What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Connection between fat and the hardening of the heart in the Bible"
Answer
The consumption of animal fat is expressly prohibited in Holy Scripture and is directly linked to a weakening of spiritual perception. A heart that has become "fat" through improper diet or a clouded mind leads a person to become morally insensitive and no longer understand divine truths. This neglect of health laws strengthens lower impulses and suppresses higher spiritual abilities, ultimately resulting in spiritual blindness.
Divine Prohibition and Spiritual Consequences of Animal Fat
»You have eaten the fat of animals, which God expressly forbids in His Word: "This shall be an everlasting ordinance among your descendants in all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood." ... The consumption of meat has produced a poor quality of blood and flesh. Your systems are in a state of inflammation and are ready to take on disease. ... The higher powers of the spirit are overwhelmed by the lower. The animal part of your nature governs the spiritual.«
Hardening of the Heart and Spiritual Insensitivity
»The heavenly Visitor commanded the waiting messenger: "Go and speak to this people: Hear and do not understand; see and do not perceive! Harden the heart of this people and make their ears deaf and their eyes blind, that they may not see with their eyes nor hear with their ears nor understand with their hearts, and that they may not repent and be healed." ... The spiritual and moral powers of some of our preachers are weakened by improper eating and lack of physical exercise.«
Influence of Diet on Moral Judgment
»The energy of the brain nerves is numbed and almost paralyzed by excess. ... The most earnest appeals fail to awaken their leaden, insensitive mind. Truth may be presented with deep feeling, but it does not awaken moral sensibility or illuminate understanding. ... The reason such spiritual darkness prevails is that the spirit is content to assume a low level.«
Meat Eating and the Diminution of Spirituality
»A diet that includes meat tends to develop animalism. The development of animalism diminishes spirituality and renders the spirit incapable of understanding truth. The Word of God warns us clearly that the physical nature comes into conflict with the spiritual nature when we do not abstain from fleshly lusts. Lustful eating fights against health and peace.«
Original Sources (English)
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