If the argument about unclean meats not being sanctified by praying over them is valid, doesn't that principle appy here? Is something good just because it is SDA? Are we as vulnerable to groupthink as any other group? I'm not saying don't eat junk food at all. I'm saying how something is perceived doesn't alter what it really is.
Childoftheking
Not quite understanding. I don't think praying over unsantified unclean meat will help anything concerning good health or be blessed especially if knowing it is unclean. I must say the most difficulty I have with health message is going beyond into insepid recipes. I have a lot of difficulty going against what EGW states about deciding our own time when we think we MUST go vegan. She states that the time will become demanded and why make ourselves weak before that time. Now, I have watched what happens when churches start to demand vegan. I have seen what it has done to individuals. The fanatisim has done more harm then good. I could write on and on of the distruction I have seen what young mothers have done to their children, people have done to their selves, what it has done to a church with visitors, down to sign putting on all pot lucks, in fact a book would be more like it. It is not only premature action but very insepid.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but my message is that you must not bring yourself to a time of trouble beforehand, and thus afflict yourself with death. Wait till the Lord prepares the way before you. {CD 206.1}
The reforms that are strained to the highest tension might accommodate a certain class, who can obtain all they need to take the place of the things discarded; but this class forms a very small minority of the people to whom these tests seem unnecessary. There are those who try to abstain from what is declared to be harmful. They fail to supply the system with proper nourishment, and as a consequence become weak and unable to work. Thus health reform is brought to disrepute. The work we have tried to build up solidly is confused with strange things that God has not required. The energies of the church are crippled. {CD 206.2}
But God will interfere to prevent the results of these too-strenuous ideas. The gospel is to harmonize the sinful race. It is to bring the rich and the poor together at the feet of Jesus. . . . {CD 206.3}
But I wish to say that when the time comes that it is no longer safe to use milk, cream, butter, and eggs, God will reveal this. No extremes in health reform are to be advocated. The question of using milk and butter and eggs will work out its own problem. At present we have no burden on this line. Let your moderation be known unto all men. {CD 206.4}
Letter 37, 1904
325. Last night I was in my sleep talking with Doctor -----. I said to him: You must still exercise care in regard to extremes in diet. You must not go to extremes either in your own case or in regard to the food provided
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for the helpers and the patients at the sanitarium. The patients pay a good price for their board, and they should have liberal fare. Some may come to the sanitarium in a condition demanding stern denial of appetite and the simplest fare, but as their health improves, they should be liberally supplied with nourishing food.
[SANITARIUMS TO AVOID EXTREMES IN DIET.--427, 428, 429] {CD 206.5}
The Food Should be Made Appetizing
(1867) 2T 538
326. Health reformers, above all others, should be careful to shun extremes. The body must have sufficient nourishment. We cannot subsist upon air merely; neither can we retain health unless we have nourishing food. Food should be prepared in good order, so that it is palatable. {CD 207.1}
(1909) 9T 161-163
327. A diet lacking in the proper elements of nutrition, brings reproach upon the cause of health reform. We are mortal, and must supply ourselves with food that will give proper nourishment to the body. {CD 207.2}
Some of our people, while conscientiously abstaining from eating improper foods, neglect to supply themselves with the elements necessary for the sustenance of the body. Those who take an extreme view of health reform are in danger of preparing tasteless dishes, making them so insipid that they are not satisfying. Food should be prepared in such a way that it will be appetizing as well as nourishing. It should not be robbed of that which the system needs. I use some salt, and always have, because salt, instead of being deleterious, is actually essential for the blood. Vegetables should be made palatable with a little milk or cream, or something equivalent. {CD 207.3}
While warnings have been given regarding the dangers of disease through butter, and the evil of the free use of eggs by small children, yet we should not consider it a violation of principle to use eggs from hens that are well cared for and suitably fed. Eggs contain properties that are remedial agencies in counteracting certain poisons. {CD 207.4}
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs, and butter, have failed to supply the system with proper nourishment, and as
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a consequence, have become weak and unable to work. Thus health reform is brought into disrepute. The work that we have tried to build up solidly is confused with strange things that God has not required, and the energies of the church are crippled. But God will interfere to prevent the results of these too strenuous ideas. The gospel is to harmonize the sinful race. It is to bring rich and poor together at the feet of Jesus. {CD 207.5}
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but it is not necessary to bring upon ourselves perplexity by premature and extreme restrictions.
Wait until the circumstances demand it, and the Lord prepares the way for it. {CD 208.1}(We try to say that now it is worse and demand the time ourselves. But we must be reasonable in all things. I have seen where damage and death from this is worse.) EGW continues
Those who would be successful in proclaiming the principles of health reform must make the word of God their guide and counselor. Only as the teachers of health reform principles do this, can they stand on vantage ground. Let us never bear a testimony against health reform by failing to use wholesome, palatable food in place of the harmful articles of diet that we have discarded. Do not in any way encourage an appetite for stimulants. Eat only plain, simple, wholesome food, and thank God constantly for the principles of health reform. In all things be true and upright, and you will gain precious victories. {CD 208.2}
Harmful Influence of Extremists
(1870) 2T 374, 375
328. And while we would caution you not to overeat, even of the best quality of food, we would also caution those that are extremists not to raise a false standard, and then endeavor to bring everybody to it. {CD 208.3}
Also.. Childoftheking, Been working hard on website. I think now you can get in but still a ways to go to finish. Not everything in place yet. We also will not be putting on there about SDA affiliation yet! But traces of it will soon appear in beginning. That is being worked on this week.