[Villages PL]

Toward the end of July there was an article in the Daily Sun: "A higher power diet" was the heading of the article.

Pastor Rick Warren wrote a diet book titled "Daniel Plan" but not much was said about the actual diet. There was just a brief mention that white flour and sugar should be avoided.

The sub-heading was, "Christians embrace 'the Daniel Plan' to change eating habits, lose weight".

Are you familiar with this diet and fitness program? Would you be more likely to choose this plan because it's promoted by a Christian pastor? Or less likely?

To me it seems like a contradiction to what Warren has been known to preach, like God determines everything by designing every detail of what we will be at conception. Tall, short, fat, skinny, healthy, sickly, it's all determined by God. If I remember correctly, this was in his book, "The Purpose Driven Life". So now he's telling people to take charge of their body and their health in general.

If you live a healthy lifestyle you are likely to live longer, right? Of course, welcome to the real world. But didn't he used to say, "your days are numbered from the day you are born?" Or, to put it another way, "God determines when you will die".

It seems like now he wants to have it both ways with the effect that the spiritual world and physical world are coming in conflict.

Interesting note: The article stated: "....gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins." That might be an interesting part of this conversation. What is gluttony? How can you tell if someone is a glutton? If you're overweight, does that mean you are a sinner? In that case it covers 2/3 of the U.S population.