About Eating and Drinking

We should not make our relationship to God dependent upon foods and drinks. We should not look down on someone who eats everything, and we should neither discredit someone who abstains from certain foods or drinks.

To be cleansed in the blood of Jesus Christ means that nothing we're letting into our mouths can make us unclean anymore, because, as I talked about yesterday, we're coming from a consciousness of completeness, not one of lack. While most spiritual doctrines have strict rules about eating and drinking, the New Testament gives us the freedom to choose on our own. Because would we believed that something external that enters our bodies could make us unclean, for what Messiah would have died?

In modern times Christian movements have developed that try to convince their followers that we must become vegetarians or even vegans or that we wouldn't be allowed to drink alcohol or caffeine. But this stands in complete opposition to what the New Testament is telling us. The Apostle Paul is even going so far as to say that only demonic spirits in the end times would make people have a bad conscience about food and drinks (1 Timothy 4:1-5). The New Testament admonishes us not to get drunk, but at the same time it encourages us to drink not only water but also wine (1 Timothy 5:23).

It is a teaching from the book of Zohar that wine and alcohol let the sinners stumble but let the souls of the righteous rejoice. Constant belief in the death of the Messiah will create a constant circuit of energy. This means that there can be no short-circuit anymore through 'false' eating or drinking. Because the Messiah has declared all foods and drinks as clean (Mark 7:19). Rather, we should trust our own body, what we will choose to eat and what not, because we are the temple (1 Corinthians 3:16). But this should also make us not proud to look down on others who abstain from certain foods or drinks generally or during certain periods of time.

We should only remember that we should care in the same measure how we treat others or speak of others as we're sometimes choosing our daily dishes. Because not what enters our mouths makes us unclean, but what is leaving them. The words of our tongues witness about our hearts (Matthew 15:11).