I was flipping through the channels last night and I saw a commercial on the Pentecostal channel.

 

Now, I'm not a Pentecostal myself and a lot of the stuff that they believe I totally don't believe. At all. And a lot of times when people criticize things that Christians do or say or believe, what they're talking about is Pentecostals. Things like when a guy says he prayed over a flat tire and God healed it, or that his dog barks in a heavenly language that only God understands, or like a preacher who says that he has breakfast with Jesus every morning. I used to hear accounts like this every few days it seems like, and each one got more and more outrageous. Folks would say that God took them up into Heaven and gave them a guided tour, or that angels appeared at their bedsides.

 

Now it may be that God has really done all this, but I don't buy it. To me these folks are like kids around a campfire telling ghost stories, each one trying to outdo the last one and convincing themselves that they're all true stories.

 

Anyway, you seem to hear these stories less and less these days. But the Pentecostal channel is still on. A lot of it is cool though, especially late at night they have videos and talk shows and movies that are pretty cool and a lot of them aren't Pentecostal either.

 

This one commercial, though, caught my attention. You know those bracelets and t-shirts that say WWJD like "What Would Jesus Do?" Well, this commercial was for a diet/cookbook called What Would Jesus Eat?

 

I am totally not making this up.

 

I don't know how anyone knows exactly what Jesus ate. I mean, I reckon we can assume He was kosher or whatever they call it when they kept the dietary laws back then. And we know He ate bread and wine on at least one occasion. And there was that one time with the fish and barley loaves, but He did that to feed the multitudes.

 

On the other hand, He also fasted in the desert for 40 days. Is that the secret? A 40-day fast and then all the barley loaves and fish you can eat? What about locusts and wild honey? Manna from Heaven? Quail?

 

It's too bad they don't have an Old Testament Diet because those folks lived hundreds of years. Abraham got Sarah pregnant when he was 120 years old. I want to know what he was eating. Because while I do believe that Jesus was very healthy, I'm not sure how much of that was because of His diet and how much was because He was God.

 

(Note: Once my wife had an Elvis cookbook called Are You Hungry Tonight? It was a gift though. And I don't think it was a diet cookbook either. At least I hope it wasn't, knowing what we know about the disgusting things Elvis ate and how fat he was)