"People are continually eating flesh that is filled with tuberculous and cancerous germs. Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseases are thus communicated." (The Ministry of Healing, p.313).
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John here: Both of the above & the beneath statements by E.G.W. find me with NO Biblecal disagreement! The old saying of.. 'we are what we eat' is pretty much believed by me. When one considers that before sin the diet by God was 'fleshless', and even so up until after the flood. And the lifespan of man dropped from around 1000 yrs. to the Gen. 11 records, up until todays ones. Even Abraham died at 175 yrs. old it says in Gen. 25:7-8.
Yet, this 'permitted' diet NEVER included un/clean flesh as food. (see Gen. 7:2-3) Before I move on to the next thought, lets see what the Word of God says in Gen. 9:5? "And SURELY YOUR BLOOD OF YOUR LIVES WILL I REQUIRE; AT THE HAND OF EVERY BEAST WILL I REQUIRE IT ... " Flesh food eating shorten's life, it is just that simple!
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"The violation of the fourth commandment is not confined to the preparation of food. Many carelessly put off blacking their boots, and shaving, until after the beginning of the Sabbath. This should not be. If any neglect to do such work on a working day, they should have respect enough for God's holy time to let their beards remain unshaven, their boots rough and brown, until the Sabbath is past. This might help their memory, and make them more careful to do their own work on the six working days." (Signs of the Times, May 25, 1882).
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Me again: And the above?? Vic, please be sure to understand [me] when I say this next remark. We grow at different stages, but NEVER will a person who LOVES CHRIST (BY REBIRTH) want to offend Him. This is where I stand. I DESIRE to KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. Do you understand me??? I LOVE MY CREATOR & RE/CREATOR AND WANT TO SERVE HIM! (I am not talking about you! this is what i am DESIRING to do)
OK: the 'sounding' of mockery in the above statement surely would include the mother of Jesus & her (their) preparing work for the annointing of Christ's body, would it not?? (see Luke 23:54-56 & Luke 24:1-2!) You do know of the Fri. preparation day? And that they came after sundown to do even THIS WORK?? And you post up this shoe black remark for a 'cultish' identification???
Vic, if this was me instead of you, I would wonder if I was not a partaker of this last posting remark at least? See Rev. 18:4. Do I go around posting up PhD's 'Arm of Flesh' (see Jer. 17:5) foolishness of their creation theory? WHERE IS THE [CONCRETE EVIDENCE] that they are wrong Vic? Do you get my point? And NO, 'i' do not want to sound mean or judgemental.
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"The human family was presented before me, enfeebled. Every generation has been growing weaker, and disease of every form visits the human race.... Satan's power upon the human family increases. IF THE LORD SHOULD NOT SOON COME AND DESTROY HIS POWER, THE EARTH WOULD SOON BE DEPOPULATED." (E.G. White, Testimony No.8, p.94, in Spiritual Gifts III-IV, Battle Creek, Steam Press, 1864, emphasis supplied).
(rebuttal...According to the Korea Times of May 14, 1998 the world population began the century at 1.6 billion and will hit 6 billion before the year 2000. Should the world last, population experts fear that there may be as many as 27 billion people living on the face of this planet by the year 2150. Are we facing a problem of DEPOPULATION or OVERPOPULATION? If this prophecy was wrong, how many of her other prophecies, like the ones in the Great Controversy, are also wrong?)
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Me again: We do know that in the last days (our day! Look around you Vic) we have been told that 'knowledge will be increased'? Well Vic, Hosea 4:6 states the Word of God (CHRIST) that to reject knowledge will find US REJECTED. And the above needs no more said from this end at least, than the Words of Christ! "AND EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED, [THERE SHOULD BE NO FLESH SAVED:..] Matt. 24:22 in part.
BOTH profession wise & health wise! Antibiotics are even becoming usless in some diseases...AND WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING YET HERE IN THE USA! And 'spiritual' life????? Look around!
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"At this time immense forests were buried. These have since been changed to coal, forming the extensive coal beds that now exist, and also yielding large quantities of oil. The coal and oil frequently ignite and burn beneath the surface of the earth. Thus rocks are heated, limestone is burned, and iron ore melted. The action of the water upon the lime adds fury to the intense heat, and causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and fiery issues. As the fire and water come in contact with ledges of rock and ore, there are heavy explosions underground, which sound like muffled thunder. The air is hot and suffocating. Volcanic eruptions follow; and these often failing to give sufficient vent to the heated elements, the earth itself is convulsed, the ground heaves and swells like the waves of the sea, great fissures appear, and sometimes cities, villages, and burning mountains are swallowed up." (Patriarchs and Prophets, p.108).
(rebuttal...The real cause of earthquakes: "The immediate cause of most shallow earthquakes is the sudden release of stress along a fault, or fracture, in the earth's crust, resulting in the movement of opposing blocks of rock past one another. This causes vibrations to pass through and around the earth in wave form." (The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, Copyright, 1995 by Columbia University Press.) Volcanic eruptions are not caused by coal and oil burning beneath the earth's surface. They are caused by rising magma, regions of molten rock material, beneath the earth's surface.)
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Me again: Some educated men have been preaching & teaching for years & still are, that God will burn the wicked lost sinners for ETERNITY. This is all recorded in earthly documentation. (the heavenly record books too!) Does that make it right?? Hardly! See Obadia 16 for what God's Word states. Who is correct, these records of the professed 'believers' in the Word of God, or the WORD OF GOD?
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"By lacing, the internal organs of women are crowded out of their positions. There is scarcely a woman that is thoroughly healthy. The majority of women have numerous ailments. Many are troubled with weaknesses of most distressing nature. These fashionably dressed women cannot transmit good constitutions to their children. Some women have naturally small waists. But rather than regard such forms as beautiful, they should be viewed as defective. These wasp waists may have been transmitted to them from their mothers, as the result of their indulgence in the sinful practice of tight-lacing, and in consequence of imperfect breathing. Poor children born of these miserable slaves of fashion have diminished vitality, and are predisposed to take on disease. The impurities retained in the system in consequence of imperfect breathing are transmitted to their offspring." (Health Reformer, November 1, 1871).
"But my waist is naturally slender, says one woman. She means that she has inherited small lungs. Her ancestors, more or less of them, compressed their lungs in the same way that we do, and it has become in her case a congenital deformity." (Health Reformer, October 31, 1871).
(rebuttal...The idea that acquired physical characteristics are passed genetically to the next generation is nothing more than a myth. There is no scientific evidence that acquired physical characteristics can be passed down to the next generation. It was simply a 19th century myth that has been discarded by the modern medical community.)
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