| God's Written Word. | | | | eating pork as a religious tenant. Some religious |
| The holy bible is full of scriptures that teach us God | | | | leaders even take it to the point of teaching people |
| wants us to eat a healthy diet according to his word. | | | | will lose their relationship with God for doing so. This |
| The most important scripture in my opinion is Genesis | | | | is not God's intention. He wanted us to be healthy. He |
| 1:29 where God says "Look! I have given you the | | | | even named a long list of foods not to eat, yet |
| seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the | | | | many only focus on pork. If we really wanted to |
| fruit trees for your food." This means to me that as | | | | follow God's Word as a law, we should follow his |
| God created the earth and the air, water, plants and | | | | original law, Genesis 1:29 and all be vegetarians. |
| animals; he created the best for us. He told us that | | | | The Daniel Diet. |
| we should eat fruit, vegetables and that which grows | | | | Even Daniel followed a vegetarian diet and proved |
| from the ground as our food. Throughout time we | | | | that we would be stronger and healthier by eating |
| have rejected God and his plan for our lives and we | | | | fresh fruit and vegetables instead of the finest |
| as people have decided our way is better than his | | | | meats. But to bring it to modern times we need to |
| way. So we eat whatever we want. | | | | understand what the New Testament teaches on |
| Levitical Diet. | | | | eating a healthy diet. Peter, Paul, and Jesus all taught |
| Then God called man in relationship with himself | | | | that it is not what you ate the made you unclean. |
| through Abraham and his descendants. As a result of | | | | This means our salvation isn't dependent on what we |
| disobedience, they went into captivity and God called | | | | eat. In the New Testament we are taught that we |
| Moses to be his chosen instrument of redemption | | | | can eat whatever we want. But that does not make |
| and freedom for his chosen people. In that role God | | | | whatever we eat healthy. Jesus said he did not come |
| spoke directly to Moses (often face to face) and | | | | to change any part of the law and that he was not |
| gave Moses laws. These laws were to protect man | | | | contradicting anything that God had given us in the |
| from himself. The law was not to be taken as a new | | | | Old Testament. You see God did not change, nor did |
| religion but to guide man in doing the best for himself. | | | | his word. Man is like grass and flowers that pass |
| For no one can be saved by the law. The law was | | | | away at the end of their season, but the Word of |
| only to keep order. Unfortunately, many times | | | | God is eternal and its truth never changes. |
| religious leaders have taken the law and began to | | | | Healthy Diet. |
| serve it, instead of God. In the Levitical Laws on | | | | As a christian who studies the word I have realized |
| what to eat and what not to eat, most only people | | | | that God made us to be vegetarians. As we are |
| have focused on pork. | | | | obedient in following God's Word the healthier we will |
| Yes pork is not good for us. We aren't made to | | | | be. Follow God's Word. Eat a healthy Diet. Be |
| consume pork. God did not intend us to be in slaves | | | | obedient to God and he will bless you with health and |
| to a law, but to be healthy. Christianity, Judism, and | | | | long life. Try him at his word. Have faith in him and his |
| Islamic religions, among others, have all denounced | | | | word. See for yourself. |