What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Coffee sin"
Answer
The consumption of coffee is described in the writings as a sin, because it represents a harmful indulgence that unnaturally stimulates the nervous system and damages the soul. This habit contradicts the divine health laws and impairs spiritual perception as well as moral strength. Believers are called to abandon such indulgences in order to preserve their health and to devote the resources spent on them to the dissemination of truth.
Coffee as a spiritual and physical obstacle
»The drinking of tea and coffee is a sin, a harmful indulgence that, like other evils, harms the soul. These beloved idols produce stimulation, a pathological effect on the nervous system.«
»God has written His law into every nerve and muscle, every fiber and function of the human body. Giving in to unnatural appetite, whether for tea, coffee, tobacco, or alcohol, is excess and is at war with the laws of life and health. ... This yielding in any member of the human family is sin.«
2 - Ellen Gould White, Bible Echo and Signs of the Times (BEcho September 18, 1899, Art. A, par. 11)
»Coffee is a harmful indulgence. It temporarily stimulates the mind to unusual activity, but the aftereffect is exhaustion, depletion, and paralysis of spiritual, moral, and physical forces. ... The money spent on tea and coffee is worse than wasted.«
»Those who consume tea and coffee when they gather for social entertainment demonstrate the effects of their corrupt habit. ... Under the stimulation of a cup of tea, unfriendly critiques, exaggerated reports, and jealous feelings are expressed, which Jesus registers as being directed against oneself.«
»Tea and coffee act as stimulants. Their effects resemble those of tobacco, but to a lesser degree. Those who use these creeping poisons claim, like the tobacco user, that they cannot live without them because they feel so poorly when they do not have these idols.«
»Will our people recognize and feel the sin of giving in to a false appetite? Will they abstain from tea, coffee, meat dishes, and all stimulating foods, and devote the resources spent on these harmful indulgences to the dissemination of truth?«
- Unnatural appetite and health
- Stimulants as idols
- Spiritual consequences of coffee consumption
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