Chapter 14—Causes of Disease
Predisposing Causes
248. Satan is the originator of disease.... There is a divinely
appointed connection between sin and disease.... Sin and disease bear
to each other the relationship of cause and effect.—
Testimonies for
the Church 5:443
.
249. Disease never comes without a cause. The way is first pre-
pared, and disease invited by disregarding the laws of health.—
How
to Live, 70
.
250. Sickness is caused by violating the laws of health.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:164
.
251. The majority of diseases which the human family have been
and are still suffering under, have been created by ignorance of their
own organic law.—
The Health Reformer, October 1, 1866
.
Heredity
252. Through disease transmitted to them from their parents, and
an erroneous education in youth, they have imbibed wrong habits,
injuring the constitution, affecting the brain, causing the moral organs
to become diseased, and making it impossible for them to think and
act rationally upon all points.—
The Review and Herald, March 11,
1880
.
253. Many are suffering in consequence of the transgressions of
their parents; they cannot be censured for their parents’ sins, but it is
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nevertheless their duty to ascertain wherein their parents violated the
laws of their being; and wherein their parents’ habits were wrong, they
should change their course, and place themselves, by correct habits, in
a better relation to health.—
The Health Reformer, August 1, 1866
.
Impure Air
254. The effects produced by living in close, ill-ventilated rooms
are these: The system becomes weak and unhealthy, the circulation
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