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I am Christian and mostly raw… moving toward 100% at my own pace.
Hi!!! Thanks for introducing yourselves! Sometimes I feel a little alienated out there in the raw food world. For instance, I’d love to go on a Raw Food vacation/retreat, but Eastern Religion or some form of it seems to be woven into all of them. I just want to focus on the health of it, and being a good steward of the body God gave me. I don’t want being Raw to be the golden calf…ya know what I mean!
germin8 – I’ve been looking into a family vacation to DC. My 7 yr. old loves all things History of the USA. Any advice, tips, any raw food resturants or places to stay! Any good places to camp? We also want to go to Colonial Williamsburg, and the new Creation Museum in Kentucky.
Hi! I too am sold out for Jesus Christ. I have also eaten raw for the last 9 years and love eating 100% raw. I found that when our diets are cleaner, our thinking will be clearer and our emotions can unblock. In otherwords, we can think, obey and follow Christ better and take care of the body (temple) He gave us. I am also a nutrition coach and teach others how to change their diets from the hostess ding dong diet to a more raw one. I eat fresh raw food every day and love it, but my recipes are easy, no hydrating, no oils, just wholesome organic, raw, soaked and sprouted foods that are delicious. That’s why I signed on to this website this week to look at the recipes. Glad to know there are many Christians on this website too.
I’m a Christian as well! =]
Hello! I’m new here, to raw, and am also a Christian! So glad to be here! I am also in the DC area!
I’m a Christian, too! =D
There are a lot of references in the bible that encourage you to eat raw. When I was dealing with being diagnosed with cancer 4 years ago, I went 100% raw, and when I would get afraid (because the doctors wanted to give me radical surgery) a friend of mine would remind me of certain scriptures, and they would really lift me up, and allow me to trust God to heal me. I was doing the raw thing to survive, and in the end, it was a great experience, because I might not have ever discovered true faith and healing and the power of God and raw foods!
I have 3 children, and my 2 sons who are born since the whole cancer scare, are my miracle boys. And just to let you know, I am not 100% raw right now, but I have never had any cancer scares since then.
6 weeks into my raw cleanse, (I was praying A LOT) a voice told me I was “set free” one day when I was praying. I knew it was the Holy Spirit confirming that I didn’t have cancer anymore. ONLY I knew that I was free from sickness. Try explaining that to people-you just can’t. The whole raw food thing didn’t even make since to other christians. But God used me to show his amazing healing power.
Another thing, there is a website, but I haven’t been to it in a long time so I am not sure if it still exists . It is Hallelujah Acres, www.hacres.com.
Happy New Year!
raw christian here,i am so thank ful to God for giving me this diet
It is so encouraging to see so many Christians eating raw! I have felt like a lone ranger in this lifestyle because most Christians look at you like you’re crazy, while they eat their donuts and drink their coffee. It is so sad.
I praise God that he has strengthened me to begin eating the food He has created… and it is so delicious!
God is good… ALL THE TIME! :)
BTW, I live in Las Vegas, NV.
I am a Christian. I am a newbie at eating raw. I am about 50% raw. I am very excited to be on this journey of eating better. I’ve noticed my depression disappearing and PMS is gone this month! I always try to explain to people who think I eat weird that the food God made {and people didnt tamper with} is always the best!
I am also a Christian, and whenever anyone questions my raw-vegan diet, I simply relpy that it is my way of caring for the temple with which God blessed me. It is truly wonderful that others are also “giving credit where credit is due,” as it is ultimately God who heals and cares for us all.
Im a raw Christian! And loving life!
Praise God! I have also repented of my sins and am saved by Jesus! so lovely to see other Christian Raw foodists. This makes for fun fellowship. I believe that those who say God commands us to eat meat… Many do not realize that we are so blessed today to be able to grow plants year round and obtain liquid sunshine from plants year round. PLUS… there is a major difference in the way that animals are raised as apposed to how they were back in Jesus’ time. http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/
Wow, this is really cool! I didn’t know there were many other raw Christians.
Yeah, usually when I tell people at my church about how I eat they think I’m weird/crazy/insane. Only two people actually thought that was kind of cool and didn’t look at me like I was a weirdo, haha.
Hi, I’m a Christian and raw vegan as well. I can relate to what LisaMarie said about other Christians giving raw vegan Christians a hard time. I’m the only vegan in my church. It’s a Spanish-speaking church so you can imagine the kind of food that is brought to potlucks: fried pork, tamales, rice n’ chicken, tacos, puddings etc… At first the members found it hard to fathom my veganism. Now they understand and let me be during potlucks and other food-related events.
It’s great to know there are other Jesus lovers out there for support.
I live near DC also. Proud Catholic here,and thats right- we need to rather HAVE to take care of this temple that God gave us- Kudos to you!
Hey! Loving Jesus in Chi-town! I am so happy to see that people are led by the Spirit to change their eating! I like raw, but like others, don’t want it to be associated with some new age stuff. I am in the process of acquiring a retreat center which has a raw food kitchen. I will write a post when the deal finishes!!!
Wonderful to see all the other Christians out there! Anyone near Portland, OR?
there are pararell tranlations of genesis 1:29 here:
http://bible.cc/genesis/1-29.htm
And here it is in Hebrew with English translation, but i don’t know if it is a literal translation or not:
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm
you’re welcome germin8, and thank you too for those links!
in my printed version (spanish translation) it says “pulses to eat and water to drink” too. you may find interesting this:
http://scripturetext.com/daniel/1-12.htm
I copy just a couple of things:
“us pulse zeroa` (zay-ro’-ah) something sown (only in the plural), i.e. a vegetable (as food)—pulse.
to eat ‘akal (aw-kal’) to eat—at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, freely, in…wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, quite.
and water mayim (mah’-yim) water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen—+ piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring).
to drink shathah (shaw-thaw’) to imbibe—assuredly, banquet, certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (-ard), surely.”
germin8 – “pulse” in Spanish is “legumbre” (“legume”) it is used in Spanish to refer to any “bean”/”pulse” (garbanzo, red/black… beans, peas, lentils…). I have checked www.etymonline.com to see the difference between “pulse” and “legume”, this is what it says:
pulse:
“peas, beans, lentils,” 1297, from O.Fr. pols, from L. puls “thick gruel,” probably via Etruscan, from Gk. poltos “porridge.”
legume
“plant of the group of the pulse family,” 1676, from Fr. l
Hi there! This is my first post, and I wanted to join in to the Raw Christian roll call. :)
I have had health problems galore since the birth of my daughter 6 years ago, and truly feel that God has been prompting and preparing me to go 100% Raw so He can heal me. So excited about it.. but the day to day of staying Raw is super hard. I have to look at it like a fast, and how Daniel fasted while he was in Babylon.
So happy to be here.
Hello everybody!
germin8 – I’m not “English speaker” and i thought that English speaking people used “pulse” for any legume, how is it used actually?
Finally I decided to read the whole Daniel’s book to see if light appeared. Well, i dont know if light has appeared but here it goes what i think:
When he was at Babylonian king’s “palace” he (and his friends) refused to eat meat and wine. Don’t know anything about kosher laws of wine, but relating meat kosher laws could be one reason to decide not eating eat. The other reason could be that they where there against their will, so it can be seen as position against local habits and a way to underline their own origin. Those reasons can be lleged too to explain why refused to eat “desirable bread” (bread made with yeast??). The diet had its results because they were strongest and most learned.
So that one would be a long term decision. Then 10:3 in my opinion is a description of a fast or penance to pray God or/and to have a revelation. So i don’t know if we have to understand that there is a time in Babylon in which he ate meat, or if we have to interpret that the description of the “fast” just decribed it (and it repeats what we knew: he did’t eat meat). I am more inclined to the second interpretation, but just an opinion.
One of the king’s of Babylon made a fast to when praying for Daniel’s life whe he was in the lyon’s moat!
Looking in the net about Daniel and his diet there come up some surprising things: there are books to follow Daniel’s diet/fast, and i have found “Daniel
hi seedcovers! thank you. Nobody around me is a raw foodist, nor vegan, nor vegetarian!! :-)) But… we can do it!!! Usually, if people around see and understand that we’re much better (for example: no allergy, weight lose, no PMS, no pains…) they support us, perhaps not everybody always there is someone that has to say “no”, but… that’s good enough. Go ahead! (I started eating raw at the end of March). You will find support in this forum and if you don’t know something about something, just ask.
Welcome!!
hi seedcovers! thank you. Nobody around me is a raw foodist, nor vegan, nor vegetarian!! :-)) But… we can do it!!! Usually, if people around see and understand that we’re much better (for example: no allergy, weight lose, no PMS, no pains…) they support us, perhaps not everybody always there is someone that has to say “no”, but… that’s good enough. Go ahead! (I started eating raw at the end of March). You will find support in this forum and if you don’t know something about something, just ask.
Welcome!!
Thanks all. :) Anngoingraw that was some great research. Thanks for that.
For me, I am not sticking to what Daniel did in the Bible word for word. It was just something God brought to me over a period of a few years (time and time again) and different pastors and teachers in my life saying similar things.
The biggest one being… That God wants to heal me, but sometimes He asks us to take certain steps to receive that healing. (i.e. The leper who washed 7 times.. what if he decided to only wash 6 times… would he have been healed??)
So, I have maintained a vegan diet for a while and still feel awful, and felt the prompting to go Raw and see what miracles God can do. :)
And.. my entire family thinks I am crazy, with the exception of my husband who is very supportive. It is good to have other like-minded people to talk to!!!
hi germin,
I like that conexion between “pulse” and “pulse”, never hear before. I have been trying to check out any etymological conexion, but i have not found any:
pulse
“peas, beans, lentils,” 1297, from O.Fr. pols, from L. puls “thick gruel,” probably via Etruscan, from Gk. poltos “porridge.”
pulse
“a throb, a beat,” c.1330, from O.Fr. pous (c.1175), from L. pulsus (in pulsus venarum “beating from the blood in the veins”), pp. of pellere “to push, drive,” from PIE *pel- “to shake, swing” (cf. Gk. pallein “to weild, brandish, swing,” pelemizein “to shake, cause to tremble”). The verb meaning “to beat, throb” is first attested 1559.
I know Latin “puls” and “pulsus” are very similar, but i have not found etymological relation (yet).
The hebrew word “zeroa” (pulse, veg) seems to come fron zara`>
Copied from (http://www.studylight.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?numb… )
Word Origin: a primitive root
1. to sow, scatter seed a. (Qal) to sow producing, yielding seed b. (Niphal) to be sown to become pregnant, be made pregnant c. (Pual) to be sown d. (Hiphil) to produce seed, yield seed
So, i think that Daniel (& friends) asked for anything coming from a seed, but i have not any evidence to say they were following a living food diet.
Hi,
in my opinion (just an opinion, i am just a reader) if “zeroa” comes from “zara`” there a couple of options:
1. “zeroa” related to that “primitive root” (the origin of the word zara` ): too narrow, i think they asked for a larger variety.
2. related to “to sow, scatter seed”: i understand that they asked for anything that come from a seed (which can include the seed it self). Something coming from a seed in turn can produce a seed. So i don’t see an incompatibility between “coming from a seed” and “something that can produce seed”. Both are “living”. The problem arises when we have to decide how they ate those “zeroa”: did they eat them raw or cooked? For example, we can suppose they ate foods made from seeds (beans, lentils, peas, grains etc.), but still, how can we know if they ate them sprouted and not boiled? (the same goes for vegetables).
So it is possible that they followed a living diet, but i don’t find any evidence to support that hypothesis (of course, i don’t find any evidence either to support the hypothesys of a “cooked vegan diet”). Nothing is said about the way they ate the food.
As for the question of the 10 days: Daniel asked with a great self-confidence for “zeroa”, this can indicate that he followed that diet (or similar one) before, so he knew that a vegan diet is a complete diet. Even if he ate meet before “going” to Babylon we can suppose that kosher meet wasn’t neither a big quantity (i think that only todays west civilizations and inuits cosume big quantities of meat) nor an unhelthy meet (animals have been unheathly grown up in the last centuries). So probably he was already so healthy.
It’s very interesting this question that you have raised. i don’t know if there would be any treatise about it, but i’l try to find something. So thanks to you for posing it.
PS. What does IMHO mean?