What Are You Eating?

“Tell me what you eat,” wrote Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, “and I shall tell you what you are.” We all realise that to live properly we need to eat properly. The way we live depends on what we eat. You are what you eat, so what are you eating?
Eating is a basic and underlying concept in the Bible. After God created man He did not tell him to do anything; He simply spoke about man’s eating (Genesis 1:29). God set man in a garden with the tree of life at its centre as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man’s destiny depended upon how he would deal with these two trees... [ Read full article]
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Eating is a basic and underlying concept in the Bible

Eating is a basic and underlying concept in the Bible. After God created man He did not tell him to do anything; He simply spoke about man’s eating (Genesis 1:29). God set man in a garden with the tree of life at its centre as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man’s destiny depended upon how he would deal with those two trees....
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the meaning of our Christian life

God’s intention with man is seen in a consistent way from Genesis to Revelation.

• In the book of Genesis, after creating man, He didn’t give him a list of to do/not to do things – God placed man in front of the tree of life(indicating that God wants to be man’s life – He’s outside of man, but wants to get INSIDE him!). Also, in the garden there is a river which actually reaches the whole earth…. so here we see – God intends that man would eat Him and drink Him.
• At the end of the Bible – in Revelation, in the New Jerusalem, what we see is again – a river of life flowing from the throne and the tree of life on both sides of the river. This time, the New Jerusalem is God mingled with man, God and man in full oneness – here, for eternity, what we do is that we continue to eat and drink God in Christ as the Spirit!.. Read Full Article