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Counsels on Diet and Foods
divine in origin, in character, and in importance as the word of God.
Every careless, inattentive action, any abuse put upon the Lord’s won-
derful mechanism, by disregarding His specified laws in the human
habitation, is a violation of God’s law. We may behold and admire
the work of God in the natural world, but the human habitation is the
most wonderful. [
Sin of Taking a Course Which Needlessly Expends
Vitality or Beclouds the Brain—194
]
9. It is as truly a sin to violate the laws of our being as it is to
break the ten commandments. To do either is to break God’s laws.
Those who transgress the law of God in their physical organism, will
be inclined to violate the law of God spoken from Sinai. [
See also 63
]
Our Saviour warned His disciples that just prior to His second
coming a state of things would exist very similar to that which preceded
the flood. Eating and drinking would be carried to excess, and the
world would be given up to pleasure. This state of things does exist at
the present time. The world is largely given up to the indulgence of
appetite; and the disposition to follow worldly customs will bring us
into bondage to perverted habits,—habits that will make us more and
more like the doomed inhabitants of Sodom. I have wondered that the
inhabitants of the earth were not destroyed, like the people of Sodom
[18]
and Gomorrah. I see reason enough for the present state of degeneracy
and mortality in the world. Blind passion controls reason, and every
high consideration is, with many, sacrificed to lust.
To keep the body in a healthy condition, in order that all parts of
the living machinery may act harmoniously, should be a study of our
life. The children of God cannot glorify Him with sickly bodies or
dwarfed minds. Those who indulge in any species of intemperance,
either in eating or drinking, waste their physical energies and weaken
moral power.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 53, 1890
10. Since the laws of nature are the laws of God, it is plainly our
duty to give these laws careful study. We should study their require-
ments in regard to our own bodies, and conform to them. Ignorance in
these things is sin. [
Willful Ignorance Increases Sin—53
]
“Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?” “What!
know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are
bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your
spirit, which are God’s.”
1 Corinthians 6:15, 19, 20
. Our bodies are