It seems this is what God designed us for and wants us to do

[JohnB445]

There isn't much talk about exercise, and I haven't heard about not exercising being a sin in the Bible or not eating healthy.

But there are risks to not exercising, you increase your chances of cancers, osteoporosis, diabetes, arthritis. You will feel sluggish, not energetic, you will increase your chances of depression. Working out is proven to boost mood.

So it only seems logical, that this is what God would like us to exercise and eat healthy. Because if you don't nothing good comes out of it, only bad.

What are your thoughts? Are we dishonoring our bodies by not taking the extra steps to care for it? Everything must be maintained, just like anything in life.

 

[mama2one]

yes-

"ease" into exercise when younger
or expect "disease" when older

 

[Hazelelponi]

Life in the modern day has changed so much. Not that long ago doing laundry meant taking clothes down to the stream and beating them with rocks in the running water, to wear clothing involved weaving, sewing etc. Eating in and of itself involved growing food and harvesting it, raising animals, gathering eggs, slaughtering etc. Cooking over fire meant chopping down wood or making hay and manure patties for burning etc...

Survival was very hard work, and our bodies are literally made for it...

Now we have so many conveniences we aren't working the same way, and our bodies function best with the work because we were created with work in mind. Even in the garden God gave Adam work to do; tending the garden.

So we have to exercise to keep our bodies in their best condition, as well as eat in accordance with the amount of physical activity we do... Which means working out and eating "right"...

We are stewards of our bodies, they are temples of the living God and we have a responsibility to be as healthy as possible.. would I put it up there with sin if a person is just lazy? Likely...

Ecclesiastes 10:18: “By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.”

 

[rocknanchor]

God would like us to exercise and eat healthy. Because if you don't nothing good comes out of it, only bad.

Fine, no question there is both profit and liberty in how we care for God’s temple, so long as that liberty doesn’t find itself diverging down the road less traveled (consumed),

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. (1Timothy 4:8)

Safety (I believe what the bases here is all about), is of the Lord!

 

[royal priest]

God has given us a body to be the primary instrument through which we honor and glorify Him in everything we do.
Romans 12:1-2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
This requires some level of bodily maintenance. Some more than others, perhaps.

 

[timothyu]

14 years ago this article stated this man's opinion when he was 67 about staying healthy and alive. He has often said he would have died years ago without it. He is 81 now.

Exercise And Love Keep Starr Young

 

[BobRyan]

There isn't much talk about exercise, and I haven't heard about not exercising being a sin in the Bible or not eating healthy.

But there are risks to not exercising, you increase your chances of cancers, osteoporosis, diabetes, arthritis. You will feel sluggish, not energetic, you will increase your chances of depression. Working out is proven to boost mood.

So it only seems logical, that this is what God would like us to exercise and eat healthy. Because if you don't nothing good comes out of it, only bad.

What are your thoughts? Are we dishonoring our bodies by not taking the extra steps to care for it? Everything must be maintained, just like anything in life.

1 Cor 6: 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

So then
1. Your diet do you feed your body poisons, excito-toxins, cancer promoting foods?
2. Do you drink sufficient water to be healthy
3. Your exercise
4. Do you rest sufficiently each night
5. Do you burden your body with excess weight, excess cholesterol, excess sugar

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from: SDA Pillars of Our Faith: 8 Laws of Health

1. NUTRITION

2. EXERCISE

3. WATER

4. SUNSHINE

5. TEMPERANCE

6. AIR

7. REST

8. TRUST IN GOD