Diet and Spirituality
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brought sickness, pain, and death as its fruits. And as we near the close
of time, Satan’s temptation to indulge appetite will be more powerful
and more difficult to overcome.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:491,
492, 1875
86. He who cherishes the light which God has given him upon
health reform has an important aid in the work of becoming sanctified
[60]
through the truth, and fitted for immortality.—[
Christian Temperance
and Bible Hygiene, 10
]
Counsels on Health, 22, 1890
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Relation of Simple Diet to Spiritual Discernment—119
]
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Failure to Control Appetite Weakens Resistance to Temptation—
237
]
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Walls of Self-Control not to be Broken Down—260
]
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Flesh Diet a Hindrance to Spiritual Advancement—655, 656, 657,
660, 682, 683, 684, 688
]
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Power for Victory over Other Temptations Given to Those Who
Overcome on Appetite—253
]
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Character Formation Hindered by Improper Care of Stomach—
719
]
The Relation of Diet to Morals
Moral Pollution in Early Times
87. The people who lived before the flood ate animal food, and
gratified their lusts until their cup of iniquity was full, and God cleansed
the earth of its moral pollution by a flood....
Sin has prevailed since the fall. While a few have remained faithful
to God, the great majority have corrupted their ways before Him. The
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was on account of their great
wickedness. They gave loose rein to their intemperate appetites, then
to their corrupt passions, until they were so debased, and their sins
were so abominable, that their cup of iniquity was full, and they were
consumed with fire from heaven.—
Spiritual Gifts 4a:121, 1864
88. The same sins exist in our day which brought the wrath of God
upon the world in the days of Noah. Men and women now carry their
eating and drinking to gluttony and drunkenness. This prevailing sin,
the indulgence of perverted appetite, inflamed the passions of men in
the days of Noah, and led to general corruption, until their violence