There is a quote from the early 1800’s that exemplifies the concern they had for drinking water in the poem “Ancient Mariner” by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge that fits very well with the concern many people have concerning the drinking water available and consumed today. The poem goes like this... “WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK.” Did you know that most people can live at least 40 days without food but only about 4 days without water? By the way, we can only live about 4 minutes without oxygen. With all of today’s emphasis on food, have we forgotten the most basic of all body needs – water and oxygen? Our body is comprised of about 70% water, and we are constantly losing that water through urine, feces, sweat, and mucous membranes. In fact, we lose water with every breath we exhale. This fact is easily proven by exhaling on a mirror or glass and noticing the tiny beads of water on the surface. All this lost water from the body needs to be replaced! The question answered in this article is – What kind of water should this lost water be replaced with? If you were to Google “water” concerning the issue, you would quickly realize that there is presently a lot of confusion and contradiction concerning the issue. For instance – some say distilled water is dangerous because it removes the minerals from the water, is acidic, and contributes to bone loss. Others say that distilled water is the purest and best of all waters and does not cause the problems the critics of distilled water proclaim. Then there are others that promote reverse-osmosis water, Kangen water, charcoal filtered water, and a variety of other methods of conditioning water for drinking. Most people realize the dangers of drinking water from municipal water supplies as it comes from the faucet, because of the toxic chemicals chlorine and fluoride being added to most public water supplies, and the potential dangers to the body of the other toxins contained in tap water. In more than 1,000 seminars I have delivered during the past 20-plus years, one of the most common questions I receive in the Q&A time that follows is, “What kind of water should I drink”? Then they go on to tell how confused they are regarding the subject.
What Kind of Water Did Adam & Eve Drink?
Did you know that ever since God created all the water on planet earth at the time of creation, there has not been a drop of water added to or subtracted from that original amount that God created? Rain water is naturally distilled water! Distillation is a system put in place by God at creation to keep water pure: Water rises from the earth in the form of water vapors, leaving all minerals and contaminants behind. It then comes back down to earth from the clouds in a naturally distilled form as rain, frozen rain, or snow. When naturally distilled water strikes the earth, this naturally distilled water percolates through the soil dissolving some of the minerals that comprise the soil. Minerals and nutrients from the soil are then picked up by the roots of the plant, and with the assistance of the sun’s energy, the plant produces the fruits and vegetables that grow in the garden and that we eat.Did you know that the purest and best water a person can consume is the water found in the fruits and vegetables growing in the garden?The water found in raw fruits and vegetables originated in the naturally distilled water that came from the clouds with the addition of the minerals and nutrients the fruit or vegetable plant added. The liquid in the plants, often called the “blood of the plant”, is the very best liquid we can replace the body’s lost liquid with! That’s one of the reasons daily juicing of vegetables has been such an important part of my life for almost 40 years. Rhonda and I juice a 25-pound bag of organic carrots weekly, along with the juice of organic celery, cucumber, beets, leafy greens, etc. All raw fruits and vegetables are comprised of anywhere from 70% to 90% of this wonderful plant liquid. When we eat a diet that is comprised primarily of raw fruits and vegetables, we are providing our bodies with this wonderful, living, nutrient dense liquid. Sadly, the average person eats foods lacking these wonderful plant liquids. With regard to the kind of water Adam and Eve took into their bodies, there is a very good chance (though it cannot be proven) that all the liquid they took into their bodies came from the fruits and vegetables they ate in the Garden of Eden. I question whether they ever drank water at all. Of course, they could have drank from the pure water flowing in the river. In Genesis 2:10 the Bible tells us “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden . . .”!
