Food is anything we put in our mouth which we eat or drink. The key word here is “anything”. Is this true? Yes and No. Nowadays people eat anything as long as it does not poison them and kill them. The more “exotic” it is, the more it is sought after. But are all these stuffs really meant to be consumed by us? The answer is not all are to be consumed. They are created by the Almighty Creator (His Name is Yahweh, He is my Almighty Creator and heavenly Father) for different purposes. Take for example animals such as pigs, bears, vultures and raptors can eat (and thrive) on decaying flesh. When it comes to sea creatures, bottom dwellers such as lobsters and crabs scavenge for dead animals on the sea floor. Shellfish such as oysters, clams and mussels similarly consume decaying organic matter that sinks to the sea floor, including sewage. Consuming such by overtime will sicken or even kill us. When we eat such animals we partake of a food chain that includes things harmful to people. That is why Doctors advice their patients who have high cholesterol, heart diseases etc to avoid eating shellfish, prawns, lobster and pork etc. Now long before Doctors come to this knowledge, the Almighty Creator has already told us through His word (Leviticus 11). It is Him who separate and make the distinction for living creatures which are unclean (not consumable) and things which are clean (consumable) for us. As we already read that clinically it is not good for our health. But further understanding than that is because the Almighty Creator is holy or set-apart from anything “unclean”. Hence we who are His children are to be set-apart as He is set-apart. We are not to contaminate our body.
As nutritionist David Meinz observes: “Could it be that God, in His wisdom, created certain creatures whose sole purpose is to clean up after the others? Their entire ‘calling’ may be to act exclusively as the sanitation workers of our ecology. God may simply be telling us that it’s better for us believers not to consume the meat of these trash collectors” (Eating by the Book, 1999, p.225)
As for me, I keep the Father’s command to only consume what is clean as per His standard.
Apart for the clean animals/ sea creatures/ birds/ insects (Leviticus 11), I also don’t eat unlawful herb/ plant which don’t bare the characteristic which the Father told us.
Gen 1:29 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.
Gen 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
I cannot explain any clearer than the following which is taken from http://reactor-core.org/food-laws.html
Not every “herb” bears seed, and not every tree bears fruit. That rules out some plants as possible food sources. If the green, photosynthesizing herb was given to us, why do we assume that the non-green, non-seed-bearing, non-photosynthesizing herbs were given to us? Since every moving thing was given to us as the green herb was, we know the flesh of moving things is also given to us with restrictions. The restrictions on eating flesh are more commonly known, so let’s start by examining the situation with herbs.
The unlawful herb most likely to be part of your diet is mushrooms. Mushrooms are fungi, spore-spreading scavengers of the plant world. All forms of fungus are unlawful to eat as food because they don’t meet the criteria of “bearing seed”. What is more, they are not “green”; they don’t photosynthesize. They live like vampires off the corpses of dead plants and animals, instead of getting their nutrients from the soil. Only experts can tell which are safe and which are not, and even the experts are fooled sometimes, and die early deaths from gruesome poisonings.
The other unlawful plants are never eaten in the West: ferns, lichens, molds, and mosses. Inuit and Japanese people are known to eat “rock tripe”, which is a lichen. Ferns, lichens, molds, and mosses have little nutritional value for humans, and can be quite dangerous to eat.
All forms of seaweed are unlawful on the basis that they are not “herbs of the field”. There are no fields underwater. Also, all the commonly eaten seaweeds like dulse (carrageenan), kelp, and rockweed are unlawful on the grounds that they are forms of algae. Algae does not bear seed.
Many kinds of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese food include seaweed, especially sushi snacks. Sashimi, which is just slices of raw fish, has no seaweed, and is lawful to eat.
Many desserts include carrageenan because of it’s good binding and gelatin-making properties. Jello, pudding and cake with pudding layers often have carrageenan and when they do, should not be eaten. Gelatin made of animal cartilage often includes pork, even when it has a kosher label. Gelatin products made with locust bean gum are lawful. Locust bean is also known as “carob”.
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The conclusion is; those which are categorized as unclean, have never been classified as “food”. Our Creator the Almighty knows what is best for us.
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