What would Jesus eat?

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What would Jesus eat?

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Was Jesus a vegetarian?

 

The Benny Hinn Ministries TV program screening in Australia recently

featured interviews

with authors of publications " What would Jesus eat? " and " Miracle food cures

from the bible " . The TV segment which screens in the early hours of the

morning,

mentioned herbal and health cures from the bible and featured Minister Benny

Hinns own personal physician.

 

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“What Would Jesus Eat?”

Dr. Don Colbert, Benny Hinn’s personal physician, details the ultimate

program for eating well, feeling great and living longer in his book “What

Would Jesus Eat?” This brand-new volume of over 200 pages examines such

topics as: ·The health benefits of foods Jesus ate and the health risks of

foods He avoided. ·How to follow Jesus’ eating model with foods that are

available today. ·Why foods forbidden in the Old Testament dietary laws are

unhealthy. ·And the type of exercise Jesus participated in.

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" Miracle food cures from the bible "

As an ever-growing body of scientific research shows, the folk remedies of

ancient peoples often prove to be astonishingly effective. This is

particularly well demonstrated in Miracle Food Cures From The Bible, which

reveals the remarkable healing power of many foods and herbs described in

the Old and New Testaments.

 

Minister Hinn has a website which advertises the two publications mentioned

on his

website for sale.

 

I don't know what information these books contain but there are many who

believe Jesus was a vegetarian.

 

It is a fact that the Bible was written about 50 years after the death of

Jesus by scholars who were

able to pick and choose what they included in the bible.

 

Some people believe many items were excluded from the bible

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Many people believe a truer source of the teachings Jesus preached were foun

d in earlier historical

writings some of which have been sourced from early scrolls and an early

religious

group named the Essenes.

 

It is probably most likely Jesus was a vegetarian. Here are some of the

sources mentioning

the early teachings of Jesus.

 

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" Therefore, O Mary, ye shall eat No Animal flesh, nor drink strong drink,

for the Holy child shall be consecrated unto the All-Eternal from its

mother's womb, and neither Animal Flesh nor strong drink shall he eat or

drink in any form, nor shall ever a razor touch his head. " And the angel

Gabriel spake further: " And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also

conceived a son in her womb, even of old age will she bring forth, this

being the sixth month with her, she who was called barren. For, I say unto

you, with God no thing shall ever be impossible. " At that, Mary said,

" Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it unto me according to thy Holy

words. "

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Loving This Existence

First, you will have to Love those who are like you, because you know

them, because at least you can feel a certain familiarity, a certain

at-homeness with them. Then your Love can go on expanding. Then you can Love

Animals, then you can Love Trees, then you can Love Rocks. And then you can

Love this Existence as such, not before then.

Because if your God is True, if you have really known what God means, if

you have realised even for a bit, if you have even attained to just a

glimpse of what God is, you will Love Human Beings, you will Love Animals,

you will Love Trees, you will Love Rocks and you will just Love. Love will

become your Natural State of Being. And if you cannot Love Human Beings or

the Animals, please don't deceive yourself, then no Church or Temple is

going to be of any help to you.

The Teaching of Cruelty In Animals

6. AND as Jesus was going with some of his Disciples he met with a

certain man who trained dogs to Hunt other Creatures. And he said to the

man, Why doest thou thus? and the man said, By this I live and what profit

is there to any in these Creatures? these Creatures are weak, but the Dogs

they are strong. And Jesus said, Thou lackest Wisdom and Love. Lo, every

Creature which God hath made hath its end, and purpose, and who can say what

good is there in it? or what profit to thyself, or mankind?

7. And, for thy living, behold the fields yielding their increase, and

the Fruit-bearing Trees and the Herbs; what needest thou more than these

which honest work of thy hands will not give to thee? Woe to the strong who

misuse their strength, Woe to the Hunters for they shall be Hunted.

8. And the man marvelled, and left off training the dogs to hunt, and

taught them to save life rather than destroy, And he learned of the

Doctrines of Jesus and became his Disciple.

 

Lection XIV Of The Holy 12

 

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Early Christian Vegetarians

The apostle Matthew partook of Seeds and Nuts and Vegetables without

Flesh. Clement of Alexandria (The Instructor, book 2, chapter 1).

Peter said, " I live on Olives and Bread to which I rarely only add

Vegetables. " Pseudo-Clementine Homolies 12,6; also Recognitions 7,6.

“Wherefore, as then ye were deceived by the forerunner Simon, and so

became dead in your souls to God, and were smitten in your bodies; so now,

if you repent, as I said, and submit to those things which are

well-pleasing to God, you may get new strength to your bodies, and recover

your soul’s health. And the things which are well-pleasing to God are these:

to pray to Him, to ask from Him, recognizing that He is the giver of all

things, and gives with discriminating law; to abstain from the table of

devils, not to taste dead flesh, not to touch blood; to be washed from all

pollution; and the rest in one word, — as the God-fearing Jews " Clementine

Homily 7, chap 4.

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James The Just The Brother Of Our Lord

James, who is called the brother of the Lord, surnamed the Just, the son of

Joseph by another wife, as some think, but, as appears to me, the son of

Mary sister of the mother of our Lord of whom John makes mention in his

book, after our Lord's passion at once ordained by the apostles bishop of

Jerusalem, wrote a single epistle, which is reckoned among the seven

Catholic Epistles and even this is claimed by some to have been published by

some one else under his name, and gradually, as time went on, to have gained

authority. Hegesippus who lived near the apostolic age, in the fifth book of

his Commentaries, writing of James. says " After the apostles, James the

brother of the Lord surnamed the Just was made head of the Church at

Jerusalem. Many indeed are called James. This one was holy from his mother's

womb. He drank neither wine nor strong drink, ate no flesh, never shaved or

anointed himself with ointment or bathed.

Hegesippus, quoted in The Church History of Eusebius, book 2, chapter 23.

From the Catholic Encyclopedia Search.

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Christian Testimony

The eating of Flesh Meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the

flood they have the strings and stinking juices of Animal Meat into our

mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the

desert (Essenes). Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been

fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no

longer allowed for us to eat the Flesh of Animal Meat. St Jerome

The steam of Meat meals darkens the Spirit. One can hardly have virtue

if one enjoys Meat meals and feasts. In the Earthly Paradise, no one

Sacrificed Animals, and no one ate the Flesh of Animal Meat. St Basil

All things of Creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of

man ... God wants us to help Animals, if they need help. Every Creature in

distress has the same right to be protected. St Francis of Assisi

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Animal Sacrifices Are Rejected by God

Your countless Sacrifices, what are they to me? says the Lord. I am

sated with whole-offerings of rams and the fat of buffaloes; I have no

desire for the blood of bulls, of sheep and of he-goats. Whenever you come

into my presence - who asked you for this? No more shall you trample my

courts. The offer of your gifts is useless, the reek of Sacrifice is

Abhorrent to me. Isaiah 1:11-12

There is blood on your hands; wash yourselves and be clean. Isaiah 1:16

For I desire steadfast Love and not Sacrifice, the knowledge of God,

rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6

If you had known what that text means, " I require Mercy, not Sacrifice, "

you would not have condemned the Innocent. Matthew 12:7

Sacrifices were invented by men to be a pretext for Eating the Flesh of

Animals. Clement of Alexandria

 

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Jesus Again Gives The Humane Holy Law

And Jesus said unto them, " Behold, anew I give unto you, The Law, which

is not new but from old. Even as Moses gave the law to Israel after the

flesh, so also I give unto You the Law for the Kingdom of Israel after the

Spirit.

" For who are the Israel of God? Even they of every nation and tribe who

work Righteousness, Love, Mercy and keep my Commandments, these are the True

Israel of God. "

And standing upon his feet, Jesus Spake, saying:

" Hear 0 Israel, the Eternal All, Thy God is One; Many are My overseers,

and My prophets. In Me all live and move, and have subsistence.

" Ye shall love thy God with all your understanding of the Holy Law.

" Ye shall love thy neighbor as yourself, even as the law instructs.

" Ye shall not take away the life of any creature for your pleasure, nor

for your profit, nor yet torment it.

" Ye shall not steal the goods of any, nor gather lands and riches to

yourselves, beyond your need or use.

" Ye shall not eat the Flesh, nor drink the Blood of any slaughtered

Creature, nor yet anything which bringeth disorder to your Health or Senses.

" Ye shall not make impure marriages, where love and health are not, nor

yet corrupt yourselves, or any creature made pure by the Holy One.

" Ye shall not bear false witness against any, nor wilfully deceive any

by a lie to hurt them.

" Ye shall not do unto others, as ye would not that others Should do unto

you.

" Ye shall worship One Eternal, the Father-Mother in Heaven, of Whom are

all things, and reverence the Holy Name, keeping sacred Their daily holy

communions.

" Ye shall revere your fathers and your mothers on earth, whose care is

for you, and all the Teachers of Righteousness,

" Ye shall cherish and protect the weak, and those who are oppressed, and

all Creatures that suffer wrong.

" Ye shall work with your hands the things that are good and seemly, so

shalt ye eat the fruits of the earth, and live long in the land.

" Ye shall purify yourselves daily and rest every Seventh Day (Saturday)

from labour, keeping Holy the Sabbaths and the Festivals of your God and

Creator.

" Ye shall do unto others, as ye would that others should unto you. "

 

From The Holy 12

 

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Lastly, I have heard the a local Buddhist Society has many members who eat

meat yet

they will not kill a moth inside their homes (they catch the moth and place

it outside).

 

The hypocracy of eating dead animals as long as one has not partaken in

killing them

by a religion who believes in reincarnation is strange.

 

Obviously the desire to eat flesh of dead animals for some people

overcomes the morals and ethical dilemma of

participating in taking away the most precious thing a living creature

has - it life. By eating the meat of dead animals, people are participating

in the process which perpetuates the endless breeding and killing of poor

animals who, like humans, have no wish to die.

 

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