For me food has always been deeply tied to my fundamental beliefs. My beliefs have made significant changes over the years and my beliefs about food have followed or in some cases lead. It is a journey.
I started life in the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church. One thing SDAs are famous for is their vegetarian diet. I grew up eating a lot of “vege-meat” and other strange concoctions created to fill a person’s need for meat. All Adventists have experienced “Special-K Loaf” (also known as Cottage Cheese Loaf).
Adventists teach that God’s original plan was that we were to be vegetarians. We were only “allowed” meat after Noah’s flood because there wasn’t anything else to eat. Adventists insist that now that we have other things to eat, we shouldn’t eat meat anymore. There is no text to support such a notion, only the words of the Adventist prophetess Ellen White.
Suffice it to say that I was pretty much a vegetarian up until my late teens.
Continued in part 2…
This is what Don Colbert says and I don’t agree. I wonder if he’s a SDA.
It could be. It’s hard to tell. If he wants to sell his books and products he probably won’t advertise that. Adventists have gotten better and better at disguising themselves over the years.
I see he was involved with Florida Hospital for a while. That’s an Adventist hospital. So even if he isn’t Adventist, he’s rubbed shoulders with them.
Ditto to what you said. In fact, I’d forgotten the part about eating meat because there weren’t any vegetables after they got off the ark. Must mention that to my husband who still doesn’t understand why Adventists are vegetarian…
…and forgive me, but I have changed my blog from MT to WP so the updated link in your post able for Cottage Cheese loaf is: http://tanapageler.com/life/?p=165
Sorry for the trouble…I didn’t realize my blog was important enough to be linked to, LOL!
I think the assumption that the original diet was vegetarian comes from Genesis 1:29-30.
One theme that seems to run through most of the Biblical injunctions about meat for food is that before it cannot be eaten with the blood:
Genesis 9:3-4 – Starting with Noah’s family
Leviticus 17:10-14 – More thorough explanation
Leviticus 7:26-27
Deuteronomy 12:15-16, 22-25
I Samuel 14:32-34
Acts 15:20, 28-29 – Continued into the Christian church even with the setting aside of other Jewish practices
This would make meat preparation quite a bit of work, especially as a large percentage of people nowadays don’t personally slaughter and prepare it…
Hmmm, I wonder if the creator of the Hallelujah Diet is Adventist. My dad and stepmom are into that, but they’re not Adventist. I’ve written on my blog that we agree to disagree when it comes to diet.
Looks like I have some catching up to do around here, as I haven’t been around blogland in a while.
Melissa