (II Tim. 2:15)
I spent 4 years in school, intensely studying the Bible, in preparation for the ministry.
I was a Bible-believing preacher who pastored for almost 20 years!
I have prepared and delivered some 5,000 biblically-based messages from the pulpit.
I have written and published five books: “Why Christians Get Sick”; “God’s Way to Ultimate Health”; “A Message of Hope and Healing”; “The Hallelujah Diet” and “God’s Original Diet”.
When it comes to the Scriptures, I do not consider myself a novice!

Okay, let’s get started, and let’s start “in the beginning”: “In The Beginning, God Created” (Genesis 1:1) These are the first 5 words of the Bible: “In the beginning God created . . .” In that very first chapter of the very first book in the Bible – in the book of Genesis, we find the account of what God created, and how He created it on each of the six days of creation:

Separation of dry land and water on the first two days of creation
Plant life on day three
The sun, moon, and stars on day four
Most animals were created on day five
…and then on day six, God created man.

I believe that these were six literal 24-hour days, as the Bible states following each day of creation: “And the evening and the morning were the first … second … third … fourth … fifth … sixth day” And as for what God used to create all things, the Scriptures says in each instance: “And God said . . . ” In other words, God spoke, and out of nothing, God created. Though I cannot comprehend with my finite mind how God could create something out of nothing, I believe He did it by – faith! Let me say here before we go any farther that believing in the evolutionary teaching that everything came from dead mineral matter that collided eons ago also requires faith! In fact, it requires greater faith to believe that dead mineral matter (of which they cannot explain the origin) just collided one day with a “big bang”, and ultimately life appeared, and ultimately you and me. Any rational or truly intelligent mind must realize that dead mineral matter cannot produce life! Only life begets life (the life of Jesus – see John 1:1-3, 14). No matter how much time those dead minerals have to work with, can dead minerals produce life? No! Only God can produce life! And so I find it very refreshing to read such verses in the Bible as Hebrews 11:3… “Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” Or John 1:1… “All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” Here’s a great verse in Colossians 1:16-17… “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible . . . all things were created by him, and for him. And he is before all things, and by him, all things consist.” Have you ever wondered why God did not create man on day one? The obvious answer is he had to prepare a place for man and his other animal creations to live and food for them to eat so that animal and human life could be sustained. Thus God used the first four days of creation preparing a place for His animal and human creations to live and food in order that their lives be sustained. God Creates Man and Puts Him In A Garden “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward of Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. . .” ~ Genesis 2:7-9a “And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” ~ Genesis 2:15-17

Human life began in a garden!

God took dirt and clay (“dust of the ground” vs 7), fashioned it into a man, and then breathed into that lifeless form, “the breath of life, and man became a living soul” (vs 7). Then God took His first human creation, whom He called Adam, and placed him in a garden, and told him he could eat everything in the garden except “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil . . .”

God Has Compassion On Adam

The next thing we learn from the Scriptures is that God had compassion upon Adam because he was all alone: “And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him a help meet for him. . . and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” ~ Genesis 2:18, 21-22 Wow, what a perfect beginning mankind had. Here were the first man and the first woman, God brings them together in marriage (Genesis 2:24), and provides them with a gorgeous garden in which to live. Talk about heaven on earth!

God Tells Man What He Should Eat

“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 food.” ~ Genesis 1:29 After God had created Adam, and before He created Eve, God gave Adam the diet that He God had designed the human physical body to be nourished with. Yes, here in Genesis 1:29, we find the instructions God the Creator gave Adam, his first human creation when it came to what foods he should eat to sustain the physical life and body God had created.

And what did God the Creator instruct man concerning what he should eat?

Putting what God says here in Genesis 1:29 into current English usage, it would read: “raw fruits and vegetables, seeds, and nuts, to you, it shall be for food!” Obviously, if God instructed His human creation to consume a pure, raw, 100% plant-based, vegan diet, free of all animal source foods immediately after the creation of that first man – that had to be the food God designed the human physical body to be nourished with and sustained by for all time. If God the Creator, told that first human creation that he was to eat only the raw fruits and vegetables, seeds and nuts found in the garden God had created prior to man’s arrival, God must have known what He was doing! Thus, this Genesis 1:29 diet has got to be God’s perfect plan and will for the nourishment of the human physical body He (God) created, not just for that garden experience of Adam and Eve, but for the rest of man’s physical existence on planet earth! It is very important to note that God did not tell man to eat each other, nor did God give man permission to eat the flesh of the other animals He had created. In fact, as we will see further along in this series, it was not until some 1,700 years after God had given mankind this 100% plant-based (vegan) diet in Genesis 1:29, that God allowed man to consume, for the very first time, the flesh of an animal.

Man Not Created To Eat Animal Flesh

God did not design us like He did carnivorous (meat-eating) animals, which have the ability to rip and tear the flesh of live a nimals and swallow huge chunks of raw flesh, still dripping with blood. In fact, we find that repulsive, don’t we? Carnivorous animals were designed by God to rip open the flesh of live animals with knife-like claws and razor-sharp teeth. Carnivorous animals were given very short digestive tracts and very high concentrations of hydrochloric acid to break down and move quickly that flesh through a short digestive system before it was putrefied.

Trouble In Paradise

“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made, and he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” ~ Genesis 3:1 Oh my, Adam and Eve were still on their honeymoon when a problem arose! And what was that problem? Why it was concerning what man should eat and what man should not eat. The future articles in this series are going to be very interesting, BUT . . . . We are going to save that for our next installment in our series titled “What Did God Tell Us We Should Eat.” To be continued . . . Next week, the good Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high we will return with another exciting issue of the Hallelujah Health Tip. Trust you will join us and that you will share these Health Tips with friends and loved ones.