What do you believe if the best diet for you. Regardless of if you need to gain weight (not likely, hey?), lose weight or maintain the weight you current have.

"What is the ideal diet? When God created man, he placed him in a garden setting, and told him his diet was to consist of simply raw fruits and vegetables. Read Genesis 1:29. How did man fare on such a diet? He lived an average of 912 years without any recorded sickness. Following the flood in Genesis Chapter 7, meat was added to the diet (Genesis 9:3) and man started to cook his food. As a result of this change in diet, sickness entered the human race and man's life-span started to decline very rapidly...from an average of 912 years prior to the flood to 100 years by the time you get to the end of Genesis" (Dr. George H. Malkmus with Michael Dye, God's Way to Ultimate Heath [Shelby, NC: Hallelujah Acres Publishing, 2004], 76)!

There is serious deception in these affirmations, clever use of words and inaccurate scriptural information. First, this is just another of the many reasons why people have a responsibility to read the Bible for themselves before agreeing or disagreeing with declarations based on scripture. This act alone will reveal the common misuse of God's word.

The authors write that, "...Meat was added to the diet (Genesis 9:3)...", however, they cleverly make use of the passive voice when speaking of the adding of meat to man's diet. Why? This technique allows them to avoid revealing exactly who added meat to man's diet. They refrain from showing that scripture says God himself told man to add meat to his diet because they then criticize meat eating. In essence, their criticism of meat eating is nothing less than a criticism of the decision of the Creator to add meat to the diet of his creatures. Chapter 9, verses 1 and 3 of the book of Genesis say, "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even as the green herb have I given you all things.'"

Meat was added to man's diet by God, not by man. To advocate against meat eating is to advocate against God's commandment. Some Christians argue that they don't see God's addition of meat to man's diet as a commandment, but rather as an option. Nevertheless, they do see his original word to eat fruits, vegetables and herbs as commandment in Genesis 1:29. What is the difference? When God is giving command to eat plant life in Genesis 1:29 he uses the word "shall" in speaking to Adam. When he gives command to Noah and his family to add meat to their diet in Genesis 9:3, he again uses the word "shall". To say that one is a commandment and the other is not is to make arbitrary use of the scriptures to support what one wants or does not want to believe.

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