Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of irresponsible authors – most of them Christian in orientation – talking about Biblical diets and how G-dly living can produce healthful results. I’m going to step on a lot of toes saying this, but: hogwash!
Biblical principles are not some divine substitution that was laying around until mankind could invent diet pills and the diet patch to help you lose weight, nor is it some secret formula to a longer, healthier life. If that were true, Orthodox Jews from the time of Yeshua would still be around to offer us eyewitness testimony to his messiahship.
Fasting is not a way to lose weight, either, nor is it what fasting was about. With our fast food culture, it might be hard for many to get their brains wrapped around this, but 2,000 years ago, making two or three meals a day was a completely “from scratch” affair and what fasting was about was allowing folks to free up the time they spent making meals, eating them and cleaning up afterward, so they could all spend more time in prayer.
It’s about your spiritual health, not your physical health, people. Time to stop defining G-d’s Word by your own time and culture and start learning what he REALLY means.
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