GOD'S FOOD LAWS #1

 LIVING  IN  THIS  TIME  [AUGUST 2020  AS I ENTER THIS STUDY]  THE  WHOLE  WORLD  WOULD  BE  BETTER  OFF  IF  ALL  NATIONS  WERE  OBSERVING  THE  FOOD  LAWS  GOD  GAVE  TO  ANCIENT  ISRAEL - Keith Hunt

GOD’S  FOOD  LAWS #1

Vegetation, Blood, Fat

                    Written and Compiled

                             by

                         Keith Hunt

VEGETATION LAWS

     Most people who observe clean and unclean food laws as they

find them in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, are often quite shocked

to hear from someone like me that God also has a basic VEGETATION

Law.

     Yes, true to the way God has written His word, not ALL

things on ALL subject in the Bible are in ONE PLACE....it is

indeed, a little here and a little there.

     Interesting are the arguments of those who do not believe in

clean and unclean meats for the Christian today. They argue that

no specific laws as Lev.11 and Deut. 14 can be found in Genesis,

hence for them such food meat laws did not exist before Moses, so

they then do not have to exist today. Then, those who think there

is no vegetation food law, say God did not say anything about

vegetation laws in Leviticus or Deuteronomy, hence they do not

exist either.

     Yes, interesting, put both arguments TOGETHER and there is

NO FOOD LAWS PERIOD for the Christian today....just eat whatever

takes your fancy...from MOSS and MUSHROOMS to SNAILS and

chocolate covered ANTS to CATERPILLARS, I guess.

     God's VEGETATION law is given right up front, immediately

given to Adam and Eve:

     "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

which is the FRUIT of a tree YIELDING SEED; to you it shall be

for meat (food)....I have given every GREEN herb for meat (food)"

(Gen. 1:29-30).

     Thus NUTS, FRUITS, GRAINS, VEGETABLES are for food. They are

all GREEN at one time or another in their development and all

have SEEDS. 

     The American Heritage Dictionary states:  "The ripened ovary

or ovaries of a seed- bearing plant, together with accessory

parts...."

     Many VEGETABLES would also be included in this definition.

     BUT.....the MUSHROOM (and others) is a FUNGUS and reproduces

not by seeds but by "spores." It has no leaves, flowers, or green

color at any time, nor does it have SEEDS! 

     Now, some "religious" people will here try to claim that all

are seeds, just different types of seeds, or something to that

effect (like some scientists claim all fish have scales,

just large or minute, as we will see in the study under

"Mackerel"). But the NONE RELIGIOUS, no axe to grind scientists

of BOTANY (the study of the physiology, structure, genetics,

ecology, distribution, and classification of plants - Oxford

Canadian Dictionary), will clearly tell you, as does the book

"ABC of Nature" that there is a large DIFFERENCE between SEEDS

and "spores" - they are just not classified as being in the same

group together. If this was so, then God had no need to stipulate

to Adam and Eve anything about "green" and "seeds." There would

have been no need at all for God to have said ANYTHING at all. He

would just have needed to tell the first humans what vegetation

was poisonous, and write nothing as He did in Genesis

1: 29-30.

     Genesis was written (as most scholars agree) by the hand of

Moses. If there was NO food law of vegetation, if there had NEVER

been one, then God would have by the time of Moses, needed to

have said NOTHING on the matter. Mankind by Moses' time had

surely come to know what vegetation was poisonous, and would have

passed that information on down from generation to generation,

and the poisonous plants would have been well documented, if

mankind was not to die from eating them.

     But God DID have Moses write a basic law about vegetation

for food. That law is stated in Genesis 1: 29-30.

     The MUSHROOM is a FUNGUS, and it is never green, nor does it

bear seeds. Here is something interesting from the book "HOW TO

STAY ALIVE IN THE WOODS" by Bradford Angier, page 34, where we

read:

     "....one should avoid whenever possible turning to mushrooms

for emergency food. Mushrooms have very little general food

value. If you are not already an expert, the incurred risks will

be far out of proportion to the possible gain. No single

practical test is recognized, unfortunately, by which all

poisonous mushrooms can be detected."

     As Harold Hemeway points out: "Mushrooms, and any other

fungi for that matter, obtain their food, not by photosynthesis,

but from other organic material, like manure and dead leaves and

carcasses. In his article 'Dietary Carcinogens and

Anticarcinogens' Bruce N. Ames states that 'Most hydrazines that

have been tested are carcinogens and mutagens, and large amounts

of carcinogenic hydrazines are present in edible mushrooms.' "

(Are the Food Laws Scientific? pages 3,4).

     I will now quote from "BIBLICAL INSTRUCTIONS ON THE RIGHT

DIET" by P. Bennett (all capital letter words for emphasis

throughout these studies are from the author quoted or from

myself):

          "There has been much debate concerning the legitimacy

of excluding the mushroom from our diet. Those in favor of

mushrooms point out that nowhere in the Levitical Law is there

any suggestion that they are banned. Invariably they will

emphasize the nutritional value of the mushroom, in that it has a

high protein content (so....big deal, I see TV ads all the time

telling us what 'good stuff' is contained in 'pork meat'  - high

in this and that vitamin and protein, and that we would do well

to have pork in our diet - Keith Hunt).  Both points can be

admitted, without affecting the argument against eating them. To

go one step further, if we consult a concordance, we will find

that nowhere in the Word of God are mushrooms, or even fungi,

mentioned. So, if we rely on a positive translation of the Bible

(i.e. does the Bible specifically say 'thou shalt not eat

mushrooms'), one could reasonably think that they were allowed

(hummm, yes, and the Bible does not say, 'thou shalt not smoke

the leaves that make tobacco - Keith Hunt).

     Such an approach may well explain why the orthodox Jews

consider them fit and proper (and we shall later see that the

orthodox Jews consider some "fat" to be okay, when God speaks

against eating fat - Keith Hunt).

     To understand the argument against the eating of mushrooms,

we must turn to the very beginning of our Bible. In Genesis

chapter 1 is the account of creation.....Then in verse 29 and 30,

God tells man what he and other creatures may eat......

     When we look again at the sequence of creation, we find the

grass, herbs and fruit bearing trees were created before the

animals. God in His wisdom ensured that there would be food for

them from the moment of their creation......

     Please note that the plant life given to man as meat was

(1). GREEN and (2). SEED BEARING. In order to appreciate the

significance of these two factors we need to look briefly at the

biology of plants, and the way they live and reproduce.

     Plants are green because their leaves contain chlorophyll.

During the day-time the sun's rays pass through the leaf. At the

same time carbon dioxide is absorbed into the leaf, and water is

absorbed into the plant via its roots. The chlorophyll converts

the sunlight into energy, which the plant uses to change the

water and carbon dioxide to carbohydrates (i.e. sugar and

starches). This process is known as photosynthesis.

     Flowers are essential to the production of seeds. Some

flowers are bright and colorful, and are grown to decorate our

homes and gardens. Other plants have flowers that are so small

and insignificant, that we rarely notice them. Each flower

contains stamens, and ovaries. At the end of each stamen is an

anther which contains pollen. In order for a seed to be produced,

it is necessary for the ovary to be fertilised by the pollen.

In plants, as in animals, in order to produce, there must be a

union of male and female.

     When we look closely at the biology of fungi, we discover

two remarkable facts.

     Firstly, for all their brilliant colors, fungi do not

contain chlorophyll. They do not obtain the carbohydrates they

need from the air through photosynthesis. Fungi, such as

mushrooms, must obtain their carbonaceous food from other organic

material. Hence the reason why we find them growing on compost

heaps and decaying vegetable and animal material. To this extent

they are the scavengers of the plant world.

     Secondly, fungi, including mushrooms, are asexual. There is

no need for male to fertilize female in order to produce. The

mushroom spawn spreads out in the soil, devouring all the food it

can find. When it has exhausted its food supply, it throws up the

mushroom with which we are familiar. Under the cap of the

mushroom are the gills. The cells on the outside layer if the

gills become enlarged, and form sacs. These sacs develop minute

stalks, on which the spores are formed. These spores are then

released into the wind and carried away. They fall onto the

ground and grow into a spawn, and the cycle of the mushroom

continues.

     In conclusion then, we have seen that when God gave man

instructions on what vegetable matter he could eat, He stipulated

that it must be GREEN (i.e. rely on photosynthesis), and be seed

bearing (i.e. rely on fertilization of female by male). 

     As fungi, which includes mushrooms, do not perform either

function, they cannot be included in the diet God gave us."

END of quote.

     Someone is bound to bring up the subject of YEAST, which is

also a fungus, and yet leavened bread is permitted except for

during the 7 days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

     First, let me state that on investigating yeast and bread I

discovered (by those writing the facts) that yeast does its job

of leavening in the bread but through the process of the heat it

is gone....it is out of there, vanished away!

     Secondly, from the Bible, as Harold Hemeway as observed:

"....we are not told WHAT leavening agent was used to leaven

bread. Yeast is a word that cannot be found in the Bible. Other

leavening agents are "Creme of Tarter" - "Sodium Bicarbonate" -

"Phosphate" and "Alum" powders, and these are NOT fungi!

     Then to be fair, God is not talking in Genesis 1:29-30 about

MICROSCOPIC yeast, but about VISIBLE HERBS and TREES" 

(Are the Food Laws Scientific?). 

     Microscopic yeasts can float through the air, as does other

microscopic things not so good for you. Most, if not all of these

things are caught and are dealt with through the bodies natural

filtering system. Breathing in polluted air and microscopic dirt

particles, pollutants from car exhausts etc. etc. are by most

healthy people filtered by our wonderfully made bodies (as the

Psalmist said we are fearfully and wonderfully made). 

     God, in Genesis is talking about visible plants and trees

and giving a basic law to follow. Even then it is not a

comprehensive, in detail, law, for some green seed bearing

plants are poisonous.

     As Harold Hemenway has stated:

     ".....we come to Genesis 9:3-4 which states, 'Every moving

thing that liveth shall be meat (food) for you; even AS THE GREEN

herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life

thereof, which is the BLOOD thereof, you shall not eat.'

     Notice again the emphasis on GREEN photosynthesizing, herbs!

It should be added here that many POISONOUS plants are both GREEN

and SEED-BEARING (Deadly Nightshade, Foxglove, Sweet Pea, etc.)

so the rule isn't ALL-inclusive, just EXCLUSIVE......So when the

Bible generalizes by saying 'every herb bearing seed,' 'every

tree' 'all things' (9:3), it is of course speaking in a

particular context using a figure of speech known as a

'synecdoche' (all for part or part for all).....(Are The Food

Laws Scientific, pages 4,5).

     Again, it really should be pretty simple, most people who

have ever grown a garden in their back yard, know what vegetables

as seeds to plant. They know what is GREEN and SEEDS and what

good basic vegetables are all about.....carrots, peas, broccoli,

cabbage, corn, potato, beans, cauliflower, onions, tomatoes etc.

The fruit trees are again well evident. God has given us so many

varieties of green seed-bearing vegetables and fruits, there

really is no need at all to wonder off into the world of "fungi."

     I know of no one, no company, that collects MOSS from trees

or lakes and sells it to spread on your buttered bread, but

somehow people got into collecting and eating mushrooms, which if

you were doing it on your own, you would probably kill yourself

one day, by collecting and eating the poisonous mushroom.

BLOOD

     Quoting again from "Are The Food Laws Scientific" by Harold

Hemenway:

     "In addition to Genesis 9:4, the prohibition on BLOOD is

found in Lev. 3:7 also where it is called a 'perpetual statute.'

(See also Lev. 17:10-13 and 1 Sam. 14:32-33). Lev. 7:26-27

explains that this is a prohibition on 'any manner of BLOOD' of

'fowl' or 'beast.' The implication is that BLOOD of fish and

grasshoppers is not prohibited.

     But why avoid blood at all? Deut. 12:25 answers, 'You shall

not eat it, THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH THEE, AND WITH 

THY CHILDREN AFTER THEE, when you shall do that which 

is right in the sight of the Eternal.' 

     In order to better understand why EATING BLOOD causes things

to NOT  go well, realize that one of the functions of BLOOD is to

TRANSPORT BODILY WASTES and POISONS to excretory ducts in the

body. Another well known medical fact is that INFECTIOUS diseases

can be transmitted to man by means of ingesting blood of

diseased animals (e.g. tuberculosis)! (and we have all heard

about contaminated blood in different countries that has given

rise to thousands contacting HIV, which can lead to full blown

AIDS - Keith Hunt).

     In other words, BLOOD contains a concentrated amount of

disease, wastes, and poisons!  (A fact not often published is the

truth of how many persons around the world die each year from

blood transfusions) - it is very high indeed. If you are in a life

or death situation you may decide to go the route of a blood

transfusion. If you are unconscious you may get one

automatically. But if awake, then at least you should know the

risks, or you should know that it CAN be a risky undertaking.

Many today are having their own blood taken and stored, frozen,

just in case they ever need a blood transfusion. What God is

talking about in this law is eating blood or drinking blood as a

diet way of living. Many nations practiced eating blood as part

of their diet and/or their religion. I do not teach you should

never have a blood transfusion IF it is a matter of a life and

death situation - Keith Hunt).

     The main reason to avoiding an animal which dies 'of itself'

(Lev. 17:15) is because the blood wasn't DRAINED OUT of the

animal (v.13). Of course another reason is that it may have died

of a disease. Animals 'torn with beasts' (v.15) should also be

avoided because the throat wasn't cut to allow the blood to

DRAIN. 

     In the U.K. a practice has been to stun animals with

electric shock before slaughter. This procedure also prevents the

blood from draining. Stunning with anesthesia is not acceptable

either. 

     John S. Fox, in his book 'TODAY, TOMORROW and the GREAT

BEYOND,' pages 353 to 354, says:

     'The harmful presence of blood in killed meat has of recent

     years been realized fully by modern scientists. It has been

     found that in meat insufficiently bled, PUTREFACTION SETS IN

     RAPIDLY, even though frozen; whereas meat which has been

     adequately bled will keep for long period....Science also

     shows that blood congeals in the flesh to such an extent

     after death that no amount of boiling can properly remove

     it.'

     A person should avoid BLOOD PUDDING (also called BLOOD

SAUSAGE) which is made from swine's blood and suet and sold in

Germany and other nations (yes, growing up in England, blood

sausage was very popular with many people, and it seemed

to me as many people bought blood sausage as regular sausage -

Keith Hunt).

     ......Also a person should be careful to salt or roast even

drained meat to ensure that the BLOOD is extracted......

     The 'Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics,' volume 2, page

716, mentions that 'when the fresh blood of victims is

drunk....The result is frequently seen in usual phenomena of

possession.'  (This is probably why many pagan nations had blood

eating rites, it was all part of their demon or devil worship,

strange things taking place while worshipping these gods and

drinking animal or human blood - Keith Hunt).

     The LAW forbidding BLOOD existed at least as early as the

time of Noah (Gen. 9:4), long before the Old Covenant was

ratified.  Blood hasn't changed its chemical composition or

function at any time, so why should anyone think this prohibition

was repealed in the 'New Testament Era'? "

END of quote from  Harold Hemenway 

ANIMAL FAT

     It is interesting to note the idea of not eating fat and

eating fat, as taught and practiced by even orthodox Jews. 

     P. Bennett writes:

     "....when a Christian is brought to a recognition of the

necessity to keep all God's commandments, one of the first groups

of laws that will effect his daily life are those governing his

diet. A natural reaction is to purchase a Jewish cookery book and

take all the recipes from there. But would he be correct to eat

all the dishes described therein? 

     As a child, I was brought up to eat only permitted foods.

For many years now I have served in the areas of London populated

by orthodox Jews. Imagine my surprise to find that I could go

into London's leading Kosher restaurant and eat liver pate,

mackerel, mushrooms and other things that I had always believed

to be unclean.

     In most recent years I have had many dealings with members

of the Muslim communities that abound in London. Although they

also appear happy to eat items which I have regarded as taboo.

     It is against this background that I have been looking at

some of the 'grey areas'......

     

     May I be allowed at this stage to acknowledge with gratitude

the help given by The Board of Deputies of British Jews. The

Islamic Cultural Centre, The Zoological Society of London. The

British Museum (Natural History) and the Health Education

Council. All of whom answered my queries so promptly, and in some

cases suggested further avenues of study.

Animal Fat

     The orthodox Jew believes that there is nothing

intrinsically wrong in beef suet, provided it is obtained from a

correctly slaughtered animal. Perhaps it is because of this

apparent seal of approval that most Christians observers of God's

diet laws ignore His command to refrain from eating fat, as set

out in Leviticus 3:17. 'It shall be a perpetual statute for your

generations in all your dwelling place, that you eat neither FAT

nor BLOOD' (Amplified Bible).

     This command is repeated in Leviticus 7: 22-25: 'And the

Lord said to Moses, say to the Israelites, you shall eat NO KIND

OF FAT of ox, or sheep, or goat. The fat of the beast that dies

of itself, and the fat of one that is torn with beasts, may be

put to any other use, but under NO CIRCUMSTANCE ARE YOU 

TO EAT OF IT. For whosoever eats the fat of any beast of which 

men offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, that person shall 

be cut off from his people' (Amplified Bible).

     When we read the Ordinances given to the priest concerning

the offering of animal sacrifices, we find no less than 60

references to fat being burnt. The reason is given in Leviticus

3:16, 'All fat is the Lord's.'  In certain circumstances the

priests were allowed to eat the flesh of the sacrifice, but only

after the fat had been burnt off. 1 Samuel chapter 2 recalls

God's displeasure with the sons of Eli because they wanted the

flesh with the fat.

     Clearly then ALL fat is forbidden. What a problem this

presents to us. As we wander along the shelves of our

supermarkets, selecting the items we believe to be fit

and proper, how many of us stop to study the list of

ingredients.....

     Many people are surprised to discover that in the western

world more people die from HEART disease than any other illness,

including cancer......In truth there is not one cause, but a

combination of many factors, i.e. lack of exercise, stress,

smoking, family history. Without doubt, a major cause of heart

disease is atheroscleroses, or hardening of the arteries. Medical

science has discovered that the arteries fur up through the

accumulation of fats, cholesterol and calcium on the wall. For

this reason western society is being advised to reduce its

consumption of animal fats, and to eat polyunsaturated fats

which come from vegetables.

     It has taken a vast amount of money for mankind to discover

that the eating of ANIMAL fat can be hazardous to health. Our

creator God gave us this warning through His servant Moses almost

3,500 years ago."

END quote from P. Bennett

     Now here is what Harold Hemenway has to say on this matter:

     "......Even before Abraham, Genesis 4:4 states, 'And Abel,

he also brought of the firstlings of his flock AND of the FAT

thereof. And the Eternal had respect unto Abel and to his

offering.' 

     Now, if Abel used FAT as an offering in Genesis, the same as

we find in Leviticus 3:16 where 'ALL the FAT is the Eternal's'

and was to be burned upon the altar, then Abel would have NONE

left to eat. He would have BURNED IT ALL! So Abel must have

avoided FAT too! God is consistent.....certainly FAT hasn't

changed its chemical composition from one 'dispensation' to

another. These dietary statutes existed from the beginning and

did not originate later with Moses or the Old Covenant!

     ......Leviticus 3:8-9 clearly shows that INTERNAL FATS of

animals are included in this prohibition also.

     Quoting from PREVENTION magazine, February 1980, page 134,

we read, 'In the case of heart disease, blame does not fall

equally on all fats. Chemically, the fats in food come in several

varieties. SATURATED fats....are most commonly found in meats,

POLYUNSATURATED fats....are found more abundantly in vegetables,

and in fish and fowl. A large body of research indicates that

SATURATED fats are the ones to watch, in keeping guard against

heart disease. Where the diet is rich in these animal fats, heart

disease is generally a problem.'

     Isn't  it proof of inspiration when the Bible says nothing

forbidding FAT of FISH or FOWL, yet specifically enumerates the

OX, SHEEP, and GOAT  FAT as forbidden?

     THIS IS THE SCIENTIFIC DIVISION BETWEEN SATURATED AND

POLYUNSATURATED FATS!

     Incidently, Nehemiah's command to 'eat the FAT' (Neh. 8:10)

refers to the 'fatted calf' (using 'fat' as an adjective) rather

than the white, greasy trim on meat (using 'fat' as a noun). So

there is no contradiction!

     Eating animal fat (saturated fat) causes a build up of

cholesterol in human arteries and veins. This in turn causes

atherosclerosis. But vegetable oils (polyunsaturated fats)

significantly reduce cholesterol (Prevention, Nov. 1982, p. 79).

But make no mistake! These vegetable oils are UN-HYDROGENATED or

only LIGHTLY HYDROGENATED! 

     HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS are just as BAD as SATURATED

animal fats (Hydrogenation, America's Deadliest Killer, by John

H. Tobe, 1962)! 

     Excess 'animal fat' has been linked to Pancreatic and

Colorectal Cancer (pp. 224 and 228 of 'Disease,' copyright 1983

by Springhouse Corp.)

     Animal poisons are stored and concentrated in the FAT!

     Consumers should take warning and avoid LARD, SHORTENING,

SUET, GREASE, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS, and even 

EMULSIFIERS or MONO, DI and TRIGLYCERIDES which can be 

made form either vegetable or animal fats!....."

END quote from Hemenway's booklet "Are The Food Laws Scientific?"

     Harold Hemenway also points out that generally speaking over

the counter GROUND BEEF and HAMBURGERS are HIGH in FAT, animal

fat. He also mentions that certain ethnic foods like MEXICAN and

LATINO foods, like the BURRITO are "notorious for their high FAT

content."

     He also in a later "appendix of additions" to his booklet

points out that EGG YOLKS and WHOLE MILK are categorized as

SATURATED FAT but the Bible ALLOWS BOTH to be part of our diet!

He suggests that it is possible that NOT ALL SATURATED FAT is bad

for you. He asks a question: "Are there different TYPES of 

saturated fat?"

     I'm not sure if modern science has brought forth the answer.

     Hemeway gives an interesting statistical fact: "Compared to

the general population, Seventh Day Adventist males, who abstain

from tobacco, alcohol, pork and all other Biblically unclean

food, live SIX years LONGER, suffer 47 percent less CANCER, 45

percent less HEART disease, and 47 percent fewer STROKES."

     Those are quite the facts. I have over the years been

associated with the Seventh Day Adventists people on many dozens

of Sabbaths (when living in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, for

a number of years, the SDA churches were the only Sabbath

observing churches in the area, except for the Worldwide Church

of God, from which I had departed two decades before). In other

parts of North America I have also attended the SDA church on the

weekly Sabbath. I have fellowshipped during their often "pot

luck" Sabbath dinners, the food being generally wonderful and

varied (though most "official" SDA pot luck meals will have no

meat of any kind - individual families at home often will

eat clean meats), yet I have noticed over the years, far too many

dishes made from white flour and white rice, both which contain

just about no nutritional or health value at all. 

     But the statistical facts on SDA males that Hemenway brought

out are still worth noting. Although my view and teaching on the

use of "wine" is not the same as the official stand taken by the

SDA church.

     Reports that have been aired on NATION WIDE news programs,

as well as many articles in various magazines, show that in the

year 2003 as I write and compile this study, we as North American

people are not just fatter than ever before in our history but

we have an ever larger OBESITY problem. And further these reports

show that the facts declare that our CHILDREN are fatter and

OBESE than ever before. Some of this problem is due to less

physical activity, too much sitting in front of the TV and

Computer. But a large part of this problem is also that we eat

way too much "fast food" and "junk food" than ever before.

FOOD LAWS BEFORE THE OLD COVENANT

     By putting certain Scriptures together we should be able to

see that God's  physical food diet laws have always been in

existence from the BEGINNING. Verses to note are:

     Genesis 1:29-30;  4:2; 7:2;  8:20;  15:9;  22:8,13;  26:5; 

     1 Timothy 4:1-5

                        

                         .........................

Written May 2003

POSTSCRIPT

     The argument has been put forth that Genesis 1:29,30 is

nothing to do with a diet food law on vegetation, but just a

"general" God giving Adam and Eve (mankind) DOMAIN over

everything, in the land, sea, and air. Sounds like it could be

plausible looking at verse 28, and the use of the word "domain."

But the fact is God uses a specific phrase in verse 29, "to you

it shall be for FOOD (meat, KJV). And likewise in verse 30, "for

FOOD." 

     God is giving a vegetation food law of "seeding seed" which

we have covered above.

     Then we have an interesting passage in Gen. 9:1-7. God gives

pretty specific instructions in verse 1 and 7, nothing too

general here. The specifics of verse 2 are well documented in the

history of mankind. Verse 4, is a specific law, nothing there as

generality, very specific I would say. Verse 5 and 6 is also very

specific, nothing general about that at all.

     So now verse 3. It would seem that the first part is very

specific, "EVERY MOVING THING that lives shall be food (meat) f

or you..."

     Hummmm, look back at chapter 7:1-9. God instructs Noah to

take 7 pair of CLEAN beast, and ONE pair of UNCLEAN beast into

the ark. Noah does this as we see in verses 7 and 8. Clean and

unclean....what, in how they looked, or how they smelled, or how

they walked, or how they slept, or how many times they washed

themselves in the lake or river? I do not think so! They were

clean or unclean as created FOR HUMAN FOOD!

     Are we supposed to determine from this passage and the rest

of the Bible (Lev.11 and Deut.14 and 1 Tim. 4:1-4) that the

Eternal had His food laws of clean and unclean in the days of

Noah and from creation?  Yes, I contend that is exactly what

we are to understand.

     Then, in Gen.9:3, is God here telling Noah after he comes

out of the ark onto a somewhat new earth (after the huge flood

that had taken place), that he and his family and mankind can NOW

eat ANYTHING that MOVES and LIVES? 

     Notice the last part of verse 3, "even AS the GREEN HERB

have I given you ALL things."  

     Well now, if there NEVER was a "vegetation law" - if

anything and everything in the vegetation world was ALWAYS for

food (obviously except for things like "deadly night-shade" that

would kill you if eaten) and there never was a vegetation law of

"green" and "seeding seed" food law, THEN here is a verse that is

definitely teaching that God REMOVED any food law, if there was

ever one in the first place. And some indeed contend there NEVER

was ANY food laws until Moses. And there are those that say those

laws under Moses were not really food laws, but laws that made

Israel different from other nations, for some kind of "holiness" or

“ritual” as God looked at it anyway.

     But if there WAS a vegetation law that was "green" and

"seeding seed" as in Genesis 1: 29,30, then we have no problem

with understanding Gen.9:3. Every moving thing that liveth was

for food for Noah and his family and mankind, AS, in like

manner, with laws governing it all, as there were laws governing

"green herbs" for food.  The details not spelled out but God

surely would have instructed him in detail if there was a need

to. Obviously  Noah knew there were clean and uncleam beasts

before the flood, as we have seen from chapter 7.

     It was also another way and time that God was telling Noah,

that nothing had changed concerning food laws in anything that

moved and lived, just as nothing had changed in God's vegetation

law. As Noah was re-entering the land surface of the earth and

building from his family more and more to fill the earth, so if

was appropriate for God to reiterate certain things and even

emphasize what God considered important.

     I do not believe Gen.9:3 is saying that God was removing ALL

and any food laws from the things that lived and moved.

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I  WAS  BORN  WITH  VERY  GOOD  GENES  FROM  MY  PARENTS [MY  DAD WAS VERY KEEN ON HEALTHY EATING AND LIVING, FROM A  TEENAGER].  WHEN  I  GOT  TO  TEENAGE, MY  DAD  ENCOURAGED  ME  TO  SEND  FOR  THE  “HEALTH  AND  STRENGTH”  COURSE  BY  CHARLES  ATLAS.  HE  HAD  A  LESSON  ON  DIET  AND  FOODS.  HE  TAUGHT  NOTHING  ABOUT  FOOD  LAWS  FROM  THE  BIBLE,  BUT  WAS  VERY  WISE  IN  THE  BASICS;  AND  PUT  MUCH  EMPHASIS  ON  STAYING  AWAY  FROM  WHITE  FLOUR  PRODUCTS  AS  THERE  WAS  LITTLE  TO  NONE  GOODNESS  IN  THEM  FOR  HEALTH.  HE  ALSO  EMPHASIZED  GOOD  ORGANIC  MILK.

I  HAVE  FOLLOWED  HIS  ADVICE;  THEN  AT  AGE  19  I  LEARNT  ABOUT  GOD’S  FOOS  LAWS  IN  THE  BIBLE.

I  HAVE  NEVER  EATEN  MUCH  MEAT  UNLESS  I  CAN  OBTAIN  IT  AS  ORGANIC.  

I  WAS  VERY  PLEASED  TO  SEE  IN  THE  LAST  FEW  YEARS  THAT  AW

FAST  FOOD  HAS  GONE  TO  ALL  ORGANIC  PRODUCTS,  WELL  IN  CANADA  THEY  HAVE.

I  AM  78  COME  SEPTEMBER  11  2020,  MOST  PEOPLE  ARE  AMAZED  HOW  GOOD  I  LOOK,  AND  HOW  FIT  I  AM.  ONE  GUY  CAME  OUT  WITH  A  BOOK  SOME  YEARS  AGO  CALLED  “REAL  AGE”—— HE  SAID  CORRECTLY  YOU  HAVE  A  BIRTH  AGE [WHEN  BORN]  AND  YOU  HAVE  A  BIOLOGICAL  AGE,  WHICH  IS  THE  MOST  IMPORTANT.  IN  HIS  BOOK  WERE  4  OR  5  PAGES  OF  “QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS”  THAT  ADDED  UP  TO  FIGURING  YOUR  TRUE  BIOLOGICAL  AGE—— I  COME  OUT  AS  57  AND  NOT  77.  

SO  THE  PROOF  OF  A  GOOD  HEALTHY  PIE  IS  IN  THE  EATING,  AS  THEY  SAY.

I  HAVE  PROVED  AND  CONTINUE  TO  PROVE  THE  TRUTH  OF  GOD  AND  TRUTH  OF  GOOD  HEALTHY  FOODS  AND  DRINKS.

Keith Hunt