“The world has departed far from true principles of restoration and health.” (LLM 72A.5)
1: A physician is to know how to recover the health of God's people:
“Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?” (Jer. 8:22)
***A true physician gets to the root of the medical condition without masking it with medication…the person would be healed.
“But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.” (Job 13:4)
“Many physicians in our world are of no benefit to the human family…” (SpM 137.1)
“And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.” (2 Chron. 16:12) (2 Kings 20:1-7)
“…had suffered many things of many physicians...” (Mark 5:26)
5: Most people go to physician after physician, but still with no recovery:
“Many physicians...was nothing bettered.” (Mark 5:26)
“...had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any.” (Luke 8:43)
SOP:
“To educate the human family that the doctor alone knows all the ills of infants and persons of every age is false teaching...” M.S. 105, (PH144 13.2) (written Aug. 26, 1898)
“While you fear to trust yourself in the hands of the physicians, and think that you understand your case better than they do, you cannot be benefited, but only harmed, by their treatment of your case. Unless physicians can obtain the confidence of their patients, they can never help them. If you prescribe for yourself, and think you know what treatment you should have, better than the physicians do, you cannot be benefited. You must yield your will and ideas, and not rein yourself up to resist their judgment and advice in your case.” {3T 78.3}
WE MAY BE OUR OWN PHYSICIANS IN A SENSE:
“Again, there may be somebody sick there. You want to know how to use the common methods, the simple remedies of water. It is a simple power. Although my husband and I were not physicians, yet we were. We could go around when the doctors children were cut down, four and five in the families of physicians. We never lost a case. That is in diphtheria, and we used only the simple treatments. In doing this, we gained the confidence of the physicians. When persons would go to the physicians for help, they would say, "If anybody can help you, it is up there at Elder White's. He and his wife go around and help people, I don't know how they do it...” {SW, January 23, 1902 par. 17}
CTBH 113.1-114.1 – “Who among us are seeking help from the gods of Ekron? Look on this picture — a picture not drawn from imagination. In how many, even among Seventh-day Adventists, may its leading characteristics be seen! An invalid, apparently very conscientious, yet bigoted and self-sufficient, freely avows his contempt for the laws of life and health, which divine mercy has led us as a people to accept. His food must be prepared in a manner to satisfy his morbid cravings. Rather than sit at a table where wholesome food is provided, he will patronize restaurants, because he can there indulge appetite without restraint. A fluent advocate of temperance, he disregards its foundation principles. He wants relief, but refuses to obtain it at the price of self-denial. That man is worshiping at the shrine of perverted appetite. He is an idolater. The powers, which, sanctified and ennobled, might be employed to honor God, are weakened, and rendered of little service. An irritable temper, a confused brain, and unstrung nerves are among the results of his disregard of nature's laws. He is inefficient and unreliable. Whoever has the courage and honesty to warn him of danger, thereby incurs his displeasure. The slightest remonstrance or opposition is sufficient to rouse his combative spirit. But now an opportunity is presented to seek help from one whose power comes through the medium of witchcraft. To this source he applies with eagerness, freely expending time and money in the hope of securing the proffered boon. He is deceived, infatuated. The sorcerer's power is made the theme of praise, and others are influenced to seek his aid. Thus the God of Israel is dishonored, while Satan's power is revered and exalted.”
“The world is a theater; the actors, its inhabitants, are preparing to act their part in the last great drama...God is permitting the elements of confusion and disorder to bear sway for a season. A power from beneath is working to bring about the last great scenes in the drama--Satan coming as Christ, and working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who are binding themselves together in secret societies. Those who are yielding to the passion for confederation are working out the plans of the enemy...” {8T 27.4}
“Drug medication must be left out of the question if the human physician would receive the diploma written and issued in heaven. There are many physicians who will never receive this diploma unless they learn in the school of the great physician. This means they must unlearn and cast away the supposed wonderful knowledge of how to treat disease with poisonous drugs. They must go to God’s laboratory of nature, and there learn the simplest methods of using the remedies which the Lord had furnished…when GOD’S REMEDIES --sunshine, pure air, water, and good food--are used, there will be far fewer deaths and a far greater number of cures.” {16MR 247.1}
“Instruction has been given me that physicians who use flesh meat and prescribe it for their patients, should not be employed in our institutions, because they fail decidedly in educating the patients who discard that which makes them sick. The physician who uses and prescribes meat does not reason from cause to effect, and instead of acting as a restorer, he leads the patient by his own example to indulge perverted appetite. The physicians in our institutions should be reformers in this respect and in every other. Many of the patients are suffering because of errors in diet. They need to be shown a better way, but how can a meat-eating physician do this? By his wrong habits he trammels his work and cripples his usefulness.” {CD 290.5-291.1}
LLM = Loma Linda Messages
PH = Pamphlet
CTBH = Christian Temperance & Bible Hygiene
5T = Testimonies for the Church, Volume 5
2SM = Selected Messages, Volume 2
SpM = Spalding & Magan
5BC = Bible Commentary, Volume 5
CH = Counsels on Health
MM = Medical Ministry
3SP = Spirit of Prophecy, Volume 3
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