"Food for the stomach and stomach for food, but God will destroy both. " When God created the universe, God saw that everything He had made, and behold, it was very good (Genesis 1:31). He urged the first man, “you may surely eat of every tree of the garden but…” (Genesis 2:16). Despite God giving everything to man to eat, He did not command him to eat everything but rather used “may” to allow man to make a choice of what he could eat. Thousands of years later, God gave the Israelites dietary commandments on what to eat and what not to eat. Among the animals forbidden were frogs and snakes, including animals that do not chew cud (Leviticus 11). Therefore, since then, men began to eat what is necessary according to their culture. Against this background, in his recent remarks, Gen. Kuol Manyang Juk sparked an outcry when he challenged young people to avoid laziness and hunt snakes, frogs, lizards, and dogs for food. In South Sudan, I have never come across a tribe that ope...
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