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Ian 155:
Going through Dr.Steger video - this is quiet a challenge I mean its worse than PT course , I was sitting this morning after watching it last night feeling totally guilty, this body being Gods Temple and all - Me have to have coffee,meat and very little water in fact if i can help it non at all ... and that small voice spoke to me in a quiet time this morning and the words kill eat came to me...

I recall Peter being shown a scroll in a vision 3 times the command came to him

I enlisted Googles services which took me to Acts ch 10

Act 10:15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common

Act 10:16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.

Was he talking about food or was he talking about the upcoming meeting with Cornelias.[Gentile]

The scroll clearly depicts all types of animals including reptiles - this is for our consumption and has been "cleansed"

Weird, I knew a chap - total health nut no pun intended, always eating salad,fruit,veg and white meats very healthy until one day as he was leaving a sushi bar

was run over by a car ....

Ian

arion:
There is a difference I believe in what is permissible and what is good for you when it comes to foods.  That there is no spiritual prohibition of any foods to eat is not deniable.  All are permissible for the believer.  Now then, what is good for you is a different story.  They had whole, natural foods back in those days.  Today the heavily refined and processed 'foods' are common and the whole natural foods are more uncommon.

Take Ray for example.  That God has all things under his control and that Ray went down the path that God had set for him is not to be argued.  But, I'm sure that if Ray had the knowledge that he gained after his cancer from Dr. Steger and others that he would of changed some of his lifestyle and diet before he had the cancer.  We can learn from Ray's experience as well as others.

I've read Dr. Steger's book and learned a lot and have put many of his suggestions into practice.  What will be will be and we can't change it.  But because I don't know what will be I do everything within my power to take care of myself including denying myself of some of the bad habits that I picked up when I was younger.  The results are up to God but I'm going to do the best that I can to take care of myself along the journey.  Folks that want to eat like pigs [nothing implied with that comment] also have to be willing to pay the price that may come due as they get older. 

Kat:

Hi Ian,

Dr. Steger had a lot of good info on how to live a more healthy lifestyle, but let's face it the man carried it way to the extreme. I would say it would be good to learn a bit from what he says and try to impliment a few of the things he says, but anything should be done in moderation. If we are not careful any physical thing could become an idol of the heart, like trying to eat only clean/healthy foods.

What is an idol of the heart... well what is an idol - an object of passionate devotion. So there should be nothing, besides God, that in our heart we have a passionate devotion for... and why is that?

Mar 4:19  and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Now the Scripture in Acts 10 where Peter saw the sheet come down with all the animals in it, well Scriptures have many layers of meaning. Physically, yes it speaks of all animals being clean.

1Co 10:25  Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience' sake;
v. 26  for "the earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness."
v. 27  If any of those who do not believe invites you to dinner, and you desire to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

Mat 15:11  Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.

But spiritual speaking Acts 10 does speak of the Gentiles as well.

Acts 14:27  Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Hope that helps.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Extol:
I started a healthier diet about ten years ago. At that time, there were four main changes: I stopped eating fast food, stopped drinking soda, stopped drinking milk, and stopped using medicine. Since then, I've gradually implemented more and more changes as I seek to live a healthy lifestyle.

Before I came to BT, when people would ask me why I eat the way I do, I would respond (in what was probably a boastful and condescending voice), "I want to still be running when I'm 100" or "I want to play my grandkids in tennis." Though I consider my diet to be much better now than it was then, my attitude has undergone a change as big as my change in diet.

I hope that by eating the way I do, I can live a long healthy life and stave off disease. But I'm very aware that if that happens, it is because God has ordained it to be that way, and the diet was merely the means by which God accomplished it. In a daily battle against my pride, I must remind myself THY WILL BE DONE. As Job said, God "has decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer." (Job 14:5, New Living Translation) Maybe God has decided the length of my life to be 110 years, aided by decades of fresh vegetables and fruits. He may also have decided for me to get run over by a car this weekend after leaving a sushi bar.  8)

Extol:
Oh, and contrary to popular opinion, I do NOT think junk food tastes better than healthy food.  My wife likes to joke with friends that my diet is "sugar-free, salt-free, gluten-free, TASTE-FREE." But this is not so! Almost everything I eat is very good. (Granted, this may be in part because I'm used to eating this way.) If there was some great revelation tomorrow that food has no effect on our health, I still wouldn't want to go back to eating the way I used to. I'd still rather eat my homemade spelt crust pizza than go to Pizza Hut, and I'd still rather have an almond butter sandwich than a double cheeseburger.  :D

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