2007-04-23 03:39:02 · 19 answers · asked by Carlito 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly... garbage in, garbage out. A daily dose of t.v. violence, movie violence, sex and wading through the garbage will make anyone "sick" spiritually. Prayer, time in God's Word, time spent in caring for and Loving others - "live a life of Love"... makes us spiritually "well".
2007-04-23 03:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by Jesus lives! 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's spiritual nourishment and there's spiritual fast-food junk. There's the milk of the Word, and the meat of the Word. There are spiritual banquets and spiritual famines. Yes, it applies spiritually and today there is a famine approaching. How?
Amos chapter 8: (snippets only) "Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land saying, 'When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?' - skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales, buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat... The days are coming," declares the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land - not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it..."
Corrupt government, selfish individuals and those who resent God's laws (such as the Sabbath) leads to whole nations suffering spiritually. God is not mocked. We reap what we sow, both personally and nationally. No wonder "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"!
2007-04-23 04:16:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
With most things there is a double meaning. Natural verses the spiritual. You are what you eat in the natural means that if you eat junk food and non healthy foods you gain weight and can not preform the tasks that you would like, it depletes life. You are what you eat spiritually means that what you see, what you hear, the atmosphere around you, plays a part in the kind of person you are. For instance if you put a child, not much different than an adult (just different scenarios), around aggressive children he or she will start imitating those actions. You are a product of your environment. That is why if you want to spiritually grow in Christianity you make choices to be around that atmosphere to gain that mind set. If you want to be Gothic you will hang around that type of atmosphere to gain that kind of mind set. You generally can not get two people from one end of the spectrum to the other, to hang around each other for long periods of time without changing each other to some degree.
2007-04-23 04:10:00 · answer #3 · answered by faith 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it does. Doctrine, wisdom and teaching are foods, man can not live on bread alone.
**Kudos to Sutter's answer. It reminds me of another way this applies spiritually. We eat the matter from the world, this matter has the form and abundance of life so that life given from the earth to us as our life which is what we are, is the matter we took it from.
The world which we eat to give us life is our self all of it, over time, has the propensity to eventually be the very self we identify with.
We are formed at birth from the same matter and as it is that we replace the whole of our biological tissue throug the generosity of the earth approximately each year, we are it. Have a look around.... in years to come you may very well be the ants at your feet as their biological matter returns to the earth it was formed from and becomes something you eat which becomes you.
2007-04-23 03:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by Monita C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think most of us have had the experience where when we eat right, we just feel better.
I don't know the exact level, but I think our spirits and our bodies are deeply connected, and that you can't do something to one without effecting the other. So yeah, I'd say there's an element of spirituality even in the every-day filling our physical needs.
2007-04-23 03:45:47 · answer #5 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will get out of anything you engage in, what effort and dedication you apply towards it.
Literally speaking for your example, if you eat healthy foods, you will have a healthy body. If you eat foods with little to no nutritional value excessively, your health will deteriorate.
Spiritually, what you give of yourself to find the spiritual path that benefits you, you will receive back from the environment you create for yourself. It's still kind of vague, but I'm not doing your homework for you.
2007-04-23 03:58:35 · answer #6 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it does!
"But, we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Cor. 3:18
2007-04-23 04:38:36 · answer #7 · answered by bethybug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It also applies to "spiritual food." If you claim to be devout in your religion, or claim to have strong faith in God, but never read and meditate on the Bible, never ask God for guidance, never take any steps to make sure you are worshipping God the way he requires... Then you are spiritually starving.
2007-04-23 03:47:04 · answer #8 · answered by Andrew G 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, absolutely.
What we take in physically, mentally, and spiritually affects us.
As a Catholic, I receive the Eucharist each week. This makes me part of the Body of Christ.
2007-04-23 03:55:46 · answer #9 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you eat foods that are bad for you, you will suffer the consequences!
2007-04-23 03:44:22 · answer #10 · answered by Gerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋