I usually don't answer these things but had to answer
your question about the misquoted part in the new
testament about the messiah saying all foods were
clean to eat.  That is one man's opinion and in most
decent "translations" the put in such a way as to let
you know that this is their opinion (i.e., what they
wish it said.
Peter said he would not eat any unclean foods and his
dream was about the goyim (nations) being accepted
into the nation of Isreal, this is explained in the
next verses.
There is nothing there about declaring all foods
clean and if you look at the text they were talking
about the cermonial washing of hands that is still
practiced among the jews.  The messiah would not nor
indeed did not have the authority to contradict his
father.  Many misquote scripture to their own
interpretation and demise.
I hope this helps with this passage anyways.

--- Tom and Anne Donlon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This is a fascinating discussion. I have seen people
> use Scripture to
> support so many things, I tend to be a bit skeptical
> and take a devil's
> advocate stance (sheesh what a phrase to use in this
> context).
>
> I had a few questions and thought others might have
> comments/thoughts...
>
> They didn't eat meat in Eden, did they? I thought
> the first animal
> "sacrifice" was when The Lord killed an animal to
> clothe Adam and Eve after
> the fall. And isn't Adam's assigned task in Eden -
> taking care of the garden
> and the animals - a sort of agriculture? Do we know
> what they were growing
> and eating there?
>
> And flesh was first eaten after Noah's flood.
> (Perhaps something happened
> after that flood - where waters came from the
> atmosphere and the earth -
> that caused it to be necessary to eat meat?)
>
> Another question: when the children of Israel were
> given the Mosaic law and
> the list of clean and unclean foods were given, why
> were grains not
> mentioned? Wouldn't this be the perfect opportunity
> for us to be warned off
> of grains? And dairy? And other items that are
> paleo-verboten?
>
> Was the kind of "bread" described in Ezekiel 4 the
> normal kind of bread
> eaten then and, if so, were the foods therein
> non-harmful to humans because
> they were primitive and hadn't faced several
> thousand years of UN-natural
> selection yet?
>
> And another: if scripture is anti-grain, why would
> bread be given such high
> symbolic value in scripture? "I am the bread of
> life..."   "Take, eat; this
> is my body which will be given for you...do this in
> memory of me..."
>
> And one more passage I have questions about: "and
> thus He declared (to St.
> Peter in Acts) all foods clean."
>
> These are tons of references to grain, wheat, bread,
> etc. in the Bible, and
> I could go on and on. These are just the few that
> came immediately to mind
> when trying to decide if there's support for the
> idea that the Bible speaks
> one way or the other about paleo.
>
> I personally think that the principles of diet in
> the Bible should be given
> more weight than the actual food items mentioned.
> Those principles being,
> IMHO: give thanks for it, share it with others,
> don't eat too much of it,
> consider the [insect] that stores up foor for later,
> and don't worry about
> where the next meal's coming from...
>
> Anne
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Susan Carmack
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:19 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Paleo is in the Bible too!
>
> Hi Kristina and paleopeoples,
>
> Kristina asked: I am a Christian and have often
> wondered how Christianity
> and a Paleo
> lifestyle fit together. There are so many times in
> the bible that they talk
> about eating bread. Are you saying that this bible
> verse indicates that God
> was saying bread would make us sick?
>
> You will find throughout the Bible that everybody is
> sick - but Adam and
> Eve were made perfect. After they sinned and
> followed Satan, they got sick
> and died. They were made to live forever on a
> Paradise Earth but their
> punishment for sinning was Death and Disease having
> been thrown out of
> Eden. If you do a search in the Bible, you will find
> epilepsy, leprosy,
> blindness, lameness, plagues, just about every
> disease and abnormality we
> see today. As we have discovered through the paleo,
> celiac, nomilk, no
> sugar, etc lists (that originate by people who love
> their fellow man so
> much that they want them to live!), just about all
> disease can be cured by
> a diet of foods that God supplied - not that Man
> cultivated. That is the
> pretense for Neanderthin.
> So, Satan is in charge of the bad foods with
> Rockerfeller and the boys
> profiting. If we eat what God created,  we are on
> our Way back to Eden and
> Everlasting Life. There are a number of spiritual
> requirements too of
> course....
>
> Also, I have the story of Daniel and his 3 friends
> who went on a grain free
> diet according to God's direction. They were granted
> health, wisdom and
> insight and were thus able to interpret King
> Nebuchadnezzar's dreams and
> predict the future of the world!!
>
> 'women' would suffer greatly
> >during childbirth
>
> I have a friend who went completely paleo - no
> grains - who just had a baby
> at her house in a tub of water. NO pain. 3 1/2 hours
> of labour. She is 40
> and said it was so easy, she would have 'a million
> more'. Her husband
> agreed to one. She has 2 toddlers at home already!!
> This woman was
> originally scheduled for a Caesarian (Caesar is in
> the Bible too) because
> she almost died last time from heart disease/or an
> allergic reaction to
> penicillin.
>
> Is this pain free birth indication that we could be
> close to going back to
> the Garden?
>
> >     Planting and tilling and harvesting,
> >     sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk,
> >     Until you return to that ground yourself, dead
> and buried;
> >     you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
>
> The advent of agricultural revolution and the
> cultivation of grains! This
> is coincident to Eliots post about the grains for
> slaves project. We became
> slaves when Adam and Eve got the boot!
> Adam and Eve had everything to eat in the Garden, no
> sweat involved:
>
> (Genesis 2:8-9) . . .. 9 Thus God made to grow out
> of the ground every tree
> desirable to one's sight and good for food and also
> the tree of life in the
> middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge
> of good and bad.
>
> ...but it didn't take long to wreck the Place.
>
> Paleobest,
> Susan
>



Marquesa Aguilar




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