To Correspondents

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1869

To Correspondents.

E. J. CONNET: The expression, “It repented the Lord that he had made man,” simply denotes the painful consciousness that the result does not correspond with the design. God designed that man should be good, and the world happy, but man perverted his way, and brought about exactly the reverse; he was wholly evil, and the earth was filled with violence. Hence God altered his conduct toward man, according to Jer. xviii, 7-10; and instead of crowning them with blessings as he designed, in case of their obedience, he doomed them to destruction.

E. W. BLIVEN: While flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom, flesh and bones may.

J. HACKETT: Our views of 1 Cor. xiv, 34, 35, are set forth in the leading editorial of REVIEW VOL. xxviii, No. 4. In regard to the eating of meat, can any text of Scripture be construed to favor the eating of diseased meat? This is the kind with which we have principally now to deal. The meat question rests chiefly on physiological grounds, and, incidentally, through this, on scriptural grounds.