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49421 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 222.3 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… in spirituality; (2) appeals to the importance of health in the light of the imminent Second Advent; (3) appeals for abstinence to provide means for financial …

49422 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 223.1 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

i. Spirituality and health. In 1851 E. G. White pointed to the necessity of discontinuing the use of tobacco because it was “an idol” and said that “unless it is given …

49423 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 224.1 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… of spirituous liquor to my lips” ( Life, p. 15). Andrews, “The Use of Tobacco a Sin Against God,” RH, April 10, 1856, p. 5; McLellan, “Temple of God,” p. 182; J. F. Case, “Tobacco,” RH, Sept …

49424 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 228.1 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… , and spiritual health. Health reform principles were considered to have a biblical basis and to be a gift from God to humanity. A major reason for the growing …

49425 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 230.3 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… affected spirituality. As an example she referred to the death of Nadab and Abihu ( Leviticus 10:1, 2 ), stating that they, by drinking wine, “beclouded their reasoning …

49426 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 231.1 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… their spirituality but would have “strength and clearness to discern the sacred chain of truth, and turn from the bewitching errors and pleasing fables …

49427 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 231.2 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… one’s spiritual discernment, it would also negatively affect one’s obedience toward the moral law of God. Thus, E. G. White remarked that “men and women cannot …

49428 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 232.1 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… the spiritual consequences of rejecting health reform by stating that “those who will not, after the light has come to them, eat and drink from principle, instead …

49429 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 233.4 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… as spiritually. And is God less particular now than he was then? Can we meet the Lord when he comes in the glory of the Father, and with all the holy angels, without …

49430 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 235.2 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… be spiritual worshipers, and are not worthy of Heaven.” From the intimate relationship between religion and health, and the biblical appreciation for body …

49431 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 239.3 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

spiritual fathers, to administer to minds diseased, and point the sin-sick soul to the never-failing remedy, the Saviour who died for them.” The spiritual and …

49432 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 240.4 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… and spirituality of many believers needed much improvement, indicating that the imminence of the Second Advent had lost some of its momentum, the founding …

49433 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 243.1 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… the spiritual climate for mission work and for the understanding of the self-image of the religious body, which called attention to its unique role in the …

49434 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 243.2 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… the spirituality of the believers, contributed to an anti-triumphalistic dimension in ecclesiology, and created a spirit of self-investigation resulting …

49435 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 244.3 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… the spiritual condition of Sabbatarian Adventists did not adequately resemble Philadelphian characteristics. In 1851 E. G. White brought out that “the …

49436 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 245.2 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… declining spirituality and lethargic missionary endeavor, it seemed incongruous to continue styling the Sabbatarian Adventists the Philadelphian …

49438 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 248.1 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… the spiritual climate for mission work but has also provided a rationale for the delay of the parousia.

49439 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 248.4 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… of “spiritual Egypt” or “antitypical Egypt.” In 1850 Edson explained that “by the proclamation of the hour of his judgment, the fall of Babylon and the midnight …

49440 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 250.3 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… a spiritual famine among Adventists in general. Commenting on the fact that after this drought Elijah emerged from his seclusion ( 1 Kings 18:1 ), he said that …