My Bible Friends, a book series published by the SDA Church, injects SDA false doctrines within biblical narratives by subtly twisting them to present applications to children that distort the facts. Even when their own scholarship is on record demonstrating such.
Video Transcript
It was noon time in the city of Jerusalem the temple school for boys had been dismissed Daniel and his three special friends were hurrying home to lunch when suddenly a trumpet sound at home Daniel’s mother served him pulse for lunch pulse is food like beans and vegetables brown bread berries and dates Daniel liked pulse pulse would make him grow tall pulse would make him grow strong pulse would make him get good grades in school the king of Babylon sat on his Royal Throne while Soldiers paraded the prisoners before him said the king to the captain of the
Army choose boys from among the prisoners goodly boys give them food from my table to eat and give them of my wine to drink they shall go to school for three years to learn the wisdom of Babylon Daniel and his three friends were chosen Prince melzar was given charge over all the boys that evening Dan Daniel and his friends talked together we cannot eat the King’s food said Daniel it has been offered to idols and besides the King’s food is not the best food for boys neither can we drink the King’s Wine what shall we do the boys asked one another then Daniel thought of a plan
Let’s ask melar to give us pulse to eat and water to drink instead of the King’s food and wine it’s a good plan agreed the three friends Daniel and his friends went to see Prince melar they bowed politely then asked asked for pulse and water instead of the King’s food and wine melar shook his head no if the king should see you looking thinner than the other boys and learn that I’ve given you pulse and water he might he might even cut off my head please try us for 10 days begged Daniel so melar agreed to give them pulse and water for 10 days then we shall see he said although
Daniel and his friends were far from home and there was no sound of a Rams Horn trumpet to remind them they did not forget to pray pray morning noon and night Daniel opened his window toward the temple back in Jerusalem and prayed to the god of Heaven he asked God to bless the pulse and water and to please let it make them strong so that melar might know that pulse and water were better for the boys than the King’s food and wine when the 10 days had passed Prince melar called all the boys before him he looked at their faces he felt their arms he found that Daniel and his
Friends were fairer and fatter than the boys who would ate the King’s food and wine so even after during 3 years of school Prince melar gave Daniel and his friends pulse to eat and water to drink 1 2 3 years went by school was over for Daniel and his friends they had grown taller had they grown wiser the king himself would test them Daniel and his friends dressed in clean clothes with hair combed and sandals polished stood before the king of Babylon the king asked them question after question and lo the king found Daniel and his three friends 10 times wiser than all
The wise men of Babylon what bro what are you talking about man so I bet you didn’t know that Daniel chapter 1 is teaching us that Daniel was a vegetarian and you should be too so says the SDA Church in their my Bible friends children’s book series specifically the one on Daniel the goal of which is to teach kids that Daniel was Stronger healthier and smarter than all those other little Pagan Babylonian kids because he was a vegetarian which can be seen in this image where the artist went to Great Lengths to make all the other kids look uh gaunt and like
They have jaundice but there’s one major problem with this uh no it’s not just they weaseling in as well of the SDA Temperance ideas of always having your hair combed and your shoes polished Etc Daniel wasn’t a vegetarian that lived on water and pulse this much is made clear in the 10th chapter of Daniel which states that Daniel fasted for 3 weeks wherein he ate no Delicacies no meat or wine for 3 weeks so he was fasting which would mean that by definition Daniel did eat meat and drink wine at some point because in order to fast from something one must normally be partaking of said
Thing Daniel was also a faithful Jew that would have partaken of the Passover Lamb on number of occasions which was commanded by God even SDA scholarship such as anhel Rodriguez from the SDA biblical Research Institute was forced to recognize this where in a paper titled Daniel 10:3 was Daniel a vegetarian he writes for Daniel only the Lord could determine what he would eat in that setting he went back to the original diet that excluded meat and helped him be obedient to the Lord and the Lord blessed his effort to serve him when he was in charge of his own diet he
Followed the levitical regulations ah right because Mr Rodriguez recognizes that Daniel was fasting and Daniel 1 has nothing to do with being a vegetarian which results in being smarter and wiser than everyone else this is being read into the story from somewhere else so if it isn’t coming from scripture where could this idea possibly in her book in Heavenly places Ellen White comments on Daniel 18 where she speaks about Daniel and his friends decision to reject the King’s food and wine but unlike Mr Rodriguez she claims that flesh meat had not composed Daniel
And his friend’s diet in the past nor would it come into their diet in the future well I want to thank anhel Rodriguez for his recognition that Ellen White contradicts the Bible in this area a contradiction that is published by the SDA church and misleads children by teaching them that following the SDA Health message will lead to getting better grades being smarter than other non his kids and that Daniel took a stand for being a vegetarian in the face of cultural pressure by this point are you starting to question the legitimacy of the Commandment keeping Church being
The Commandment keeping Church they’ll even lie to children to uphold Ellen White even when their own scholarship and theologians recognize it’s false and shame on them which reminds me you’ll want to check this out as well
