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Gods laws of health and nutrition - where in Scipture?
AK4:
Hey Steve,
Thanks. After reading chapter 10 though i can see how this epistle doesnt fully harmonize with the rest of scripture.
Anthony
ciy:
Anthony,
Chapter 10 of Barnabas is not scripture.
CIY
AK4:
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Chapter 10 of Barnabas is not scripture.
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Oh i know i was just reponding to what i had put in my post earlier
--- Quote ---I got this from the book of Barnabas (ch 10). I know its extra biblical, but what i read from this book so far makes me wonder why it didnt make it in canon. I got this from the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the earliest credible sources for the NT scriptures. This excerpt is very interesting with thread.
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Phill B:
Thanks kindly for everyone who took the time to post on this topic.
As I am relatively new to Bible studies I was surprised by how little scriptural information there is in the Bible(s) about Gods eating plan for his family. I have a hightened interest in this issue firstly because I have suffered from overweight/health problems most my life, and further when Rays doctor mentioned Ray had violated Gods laws about eating – my ears plucked up. Just prior to Rays recent grim cancer prognosis, I had been listening to Rays audios and realised that some of his health problems were common to me also …sleep apnea, high blood pressure…etc. I had come to believe my problems were mainly due to an extremely poor diet including eating too much cooked (dead) food. Rays illness has given me a timely wakeup call to get my health plan in order (again).
And could it be that Dr Steger knows something of Gods divine diet that the Bible does not reveal?
Undertaking some further research, I now get the feeling eating meat was perhaps not in Gods original plan for man, so, in addition to some other food changes and eating habits, I have decided to eliminate all meat from my diet. This is a big deal as I have eaten meat all my life. I will monitor how this new eating plan affects my health. If I don’t see or feel any significant improvement I guess I’ll be back to McDonalds for breakfast pretty fast!
I appreciate that depending on ones perspective you can pull up different scriptures and teachings to either support or oppose a view or belief. Below are several scriptures along with other information that I have found interesting and motivation to support my new eating regime.
Genesis 1:29 (King James Version)
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…
Exodus 20:13 (King James Version)
Thou shalt not kill.
The exact Hebrew wording of this biblical phrase is lo tirtzack. One of the greatest scholars of Hebrew/English linguistics (in the Twentieth Century) -Dr. Reuben Alcalay - has written in his mammoth book the Complete Hebrew /English Dictionary that "tirtzach" refers to "any kind of killing whatsoever." The word "lo," as you might suspect, means "thou shalt not."
Many Bible scholars persist with the theory that Christ ate animal flesh, obviously swayed in their opinions by personal habits. The desire to accede to prejudice and uphold existing tradition has been a human characteristic for many centuries, but truth appears now even more important as man exerts his independence in so many aspects of life.
Respected Bible scholar Rev. V.A. Holmes-Gore has researched the frequent use of the word "meat" in the New Testament Gospels. He traced its meaning to the original Greek.
His findings were first published in World Forum of Autumn, 1947. He reveals that the nineteen Gospel references to "meat" should have been more accurately translated thus:
Greek word, number of references and actual meaning.
· Broma 4 "Food"
· Brosis 4 "The act of eating"
· Phago 3 "to eat"
· Brosimos 1 "That which is eaten"
· Trophe 6 "Nourishment"
· Prosphagon 1 "Anything to eat"
Thus, the Authorized Version of John 21:5, .'Have ye any meat?" is incorrect. It should have been translated: "Have ye anything to eat?"
"Fish" is another frequently mistranslated word in the Bible. Its reference is often not to the form of swimming life, but to the symbol by which early Christians could identify each other. It was a secret sign, needed in times of persecution, prior to official acceptance of Christianity as a state religion.
The sign of the fish was a mystical symbol and conversational password. Its name deriving from the Greek word for fish, "ichthus" Much later it was represented an acrostic, composed of leading letters of the Greek phrase, "Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter"-"Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour."
Frequent references to fish are intended as symbolic of The Christ and have nothing to do with the act of eating a dead fish. But the symbol of the fish did not meet with Roman approval. They preferred the sign of the cross, choosing to concentrate more on the death of Christ than on His brilliant life. Perhaps this is one reason only ten percent of His life record appears in the canonical scriptures. Most of His first thirty years has been omitted.
Various "Translations" of the 6th Commandment
'Thou shalt not kill any living thing,' for life is given to all by God, and that which God has given, let not man taketh it away. ~Jesus, Gospel of the Holy Twelve, (earliest known recorded words of Jesus)
Daniel 1:11-15 (King James Version)
Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us PULSE (vegetables) to eat, and water to drink.
Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
Matthew 3:4 (King James Version)
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Gospel of the Holy Twelve
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a girdle of the same about his loins, and his meat was fruit of the locust tree and wild honey.
Isaiah 7:14-15
Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Acts 11:6-8 (King James Version)
Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
OBrenda:
Phillb
I've been struggling also with peace of mind for a food plan. I'm a sever "Carbohydrate Junkie" if I eat it I am constantly hungry all day long every minute! I have mostly tried to stick to low-carb Atkins's diet, but I was told that this causes the body to become acidic, which as we know from Rays situation is a breading ground for cancer.
I wonder how one finds out if their bodies are acidic, and how one can reverse this?
Confussed,
Brenda
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