To Eat or Not To Eat
Posted under: Finally Jim Staley put this wonderful audio teaching on video. It starts off a bit slow but eventually he gets into the scripture and science of the 21st century American diet. Could the Father write instructions for His people only to change them later? I thought we served a God that did not change.
Enjoy the Video.
To Eat or Not To Eat (Part 1) – “Does God care about what we eat?”
To Eat or Not To Eat (Part 2) – “Does God care about what we eat?”
This was so good. Gen 7:2 “Take with you seven pairs of clean animals…” (note not 2, that was for unclean animals). I like that Jim ponders the question, “How did Noah know which animals were clean when the law wasn’t given till 1000 years later.”
He also brings out how the absurdity of it flip-flopping from unclean animals going from unclean in the Garden- to clean for Noah- back to unclean at Sinai- back to clean after Yeshua- back to unclean in the millennium. It makes no sense and the reason it makes no sense is because Yahweh never declared unclean animals clean. Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.” Nay-sayers can nay-say all they want, but if God declared unclean animals suddenly clean then you are fully admitting that God changes his mind which he expressly says he does not do.
I agree. Its so silly that we think He jsut changes His mind over and over. But ercently I had someone point out something to me that brought a questino to mind. When He first talks about things to eat in Bereshit, He doesnt mention meat….only vegetation……and this is something I wonder about. If meat eating came at a later time, and if so, why…? Any thoughts?
My personal opinion is this: At first the earth had a canopy surrounding it. This is mentioned in many scriptures. (Do a word search on canopy/sukkah/pavillion in the Bible.) This canopy provided increased oxygen and atmospheric pressures that allowed plant life to be much more vibrant and healthy than it is today. Scientist have proven in air bubbles trapped in amber deposits that there is a 35% higher oxygen content.
Today if you grow plants with in an a controlled environment with increased atmospheric pressure and increased CO2 levels in soil with increased oxygen levels, the plants simply grow HUGE and more abundant.
Soooo, my guess is that plant life at that time provided all of the nutrients we needed for our bodies because of the makeup of the atmosphere and soil composition. The flood changed all that. Plants today don’t have near the benefits of plants pre-flood. After the flood, the eating of certain meats was allowed to make up for this deficiency. Scripture just says that Noah was told that he could eat the flesh of animals but it doesn’t say why. Science I believe is just now figuring this out.
There is a really good video from Kent Hovind called Garden of Eden on youtube about all this. If you google “Kent Hovind Garden of Eden” it will come up.