3.8.22 Health and the Adventist faith
Other
Literature
History of health insitutions
We write a lot
Small amount written on SDA health view and religion
G. Domstket
Foundations of SDA belifs dna Mission till 1874 (1977)
20 pages
Health and religion
Written before he became a traditionalist or a conservative
A sound of trumpets
Very helpful based on Domskeet
Written outside sda
Outside SDA church
Ellen White at times critisized other rigid reformers
Context
Medical Practice
Harmful at times
George Washington
Health Reformers
Temperance movement
Jospeh Bates
stopped drinking
Tea (black)
Alcohol
Stopped Eating
Hot spices
Meat
Rich cakes
When asked about it he
First he was vocal.
Later he just said "I've had my share of it."
Ellen White
Health Visions
Vision 1848
abstain from
Tea
Coffee
Tobacco
"Filthy Weed"
Spiritual Reasons
Idolatry
Eph 5:5
Col 3:5
1 Cor
Killing
These things kill the body
Knowing usage
Suicide
Wrote in his book seal of the living God that anyone consuming these things will not be sealed.
Temple of God
Eschatology
Seal of God
How can spirit be poured into a Body that has been defiled
Ready for Christ to come
Ministry Reason
People not supporting pastors
Don't spend money on tea and coffee and tobacco
Comprehensive vision 1863
Two meals a day
Really just intermittent fasting
Wholesome interconnectedness
Mental
Physical
Spiritual
They affirmed other current health reformers
writers EGW and other linked
The modern health message with with the SDA message
3rd angels message
Part of the people who keep the commandments of God is that they believe in the health message
James D. jackson
Said religion was tasking the brain
EGW disagreed
Notes
Adventist dualism
Connectedness of mind body and spirit
Extreme people sometimes come with their rules.
They often have skeletons in their closet