Chapter 1—Our Bodies, Temples of the Holy Ghost
God’s Workmanship
1. God is the owner of the whole man. Soul, body, and spirit are
his. God gave his only begotten Son for the body as well as the soul,
and our entire life belongs to God, to be consecrated to his service,
that through the exercise of every faculty he has given, we may glorify
him.—
The Youth’s Instructor, September 7, 1893
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2. From the first dawn of reason the human mind should become
intelligent in regard to the physical structure of the body. Here Jehovah
has given a specimen of himself; for man was made in the image of
God.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
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3. The living organism is God’s property. It belongs to him by
creation and by redemption; and by a misuse of any of our powers we
rob God of the honor due him.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30,
1896
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4. We are God’s workmanship, and his word declares that we
are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” He has prepared this living
habitation for the mind; it is “curiously wrought,” a temple which
the Lord himself has fitted up for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 33
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5. The very flesh in which the soul tabernacles, and through which
it works, is the Lord’s—
Unpublished Testimonies, October 12, 1896
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Creation’s Crown
6. Man was the crowning act of the creation of God, made in the
image of God, and designed to be a counterpart of God.... Man is
very dear to God, because he was formed in his own image. This
fact should impress us with the importance of teaching by precept and
example the sin of defiling, by the indulgence of appetite or by any
other sinful practise, the body which is designed to represent God to
the world.—
The Review and Herald, June 18, 1895
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