Why Do Christians Get Sick
Forbidden Food - the legacy of paradise lost and the promise of redemption
Roland's new 300 page book about food is now ready.
What if the Garden of Eden is not a myth but a reality? What
if the eating of forbidden food brought a curse on the human race?
What if food
is somehow subtly involved in our deterioration.
What if food introduced a trance
state in which we make mistakes and then wonder what happened? Originally
entitled Recovering Health and Wholeness,
now totally updated with 100 new pages, this intriguing book looks at forbidden
food, the curse from the Garden of Eden, and the reality of redemption.
In fact, resolving the food problem just
might bring resolution to other life issues as well.
Read an excerpt
Food: Friend or Foe?
Uncovering Food’s
Mysterious Power over Us and Finding the Secret to Regeneration
Dr.
Henry Bieler, a popular doctor who practiced medicine for over fifty years and
who treated many Hollywood Stars, wrote a book called Food Is Your Best Medicine. Of course, he was talking about healthy
food.
The
other side of the coin is summed up in the words of Waldo McBurney, still going
to work every day at age 106, who said, “We dig our graves with our
forks.”
Food seems to be endowed with a mysterious
power to make us better or worse, to upgrade or coarsen our existence. It is
the vehicle by which culture stakes its claim over us. Then, by continuing to
eat our cultural food, we are kept a part of that culture, and thus without
even realizing it, prevent ourselves from becoming who we were really meant to
be. It is for this reason that the average person lives in anxiety with a vague
sense that something is wrong.
A
steady diet of junk food, fast food, diet soda, and processed foods seems to be
contributing to making Americans overweight, undernourished, and unhealthy in
many ways. Somehow, the fast food fare is also contributing to a general
coarsening of the population.
We
are not as polite, as well mannered, or as noble as we once were. Our society
is becoming impatient, selfish, harried, thoughtless and rude in countless
ways.
Somehow,
what we eat and the way we eat affect our way of living. Yet, though eating healthy
food is good for you, it is not the total answer either. Health food cannot
save you.
What then can we do? We must eat to live. Yet eating itself is somehow
tied to our deterioration and demise.
Let
us look at the food mystery and unpart the veil to the power that food has over
us. If eating wrong food contributes to sickness, ill health and a downgrading
of manners, can eating the right food stop our downward slide? And even more
importantly, might we then, with awareness and grace, discover God’s plan of
salvation?
It was in the Garden of Eden where the human race
fell from faith and reliance on the Creator. Food was involved in the fall. God had promised Adam that if he ate the
forbidden food, he would surely die.
When
Adam ate the forbidden fruit, it sealed the deal and made God’s promise a
reality.
Today we, the distant relatives of fallen Adam
and Even, must eat to live, but even as we eat, we are living under a death
sentence. We try not to think about it, and for much of our life, most of us
manage to sweep it under the rug. But as the years pass, we must begin to
confront its reality whether we like it or not.
Eating good food (healthy, unprocessed, natural food from God’s garden)
is likely to help us live longer. But even so, all it can do is prolong the
inevitable. Even the best of food may not help us if we eat pridefully or while
upset, angry, or in excess.
The
best of food only helps us live longer. It does not remove the curse. The
situation appears to be an insolvable dilemma. Because we must eat to live, we
can’t just stop eating. Yet, food was involved in our fall and somehow
contributes to our deterioration.
The
evidence of food’s involvement in our fall can be seen today, if we care to
look. First of all, many people simply eat too much of the wrong kind of
food. And their food indulgence leads to
illness and contributes to an early demise.
Food is also very often involved in our own personal misjudgments and
errors. Many an affair or act of promiscuity is preceded by a meal. The
salesman, recruiter, or person who is wooing you knows the best time to make
his pitch is after the meal he invited you to. Somehow the food weakens our
resolve and opens us up to some suggestion we might have resisted before the
repast.
And
don’t forget that marijuana, alcohol, and drugs are types of food: something we
ingest. Somehow the drug, the marijuana or the alcohol separates us from
awareness, from reason, from common sense, and from control. Then we say or do
something we are sorry for later.
Medications are also substances to be ingested, and thus have the same
trance producing effect that food has. While medications are often helpful,
even life saving, they can also be addictive, over prescribed, or cause side
effects. . . . .
Could it be that these effects of food and food-like substances are
variations of the result of eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden? It could
be, and it is.
