Sunday, October 13, 2013

"let your peace return to you" - Do Not Eat Sinfully





Do Not Eat Sinfully

According to a report issued by FAO last fall, there are 868 million people in the world who are suffering from malnutrition.  The ratio of such people living in developing countries is 99%. However conditions have been steadily improved in these 20 years.

Accordingly the most sinful thing in this world is Michelin Red Guide which introduces restaurants of high-quality.

What did Jesus eat? 
In Nazareth meals have always been important occasions. The act of eating and drinking together forms a bond of family, friendship, and community. It is no coincidence that many of Jesus' stories and most important encounters-such as the parable of the wedding banquet, the feeding of the five thousand, and the last supper-take place around meals or feasts. 
Despite their significance, meals were quite simple and came only twice a day. Bread, legumes, oil, and dried or fresh fruit composed a typical meal.
Among the foods most likely available in first-century Nazareth:  
Grains: Wheat, Barley, sorghum
Legumes (pulses): lentils, broad beans, chickpeas (pulses were roasted, dried, and used in soups and stews or ground into pastes and purees)
Vegetables: cucumbers, onions, garlic, leeks
Fruits: olives, figs, grapes, melon, pomegranates, dates, (fruit by-products: olive oil, raisins, wine, dried figs, fig cakes, syrup, honey)
Nuts: walnuts, pistachios, almonds
Spices: cumin, dill, cinnamon, mint, hyssop, mallow, chicory, mustard, coriander, salt
Milk and milk by products: butter, leben,(curdled milk), yogurt, cheese
Meat and related food: eggs, fish (salted), fish by-products (fish brine, fish gravy), lamb, beef (probably quite rare), fowl (chickens, doves)

Nazareth, as a Jewish town, followed dietary laws from Hebrew Scripture governing clean and unclean animals. Cattle, sheep, and goats could be eaten. Pigs were forbidden. Fish with fins and scales were allowed. Catfish, crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, shrimp), and mollusks (clams, mussels) were not allowed.

The last recorded meal of Jesus is in Luke 24:42-43 after his resurrection when he eats broiled fish to show his disciples that he is not a ghost. The last meal Jesus serves is a breakfast of fish and bread (John 21).
http://nazarethvillage.com/food.php
If all the Christians today eat the same foods Jesus took, there would be no tragedy about foods in developing countries.

But can those who eat more than Jesus ate in terms of quality and quantity claim that they are followers of Christ Jesus?

The key to solving any problems in the human world must depend on realization of how sinful people of today are as they east so much.  However, conversely, the solution is so simple: Eat less or like Christ Jesus.

Truly how he or she eats tells everything about the person.



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Mat 10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
Mat 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Mat 10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.