BIBLE AND NUTRITION. 1. What is God's desire for our lives? III John 2. Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 2. Do eating and drinking habits have any effect on spirituality? I Corinthians 10:31. Whether therefore you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 3. Why must our bodies be kept in as perfect a condition as possible? I Corinthians 6:19,20. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your bodies. 4. What sacrifice does God require of believers? Romans 12:1. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 5. What can we learn from successful athletes? 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things; now they do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable crown. Therefore I run, as not uncertainly; I box, as not beating the air; but I treat my body with humility and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. 6. What principle does God teach us about eating? Ecclesiastes 10:17. Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat at their proper time, for strength and not for drunkenness. 7. What foods did God give to mankind in the beginning? What foods did God add later? Genesis 1:29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it; they shall be for food. 8. After the flood, humans were allowed to eat meat, and what was the result? Answer: Shortened life span and disease. Genesis 5 and 11. 9. What types of meat did God forbid humans to eat under all circumstances? Leviticus 11. Isaiah 66:17. Those who … eat the flesh of swine, and the flesh of rats, and other abominable things, they will perish together, declares the LORD. (Note: Isaiah 66 is a prophecy about the New Jerusalem and the destruction of the wicked.) 10. Before the Law of Moses was given, was there a distinction between clean and unclean animals? Genesis 7:2. Of the clean animals, take seven pairs of each, a male and its female; and of the unclean animals, one pair of each, a male and its female. Genesis 8:20. Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of all the clean animals and of all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 11. How can we overcome unhealthy habits? Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.