Chapter 9
The Science (Self-Evident Truth) of Sanctification–Diet
 

How Spiritual Diet Affects Sanctification & How Physical Diet
Impacts Spiritual Appetite -
 

When I really began to digest, pardon the pun, the implications of Romans 1:20, it started a litany of questions in my mind. One of them being, is there really a spiritual implication for everything tangible? I didn’t really think there could be an answer for that. But I believe
truth can withstand any amount of cross examination. So I went back to the book of Genesis because I thought the answer should be there.

The fact that living beings need sustenance to survive isn’t a very ground-breaking thought; however, the spiritual lessons associated with that reality are. God is the one who conceptualized and made food for Adam and Eve to eat. But why did God make it necessary for
the beings of planet earth to even need to eat? Theoretically, He could have made humans to not need physical food at all. That premise may sound strange because consuming physical
sustenance is a reality we take for granted but at the beginning of creation, God could have gone in any direction He wanted. However He did decide to make tangible food a reality. Let’s examine the reasons why I believe He did so, review the step by step processes of
eating, and then identify their corresponding spiritual realities. We just finished a discourse on the various aspects of sanctification and the relationship between sanctification and the new/divine nature. Well the new nature still includes eating, so how should we ‘eat’ spiritually once we are sanctified?

I’ll use the same methodology I did in the breakdown of sanctification by dividing diet into distinctive steps. Those steps are Choice, Partaking, Breakdown, Digestion, and Nourishment.
The first thing we must do when it comes to diet is to actually choose what to eat. The second step is to sink our teeth into what we choose. Third, we must chew it so that it can be swallowed. Fourth, we must digest what has been swallowed. Fifth, the digested material is then distributed throughout the body to provide nutrition. The process seems simple enough. It’s just eating, so what’s the big deal?

Where is the deep spiritual connotation to that? ...