Did God intend for us to get hungry and need food every day?
Yes. Scripture presents hunger and the daily need for food as part of humanity’s present, temporal existence. The stomach was made for food, and food for the stomach, and God intended this ordinary dependence. People can hardly go a day without eating, but in the resurrected body that daily demand will no longer exist.
Les explains that 1 Corinthians 6:13 addresses one of the physical aspects of everyday life: meat for the belly, or food for the stomach, and the stomach for food. These belong to our temporal existence. He notes that we can hardly go a day without food; the stomach begins to rumble, roll, and roar, and we get hungry, and that is the way God intended it. But the day is coming when that will not be true. When we receive our new resurrected body, we will not have to eat three meals a day, and the body will not demand food day after day. Les also suggests the Lord may still give the pleasure of eating, since He ate fish and bread at the Sea of Galilee, but it will not be a necessity as it is now.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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What does 1 Corinthians 6:13 mean by 'food for the stomach and the stomach for food'?
In 1 Corinthians 6:13, Paul brings out one of the physical aspects of everyday life: food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will destroy both, showing these are part of our temporal existence.