FOOD!

... let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink ...
Col. 2:16

Wow, do we ever live in a generation where this scripture is mocked! We will accept almost anyone's teaching on what is "good for us". Yet the Bible tells us emphatically to refuse anyone's (including doctors') advice on what is good for us to eat or drink! For example:

Salt is good,
Luke 14:33

We should just repeat this verse to ourselves 20 or 30 times to wash out that old lie of the devil through the world that salt is not good for us. Salt is good!
Or check this out:

Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions [steaks] to him that has nothing to prepare for this day is holy to the Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!
Neh. 8:10

If this verse were so direct regarding "witnessing", we would take it as a direct command of God, a sin not to do. But without any possible contradiction, this verse says that fat, sugar, and meat are GOOD. To me, this is 100% freedom! Freedom from bondage to the worldly philosophers = joy of the Lord = STRENGTH. The world says they are bad but God says they are GOOD. It is not that the doctors aren't sincere, they are just plain wrong. Why? Because the Bible tells me so: chapter, verse, and context. Anyone that says differently is a liar and the truth is not in him.

But the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, ... abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe ...
I Tim 4:1-3

"Yeah, but I want to live long. What should I do?" Well, we are in luck, because the Bible tells us the answer to that!

I call heaven and Earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life that you may live, you and your descendants.
by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord your God swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.
Deut. 30:19-20

Or, another formula for living as long as is physically possible:

Honor your father and your mother, that it may go well with you, that you may live long upon the land that the Lord God gives to you.
Ex. 20:12

And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life's span? If then you cannat do even a very little thing, why are you anxious about other matters? ... But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.
Matt 6:25-33

If you want to be healthy, happy and live long, surrender your whole life to Jesus Christ! Only then will you live an abundant, joyful, bondange-free life!

So, at the risk of being repetitive, I will just list a very few more of the multitudes of scriptures I have found that endorse eating fat, salt, sugar, wine and the all those other things Americans live in fear of, which are the best, not worst of foods.
Mark 7:18-19, Ex. 3:8, Gen 9:3, Prov. 24:13, Heb. 9:9-10

But just to wrap up quickly, when you hear anyone tell you how such and such food is "bad for you", remember according to chapter, verse, and context of Col. 2:16, God does not permit you to accept their words.

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