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Reconciling Jesus' Eating Fish and EGW/SOP's Promoting Vegetarianism

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Natural Laws change when nature degrades Adam and Eve's children intermarried but it became sexual sin later (Leviticus 18). In bible times one could marry a cousin, but now it would be a genetic problem. Leviticus 11:32-35 clean things can become unclean / polluted / contaminated 32  Anything on which   any   of them falls, when they are dead shall be   6 unclean, whether   it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item   it is,   in which   any   work is done, l it must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.   33  Any m earthen vessel into which   any   of them falls   n you shall break; and whatever   is   in it shall be unclean:   34  in such a vessel, any edible food upon which water falls becomes unclean, and any drink that may be drunk from it becomes unclean.   35  And everything on which   a part   of any such   carcass falls shall be unclean;   whether it is   an oven or cooking stove, it shall be broken

Church Worship Attendance Checking and Grading (Enforced Worship, Compelled Attendance)

Enforced worship "Fathers and mothers should make it a rule that their children attend public worship on the Sabbath, and should enforce the rule by their own example. It is our duty to command our children and our household after us, as did Abraham." { CG.530.3} https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_CG.530.3&para=8.2512 Compelled Attendance " compel   them  to come in, that my house may be filled." Luke 14:23 even strangers But the seventh day   is   the sabbath of the LORD thy God:   in it   thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that   is   within thy gates ... Exo dus 20: 10   training people to have the customs of Jesus "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." Luke 4:16 God checks attendance "And the LORD God called u