RELEVANT COUNSEL FOR GUIDING OUR KITCHEN POLICIES SCRIPTURES:

 

I Cor. 10:31  “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

I Cor 14:40   “Let all things be done decently and in order.”

I Cor. 14:33  “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”

 

Heb. 12:14   “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”

Rom 12:18   “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”

Rom. 12:10  “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another:”

Rom 12:13   “Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.  Bless them which persecute you.”

Rom 12:20   “If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:...”

Rom 12:21   “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

 

Rom. 11:9    “Let their table be made a snare, & a trap, & a stumbling block, & a recompence unto them.”

Rom 14:12   “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.  Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way. ....Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.”

 

Rom. 14:17  “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”   See John 6:48+: “I am the bread of life.” See Matthew 6:33: “...seek ye first..”

Rom 16:18   “For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.   ....yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.”

 

Gen. 1:29     “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb hearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”     See also Genesis 9:3, 4; Leviticus 11.

I Cor 3:2      “I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.”

 

I Cor 3:17    “If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”

I Cor 6:19   “What?  Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye

          -20     have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

I Cor 9:27   “I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”

I Cor 10:27  “If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.”

 

Prov. 16:24 “Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”

Prov. 17:1   “Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.”

 

Prov. 18:19  “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the                           bars of a castle.”

Prov. 18:21  “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

Ezek. 16:49  “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her ...., neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”

 

SPIRIT OF PROPHECY QUOTATIONS

 

TMB75 “It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.”

 

CH40   “Every needless transgression of the laws which God has established in our being is

 virtually a violation of the law of God, and is as great a sin in the sight of Heaven as to break the Ten Commandments.  Ignorance upon this important subject is sin; the light is now beaming upon us, and we [are] without excuse if we do not cherish the light and become intelligent in regard to these things, which it is our highest earthly interest to understand.”

 

PP165  “The Redeemer of the world declares that there are greater sins than that for which Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed.  Those who hear the gospel invitation calling sinners to repentance, and heed it not, are more guilty before God than were the dwellers in the vale of Siddim.  And still greater sin is theirs who profess to know God and to keep His commandments, yet who deny Christ in their character and their daily life.  In the light of the Saviour’s warning, the fate of Sodom is a solemn admonition, not merely to those who are guilty of outbreaking sin, but to all who are trifling with Heaven-sent light and privileges.”

 

3T281   “If God abhors one sin above another, of which His people are guilty, it is doing nothing in case of an emergency.  Indifference and neutrality in a religious crisis is regarded of God as a grievous crime and equal to the very worst type of hostility against God.”

 

CD35   “Circumstances cannot work reforms.  Christianity proposes a reformation in the heart.

What Christ works within, will be worked out under the dictation of a converted intellect.  The plan of beginning outside and trying to work inward has always failed, and always will fail.  God’s plan with you is to begin at the very seat of all difficulties, the heart, and then from out of the heart will issue the principles of righteousness; the reformation will be outward as well as inward.” things that are healthful and inexpensive.  The people everywhere should be taught how to cook without milk and eggs so far as possible, and yet have their food wholesome and palatable.”

 

CD45   “We need to learn that indulged appetite is the greatest hindrance to mental improvement and soul   sanctification.”

 

CD50   “The abuses of the stomach by the gratification of appetite, are the fruitful source of most church

trials.”

 

CD57   “The Spirit of God cannot come to our help, and assist us in perfecting Christian characters, while we are indulging our appetites to the injury of health, and while the pride of life controls.”

“It is impossible for those who indulge the appetite to attain to Christian perfection.”

 

Tem16  “The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands, when, if they had conquered on this point, they would have moral power to gain victory over every other temptation of Satan.  But slaves to appetite will fail in perfecting Christian character.”

 

ED225 “The world does not so much need men of great intellect as of noble character.  It needs men in whom ability is controlled by steadfast principle.”

 

CD127  “God requires of His people continual advancement.”

 

CD137  “We should not provide for the Sabbath a more liberal supply or a greater variety of food than for other days.  Instead of this, the food should be more simple, and less should be eaten, in order that the mind may be clear and vigorous to comprehend spiritual things.  A clogged stomach means a clogged brain.   The most precious words may be heard and not appreciated because the mind is confused by an improper diet.  By overeating on the Sabbath, many do more than they think, to unfit themselves for receiving the benefit of its sacred opportunities.”

 

CDCD  “A disordered stomach produces a disordered, uncertain state of mind.  Often it causes   

138-9    irritability, harshness, or injustice.”

 

CD140  “A disordered stomach is productive of a disordered, uncertain state of mind.  A diseased stomach  produces a diseased condition of the brain, and often makes one obstinate in maintaining erroneous

opinions.”         

...“By intemperance in eating, you disqualify yourselves for seeing clearly the difference between sacred and common fire.”

 

FE445 “It is by the perusal of the Bible that the mind is strengthened, refined, and elevated.  If there were not another book in the wide world, the word of God, lived out through the grace of Christ, would make man perfect in this world, with a character fitted for the future, immortal life.  Those who study the word, taking it in faith as the truth, and receiving it into the character, will be complete in Him who is all and in all.”

 

CD195  “There is a large class who will reject any reform movement, however reasonable, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.  They consult taste, instead of reason and the laws of health.   By this class, all who leave the beaten track of custom and advocate reform will be opposed, and account ed radical, let them pursue ever so consistent a course.  But no one should permit opposition or ridicule to turn him from the work of reform, or cause him to lightly regard it.  He who is imbued with the spirit which actuated Daniel, will not be narrow or conceited, but he will be firm and decided in standing for the right.  In all his associations, whether with his brethren or with others, he will not swerve from principle, while at the same time he will not fail to manifest a noble, Christlike patience.  When those who advocate hygienic reform carry the matter to extremes, people are not to blame if they become disgusted. ..”

 

CD198 “Those who understand the laws of health, and who are governed by principle, will shun the extremes, both of indulgence and of restrictions.  Their diet is chosen, not for the mere gratification of appetite, but for the upbuilding of the body.  They seek to preserve every power in the best condition for the highest service to God and man.  The appetite is under the control of reason and conscience, and they are rewarded with health of body and mind.  While they do not urge their views offensively upon others, their example is a testimony in favor of right principles.  These person have a wide influence for good.

“There is a real common sense in dietetic reform.  The subject should be studied broadly and deeply, and no one should criticize others because their practice is not, in all things, in harmony with his own.  It is impossible to make an unvarying rule to regulate everyone’s habits, and no one should think himself a criterion for all.  Not all can eat the same things. ...”

 

CD199 “Because it is wrong to eat merely to gratify perverted taste, it does not follow that we should be indifferent in regard to our food.  It is a matter of the highest importance.  No one should adopt an impoverished diet.  Many are debilitated from disease, and need nourishing, well-cooked food.  Health reformers, above all others, should be careful to avoid extremes. The body must have sufficient nourishment.”

CD202  “Health reform becomes health deform, a health destroyer, when it is carried to extremes.”           

 

CD203  ”While I would discard flesh meat as injurious, something less objectionable may be used,.. this is found in eggs.  Do not remove milk from the table or forbid its being used in the cooking of food.”

 

CD469  “The diet reform should be progressive.  As disease in animals increases, the use of milk and eggs

-470      will become more and more unsafe.  An effort should be made to supply their place with other

things that are healthful and inexpensive.  The people everywhere should be taught how to cook without milk and eggs so far as possible, and yet have their food wholesome and palatable.”

 

CD333 “Plain, simple pie may serve as dessert, but when one eats two or three pieces merely to gratify an inordinate appetite, he unfits himself for the service of God.”

... “Fruit, if it can be obtained, is the best article of food.”

 

CD334 “A moderate amount of milk and sugar, a little salt, [etc.]...would have answered the demand of appetite.”  ...Lemon pie should not be forbidden.”

“The dessert should be placed on the table and served with the rest of the food; for often, after the stomach has been given all it should have, the dessert is brought on, and is just that much too much.”

 

MH129 “The progress of reform depends upon a clear recognition of fundamental truth.  While, on the one hand, danger lurks in a narrow philosophy and a hard, cold orthodoxy, on the other hand there is great danger in a careless liberalism.  The foundation of all enduring reform is the law of God.  We are to present in clear, distinct lines the need of obeying this law.  Its principles must be kept before the people.  They are as everlasting and inexorable as God Himself.

“One of the most deplorable effects of the original apostasy was the loss of man’s power of self-control.  Only as this power is regained, can there be real progress.”

 

MH130 “The body is the only medium through which the mind and the soul are developed for the upbuild-ing of character.  Hence it is that the adversary of souls directs his temptations to the enfeebling and degrading of the physical powers.  His success here means the surrender to evil of the whole being.”

 

3T20     “We must go no faster than we can take those with us whose consciences and intellects are

-21       convinced of the truths we advocate.  We must meet the people where they are.  Some of us have been many years in arriving at our present position in health reform.  It is slow work to obtain a reform in diet.  We have powerful appetites to meet; for the world is given to gluttony.  If we should allow the people as much time as we have required to come up to the present advanced state in reform, we would be very patient with them, and allow them to advance step by step, as we have done, until their feet are firmly established upon the health reform platform. But we should be very cautious not to advance too fast, lest we be obliged to retrace our steps.  In reforms we would better come one step short of the mark than to go one step beyond it.  And if there is error at all, let it be on the side next to the people.

“In Michigan we can get along better without salt, sugar, and milk than can many who are situated in the Far West or in the far East, where there is a scarcity of fruit. ....We know that a free use of these things is positively injurious to health, and, in many cases, we think that if they were not used at all, a much better state of health would be enjoyed.  But at present our burden is not upon these things.  The people are so far behind that we see it is all they can bear to have us draw the line upon their injurious indulgences and stimulating narcotics.  We bear positive testimony against tobacco, spirituous liquors, snuff, tea, coffee, flash meats, butter, spices, rich cakes, mince pies, a large amount of salt, and all exciting substances used as articles of food.

“If we come to persons who have not been enlightened in regard to health reform, and