Frozen Theology
Eat from Abraham’s table
During one of my visits to the US Bible belt, my friend gave me a factory tour of an incredible Biotech company called ‘Frozen Theology’. I never heard about such a thing. No, it is not related to the Frozen movie. It is an Israeli biotech-based cultured meat manufacturer. What is astonishingly unique about this is that their meat is linked to biblical times. Yes, literally! However, my friend thinks it is fresh meat.
This biotech company basically produces meat from cells preserved from biblical times. For example, from Abraham’s farm. There are different varieties of meat, even from Abel’s farm. Wow, is that even possible? They claim that it is possible with 100% certenity.
The most popular one there is Abraham’s farm meat. I have seen Isaac’s variety and also the passover variety.
Well, this is so exotic to think about, I wondered how long it might take for this to be available in India. They told me that it is already available across the world since over 200 years. I was surprised. Apparently, it is not sold with their brand name. Only if you carefully read the footnotes will you notice it. They have a robust supply chain management and franchise system.
Their core belief is that to have the right theology, one should literally eat from the Old Testament.
Now that I have got your attention, I want to introduce you to ‘Frozen Theology’. It is pretty common in modern evangelical circles. To them, the Biblical narrative froze after the Jews’ return from Babylon.
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Even though they believe that the Messiah came in the first century. They read it as a different narrative (God’s plan B), which also froze at the time of Pentecost.
So when they read the Bible, they imagine themselves in the time of either the return from Babylon or in the time of Acts. Nothing happened after that. For example, if they read any prophecy of Christ or Israel in the Old Testament, they don’t see it fulfilled in the New Testament.
They are fully happy with the meat that they are eating from Abraham, Isaac and Moses. Yet they think it is fresh meat.
For them, the coming of the Gospel of the kingdom of God that Jesus preached is still in the future because they are still reading it from 1st-century Palestine. They think Jesus and the apostles are their contemporaries, and they eat with them daily.
When Jesus or Paul mentions Jews or Israel, they think the so-called Jews in the state of Israel are the same, following the same Judaism in the same covenant. For them, nothing happened after they received the last letter from Paul. I doubt if they really believed Paul died after that.
They have no idea of God’s judgment on Jerusalem and Judah just after Paul died. They think it is a modern-day fairy tale. When John in Revelation wrote about what will happen soon, they think they are in Ephesus now, eagerly waiting for the end times to come.
My friend who took me to the factory was explaining to me how all Israel will be saved according to Paul. He thinks so because he thinks he is eating daily with Paul. I asked him if he knew that Israel and the people of Israel Paul mentioned no longer exist. The temple and Judaism they practised were gone 2000 years ago.
It is a pretty tragic situation; to them, the Old Testament promises have not been fulfilled yet. Jesus did not fulfil much except dying on the cross; sadly, he had to change his plan, and now the whole burden of the future is on their shoulders.
I told him that this company is lying to you. You cannot eat with Abraham or Paul. It is engineered meat. Instead, come with me, Christ is with us and inviting us to eat from the tree of life.
