What's for Dinner?
Is there a diet that will make you healthier and feel better?
What's for Dinner?
That can be a loaded question. The person doing the cooking might not want to answer if they are not sure about the tastes and opinions of the person asking. The person asking might not want to hear the answer if the person doing the cooking does not share their perspective on what is safe and satisfying to eat.
The issue is further clouded by all kinds of cultural issues as well. What might be preferable in one culture may be considered repulsive in another. What one culture considers delicious may be considered too bland in another. What one culture considers normal may be considered too intense in another.
Then there is all of the conflicting advice about what is healthy and what is not.
Some people say that people must eat meat to be healthy but these people rarely agree on what kind of meat is healthy and what is not. When I was in school we were told to eat organ meat (kidneys, livers, and the like) three times a week because those organs were the filters of the body where many nutrients accumulated. However, my kids were told to never eat organ meat because those organs were the filters of the body where many impurities accumulated. Both statements about organ meat were true so how can you decide if organ meat should be consumed regularly or avoided like the plague?
Some people say to not eat any meat but just to consume plant and dairy products if you want to be healthy. Other people say that you must only eat plant products. Even those people have all kinds of disagreements over which plant products are good for people and which ones should never be eaten.
On top of that there is the entire GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) nightmare. What about corn that has had its DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid ) altered by splicing in a pig gene to make it grow faster and larger? Is corn that has been reconstructed from various parts of different organisms like the monster created by Doctor Frankenstein safe to eat? Can such FrankenCorn really be good for anyone?
What's for dinner?
All this makes such a simple question seem too complex to answer. Is there any reliable guide to give an answer that is always safe to eat and satisfying to the eater?
Fortunately, there is. The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells you all that you need to know to answer this question without any hesitation about whether or not you are offering something that is both healthy to eat and that will satisfy the eater.
What's for dinner?
Answering this question begins with realizing that what people eat matters. The very first commandment that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) ever gave to the human race was about what to eat and what not to eat (Genesis 2:16-17). The very first lie that the Father of Lies ever told to a person was about what to eat and what not to eat (Genesis 3:2-5). The very first act of rebellion against the Father of Truth by the human race was eating what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:6-7). The very first time people sought to hide from the presence of the Father of Truth was when they ate what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:8-10). The very first trial of the human race was about eating what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:11-13). The very first judgment ever passed on the human race was because people ate what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:14-19). It was eating what the Father of Truth said not to eat that brought death upon the entire human race (Romans 5:12).
It also matters what people eat because His healthcare plan is based on whether or not people eat only what He says they should eat (Exodus 23:25-26). Although there is a lot more to gaining all of the benefits of His healthcare plan than just eating it still spends a lot of time giving instructions about what people should eat.
What's for dinner?
The best place to begin is that the fact that not everything that people can eat is actually considered to be food in the Book of Truth. Only somethings that people eat are considered to be food (Leviticus 11:2). The Father of Truth spelled out what is food and is filth in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that He gave Moses so that His people could live a life that reflects His holiness (Leviticus 11:45-47). Other things that people eat are considered to be abominable (filthy or disgusting), which is to say that they are filth instead of food (Deuteronomy 14:3).
What's for dinner?
Not everything that walks around on four legs is food. The meat of animals that walk upon the land like cows, sheep, goats, antelope and deer is food (Deuteronomy 14:4-5). These animals have split hooves and rechew their food (have a multi-chamber stomach) (Deuteronomy 14:6). They all are even toed ungulates. The multi-chamber stomach destroys out any bacteria that may be in their diet and the split hooves act as shoes to keep parasites and disease from entering their bodies from the ground.
Odd toed ungulates (like camels) have the multi-chamber stomach but the are lacking the split hooves that keep disease and parasites from entering their bodies from the ground so their meat is filth (Leviticus 11:4). Other animals with multi-chamber stomachs do not even have hooves but rather paws (like rabbits and coneys (similar to a woodchuck or marmot)) so their meat is also filth (Leviticus 11:5-6). In fact the meat of any animal that has paws (like a dog or cat or bear or opossum or raccoon) is filth (Leviticus 11:27).
Even the meat of even toed ungulates that lack a multi-chamber stomach (like pigs) that filters out disease from their food is also filth (Leviticus 11:7). The meat of pigs is especially filthy when one considers that in the wild pigs are omnivores (eat both plants and animals) and scavengers (eat animals that have died from disease). They are basically the hoofed garbage disposals of the land. This is why swine cannot be made fit to eat even if they are only fed grain.
What's for dinner?
Likewise not everything that swims is food. Only those animals that swim or live in the water which have both scales (the Hebrew word implies easily removed scales) and fins are food (Leviticus 11:9). Everything else that people call sea food is really sea filth (Leviticus 11:10-11). Fish that lack easily removable scales (like catfish) are bottom feeders that eat the poop and other filth that is on the bottom of the water they live in. Animals that lack fins (like lobsters, shrimp, oysters and clams) live in that same filth and also eat it. They are the garbage disposals of the waters. So the meat of fish with removable scales (like perch, bass, cod, tilapia) is food (Deuteronomy 14:9). The meat of everything else that comes from the waters is filth (Deuteronomy 14:10).
What's for dinner?
Also not every bird or other flying animal is food (The Hebrew word translated as "fowl" literally means anything that flies with wings). The flying animals whose meat is filth include birds of prey (eagles, hawks, osprey, owls, vultures, etc.), storks, wading birds (the word "cuckow" (cuckoo) here is translated as gull in the Greek translation (Septuagint), and the word "swan" here is translated as "purple legged" in the Greek translation (Septuagint) ("purple legged" is the name for ibises and flamingos among the ancient Greeks)) and bats (Leviticus 11:13-19). These birds are all either scavengers, or wade in the filth that is at the bottom of water while scooping up that the filth at the bottom, while they eat. (Of course, bats are not even birds but are more like flying mice.) They are the flying garbage disposals of the land and waters. The meat of most birds is food (Deuteronomy 14:11). However, the meat of these flying garbage disposals is filth (Deuteronomy 14:12-19). The meat of every bird that is not one of these flying garbage disposals is food (Deuteronomy 14:20).
What's for dinner?
Almost the meat of almost no other animal is food. The meat of almost all animals that crawl around on all fours (most insects only use their back four limbs as legs and feet to crawl but use their front two limbs as arms and hands to grab things) or otherwise crawl along the ground is filth (Leviticus 11:20). The only insects whose meat is food are those with a legs above a foot that lays flat on the earth so they can leap (or hop) (Leviticus 11:21).
These insects are all members of the grasshopper family (called locusts when they swarm) (Leviticus 11:22). (The word "beetle" here is translated as "akrida" in the Greek translation (Septuagint) which is the sword tailed grasshopper.) Grasshoppers are vegetarians that are unique among insects in that they chew their food and have a more developed digestive system that filters out disease. Crickets, while similar in appearance, lack a foot that lays flat on the earth that is used for hopping. Crickets are scavengers (they will even eat other crickets that died) and lack the more developed digestive system to filter out disease. So crickets are not listed along with grasshoppers even though they are similar in appearance. All other insects are either small garbage disposals (like crickets) or they lack the more developed digestive system needed to filter out disease from their food so their meat is filth (Leviticus 11:23).
What's for dinner?
So to recap the meat of even toed ungulates with four chambered stomachs (cows, sheep, goats, deer, antelope, etc.), fish with easily removed scales, birds that are not scavengers or waders, and grasshoppers are food. The meat of every thing else is filth, just like the meat of weasels, mice, tortoises, ferrets, chameleons, lizards, snails, and moles is filth (Leviticus 11:29-30).
The meat of some animals is fit to eat and the meat of other animals is not fit for human consumption. The Maker of the human body calls those animals that are fit for human consumption clean and the Father of Truth calls all other animals unclean. The animals were already being called clean or unclean before the Law of Truth was ever given to Moses (Genesis 7:7-9). The Law of Truth was given so people could discern between what was fit for human consumption and what was not (Leviticus 10:9-11). (The Hebrew word "tame" translated as "unclean" is translated as "akathartos" in the Septuagint (Greek translation) which literally means "uncleanable from pollution".) It is as useless to try to make the meat of an unclean animal into food, as it is to make a rotten apple that was found floating in a sewer fit to put in a pie. The Father of Truth wants His people to not treat both what he calls clean from pollution and what He says is uncleanable from pollution as being food (Leviticus 20:25). The meat of an unclean animal is still filth and there is no way for people to turn filth into food (Job 14:4).
However, there is more to meat than just not eating animals whose meat is filth. Even some parts of animals that are fit to eat are still filth. The organs of the gut cavity are the garbage disposals of the body so they are filth that is to be thrown away instead of being eaten (Leviticus 3:4). Everything in the gut cavity including the organ meat is not fit for human consumption so that it had to be taken away instead of being eaten by the priest when an animal was sacrificed to the Father of Truth (Leviticus 3:14-15). All blood and the fat of the gut cavity is filth (Leviticus 3:17). The fat of the gut cavity of animals that are fit for human consumption, is still filth (Leviticus 7:23). The blood of animals that are fit for human consumption, is still filth (Leviticus 7:26).
This why when people catch a fish they must clean it before eating it. When they clean a fish they are removing the scales to get rid of any outer filth, removing the inner filth in the gut cavity when they gut the fish and cutting it open allows the blood to drain. This why people field dress a deer as soon as they kill it by hanging it upside down, cutting off it head (why the head is the part that gets mounted) to drain the blood, remove the skin to get rid of any outer filth and gutting it to remove all inner filth. Hanging any animal that is fit for human consumption upside down and cutting off its head like when a deer is field dressed gets rid of the blood (Deuteronomy 15:22-23). An animal that is fit for human consumption must be cleaned by separating the parts that are filth from the parts are food before it can be eaten. So the Hebrew words translated as "clean" and "unclean" would be better translated as "cleanable" and "uncleanable" to convey the correct idea.
What's for dinner?
Of course, there is more to a healthy diet than just avoiding eating meat that is filth. People also eat plant products as well. In fact, in the beginning everyone in the human race was a vegetarian (Genesis 1:29). Animals were only slain as sacrifices to God (Genesis 4:4). It was only after the flood, when the world was changed, that people needed to eat meat, so they had to be told to not eat the blood (Genesis 9:3-4).
The seed of the plants must be not be contaminated with water that was made filthy by the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth or it will also be filth along with its produce (Leviticus 11:36-38). The seeds of different varieties must not be planted in the same field to avoid contamination from cross pollination (Leviticus 19:19). So surely mixing the DNA of other organisms like GMO would also make any plant to be filth and not food.
The fruit of fruit trees is not always ready to be eaten. The fruit that a tree produces is not fit to eat until it is harvested in the fifth year that the tree produces fruit (Leviticus 19:23-25). Just as a girl can start having children when she is twelve but is not fully ready to have children until she is twenty so also a fruit tree starts producing fruit early but it is not fully ready to produce fruit that contains full nutrition until the fifth year of fruit production.
Plants must be properly grown to contain the nutrition that the human body needs. This begins with the soil containing the proper nutrients. For this reason the soil must rest every seven years (Leviticus 25:3-5). After seven sets of seven years the land needs one extra year of rest so that it rests eight years out of every fifty years (Leviticus 25:8-11). This need for the land to rest so that it contains the proper nutrients is so important that the Father of Truth told the children of Israel that He would put them out of the land of Israel so it could rest if they did not let it rest (Leviticus 26:33-35). He would not even let them return to the land of Israel after they repented until the land had finished its rest (Leviticus 26:40-43).
For these reasons letting the land rest (being fallow) continued to be practiced in Europe for hundreds of years from when Christianity was introduced until the four crop rotation system was introduced in the 1600's. They had learned by observation that the food of the Jews that was grown on land that had rested was tastier and more nutritious. In some places, like Greece, they did this because they said the Apostles had taught them to do so.
What's for dinner?
Not only must people eat food instead of filth and plant products that have the been raised and harvested correctly to gain the benefits of the healthcare plan of the Father of Truth but the food must also be prepared correctly.
This starts with clean cookware and a clean kitchen. If anything that should not be eaten (like blood) touches metal cookware then it be cleaned by scouring it with hot water (Leviticus 6:28). If the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth touches anything that is made from organic material then that item can be cleaned by washing it and then not using it until the next day (Leviticus 11:32). If the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth or even water that has touched that body comes in contact with cookware that is made of any other material such as ceramic or glass then it must be broken and thrown away (Leviticus 11:33). This is because the filth cannot be removed from these items because they are porous. (That is why if you clean the outside of an aquarium with Windex it will seep into the water and kill the fish.)
Also any food or drink that comes in contact with the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth or is in a vessel that has been so polluted and not cleaned then also becomes filth and must be thrown out (Leviticus 11:34). Even cooking devices that are not made of metal like clay ovens must be destroyed if they come in contact with filth (Leviticus 11:33-35).
Lastly, any dish where an animal is cooked in its own mother's milk is filth (Deuteronomy 14:21).
Note that there is nothing said about eating meat with milk in the same meal except for avoiding the sick practice of the idolaters of the Canaanites to cook a young goat in the milk of its own mother. (I almost threw up the first time I read this.) To say that this means to never eat meat and dairy in the same meal is putting words in the mouth of the Father of Truth that he never said. Who are we to add our rules to His rules? We must never add or take away from what He has said (Deuteronomy 12:32).
It is for this reason that beef and dairy breeds of cattle were developed. If you make hamburger gravy using meat from a beef breed like an Angus and milk that comes from a dairy breed like a Holstein then you can be sure that you are not cooking the meat from the animal in the milk of its own mother. If you want to err on the side of caution then never have eat a meal where the meat and the milk are from the same type of animal. So eat your chicken pizza in confidence that knowing you are not eating a chicken that has been cooked in the milk of its own mother.
What's for dinner?
Of course, one problem with keeping the diet laid out by the Father of Truth is that people do not grow and process all of their own food. That is why Daniel refused to eat what the king of Babylon ate (Daniel 1:8). This is why Daniel and his friends only ate vegetables because fresh vegetables are always food and never filth (Daniel 1:11-13). Because they stuck to the diet given by the Father of Truth they were healthier than those that ate the diet of Babylon (Daniel 1:14-16).
What's for dinner?
Gaining the benefits of His healthcare plan do not end with just eating food and avoiding filth. Self control to not eat too much is also required particularly when it comes to sweets (Proverbs 25:16). That is why people need the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) living in them to help them keep the diet of the Father of Truth (Galatians 5:22-23).
Also it is important to thank the Father of Truth for the food. You should thank Him after you eat and tell Him that you are satisfied with what He has given you (Deuteronomy 8:10). (I started doing this and then realized a month later that I had lost 15lbs without making any other conscious change to my eating. I thought it over and realized that once I had started thanking the Father of Truth after meals I had stopped snacking between meals and eating smaller portions at meals. Thanking Him silenced every lie that said I was hungry when I was not.) You should also thank Him for your food before you eat like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) did (Luke 24:30).
Those that do not keep the diet of the Father of Truth can eat and not be satisfied (Micah 6:14). So if you want to serve something that is always satisfying then stick to His diet. Otherwise you are likely to eat too much because you will find yourself still hungry shortly after you have eaten.
What's for dinner?
This is the diet that Moses kept and is part of the reason that he lived to 120 years of age without any need for eye glasses and died in full strength showing that he received all the benefits of the healthcare plan of the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 34:7).
This is the diet that the Man of Truth kept who obeyed the Law of Truth completely (Matthew 5:17). You can be certain of this because he was without sin (2 Corinthians 5:21). He would have been committing sin if he broke any part of the Law of Truth including the diet of the Father of Truth (James 2:10). Sin is nothing more than transgressing the Law of Truth (1 John 3:4).
This is part of the reason that the Man of Truth died in full strength as promised in the healthcare plan of the Father of Truth (Matthew 27:50).
This is the diet that Peter (Cephas aka Simon aka Simeon) kept (Acts 11:7-8).
He did not die from disease but was killed for the sake of witnessing that the Man of Truth was the Messiah when he was old (John 21:18). He died in an old age after living a life full of health which he used to serve the Man of Truth (2 Peter 1:13-15).
This is the diet that Paul (Shaul aka Saul) kept. He was accused of teaching Jews that followed the Man of Truth to break the Law of Truth (Acts 21:20-21). He was advised to take on a Nazarite vow to show that there was no truth to this accusation (Acts 21:22-24). Paul (Shaul aka Saul) consented because he kept the Law of Truth including the diet of the Father of Truth (Acts 21:26).
He lived to be an old man who still preached the Gospel (Philemon 1:8-10). He still planned on traveling a thousand miles on ship and then walking hundreds of miles when he got out of prison (Philemon 1:22). He did not die from disease either but was killed for the sake of witnessing that the Man of Truth was the Messiah when he was old (2 Timothy 4:5-7).
What's for dinner?
You might be thinking that you do not need to keep the diet of the Father of Truth that is laid out in the Law of Truth to come into the House of Truth and you would be right (Acts 21:25). But why would you not want to gain all of the benefits that come from keeping the diet of the Father of Truth? Is it not better to be healthy than sick? Is it not better to eat and be satisfied than to be feeling like something is still missing even though you are stuffed?
The truth is that it does not matter what you eat unless you also come into the House of Truth. You do not come into the House of Truth by keeping the diet of the Father of Truth because no one comes into the House of Truth by keeping the Law of Truth (Romans 3:19-20). You come into the House of Truth by making the Man of Truth the boss of every area of your life because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).
Come into the House of Truth.
What's for Dinner?
That can be a loaded question. The person doing the cooking might not want to answer if they are not sure about the tastes and opinions of the person asking. The person asking might not want to hear the answer if the person doing the cooking does not share their perspective on what is safe and satisfying to eat.
The issue is further clouded by all kinds of cultural issues as well. What might be preferable in one culture may be considered repulsive in another. What one culture considers delicious may be considered too bland in another. What one culture considers normal may be considered too intense in another.
Then there is all of the conflicting advice about what is healthy and what is not.
Some people say that people must eat meat to be healthy but these people rarely agree on what kind of meat is healthy and what is not. When I was in school we were told to eat organ meat (kidneys, livers, and the like) three times a week because those organs were the filters of the body where many nutrients accumulated. However, my kids were told to never eat organ meat because those organs were the filters of the body where many impurities accumulated. Both statements about organ meat were true so how can you decide if organ meat should be consumed regularly or avoided like the plague?
Some people say to not eat any meat but just to consume plant and dairy products if you want to be healthy. Other people say that you must only eat plant products. Even those people have all kinds of disagreements over which plant products are good for people and which ones should never be eaten.
On top of that there is the entire GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) nightmare. What about corn that has had its DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid ) altered by splicing in a pig gene to make it grow faster and larger? Is corn that has been reconstructed from various parts of different organisms like the monster created by Doctor Frankenstein safe to eat? Can such FrankenCorn really be good for anyone?
What's for dinner?
All this makes such a simple question seem too complex to answer. Is there any reliable guide to give an answer that is always safe to eat and satisfying to the eater?
Fortunately, there is. The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells you all that you need to know to answer this question without any hesitation about whether or not you are offering something that is both healthy to eat and that will satisfy the eater.
What's for dinner?
Answering this question begins with realizing that what people eat matters. The very first commandment that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) ever gave to the human race was about what to eat and what not to eat (Genesis 2:16-17). The very first lie that the Father of Lies ever told to a person was about what to eat and what not to eat (Genesis 3:2-5). The very first act of rebellion against the Father of Truth by the human race was eating what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:6-7). The very first time people sought to hide from the presence of the Father of Truth was when they ate what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:8-10). The very first trial of the human race was about eating what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:11-13). The very first judgment ever passed on the human race was because people ate what He said not to eat (Genesis 3:14-19). It was eating what the Father of Truth said not to eat that brought death upon the entire human race (Romans 5:12).
It also matters what people eat because His healthcare plan is based on whether or not people eat only what He says they should eat (Exodus 23:25-26). Although there is a lot more to gaining all of the benefits of His healthcare plan than just eating it still spends a lot of time giving instructions about what people should eat.
What's for dinner?
The best place to begin is that the fact that not everything that people can eat is actually considered to be food in the Book of Truth. Only somethings that people eat are considered to be food (Leviticus 11:2). The Father of Truth spelled out what is food and is filth in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that He gave Moses so that His people could live a life that reflects His holiness (Leviticus 11:45-47). Other things that people eat are considered to be abominable (filthy or disgusting), which is to say that they are filth instead of food (Deuteronomy 14:3).
What's for dinner?
Not everything that walks around on four legs is food. The meat of animals that walk upon the land like cows, sheep, goats, antelope and deer is food (Deuteronomy 14:4-5). These animals have split hooves and rechew their food (have a multi-chamber stomach) (Deuteronomy 14:6). They all are even toed ungulates. The multi-chamber stomach destroys out any bacteria that may be in their diet and the split hooves act as shoes to keep parasites and disease from entering their bodies from the ground.
Odd toed ungulates (like camels) have the multi-chamber stomach but the are lacking the split hooves that keep disease and parasites from entering their bodies from the ground so their meat is filth (Leviticus 11:4). Other animals with multi-chamber stomachs do not even have hooves but rather paws (like rabbits and coneys (similar to a woodchuck or marmot)) so their meat is also filth (Leviticus 11:5-6). In fact the meat of any animal that has paws (like a dog or cat or bear or opossum or raccoon) is filth (Leviticus 11:27).
Even the meat of even toed ungulates that lack a multi-chamber stomach (like pigs) that filters out disease from their food is also filth (Leviticus 11:7). The meat of pigs is especially filthy when one considers that in the wild pigs are omnivores (eat both plants and animals) and scavengers (eat animals that have died from disease). They are basically the hoofed garbage disposals of the land. This is why swine cannot be made fit to eat even if they are only fed grain.
What's for dinner?
Likewise not everything that swims is food. Only those animals that swim or live in the water which have both scales (the Hebrew word implies easily removed scales) and fins are food (Leviticus 11:9). Everything else that people call sea food is really sea filth (Leviticus 11:10-11). Fish that lack easily removable scales (like catfish) are bottom feeders that eat the poop and other filth that is on the bottom of the water they live in. Animals that lack fins (like lobsters, shrimp, oysters and clams) live in that same filth and also eat it. They are the garbage disposals of the waters. So the meat of fish with removable scales (like perch, bass, cod, tilapia) is food (Deuteronomy 14:9). The meat of everything else that comes from the waters is filth (Deuteronomy 14:10).
What's for dinner?
Also not every bird or other flying animal is food (The Hebrew word translated as "fowl" literally means anything that flies with wings). The flying animals whose meat is filth include birds of prey (eagles, hawks, osprey, owls, vultures, etc.), storks, wading birds (the word "cuckow" (cuckoo) here is translated as gull in the Greek translation (Septuagint), and the word "swan" here is translated as "purple legged" in the Greek translation (Septuagint) ("purple legged" is the name for ibises and flamingos among the ancient Greeks)) and bats (Leviticus 11:13-19). These birds are all either scavengers, or wade in the filth that is at the bottom of water while scooping up that the filth at the bottom, while they eat. (Of course, bats are not even birds but are more like flying mice.) They are the flying garbage disposals of the land and waters. The meat of most birds is food (Deuteronomy 14:11). However, the meat of these flying garbage disposals is filth (Deuteronomy 14:12-19). The meat of every bird that is not one of these flying garbage disposals is food (Deuteronomy 14:20).
What's for dinner?
Almost the meat of almost no other animal is food. The meat of almost all animals that crawl around on all fours (most insects only use their back four limbs as legs and feet to crawl but use their front two limbs as arms and hands to grab things) or otherwise crawl along the ground is filth (Leviticus 11:20). The only insects whose meat is food are those with a legs above a foot that lays flat on the earth so they can leap (or hop) (Leviticus 11:21).
These insects are all members of the grasshopper family (called locusts when they swarm) (Leviticus 11:22). (The word "beetle" here is translated as "akrida" in the Greek translation (Septuagint) which is the sword tailed grasshopper.) Grasshoppers are vegetarians that are unique among insects in that they chew their food and have a more developed digestive system that filters out disease. Crickets, while similar in appearance, lack a foot that lays flat on the earth that is used for hopping. Crickets are scavengers (they will even eat other crickets that died) and lack the more developed digestive system to filter out disease. So crickets are not listed along with grasshoppers even though they are similar in appearance. All other insects are either small garbage disposals (like crickets) or they lack the more developed digestive system needed to filter out disease from their food so their meat is filth (Leviticus 11:23).
What's for dinner?
So to recap the meat of even toed ungulates with four chambered stomachs (cows, sheep, goats, deer, antelope, etc.), fish with easily removed scales, birds that are not scavengers or waders, and grasshoppers are food. The meat of every thing else is filth, just like the meat of weasels, mice, tortoises, ferrets, chameleons, lizards, snails, and moles is filth (Leviticus 11:29-30).
The meat of some animals is fit to eat and the meat of other animals is not fit for human consumption. The Maker of the human body calls those animals that are fit for human consumption clean and the Father of Truth calls all other animals unclean. The animals were already being called clean or unclean before the Law of Truth was ever given to Moses (Genesis 7:7-9). The Law of Truth was given so people could discern between what was fit for human consumption and what was not (Leviticus 10:9-11). (The Hebrew word "tame" translated as "unclean" is translated as "akathartos" in the Septuagint (Greek translation) which literally means "uncleanable from pollution".) It is as useless to try to make the meat of an unclean animal into food, as it is to make a rotten apple that was found floating in a sewer fit to put in a pie. The Father of Truth wants His people to not treat both what he calls clean from pollution and what He says is uncleanable from pollution as being food (Leviticus 20:25). The meat of an unclean animal is still filth and there is no way for people to turn filth into food (Job 14:4).
However, there is more to meat than just not eating animals whose meat is filth. Even some parts of animals that are fit to eat are still filth. The organs of the gut cavity are the garbage disposals of the body so they are filth that is to be thrown away instead of being eaten (Leviticus 3:4). Everything in the gut cavity including the organ meat is not fit for human consumption so that it had to be taken away instead of being eaten by the priest when an animal was sacrificed to the Father of Truth (Leviticus 3:14-15). All blood and the fat of the gut cavity is filth (Leviticus 3:17). The fat of the gut cavity of animals that are fit for human consumption, is still filth (Leviticus 7:23). The blood of animals that are fit for human consumption, is still filth (Leviticus 7:26).
This why when people catch a fish they must clean it before eating it. When they clean a fish they are removing the scales to get rid of any outer filth, removing the inner filth in the gut cavity when they gut the fish and cutting it open allows the blood to drain. This why people field dress a deer as soon as they kill it by hanging it upside down, cutting off it head (why the head is the part that gets mounted) to drain the blood, remove the skin to get rid of any outer filth and gutting it to remove all inner filth. Hanging any animal that is fit for human consumption upside down and cutting off its head like when a deer is field dressed gets rid of the blood (Deuteronomy 15:22-23). An animal that is fit for human consumption must be cleaned by separating the parts that are filth from the parts are food before it can be eaten. So the Hebrew words translated as "clean" and "unclean" would be better translated as "cleanable" and "uncleanable" to convey the correct idea.
What's for dinner?
Of course, there is more to a healthy diet than just avoiding eating meat that is filth. People also eat plant products as well. In fact, in the beginning everyone in the human race was a vegetarian (Genesis 1:29). Animals were only slain as sacrifices to God (Genesis 4:4). It was only after the flood, when the world was changed, that people needed to eat meat, so they had to be told to not eat the blood (Genesis 9:3-4).
The seed of the plants must be not be contaminated with water that was made filthy by the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth or it will also be filth along with its produce (Leviticus 11:36-38). The seeds of different varieties must not be planted in the same field to avoid contamination from cross pollination (Leviticus 19:19). So surely mixing the DNA of other organisms like GMO would also make any plant to be filth and not food.
The fruit of fruit trees is not always ready to be eaten. The fruit that a tree produces is not fit to eat until it is harvested in the fifth year that the tree produces fruit (Leviticus 19:23-25). Just as a girl can start having children when she is twelve but is not fully ready to have children until she is twenty so also a fruit tree starts producing fruit early but it is not fully ready to produce fruit that contains full nutrition until the fifth year of fruit production.
Plants must be properly grown to contain the nutrition that the human body needs. This begins with the soil containing the proper nutrients. For this reason the soil must rest every seven years (Leviticus 25:3-5). After seven sets of seven years the land needs one extra year of rest so that it rests eight years out of every fifty years (Leviticus 25:8-11). This need for the land to rest so that it contains the proper nutrients is so important that the Father of Truth told the children of Israel that He would put them out of the land of Israel so it could rest if they did not let it rest (Leviticus 26:33-35). He would not even let them return to the land of Israel after they repented until the land had finished its rest (Leviticus 26:40-43).
For these reasons letting the land rest (being fallow) continued to be practiced in Europe for hundreds of years from when Christianity was introduced until the four crop rotation system was introduced in the 1600's. They had learned by observation that the food of the Jews that was grown on land that had rested was tastier and more nutritious. In some places, like Greece, they did this because they said the Apostles had taught them to do so.
What's for dinner?
Not only must people eat food instead of filth and plant products that have the been raised and harvested correctly to gain the benefits of the healthcare plan of the Father of Truth but the food must also be prepared correctly.
This starts with clean cookware and a clean kitchen. If anything that should not be eaten (like blood) touches metal cookware then it be cleaned by scouring it with hot water (Leviticus 6:28). If the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth touches anything that is made from organic material then that item can be cleaned by washing it and then not using it until the next day (Leviticus 11:32). If the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth or even water that has touched that body comes in contact with cookware that is made of any other material such as ceramic or glass then it must be broken and thrown away (Leviticus 11:33). This is because the filth cannot be removed from these items because they are porous. (That is why if you clean the outside of an aquarium with Windex it will seep into the water and kill the fish.)
Also any food or drink that comes in contact with the body of a dead animal whose meat is filth or is in a vessel that has been so polluted and not cleaned then also becomes filth and must be thrown out (Leviticus 11:34). Even cooking devices that are not made of metal like clay ovens must be destroyed if they come in contact with filth (Leviticus 11:33-35).
Lastly, any dish where an animal is cooked in its own mother's milk is filth (Deuteronomy 14:21).
Note that there is nothing said about eating meat with milk in the same meal except for avoiding the sick practice of the idolaters of the Canaanites to cook a young goat in the milk of its own mother. (I almost threw up the first time I read this.) To say that this means to never eat meat and dairy in the same meal is putting words in the mouth of the Father of Truth that he never said. Who are we to add our rules to His rules? We must never add or take away from what He has said (Deuteronomy 12:32).
It is for this reason that beef and dairy breeds of cattle were developed. If you make hamburger gravy using meat from a beef breed like an Angus and milk that comes from a dairy breed like a Holstein then you can be sure that you are not cooking the meat from the animal in the milk of its own mother. If you want to err on the side of caution then never have eat a meal where the meat and the milk are from the same type of animal. So eat your chicken pizza in confidence that knowing you are not eating a chicken that has been cooked in the milk of its own mother.
What's for dinner?
Of course, one problem with keeping the diet laid out by the Father of Truth is that people do not grow and process all of their own food. That is why Daniel refused to eat what the king of Babylon ate (Daniel 1:8). This is why Daniel and his friends only ate vegetables because fresh vegetables are always food and never filth (Daniel 1:11-13). Because they stuck to the diet given by the Father of Truth they were healthier than those that ate the diet of Babylon (Daniel 1:14-16).
What's for dinner?
Gaining the benefits of His healthcare plan do not end with just eating food and avoiding filth. Self control to not eat too much is also required particularly when it comes to sweets (Proverbs 25:16). That is why people need the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) living in them to help them keep the diet of the Father of Truth (Galatians 5:22-23).
Also it is important to thank the Father of Truth for the food. You should thank Him after you eat and tell Him that you are satisfied with what He has given you (Deuteronomy 8:10). (I started doing this and then realized a month later that I had lost 15lbs without making any other conscious change to my eating. I thought it over and realized that once I had started thanking the Father of Truth after meals I had stopped snacking between meals and eating smaller portions at meals. Thanking Him silenced every lie that said I was hungry when I was not.) You should also thank Him for your food before you eat like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) did (Luke 24:30).
Those that do not keep the diet of the Father of Truth can eat and not be satisfied (Micah 6:14). So if you want to serve something that is always satisfying then stick to His diet. Otherwise you are likely to eat too much because you will find yourself still hungry shortly after you have eaten.
What's for dinner?
This is the diet that Moses kept and is part of the reason that he lived to 120 years of age without any need for eye glasses and died in full strength showing that he received all the benefits of the healthcare plan of the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 34:7).
This is the diet that the Man of Truth kept who obeyed the Law of Truth completely (Matthew 5:17). You can be certain of this because he was without sin (2 Corinthians 5:21). He would have been committing sin if he broke any part of the Law of Truth including the diet of the Father of Truth (James 2:10). Sin is nothing more than transgressing the Law of Truth (1 John 3:4).
This is part of the reason that the Man of Truth died in full strength as promised in the healthcare plan of the Father of Truth (Matthew 27:50).
This is the diet that Peter (Cephas aka Simon aka Simeon) kept (Acts 11:7-8).
He did not die from disease but was killed for the sake of witnessing that the Man of Truth was the Messiah when he was old (John 21:18). He died in an old age after living a life full of health which he used to serve the Man of Truth (2 Peter 1:13-15).
This is the diet that Paul (Shaul aka Saul) kept. He was accused of teaching Jews that followed the Man of Truth to break the Law of Truth (Acts 21:20-21). He was advised to take on a Nazarite vow to show that there was no truth to this accusation (Acts 21:22-24). Paul (Shaul aka Saul) consented because he kept the Law of Truth including the diet of the Father of Truth (Acts 21:26).
He lived to be an old man who still preached the Gospel (Philemon 1:8-10). He still planned on traveling a thousand miles on ship and then walking hundreds of miles when he got out of prison (Philemon 1:22). He did not die from disease either but was killed for the sake of witnessing that the Man of Truth was the Messiah when he was old (2 Timothy 4:5-7).
What's for dinner?
You might be thinking that you do not need to keep the diet of the Father of Truth that is laid out in the Law of Truth to come into the House of Truth and you would be right (Acts 21:25). But why would you not want to gain all of the benefits that come from keeping the diet of the Father of Truth? Is it not better to be healthy than sick? Is it not better to eat and be satisfied than to be feeling like something is still missing even though you are stuffed?
The truth is that it does not matter what you eat unless you also come into the House of Truth. You do not come into the House of Truth by keeping the diet of the Father of Truth because no one comes into the House of Truth by keeping the Law of Truth (Romans 3:19-20). You come into the House of Truth by making the Man of Truth the boss of every area of your life because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).
Come into the House of Truth.
posted by The House Of Truth @ January 05, 2014
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