True Food: Why Do We Have to Eat?

Send us Fan MailWhy did God create human beings who must keep eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping?The True Food series begins in Eden, where food is first received as a gift and dependence exists before anything goes wrong. Genesis gives us dust, breath, body, food, obedience, rebellion, death—and life. Humanity takes what God withheld, loses access to the tree of life, and discovers that bread can sustain mortal life without defeating death.This first teaching follows the biblical food story from creation and gift to exile and hunger. It leaves us with the question Scripture will answer slowly: How will God restore humanity to life?Scripture in this episodeGenesis 1:11–12, 26–31; Genesis 2:7–17; Genesis 3:1–24; Deuteronomy 8:3; John 6:35.In this teaching• Dependence before sin• Food as gift rather than possession• The two trees in Eden• Receiving what God gives and taking what God withholds• Bread, mortality, and the limits of physical food• Why the biblical food story must eventually confront death• The next great classroom: manna in the wildernessFind the Way — Meet Rabbi Jesus.Walk the Way — Modern Mind, Ancient Book.