Bible Study 28

  1. How did god teach Israel the lesson of His presence with them?
    Exodus 25:8
  2. Where does He desire to abide now?
    2 Corinthians 6:16
  3. How fully are we to yield our bodies to God?
    Romans 12:1
    Philippians 2:12-13
  4. What admonition should be heeded concerning the care of the body and the maintenance of health?
    1 Corinthians 3:16-17
    3 John 1:2
  5. What must govern the child of god in all things?
    1 Corinthians 9:25, 27
  6. Will any drunkard enter heaven?
    1 Corinthians 6:10
  7. What is in strong drink that ruins body and mind?
    Deuteronomy 32:33
    ‘Out of every hundred patients I have charge of at the London Hospital, seventy per cent directly owe their ill health to alcohol.’ – Sir Andrew Clarke, quoted in ‘The Shadow of the Bottle.’ – (First published 1915)
    ‘The direct effect of alcohol upon the nervous system is, in all stages and upon all parts of the system, to depress or suspend its functions; that it is , in short, from first to last a narcotic drug.’ – British Medical Research Council, 1924.
    ‘I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.’ – Thomas A Edison cited in ‘The Shadow of the Bottle.’
  8. What other things come under this ban?
    ‘Tobacco is the most subtle poison known to chemist, except the deadly prussic acid’ – M. Orfila.
    Lord Moyniham, Dr Rolliston, and others have shown that gastric and duodenal ulcers, as well as other disturbances of the gastro-intestinal tract, are frequently caused by tobacco.
    Dr J H Kellogg definitely connects the tobacco habit with the high mortality from heart disease. Much also may be said as to the relation of the tobacco habit to the increase in the death-rate from cancer.
    (This was written over one hundred years ago, long before modern science accepted the harm caused by smoking.)
  9. What should be our attitude toward all these things?
    1 Corinthians 10:31
    ‘A close sympathy exists between the physical and the moral nature. The standard of virtue is elevated or degraded by the physical habits. And habit which does not promote healthful actin in the human system degrades the higher and nobler faculties. Wrong habits in eating and drinking lead to errors in thought and action.’ E G White in ‘Counsels on Health.’
  10. What was the original diet of man?
    Genesis 1.29
    Of animals?
    Genesis 1;30
  11. How long did people live when they adhered to a vegetarian diet?
    Genesis 5:5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20
  12. What was added to man’s diet after he sinned?
    Genesis 3:18
    Genesis 9:3
  13. What beasts did God permit man to eat after vegetation was destroyed by the Flood?
    Leviticus 11:1-30, 44, 46,-47
    No blood.
    Genesis 9:4
    Leviticus 3:17
  14. How did a flesh diet affect men’s lives?
    It shortened life.
    Genesis 11:10-12, 24-25
  15. What will God grant to all who obey?
    Exodus 15:26
    Psalms 103:1-5
  16. When will the fullness of this promise be realized?
    Philippians 3:20-21
    1 John 3:1-3