At first GOD gave Adam and Eve the physical food to sustain their physical bodies.
"And out of the ground the Lord GOD caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food,..." Genesis 2.5.
So Adam and Ever were pure vegetarians. But after their disobedience and knowing the good and evil from the Tree of Knowledge, their became carnivorous beings.
Diets changes from century to century, and humans became very familiar with many plants and animals they can use for food.
But the real change in this process of consumption of food came with the Law of Moses. In this Law GOD divided food as clean and unclean and established very strict borders and limits what His people shall eat and what they shall not to eat.
This was done for the purpose to keep the people of GOD clean and holy before the Lord their GOD, "You shall be holy for I Am Holy." So the physical clean food kept Israelites physically holy before the Lord their GOD.
It was very interesting turn of events, because holiness as such is completely spiritual entity, and how clean physical food can make physical people holy is not completely understood. One of the answers to this question may lies in obedience to the Lord's Command. Whoever obeys the Lord is a holy being.
Another answer may lies in the spiritual realm of a human being. Because the life giving energy (soul) of the Lord located in our blood, and the blood is part of our digestive system which transfers the nutrients of food to our body cells, because of it mixing blood with unclean nutrients of unclean food will defile entire human body and make it unclean physically and Spiritually.
So, for the first time in human history physical food became a part of a spiritual essence of a human being. But the GOD did not stop on this issue alone. In the Law that GOD gave to Moses, the Lord outlined special Spiritual Commandments what would keep human being holy before Him, but in slightly different way than before. GOD in His Commandments introduced "Spiritual Food," as the pure Spiritual core of all mankind.
Deuteronomy 8.3
3."He (GOD) humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna with which neither you, nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." (Matthew 4.4) (Luke 4.4).
These words of Moses is the pivotal point in relation to substance that called food. So now we have two types of food. One substance sustains only physical body and that is the physical food.
The other substance is the Spiritual Food that sustain life of the soul embedded in our blood by GOD.
The nutrients of the physical food provide our physical body with essential chemical and biological nutrients necessary for the functioning of our physical body.
The Spiritual Food - that is the Word of GOD - is our Spiritual Nutrients, which support the Spiritual essence of our soul and establishes the Spiritual Link between our soul and the Spirit of GOD.
1Corinthians 10.1-4.19-21.25-28.31
1.I do not want you to be unaware brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2.and all were Baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
3.and all ate the same Spiritual Food,
4.and all drank the same Spiritual Drink, they were drinking from a Spiritual Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
So the point of this post is that we may live according to two different ways of life.
One way is to live a Physical Life and care only for our physical and material well-being, which is limited by time and temporary.
The other way is to live a Spiritual Life according to the Word of GOD, according to His Statutes and His Commandments and have a Spiritual Connection with our Creator throughout our temporary physical life, in order to obtain everlasting Spiritual Life with our GOD.
How possibly it can be done? Reading, and even better, studying the Bible every day is the only way to keep your Spiritual Life alive.
Just image if you feed yourself with the physical food ones a week. Of course it will help to lose a lot of extra weight, but also can lead to physical dystrophy and even death, not good for our physical body.
How then our Spiritual Life can be healthy and would not die from the Spiritual starvation if we feed it with Spiritual Food (Word of GOD) ones a week on Sundays? And even church not always provide the Spiritual Food to those who are Spiritually starving. How it even possible to sustain a Spiritual Life of a human soul in such condition? Literally impossible.
In Deuteronomy 8.3 Moses opened to us a great secret of healthy Spiritual Life, it means constantly, every day of our life, feed our soul with Spiritual Ordinances of our GOD written in our Bible, and less care for our physical food, because even if our body dies from physical starvation or from any other causes, our Spiritual Life fed by the Spiritual Food of the Word of the GOD, will continue to live after our physical death forever, and will never die.
"And out of the ground the Lord GOD caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food,..." Genesis 2.5.
So Adam and Ever were pure vegetarians. But after their disobedience and knowing the good and evil from the Tree of Knowledge, their became carnivorous beings.
Diets changes from century to century, and humans became very familiar with many plants and animals they can use for food.
But the real change in this process of consumption of food came with the Law of Moses. In this Law GOD divided food as clean and unclean and established very strict borders and limits what His people shall eat and what they shall not to eat.
This was done for the purpose to keep the people of GOD clean and holy before the Lord their GOD, "You shall be holy for I Am Holy." So the physical clean food kept Israelites physically holy before the Lord their GOD.
It was very interesting turn of events, because holiness as such is completely spiritual entity, and how clean physical food can make physical people holy is not completely understood. One of the answers to this question may lies in obedience to the Lord's Command. Whoever obeys the Lord is a holy being.
Another answer may lies in the spiritual realm of a human being. Because the life giving energy (soul) of the Lord located in our blood, and the blood is part of our digestive system which transfers the nutrients of food to our body cells, because of it mixing blood with unclean nutrients of unclean food will defile entire human body and make it unclean physically and Spiritually.
So, for the first time in human history physical food became a part of a spiritual essence of a human being. But the GOD did not stop on this issue alone. In the Law that GOD gave to Moses, the Lord outlined special Spiritual Commandments what would keep human being holy before Him, but in slightly different way than before. GOD in His Commandments introduced "Spiritual Food," as the pure Spiritual core of all mankind.
Deuteronomy 8.3
3."He (GOD) humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna with which neither you, nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." (Matthew 4.4) (Luke 4.4).
These words of Moses is the pivotal point in relation to substance that called food. So now we have two types of food. One substance sustains only physical body and that is the physical food.
The other substance is the Spiritual Food that sustain life of the soul embedded in our blood by GOD.
The nutrients of the physical food provide our physical body with essential chemical and biological nutrients necessary for the functioning of our physical body.
The Spiritual Food - that is the Word of GOD - is our Spiritual Nutrients, which support the Spiritual essence of our soul and establishes the Spiritual Link between our soul and the Spirit of GOD.
1Corinthians 10.1-4.19-21.25-28.31
1.I do not want you to be unaware brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2.and all were Baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
3.and all ate the same Spiritual Food,
4.and all drank the same Spiritual Drink, they were drinking from a Spiritual Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
So the point of this post is that we may live according to two different ways of life.
One way is to live a Physical Life and care only for our physical and material well-being, which is limited by time and temporary.
The other way is to live a Spiritual Life according to the Word of GOD, according to His Statutes and His Commandments and have a Spiritual Connection with our Creator throughout our temporary physical life, in order to obtain everlasting Spiritual Life with our GOD.
How possibly it can be done? Reading, and even better, studying the Bible every day is the only way to keep your Spiritual Life alive.
Just image if you feed yourself with the physical food ones a week. Of course it will help to lose a lot of extra weight, but also can lead to physical dystrophy and even death, not good for our physical body.
How then our Spiritual Life can be healthy and would not die from the Spiritual starvation if we feed it with Spiritual Food (Word of GOD) ones a week on Sundays? And even church not always provide the Spiritual Food to those who are Spiritually starving. How it even possible to sustain a Spiritual Life of a human soul in such condition? Literally impossible.
In Deuteronomy 8.3 Moses opened to us a great secret of healthy Spiritual Life, it means constantly, every day of our life, feed our soul with Spiritual Ordinances of our GOD written in our Bible, and less care for our physical food, because even if our body dies from physical starvation or from any other causes, our Spiritual Life fed by the Spiritual Food of the Word of the GOD, will continue to live after our physical death forever, and will never die.