Open Letter to Jason Blake
Hello Jason Blake [One of the Benton Sisters husbands]
Your grandfather would have liked the below information about no cooking and living in a sinless state by eating food as was given to Adam in his "sinless state".
Manuscript Releases Volume Twenty-one, page 286
Chapter Title: Dietary Advice to a Sanitarium Physician; Let
the
Adventist Light Shine.
"God will give His people ability and tact to prepare wholesome food without these things. Let our people in Australia discard all unwholesome recipes and learn how to live healthfully, in accordance with the directions God has given. Let them impart this knowledge as they would Bible instruction. Let them preserve the health and increase the strength by avoiding the large amount of cooking which has filled the world with chronic invalids. We are coming to the time when recipes for cooking will not be needed, for God's people will learn that the food God gave Adam in his sinless state is the best for keeping the body in a sinless state."
7T 135:
"Teach the people to preserve the health and increase the strength by avoiding the large amount of cooking that has filled the world with chronic invalids. By precept and example make it plain that the food which God gave Adam in his sinless state is the best for man's use AS HE SEEKS TO REGAIN that sinless state."
This is one of the examples of how the General Conference has changed Ellen White's writings. The original, from the Manuscript Releases {21MR 286.3}, says "God's people will learn that the food God gave Adam in his sinless state is the best for keeping the body in a sinless state" -- that is to say, the experience of conversion places one IN a sinless state, which is the victory OVER SIN which needs to be taught!!! The Conference found the idea presented there useful to the health message, BUT thought that this idea of being "in a sinless state" was a little too radical for them, so it appears they took the editorial license ["pen-knife" Jer. 36] to her words. By doing this they could continue in teaching the people to be just like them in being slaves to their cooked food that helps to destroys one's connection with God. Also it would bewise for you to go back and read again of another teaching of your grandfather. For years before John VanDenenberg begin leading people back into slavery of keeping the feast days, he and your grandmother was teaching this spurious teaching to be wrong. I will be sending you a new CD concerning the Passover in the next few days where your names are mention and the teaching of your grandfather are AGAIN brought to the surface to assist the deceived people in Adventism that were hyjacked by terrorist teaching that there is virtue in keeping the feast days. Or you can hear this message online at:
Heavens blessing to one and all.
Ed White