Let us analyse what BIBLE says about eating habits, in this article we will cover as far as possible all the verses of Bible which talks about Eating and recommendation given for the human society to eat according to Bible.
Bible verses about Eating?
Genesis 1:29 – God said I have given you every herb bearing seed which are on the surface of the earth and every sort of tree which bears fruit for your food.
Genesis 1:30 – God said I have given you every beast of the earth, every birds of the air, every creepers of the earth and every green herb for your food.
Genesis 9:3 – As before I have given you green things to eat now I am giving you every moving and living things as food to eat. This verse doesn’t reflect on anything which should not be eaten by reading this verse it seems that every living thing which are moving can be eaten.
Exodus 16:12 – Lord said to Moses that in the evening you shall be having Flesh and, in the Morning, you will be having bread. Lord said him to convey this message unto the children of Israel so that they get assured that he is his Lord.
Isaiah 1:19 – Lord here says that if you be obedient to me then you will be eating the good food of the land see here the crucial point to remember is that Lord is in a way saying that not everything on the surface of the earth are good to be eaten.
1 Corinthians 10:31 – Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all in the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 11:29 – For a person who eat and drink without comprehending the importance of Lord’s body is just like destroying his own body. Here Lord wants to reflect on the importance of his body which has been given for the sake of others food so that it should be sinless and free from any problems.
1 Corinthians 6:13 – Here it is stated that the food is for the stomach and the stomach is for the food and the God will destroy this two and the body is not for fulfilling the desires but for the service of God.
Matthew 6:25 – Don’t worry about food and drink what to eat and drink is not life more than food and body more than clothes. Here in this verse it is stated a very philosophical words which I think is stated just to motivate some people so that they can become energetic and so that they stop lamenting and cursing themselves on not been getting food and drink.
Matthew 15:11 – It is not the food which goes inside the body which defiles the man but the bad words which come out of mouth which defiles or makes a man impure.
Proverbs 15:17 – It is better to have herbs where love is than to have ox where hatred is.
Proverbs 17:1 – It is better to have a morsel of food where silence is there than having a banquet in a disturb environment. Well it is good for the health too because if you eat something in haste it will disturb your physical body fatally, so it is better to eat a small piece of bread with silence than fulfilling your stomach gluttonously.
Proverbs 25:27 – It is not good to eat much honey.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 – It is a gift of God that everyone should eat and drink and enjoy the good outcome of their hard work.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 – Walk on right path and eat your bread and drink your wine with a happy heart.
Romans chapter 14: see when we read this chapter we will find that this full chapter speaks about what should one eat or not. So, let us see point wise what it says.
- Do not doubt one who is weak in faith.
- People who has faith can take all things as food whereas who is feeble in faith takes only herbs or green food.
- None should criticize one who takes food and who takes it not because God has accepted him.
- If your brother is disturbed by your food or your eating then you are not in the path of love, so we should not eat anything which disturbs anybody sentiment of feelings verse Romans 14:15.
- God blessing is not in food and drink but on peace, joy and righteousness in the Holy spirit.
- In Romans 14:20 it is stated that every food is clean but one should not eat anything which makes his brothers go astray and which makes the god work comes to nothing.
- Romans 14:21 states that it is better not to eat meat or wine if it is a cause of trouble for his brother.
- Romans 14:23 is the best verse as far as I am concerned in the bible because it says that if you don’t have faith in eating any food that it is sin for you and I think it relates to the science because if you have knowledge about any food and you know that it is good for your health and tongue then it is very obvious that it will be good for you and I think that nobody will have any kind of problem in that, as a whole that will be good for the society and family too.
John 4:34 – Jesus says that my meat or food is to fulfil the desire of the One (God) who sent me in this world.
Note: – Book 1 Timothy 4 verses 4 & 5 states that every creature that God made is good and should not be refused and should be accepted with thanksgiving to the God because it has been sanctified by the words of God and prayer. Now here most of the reader of Bible get confused themselves they started thinking within themselves that God is saying them to eat everything if they like and only thing they need do is that they have to prayer to God to sanctified it from evils or in a general term to get a germ free food but actually that is not the case here God said that we should respect every creature which has been made by God with thanksgiving because more or less they are necessary for the human society as well as this earth to sustain perfectly.
Eat only those things which suits you and which are beneficial for your health other than that its good to ignore. Live happy and Live Long.
