You know that we are encouraged to be vegetarian. And I agree as much that it would be good since in the Last Days and even more so in heaven we wont get the chance to eat meat.
There was a pastor who was preaching on Jesus eating fish after his resurrection. You know the part where they roasted fish for breakfast. Its in John 21 and they even got 153 haha.
Well the point is that he was preaching and a man (who was obviously vegetarian) told the preacher to stop preaching on that topic. To preach something else!
The preacher replied that since its in the Bible he must be faithful to the text and continued to preach it.
The man then said that we are supposed to be vegetarian and that Ellen White said so herself. (That would be encouraged in our belief i believe)
The preacher countered by saying that Jesus himself did not eat fish.
The man replied that's because Jesus did not read Ellen White!
Now, that was most shocking but hilarious at the same time. Jesus came to the world thousands of years earlier than EGW and he is supposed to have read it?!
EGW herself said that her writings are meant to point towards the Bible which is in essence the gospel of Jesus Christ.
So what went wrong? Sometimes we used EGW to justify too many things and that is not good.
EGW herself said "The Bible and the Bible alone, is our rule of faith."
Well maybe I should be using Bible verses here but there is a need for one to go on a self discovery. To find out more truth for yourself. Studying the Bible feels like digging for gold. Each truth discovered is as one that discovered gold. The joy and happiness of finding out truth for yourself and to be convinced through your study and not just someone else told you is really awesome in my opinion.
To conclude, we should not use EGW or the Bible as an excuse to justify our behaviour. But rather we should draw the authorial intention for the text. Also, the journey of discovery begins here! Bon voyage guys :D
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