The Eden Diet: What Did God Give Adam and Eve To Eat in Eden Before Sin

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@matthewbergsma7647 6 ай бұрын

A clarification about the mustard seed. While mustard seed fits the green herb category; as it truly is a green herb, it was not the herb bearing seed that we can eat. We often want to include wheat into that category, but I do not think we should. Now as a Seventh Day Adventist we sometimes look to Ellen White for clarification, but we also know that there were some things she was just not sure about and are left ambiguous and sometimes she wrote things that she had no idea God inspired and she may not have seen it. This is one of the quotes, and shows that grains (like wheat) which is a grass was food for animals: "When I read your letter, I was forcibly reminded of the complaining of the children of Israel because they were not favored with a meat diet. THE DIET OF THE ANIMALS IS VEGETABLES AND GRAINS. Must the vegetables be animalized, must they be incorporated into the system of animals before we get them? Must we obtain our vegetable diet by eating the flesh of dead creatures? God provided fruit in its natural state for our first parents. He gave to Adam charge of the garden, to dress it, and to care for it, saying, To you it shall be for meat. One animal was not to destroy another animal for food." 11LtMs, Lt 72, 1896, par. 8 Now a correction about the mustard seed in the Bible. I believe this actually is the wild mustard we all see today. We see this in an Ellen White quote for those that believe she is a prophet. " “Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.” Far and near the mustard lifted itself above the grass and grain, waving its branches lightly in the air. Birds flitted from twig to twig and sang amid its leafy foliage. Yet the seed from which sprang this giant plant, was the least of all seeds. At first it had sent up a tender shoot; but it was of strong vitality, and grew and flourished till it was of large proportions, and the birds lodged under its shadow. {2SP 245.3} The people look upon the mustard, growing so vigorously about them, and their minds are vividly impressed by the illustration Jesus has used to point the truths of his doctrine. He thus declares that not by force of arms, and the pomp and heraldry of war, is the kingdom of Christ to be set up. But the work is of gradual development. Though the beginning may be small, it will grow and strengthen till, like the grain of mustard seed, it will reach, through imperceptible stages of development, the majesty of greatness. {2SP 246.1} Jesus takes this poor little seed to illustrate his mighty truths. The merest trifle is not beneath the notice of the great Teacher. Many were there whose Christian experience began that day, and would be like the symbol he had used, growing into strength and beauty, trampled upon, yet still maintaining its vigorous life. This figure was indelibly written upon the minds of hundreds who listened to the words of Jesus. Never would they behold the rank-growing mustard, so plentiful in that region, but they would be reminded of this parable of the Saviour, and their hearts would remember the lesson that he taught concerning the mysterious influence of divine grace upon the human soul, and the quickening power of the word that declares itself in the daily life. {2SP 246.2} So while I am not dogmatic on this subject, now from over a year of experience and testing my body in different ways in regard to diet wondering about those grains, I do strongly believe that grains were not part of the original diet.