Bad Food
3/28/07 - 4th Day - After Breakfast. We're drying up from the recent rains, but more is expected starting tomorrow and for the next few days. The Ante's had a pretty catastrophic flooding of their root cellar (since it had not been sealed and the roof was not on yet, which caused quite a bit of damage. The rain has been great for the land and for the crops, and the ponds are either full or holding some water, but there can be damage when you are first building on fresh land and you get so much water.
I have been interested lately in the huge lies that we have been told our whole lives about food. The average "amerikan" has one of the poorest and most poisonous diets in the world. Did you know that white flour and white sugar are poisonous to your system, and that a single soda has almost 16 teaspoons of sugar in it? The food people are trained to eat is killing them, robbing them of their strength and vitality - and giving them a far lower standard of living than they would otherwise have; this not even considering the cancers, heart disease, etc. that is caused by the western diet.
Strangely appropriate considering that the Bible considers proper doctrine and teaching to be "food" (See John 21, and where Christ calls the Gospel "bread"). The true teachers, prophets, etc. are commanded to feed the sheep, but what are the people being fed? Mostly lies, bad doctrine and poisonous myths. I am reading a "Bible-based" health book now that has some pretty good conclusions, though they are based on horrible reasoning, logical fallacies, bad presuppositions, and scriptural gymnastics. I don't know how many times I get emailed valid questions from people who are confused because they have been reading crap from false teachers with horrible doctrine...
Garbage in, Garbage out.
The parallels between real and spiritual food are very interesting and enlightening. Spend some time praying about it - and as you clean up your spiritual diet, you might want to focus on the junk you are eating in the temporal world as well.
Michael
I have been interested lately in the huge lies that we have been told our whole lives about food. The average "amerikan" has one of the poorest and most poisonous diets in the world. Did you know that white flour and white sugar are poisonous to your system, and that a single soda has almost 16 teaspoons of sugar in it? The food people are trained to eat is killing them, robbing them of their strength and vitality - and giving them a far lower standard of living than they would otherwise have; this not even considering the cancers, heart disease, etc. that is caused by the western diet.
Strangely appropriate considering that the Bible considers proper doctrine and teaching to be "food" (See John 21, and where Christ calls the Gospel "bread"). The true teachers, prophets, etc. are commanded to feed the sheep, but what are the people being fed? Mostly lies, bad doctrine and poisonous myths. I am reading a "Bible-based" health book now that has some pretty good conclusions, though they are based on horrible reasoning, logical fallacies, bad presuppositions, and scriptural gymnastics. I don't know how many times I get emailed valid questions from people who are confused because they have been reading crap from false teachers with horrible doctrine...
Garbage in, Garbage out.
The parallels between real and spiritual food are very interesting and enlightening. Spend some time praying about it - and as you clean up your spiritual diet, you might want to focus on the junk you are eating in the temporal world as well.
Michael
posted by Michael Bunker at 3/28/2007 09:00:00 AM
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