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[Ramah Nyang @Ramah_Nyang]

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[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

The Bible Is Not a Guidebook for Healthy Eating

The Bible is full of wisdom about many different subjects, but it does not tell us everything. Not even close. Cardiologists don’t read Leviticus to learn how to do open-heart surgery. Nor do mechanics study Amos to learn how to fix your transmission.

Teaching us all things—even helpful, necessary, useful things—is not why God gave us the Scriptures.

But that hasn’t stopped people from twisting the Bible into a guidebook on all sorts of different subjects, including healthy diets. Most famously, the “Daniel Diet” or the “Daniel Fast” or the “Daniel Plan.” A quick Google search will yield hundreds of articles, videos, and books about what the Bible supposedly teaches us about healthy eating. (Strange, though, I have never once stumbled upon a “John the Baptist Diet” where people are urged only to follow the *biblical* diet of “locusts and wild honey.”)

The problem is that the Bible does not say what humanity should or should not eat to stay healthy. Yes, under the old covenant, there were commandments for Israel about which foods were kosher. But never does God say he wanted the Israelites to eat this way in order to stay healthy. The only reason ever suggested is that by avoiding unclean foods, they are taught to avoid unclean (Gentile) people (see Lev. 20:24-26; Acts 10:9ff). And, yes, Paul advised Timothy to add some wine to his diet, but that is a specific suggestion by one man to another man, by no means a universal mandate. Paul is an apostle, not a physician.

Even in the case of Daniel and his friends, the purpose of their dietary choices was not to stay healthy but to abstain from eating unclean, non-kosher foods. They weren’t going for beach bods with washboard abs; in fact, they got fat (1:15). These Jewish young men were committed to ritual purity while living on foreign soil.

About as close as the Bible ever gets to talking about a "healthy diet" is advising against consuming too much honey (Prov. 25:27) and prohibiting intoxication (Ephesians 5:18).

So, do you want to eat healthy foods? Lose weight? Gain muscle? Learn a cardiovascular workout routine? Excellent! Then read books by health and fitness experts. Join your local gym. Hire a coach to motivate and guide you. But, please, don’t go twisting Bible verses into mandates, or even guides, for such questions. The Scriptures are not your cookbook.

What is the purpose of the Scriptures? Paul tells us that “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16-17). John tells us that he wrote his Gospel “that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (20:31). The psalmist tells us that the Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (119:105).

Let us treasure the Scriptures as the divine repository of wisdom, insight, salvation, and much more, all leading us to Christ. They teach us about many, very important truths, but they do not teach us everything. The Creator has given us a brain and reason by which to learn astronomy, geometry, physics, anatomy, and countless other subjects. He’s also provided us with experts in these fields from which we can learn.

So if you want to read about eating healthy, order a book on the subject. But if you want to learn about eschatology, persecution, and divine fidelity, read Daniel.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

I've been hired by JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citi, and received job offers from many others. Here are 10 common interview questions and tips for answering each so you stand out & get a job offer:

1) What sets you apart from other candidates?

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[Bill Roach @billroach_]

What if evangelicals took this approach to the woke movement too?

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

I love stocks, but personal finance is 10X more important than stock picking.

Follow this framework to make your personal finances bullet-proof in 2023:

[Paul Washer @paulwasher]

It is a very dangerous thing for a minister to think that everything he preaches is the Gospel of Jesus Christ or that everything in his ministry may be correctly designated as “Gospel ministry.” The Gospel is a very specific message.

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

YouTube is free education.

But 98% don't know the best professors on its virtual campus.

Here are the top 9 channels to accelerate your learning:

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Don't dress yourself before God in the fig leaves of your own righteousness. He will clothe you kindly and properly with the righteousness of Christ. Come before the Father clothed in Christ.

[Kaden Classen @KadenClassen]

When I first heard these words on a tour of MBTS, I was a legalist, lived with constant guilt, and often laid awake in bed wondering if God even liked me because I was such a sinful mess.

Five years ago yesterday, these two minutes changed my life. I hope they change yours.

[Alex DiPrima @Alex_DiPrima]

This perspective from Piper is worth pondering. Preachers, what should be the dominant emotion people walk away with from your sermons? It should not be rage against the culture. It should be trust in the sovereignty of God and a sober and cheerful readiness to embrace suffering.

[G3 Ministries @G3Conference]

From the Vault: In this sermon at the 2013 G3 (the very first G3 Conference), Voddie Baucham stressed the point of finding our hope in Christ rather than some inflated personal testimony.

View the full sermon on the G3 app in the conference archives. // @VoddieBaucham

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[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

'I am convinced that the world needs no new Gospel...the world needs nothing but bold, full, unflinching teaching of the "old paths. -@JCRyle

[Thomas (Σταμάτης) @ThomasCoutouzis]

This is the gospel. If you reject penal substitutionary atonement then you are in fact rejecting Christ who gives believers His righteousness. You are not wanting His righteousness to cover you.

[Rudy Cerda @RudyCerda]

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