Pure Approach

Aligned with the Bible for Better Health

michael — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:34:36 +0000

(Excerpted from http://www.gmaf.org/gmaf_biblicalhealth.html)

A Christian pastor studied the health of various Jewish and Christian religions. The religions which practice more natural lifestyles (teachings on diet and care of the body, in varying degrees against the use of coffee, tobacco, port, pharmaceutical drugs, soda, ….) fare the best, regardless of doctrinal correctness. Statistics show they have less cancer, healthier lives and live six years longer than the average American. Those groups which do not have dietary teachings often view sickness as some kind of judgment by God and accept the view that they are powerless to change their fate. This latter group does not have as good health as those who adhere to natural diets. He concluded that the religious which practice dietary principles closely aligned with the Word of God have better health and longer lives.

It is possible, in fact God honoring, to be Scripturally sound in doctrine and to adopt a life style that is in accordance with God’s principles, thus enjoying His blessings on our body, soul and spirit. (Goands Innomore)

Importance of Alkaline Balance
Medicines may save your life, but they cannot heal — only your body can heal itself (this is God’s design). The innate intelligence God has placed within the body runs it and heals it according to His design and natural laws. We have to treat health much like spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6): know the enemy, cut off supply lines, defend, nourish, take the offense… Heredity plays an important role in how disease is manifested (cancer, diabetes, arthritis) but heredity does not dictate that you must get sick. We cannot be healthy if our body’s cells are living in, or are fed, junk. A good rule to remember is, we live and die at the cellular level. If our cells are swimming in “defilement” our bodymust make physiological adaptations that are absolutely necessary for immediate survival, if continued long-term this virtually guarantees disease later. Symptoms are the signals our body is adapting its function to survive the things we do to it. You can never treat enough symptoms to correct the cause of disease, one must get to the root cause. For example, germs are not the cause of disease — low resistance to them is. Our body is not prorammed to develop disease nor does disease strike out of the blue, it develops over time according to natural laws as a result of prolonged violation of those laws. Our body’s cells produce an ash from the food we eat. This ash is the residual after all metabolism has taken place, like the ash left after a fire. This ash can be srongly acidic to strongly alkaline. This ash has a profound affect on our health and is often the root cause of our health problems. Most fluids in the body where cells operate (including our blood) are supposed to be slightly alkaline. If our food ash is acidic it must be neutralized (buffered) before it is eliminated or it would cause great bodily harm. It is eliminated through the kidneys and bowels. The neutralizing agents are alkaline minerals (sodium, calcium, magnesium, etc) and they come from so-called alkaline foods. The root cause of most diseases relates to the lack of the needed neutralizing minerals, resulting in an acidic environment, which harms our cells and allows many bacteria/virus to flourish. We need a reserve of alkaline minerals and as this reserve goes, so goes our health. However, only organic minerals (from plants) will work to neutralize acid ash. Why, because organic minerals are weakly bonded to other atoms and our body can only use the weaker organic bonds — inorganic bonds are too strong. Salt is inorganic so the sodium is useless as a neutralizing agent. The sodium in canned and processed foods will not work, it is inorganic salt. God’s design is for the strong inorganic bonds to be broken by plants and incorporated in plant foods as the weaker organic bonds, we then can get the needed neutralizing minerals from the plants.Principle: your body will do everything it can to keep you alive NOW - it is not planning for the future and does not necessarily work to keep you comfortable and happy, just alive.Acid ash and Alkaline ash foods. In general, proteins leave an acid ash and fruits and veggies an alkaline ash.

Meats, poultry, fish ………………………… very acid ash
Dairy and eggs ………………………………. acid ash
Cereals and grains ………………………….. acid ash
Fruits and Vegetables ……………………. Alkaline Ash

Note: fruits like lemons are initialy very acidic, but they leave an alkaline ash, which is good. Meat, grain, dairy, many nuts/seeds leave an acid ash which has to be neutralized.

Beside food, our mind has a direct effect on acid production. The number one acid producer in our body is negative thinking. It is now known that the chemical processes that mediate emotion and mood occur not only within our brains, but also on the very surfact of every single cell. In this regard, Philippians 4:4-8 instructs us to think about positive things and to avoid negative thinking. This is one reason He wants us to have a transformed mind. Wow! God told us this, but we did not understand what the impacts of negative thinking were.

Proper Diet to assure an Alkaline Reserve. A good diet contains 75-80% alkaline ash forming foods (fruits and vegetables) and 20-25% acid ash forming foods (meat, grain, dairy, most nuts/seeds). Over 50% of the diet sould be raw fod (cooking destroys enzymes and organic bonds).

Qualities of Foods
The following five factors help differentiate a good fod from a bad food. Whole: as close to the natural, created form as possible. Fresh is better than frozen, frozen bettern than canned. Most whole-wheat flour is processed, fresh whole grain flour is good. Most supermarket oils are refined and not whole (extra virgin olive oil is an exception).Raw: raw foods have God’s enzymes and the weak-organic bonds have not been modified by heat, and there is no human tampering.Satiety: satisfying in small to moderate amounts, there is not a tendency to overeatAlkaline ash: those foods that yield an alkaline ash are preferable to the acid ash foods. Compatibility: can be readily used by our body, contains that which is essential for our body’s use, nourishing and/or cleansing, not a phony/fake food, non-poisonous, contains no additives or other man-made products/residues.Using the above five factors and applying a rating system the author has developed the following chart of common foods. Items rated very low are harmful and will damage one’s long-term health. The foods get better with higher ratings. Foods rated 10-12 are very healing and health promoting. Foods grown and processed without pesticides, herbicides, genetic engineering, artificial fertilizer, etc., are called “organic” and are superior to conventionally produced foods.

Good Dietary and Health Laws from the Bible

michael — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:46:52 +0000

The Mosaic Law contains a detailed listing of not just dietary laws, but health laws in general. Some have been followed in this country for years but many of them will be new to you. For more information, here are the pertinent Laws on health from the Mosaic Law:

Disease, Sickness & Plague -
Exodus 15:23-26, Exodus 23:20-25, Numbers 16:46-50, Numbers 25:8-9, Deuteronomy 7:12-26, Deuteronomy 23:10-11, Deuteronomy 28: 15-68, 2nd Samuel 24:15-25, Psalms 91:10, Matthew 4:23-24, Matthew 9:20-22, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 10:1, Mark 1:30-34, Luke 6:17-19, Acts 19:11-12, Acts 28:8-9

Blood -
Leviticus 3:17, Leviticus 6:30, Leviticus 7:26-27, Leviticus 17:10-14, Leviticus 19:26, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:20-28, Deuteronomy 15:19-23, Acts 15:19-20, Acts 15:28-29, Acts 21:25

Cattle -
Leviticus 19:19

Childbirth -
Leviticus 12:1-8

Circumcision -
Genesis 21:1-4, Leviticus 12:1-4, Luke 1:59, Luke 2:21

Clean & Unclean Meat -
Leviticus 11:1-47, Deuteronomy 14:1-20, Acts 10:14-15

Copulation -
Leviticus 15:16-18, Leviticus 15:32

Dead Men -
Leviticus 21:1, Numbers 5:1-4, Numbers 6:6-11, Numbers 9:6-7, Numbers 19:11-22, Matthew 8:22, Luke 9:60

Fat -
Leviticus 3:17, Leviticus 7:22-25

Leprosy (& other contagious diseases) -
Leviticus 13:1-14, Leviticus 13:57, Deuteronomy 24:8-9, Matthew 8:1-14, Mark 1:40-45, Luke 17:11-19

Menstruating Women -
Leviticus 15:19-33, Leviticus 18:19, Leviticus 20:18, Lamentations 1:17, Ezekiel 18:6, Ezekiel 22:10, 2nd Peter 2:10

Mingled Seed -
Leviticus 19:19, Deuteronomy 22:9

Quarantine -
Leviticus 13:11, Leviticus 13:21, Leviticus 13:26, Leviticus 13:31, Leviticus 13:45-46, Numbers 5:1-4, Deuteronomy 23:10-11, Luke 17:12-13

Running Issue (& other open, infected wounds) -
Leviticus 15:1-16, Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34, Luke 8:43-48

Land Sabbaths -
Leviticus 25:1-55, Leviticus 26:34

Sanitation -
Deuteronomy 23:12-14
Sex Crimes (causing Sexually Transmitted Diseases, including AIDS) by category -

Incest -
Leviticus 18:7-18, Leviticus 19:20, Leviticus 20:11-12, Leviticus 20:14, Leviticus 20:17, Leviticus 20:19-21, Deuteronomy 22:30, Deuteronomy 27:20, Deuteronomy 27:22-23, Ezekiel 22:11, 1st Corinthians 5:1

Sodomy -
Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Deuteronomy 23:17-18, 1st Corinthians 6:9, 1st Timothy 1:10

Whores -
Leviticus 19:29, Leviticus 21:9, Deuteronomy 22:13-21, Deuteronomy 23:17-18, Galatians 5:19, Ephesians 5:3, Ephesians 5:5, Colossians 3:5-6, 1st Timothy 1:9-10, Hebrews 13:4

Adultery -
Exodus 20:14, Leviticus 18:20, Leviticus 20:10, Numbers 5:11-31, Deuteronomy 5:18, Deuteronomy 22:22, Deuteronomy 22:23-24, Matthew 5:27-32

Teas for Your Good Health

Kathy — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:11:52 +0000

Tea. Some drink it hot. Some drink it cold. But is the tea you drink healthy? You can learn much about tea on various websites. We will be recommending some for your better health in the near future. For now, I wanted to share with you about some healthy, natural teas we have found that can help you to enjoy life while taking care of your body’s immune system. There are several teas made from herbs which enhance good health and also several which are blended to encourage the body’s natural healing processes. They are one of our better sources of good-quality teas to help you. Some teas that help you include Hyssop Herb Tea, Rose of Devonshire Tea, Spicy Spearmint Tea, Peppermint Leaf Tea, English Breakfast Tea and Earl Grey Tea.

We are continuing to research for good sources of healthful, hand-picked teas we can recommend to you. We are finding that healthy choices in aromatic teas can cost very little, compared to other bagged and boxed teas. Enjoy a cup of the hot tea today! It may help you get rid of anti-oxidants, but more than that, it will warm up your heart, and enliven your soul.

A side note: *Say a prayer for spiritual revival in America today!* God is surely alive and well and working in the lives of those who seek Him and want to bring glory to His Name, Y-hw-h, the Almighty. He made all things good. He wants to bless your life. Call upon the Name of the Lord, His Son, Yeshua (Jesus), and your life will never be the same after that! He will take you into His sheepfold, and will shepherd you as none other can. Trust in the Lord Y-hw-h, for in the Lord Y-hw-h is everlasting strength! Yeshua the Messiah made and sustains all things in His creation. He gives our mouths good things to satisfy us, so we can do the work He calls us to do. Let’s take care of our bodies, minds and souls so that He is able to work through us to bring blessing and good to all whom we meet. Bloom where the Lord plants you! The Lord bless you abundantly! - Kathy

Healing through God’s Provision

michael — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:33:08 +0000

Over the years, especially while at church, Kathy and I have heard people of many ages announce that their doctors have said they have this or that terminal or crippling disease or express, in general conversation, how they suffer from various different ailments. Though some few people do, I find most people do not want to have to tell everyone about these afflictions, but they become desperate and need help. Our heart has gone out to people who suffer these things, but not just for sympathy sake.

Time has given us knowledge through people, books, and various forms of informational sources, and this from God, that has helped us to have insite into how the body can use pure, natural foods and herbs as a replacment for what is conventionally provided in our society. Many, if not all, of these blessings come from mention in Scripture and have been provided for those people who have a willing heart to listen to what God is telling them. God knowledge is essential to good health and life (Hosea 4:6).

Our bodies are mysterious even today and that is why you still hear it expressed that physicians are “practicing medicine.” When the body reacts to what is usually our lack of knowledge about how to take care of it, we run to the doctor who diagnoses what seem to be the symptoms/reactions, takes an educated guess at what the problem might be, looks at or remembers what his Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) says are the pharmaceutically manufactured medicines for those particular symptoms/reactions, and writes out a prescription for our local pharmacy.

Some manufactured medicines merely cover up or block the symptoms/reactions to the source of the problem about which our body is trying to warn us. These make our headache not hurt any more, or temporarily ease the pain from our arthritis, but they allow the source of the ailment to increase without really being dealt with/cured. Ailments and diseases treated in this manner lead to recurring problems that some patients have to live with for years. There are also manufactured medicines that treat the cause or the root, but these often have devastating residual side effects. An example of this is antibiotics, which are supposedly effective against the germ. The problem with using antibiotics, which doctors are quick to do, is that they cannot be isolated to the bad germ but are known to also kill good germs and bacteria that are effective in fighting disease in our body. I liken this to setting off an indoor sprinkler system to put out a small trash fire in an office, or perhaps, shooting a cannon to kill a fly on the wall.

The overall problem with manufactured parmaceutical* drugs is that man has made them without God. They are imitation and cannot replace what God has made. God made our body and has also provided the means to its health and cure. It is only when man intervenes and tries to take over God’s jurisdiction that disease is allowed to carry on for prolonged periods of time, as seen in Luke 8:43-44 : “…a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind Him, and touched the border of His garment and immediately her issue of blood stanched.”

Today, through fear more than anything else, the sick and diseased put more faith in human physicians than they do in God, who is the One Who created their bodies. God is the Great Physician, and we have His Word (both spiritually and physically). This site has been established to demonstrate God’s great wisdom and provision for healing the flesh. You will equally acquire information about the spiritual aspects of health and healing. If you really want to be healed of what ails you, read through the resources of this site and discover ways in which you can do this in “God’s provision.”

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*Revelation 18:23 “…for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”

Were the princes of the earth (ēsan hoi megistānes tēs gēs). For megistān see Rev 6:15; Mark 6:21. “Thy merchants were the grandees” once, but now these merchant princes are gone.
With thy sorcery (en tēi pharmakiāi sou). En (instrumental use) and the locative case of pharmakia, old word (from pharmakeuō, to prepare drugs, from pharmakon, sorcery, Rev 9:21), in N.T. only here and Gal 5:20 for sorcery and magical arts. If one is puzzled over the connection between medicine and sorcery as illustrated by this word (our word pharmacy), he has only to recall quackery today in medicine (patent medicines and cure-alls), witch-doctors, professional faith-healers, medicine-men in Africa. True medical science has had a hard fight to shake off chicanery and charlatanry.
Were deceived (eplanēthēsan). First aorist passive indicative of planaō. These charlatans always find plenty of victims. See Mark 12:24.

In the Greek Dictionary:

Pharmakeia means pharmacy and by extension magic (literally sorcery, witchcraft).

Pharmakon means druggist or pharmacist or poisoner and by extension magician or sorcerer.

Pharmakos means sorcerer.