Why Christians Reject the Paleo Diet – Born-Again-Christian.Org

What Should Christians Eat?

The Paleo diet bans all the bread pictured above.

Q: Should Christians adopt natural whole-food diets, such as the Paleo diet, that claim to have health benefits, and prolong life by avoiding processed foods?

A: There have been numerous fad-diets, and miracle-food crazes, down the centuries.

Inventing wacky New-Age diets, and “miracle” dietary supplements is a cottage-industry in China, Japan, and Korea, with massive markets amongst the lost and gullible.

Snake-oil salesmen still make fortunes in California.

More conservative Europe, Scandinavia, and the UK, present un-exploited markets for advocates.

Seduction of the Flesh

Christians generally know better than to be seduced by such chatter. We follow Christ, led by His Spirit, not the world and fashions, inspired by demons. 1 Co. 2:12, Eph. 2:1-3 KJV;

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Natural Immortality?

The “Palaeolithic diet” you mention, is hyped as slowing the ageing process and bestowing potential immortality; one atheist proponent, Michael Rose, gushed at a West-Coast conference, that the Paleo lifestyle diet is a;

…natural way to achieve “biological immortality” without the use of anti-aging drugs and stem cell treatments. [sic]

Bad Science

His confidence is founded on a postulated “caveman” diet of; “stone-age” unrefined, minimally processed, whole foods, embroidered with Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory and his observations breeding the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

This, sadly, is the ostensibly “scientific” foundation for his health-fad.

Sir Isaac Newton

What would Sir Isaac Newton say of such nonsense?

The Paleo-diet forbids farmed foods such as; cereals, grains, milk, potatoes, all processed food, bread, flour, salt, and sugar.

Whatever the claimed health benefits, and pseudo-science underlying this silliness, Christians know it is ungodly, and doomed, because it repeatedly contradicts what God has declared to us.

The rationale for the dietary claims is evolutionary, and therefore utterly false.

Man did not evolve, or develop to the “evolving animal species” we witness today.

True Science

Here’s where we came from, Gen. 1:26-28 KJV;

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Almighty God created mankind.

God’s Staple Food

He provided the perfect diet for the pinnacle of His Creation, Gen. 1:29 KJV;

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Meat here means food, not flesh; mankind was created vegetarian, eating fruit, herbs and seeds (nuts and grains).

However, everything changed at The Fall.

Following man’s sin, God cursed the Earth, and mankind was sent away to till the ground for sustenance, Gen. 3:17-19, 23 KJV;

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

From plucking perfect divine fruit from trees in the Garden of Eden, to sweating and tilling the ground Eastwards until Jesus returns.

Laws were given later to the Jews concerning which animal flesh could, and could not, be eaten.

These Laws were fulfilled and ended (Rom. 10:4) when Christ came and paid for man’s guilt.

Thus all food is now made acceptable through faith in Christ. (Acts Chs. 10+15)

Such liberty extends even, if necessary, to consuming meat sacrificed to idols, being sanctified by thanksgiving prayer. 1 Co. 10:25 KJV;

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.

(Shambles: The butchering place of a market.)

And sanctified by believing prayer in Christ’s Name, 1 Tim. 4:4-5KJV;

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

When God became Flesh on Earth, He was tried and tested victorious, dismissing the Devil with the word, Mtt. 4:4 KJV;

It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Notice; in addition to defeating the enemy, this power-packed scripture implicitly declares bread to be the staple food for the human body (as does Gen. 3:19); and God’s word the staple of eternal life.

Eat and assimilate scripture: Because God is in and through that word.

From the Sublime to the Mundane

Bread is made from wheat grains, ground into flour and baked.

Bread was the staple physical food of Christ on Earth, and is for all Jews to this day.
Bread is so crucial to mankind, God designated it man’s staff. Eze. 4:16, 5:16, 14:13.
God commanded the Jewish priesthood to present in worship both leavened and unleavened bread.
Bread is used throughout the Bible as symbolic of Christ.
The Lord miraculously multiplied bread to feed a multitude.
Christ instructs all believers to eat bread in the Lord’s Supper in remembrance of His Body broken for us.

God has Given Mankind Bread as a Staple Food

Some pseudo-scientists reject God’s eternal word, and attempt to persuade us that eating bread is harmful.

Who are you going to believe and follow?

Almighty God in the Flesh: Or atheists pushing demonically inspired diet books?

There’s much more wrong with the Palaeolithic diet, but if you need me to point it out, you are not paying attention to the Lord, and would not pay attention to what I say either.

Conclusion:

Please don’t make an idol of food: Not in quantity or type.

Coveting and greed are idolatry (Eph. 5:5), so keep your flesh under the control of your spirit, and in line with God’s word. Let’s get on with the mission Christ has given each of us.

Feed on Him, be occupied till He returns, and He will keep you fit and healthy, instead of greedy, fat, and idle.

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