HERE INTRODUCTION
Health is the harmonious operation of all the elements that constitute the human being: body, mind and spirit.
Temperance is the moderate use of all that is good and complete abstinence from whatever is harmful, especially alcohol, snuff and drugs.
1. General Principles
1. What is God's desire for each of us? 3 John 2.
"Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy , well as your soul prospers."
Note: When you buy a car we are given an instruction manual for maintenance and improved conservation and enjoyment of it. We read the tips, how often do the necessary adjustments, oil change, adequate fuel, etc. Only then can we guarantee to enjoy longer and with fewer problems than are desired. Is the manufacturer who gives us the instruction manual and maintenance of any product that buy.
The question is, where is the instruction manual for a baby? We will have to go to the "manufacturer" or Creator, to see what advice they give us so that baby grow up healthy and have a long happy life. The Creator has given us the manual beforehand, His Word, the Bible.
2. How should we view our bodies? 1 Corinthians 3:16 - 17.
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God , and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" If any man defile the temple of God, God will destroy him for the temple of God, who are you, holy is. "
Note: As a product (auto, appliance, etc..) loses the guarantee when we misuse it, God can not protect us and help as he would if we have behavior that the principles of health. This destruction is a passive action, allowing nature to take its course in our destructive behavior, God respects our freedom of decision and does not intervene where it is invited.
On the other hand, at the time of reckoning with God, we would be found guilty of murder, for having blown yourself slowly (or sometimes not so slowly) with our bad habits.
3. What advice is given those who await the second coming of Jesus? 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Note: Almost everyone agrees that we must live a change in our morality and spirituality, but not everyone realizes the relationship between body and mind. In order to make those changes in mind (sanctification), find the easiest way if you also take care of the body. So what we recommend our Creator.
2. Factors for good Health
1. What are the main factors for good health?
Answer: Many experts agree
in 8 major basic factors for good health, as reflected in the acronym "GO":
A - CAFE.
D - Break.
E - Exercise.
L - Sunlight.
A - Water, inside (drinking 2 liters a day) and outside (daily hygiene).
N - Nutrition, a healthy balanced diet.
T - temperance (moderate use and abstinence as well as harmful).
E - Hope, trust in divine power.
2. What was the scheme primitive food? Genesis 1:29.
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the whole earth and every tree whose fruit yields seed, ye shall eat."
Note: In this diet, the Creator gave us the ideal fuel with which to operate this machinery so perfect that we gave. Seeds ( Zore ' is the Hebrew word that appears here) involves grains (seeds) and vegetables (seeds) and all fruit in which no seed (nuts, fresh fruits). Many are wondering where you could get the protein with this type of diet, and the answer is simple. Eating cereals with legumes together the essential amino acids are taken together to form protein synthesizing the same by our body. The only answer that has not been found is the source of vitamin B12 in the diet, moreover, is fully sufficient and complete.
other hand, I noticed that after the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, this diet was modified. In Genesis 3:18 God adds to this diet plant of the field, what is known as vegetables. Until that time there was no need to eat them, but God saw that the degeneration by sin bring disease, especially degenerative diseases (cancer, cardiovascular, etc.), adding the vegetables, rich in sulfur compounds (among other things) high preventive power of degenerative diseases.
The "manufacturer", added a new fuel additive to the human being to preserve the "tear" and damage the machinery that gave us: our body.
3. When was allowed man to eat meat? Genesis 9:3-4.
"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for even as the green herb have I given you all. But flesh with the life that is your blood, you shall not eat."
Note: Only after the flood was allowed to eat meat to Noah and his offspring. The reason is obvious, the Earth was devastated and had no fruits of those who argued, it was necessary to survival including meat, plus vegetables, fruits, vegetables and cereals.
4. What distinction was made between clean and unclean meat before the flood?
Genesis 6:19 "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you, male and female will be."
Genesis 7:2.
"Of every clean animal Take with you seven pairs, male and female: and of animals are not clean by two, the male and female. "
Note: This distinction is made long before Israel existed as a nation, so the Levitical laws should include previous universal principles, like this on the type of food. Therefore, this kind of distinction was not only the Jews, as some understand, but to all humanity descended from Noah and his sons.
On the other hand, this distinction is envisaged that some animals would be killed, either in sacrifice to God, as in food use. If he had made only two of every animal at the time that had killed a to eat, this species would become extinct. Therefore, God ordered the introduction of seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of unclean animals, knowing they would survive because they would be slaughtered and eaten.
5. Where do we find how to distinguish between clean in an unclean? Leviticus 11.
strongly recommend reading this chapter in detail, but suffice as a summary the following basic rules learned from this chapter:
Land animals: To be clean must have cloven hooves (like cows) and be ruminants. Must meet both conditions. The pig has cloven hooves, but not the cud, like the camel, are not clean. Input, an animal that is not excluded land mammal (reptiles, etc.)..
Aquatic animals: must have fins and scales. Any aquatic animal that has no fins and scales is not considered clean (shellfish, octopus, etc.).. The shark, for example, has fins but no scales, so is not considered clean. Bird
: From what seen in Leviticus 11, the birds of prey (eagles and the like) and living on garbage or prey (gull, etc.) Are not considered clean, the rest itself.
6. With clean meats, what two substances should not be eaten?
Answer:
"Grease" (Lev. 7:23): "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: No fat, of ox or sheep or goat eat".
Note: Whenever most fashionable eating poultry (turkey or chicken) fat-free (the famous 0%). Modern medicine confirms that old biblical principle, indicating that consumption of animal fat is bad for cardiovascular health of human beings.
"blood" (Lev. 7:26): "And ye shall eat no blood in any place where you dwell, or birds or beasts."
Note: The blood meal (food) intake leads to impurities of the same, and diseases. This issue has nothing to do with blood transfusions, the Bible indicates the contradiction in the intake of blood transfusion not the same as is done now, first because at that time was not invented, and second, about saving a life. The other texts that sometimes are provided in this line, continue to refer solely to the intake, although not the subject of this study.
7. What example did Daniel and his companions? Daniel 1:5, 8, 12.
"And they said the king ration for each day, providing the royal food and wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years to the end of them before the king.
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Daniel purposed in his heart with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested, the chief of the eunuchs that he was forced to defile
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I beg you to do the test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. "
8. What was the outcome of your procedure? Daniel 1:14 - 15.
"he consented to them in this, and proved them ten days. And after ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter than the children which did eat of the portion of the king's food. "
Note: The body needs energy to eliminate toxins and harmful elements that are included in normal diet, so that despite popular belief, a patient may seem to an omnivorous diet with a diet similar to the original. In all probability this was the reason for the difference in outcome between Daniel and his friends the rest of the boys. They ate healthy and did not devote his energies to the body purge toxins (produced by alcohol, meat, etc..), so that optimized the outcome.
9. What activity was given to Adam in Eden? Genesis 2:15.
"Took So the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it."
Note: The exercise was part of the routine of Adam (and Eve) in Eden. The popular belief is that the work came after the sin, but that's not right. God, as new elements included in the human diet (vegetables), also modified the dose of exercise, physical therapy included a preventive treatment to a body that would get old. Genesis 3:19 says "By the sweat of thy face you shall eat bread until you return to the earth. "Before sin Adam had to work physically, but now, after sin, with more intensity, or it might be a result of exhaustion, not present before the sin. The fact is that people that moderate to intense exercise regularly, live longer.
10. What do you say sleep the worker? Ecclesiastes 5:12.
"Sweet is the dream of the worker, eat too much, eat little, but the rich will not suffer him to sleep plenty. "
Note: Many envy the rich, but do not know that the concerns, accountability, coupled with lack of exercise physical causes of sleepless nights, nightmares (usually). While ordinary workers, often satisfied with less, have less concerns (not least) that disturb sleep, and fatigue of the day give you a sound sleep.
11. What is one of the purposes of the Sabbath? Exodus 20:9 - 10.
"Six days you shall labor and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath * the Lord thy God, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. "
* Hebrew Sabbath = Saturday.
12. What invitation sent Jesus to his disciples after a period of intense work? Mark 6:31.
"He said to them: Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a little. There were many who came and went, so did not even have time to eat."
Note: Rest ministry was also part of the Master. It was he who told his disciples that they had to rest and rest periods.
13. What influence the state of mind about health? Proverbs 17:22.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries the bones "
Note: The acronym FORWARD ends with Hope. A moody person normally has defenses (immune system) below average, making it much easier disease and cause other (stomach ulcers, hypertension, etc.).. As a person at peace with God and neighbor is more likely to live in a healthy way than the rest.
3. Alcohol
1. What is said of wine and fermented beverages? Although wine is soft at first, how will it end? Proverbs 23:31 - 32.
"Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup. It goes down smoothly, but at last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper."
2. How does alcohol affect personality? Proverbs 23:29 - 35.
"Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who hath wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? For those who stand long at the wine, for those who go to seek mixed. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup. It goes gently, but at last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things And your heart will utter perverse things. You will be like lying in the middle of the sea, like the one at the top of a mast. And say: I was wounded, but did not hurt, I hit, but did not feel it when I awake, still looking back. "
4. What happens when you love wine?
Proverbs 21:17
"poor man is the lover's delight, and he that loveth wine and oil shall not be enriched." Proverbs 23:21
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"For the drunkard and the glutton poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags. "
5. How is the character affected by alcohol?
Hosea 4:11" Fornication and wine and new wine take away the trial. "
Habakkuk
2:5 "And also, which is given to wine is treacherous, arrogant man who will not stay; widened as the grave his soul and is as death, not be satisfied, before another meeting for all people , and gathered to himself all peoples. "
6. What is your influence on those who govern?
Proverbs 31:4, 5
" It is of kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the rights of all the afflicted "
Ecclesiastes 10:17" Blessed art thou , land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength and not to drink! "
7. How alcohol prevents the discernment between the holy and the profane? Leviticus 10 : 9 to 10.
"You and your children with you, do not drink wine or strong drink when you enter the tent of meeting, lest ye die to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations to difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean ".
Note: Some argue that this language is permissive, so that other people could drink. However it is restrictive, since all we need to discern between holy and unholy, unclean and clean, so that affects us all this text.
8. What is said of that gives his neighbor drink? Habakkuk 2:15.
"Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor! Woe to you, that you approach your gall, and him drunken look on their nakedness! "
Note: A Christian should not work to serve alcohol in a bar, restaurant or other place. Much less operating or owning a place where alcohol is served.
9. Instead of wine, what we need to be filled? Ephesians 5:18.
"Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit."
10. Who will be among those who do not inherit the kingdom of God? 1 Corinthians 6:10.
"Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
Note: Some argue the moderate use of alcoholic beverages to claim that these texts refer only to abuse. Nothing is further from the truth. For a more thorough and detailed study see Wine in the Bible .
11. What principles can be applied to both alcohol and drugs and to snuff?
1 Corinthians 3:17 "If any man defile the temple of God, God will destroy him for the temple of God, who are you, holy."
1 Corinthians 6:19 - 20
"Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are of God. "
1 Corinthians 10:31" So whether you eat or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. "
Note : Some people use this text to say that no matter what you eat but the attitude with which it is made. After watching today's study, it is clear that only honor God by following his advice that benefit us to improve our health.
Romans 12:1 - 2
"Therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. Do not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what the will of God, pleasing and perfect. "
4. Results of the Observance of these principles
1. What promises are made to those who obey the laws of health? Exodus 15:26.
"And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right in his eyes, and give ear to commandments and keep all his statutes, none of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians I will send to you, for I am the Lord your healer. "
2. What will some of the results of the observance of the Word of God? Proverbs 4:20 - 22.
"My son, attend to my words, incline thine ear unto my sayings. Not depart from thine eyes Keep them within your heart, they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh." -------------
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