DOSAKAH MAKAN DAGING?
Dari 157 buah kutipan
roh nubuat yang berhubungan dengan makanan daging di sini ada beberapa yang
menonjol agar kita dapat mengambil kesimpulan sendiri.
2.
“Sudah waktunya meninggalkan makanan daging”.
MH.317.(In all cases educate the conscience, enlist the will, supply good,
wholesome food, and the change will be readily made, and the demand for flesh
will soon cease”.)
3.
“Tidak baik makan daging karena banyaknya
penyakit terdapat dalam tubuh hewan”. MH 313,314.(“ Flesh was never the best
food; but its use is now doubly objectionable, since disease in animals is do
rapidly increasing. Those who use flesh foods little know what they are eating.
People are continually eating flesh that is filled with tuberculous and
cancerous germs. Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseases are thus
communicated”).
4.
“Membawa penyakit dan kematian” CH.575,576.(“Those
who indulge in meat eating, tea drinking, and gluttony are sowing seeds for a
harvest of pain and death. A diet of flesh meat tends to develop animalism”.)
5.
“Membahayakan kesehatan jasmani, mental dan
rohani”. CH 70, 575.(“There are those who ought to be awake to the danger of
meat eating, who are still eating the flesh of animals, thus endangering the
physical, mental, and spiritual health”.)
6.
“Menanamkan sifat-sifat hewan”. 2 T 60-62.(“We
are composed of what we eat, and if we subsist largely upon the flesh of dead
animals we shall partake of their nature”.)
7.
“Menyebabkan kanker, tumor, dan penyakit
paru-paru”. MH 313; 9 T 159.(“People are continually eating flesh that is
filled with tuberculous and cancerous germs”.).
8.
“Tidak perlu bagi kesehatan dan kekuatan”. CH
115.(“We do not hesitate to say that meat is not essential to the maintenance
of health and strength.”)
9.
“Secara lambat laun akan ditinggalkan oleh
orang-orang yang menunggu kedatangan Tuhan”. CH.450.(“Among those who are
waiting for the coming of the Lord, meat eating will eventually be done away;
flesh will cease to form a part of their diet.”).
10.
“Banyak orang meninggal melulu karena makan
daging”.MH 315.(“Many die of diseases wholly due to meat eating, while the real
cause is not suspected by themselves or by others”.)
Akan tetapi dalam tulisan Ellen White
terdapat juga kutipan-kutipan berikut:
2. “Dalam beberapa keadaan tertentu sedikit
makanan daging dari jenis yang kurang berbahaya lebih baik dari pada menahan
keinginan yang terlalu berkecamuk”. 2T 384; CH 450..
Dari kutipan-kutipan di atas, barangkali
saudara dapat mengambil kesimpulan bahwa makanan daging tidak dianjurkan bagi
umat Advent. Namun demikian, lepas dari persoalan baik-tidaknya makanan daging
bagi umat Tuhan dewasa ini hendaklah selalu diingat nasihat Paulus yang
mengatakan (tentang memakan daging yang HALAL), “Siapa yang makan janganlah
menghina orang yang tidak makan, dan siapa yang tidak makan janganlah
menghakimi orang yang makan….Siapakah kamu hingga menghakimi hamba orang lain?”
(Roma 14:3,4).
God Bless us!
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