Biblical Wisdom for a Healing Diet

This book is a humble attempt to give God glory for His wisdom both in designing foods for us and guiding us to obedient behaviors in their preparation and consumption. In this book, the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible is used in deference to its grammatical accuracy, its reception by modern scholars and its position in a worthy line of earlier versions. This work differs from many other manuscripts by Christian writers on nutrition. It is organized according to a chronological sequence of Biblical passages, rather than nutritional or biological categories written in some pedagogical order. 134 Scriptural passages have been selected for their didactic quality in discussing either food choice or food use. For ease of reference, these passages are ordered from Genesis to Revelation. Each passage is first rendered in the NKJV. Its meaning is then explored using root terms from the original language where helpful. The passage's possible dietary application is then described and finally, because food preference is notoriously difficult to control or alter, treatment of the passage concludes with a prayer.