Health
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Health arises from the integration of truth, beauty, and goodness in human experience, bringing about efficiency in living through unified energy, idea, and spirit systems. 2:7.11
The key to health, mental efficiency, and happiness is found in the unification of physical, mental, and spiritual systems through the dominance of love. 100:4.3
The first focus in all industry is on health, with certain aspects seen as communal priorities while individual and family health issues are considered personal matters; government intervention in personal health matters, including in medicine, is becoming less common. 72:7.2
“A merry heart does good like medicine, seek the Lord with all your heart and find joy in the morning.” 131:2.9
Lut's guardians of health promoted sanitation, primitive hygiene, and cooking to improve public health. 66:5.17-22
A soul dedicated to the will of the Father in heaven fosters spiritual growth, influenced by physical health, inherited temperament, and social environment, while maintaining a balanced triune harmony of development. 100:1.6 110:6.4
Sickness and health are the result of material causes, not divine favor or punishment. 166:4.10
The coming of the Spirit of Truth purifies the human heart and leads to spiritual joy, which is a tonic for health. 194:3.19
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Lord is near whoever calls 131:2.9 — Ps 145:18. *Weeping goes away*: Ps 30:5. *A merry heart does good like a medicine*: Pr 17:22. *God won't withhold any good thing*: Ps 84:11. *Fear God and keep his commandments*: Ec 12:13. *This is how the Lord speaks*: Is 45:18. *There is no God but me, a just and saving God*: Is 45:21-22. *If you look for me, you will find me*: Jer 29:13. *The meek will inherit the Earth and rejoice in peace*: Ps 37:11. *You will reap what you sow*: Job 4:8; Pr 22:8; Ga 6:7. *Those who sow winds will reap whirlwinds*: Ho 8:7.
- Spirit of Truth purifies heart 194:3.19 — Ezk 11:19; Ezk 36:26-27.
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