>>>God provided grain as well, and is an advocate for bread, which I doubt very much was made with refined white flour.>>>
We see throughout scripture, God’s original diet was the best. This text is in the garden of Eden, no meat because there was no death. Fruits, grains, nuts, vegetables. Then we see God calling Isreal out of Egypt after they had been in Egypt for 400 years. And what does God supply them with? Manna from heaven......no meat. They ended up complaining because they didn’t have meat. They longed for the “fleshpots” of Egypt.
So God is angry and gives them so much meat, quail, it comes out of their nostrils.
Daniel Chapter 1. Daniel and his 3 hebrew friends reject the King’s rich food and challenge them. They will eat no meat, only the food God intended and drink no wine. After 10 days, they are healthier, wiser and even better looking!
We were never designed to eat meat. How utterly ridiculous. Meat is the result of sin, because death is the result of sin. God gave Noah permission to eat flesh food because vegetation was all dead after the flood. This is the first itme we see God giving man permission to eat meat.
Jesus ate fish because Jesus finds us where we are. Thousands of years had passed and yes eating meat, clean meat is not a sin. But if you want colon cancer, be my guest. I want to go to heaven first class, not coach.
Our body’s needs changed with the Fall.
There are nutrients our bodies need that only meat provides. God’s telling men to eat meat was not necessarily a condescension. That’s pure speculation that that is why God *allowed* people to eat meat.
If a meat free diet works for you, have at it.
I will die when God deems my time is up and not before, whether I eat meat or not. I’ve survived stuff that has convinced me that if God wants you alive, then you will be, no matter what the medical community tries to do to you.
“We see throughout scripture, God’s original diet was the best.”
Definitely not THROUGHOUT Scripture. References to Garden Of Eden and Daniel are O.T.
In the N.T., meat is fine, and Timothy goes so far as to say that telling others to abstain from meat is from Satan — a “doctrine of devils”.
1 Timothy 4:
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.