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the result of eating and drinking to excess. This is the very condition
of things which He declares will exist at His second coming.
The Facts of Faith 2:121
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.
The Facts of Faith 2:124
Many marvel that the human race have so degenerated, physically,
mentally, and morally. They do not understand that it is the violation
of God’s constitution and laws, and the violation of the laws of health,
that has produced this sad degeneracy. The transgression of God’s
commandments has caused His prospering hand to be removed.
Intemperance in eating and in drinking, and the indulgence of base
passions have benumbed the fine sensibilities, so that sacred things
have been placed upon a level with common things.
The Facts of Faith 2:131
Those who permit themselves to become slaves to a gluttonous
appetite, often go still further, and debase themselves by indulging
their corrupt passions, which have become excited by intemperance in
eating and in drinking. They give loose rein to their debasing passions,
until health and intellect greatly suffer. The reasoning faculties are, in
a great measure, destroyed by evil habits.
The Health Reformer, October 1, 1871—(Healthful Living, 41)
Irregularity in eating and drinking, and improper dressing, deprave
the mind and corrupt the heart, and bring the noble attributes of the
soul in slavery to the animal passions.