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"Loma Linda One night I was awakened and instructed to write a straight testimony regarding the work of our school at Loma Linda. By that school a solemn, sacred work is to be done. The teachings of health reform are to stand out clearly and brightly, that all the youth in attendance may learn to practice them. All our educators should be strict health reformers. CT 251"
Likely biblical basis 85% 1 Corinthians 10:31
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
Both passages emphasize doing all things to the glory of God. EGW applies this principle specifically to the health reform teachings at Loma Linda, while 1 Corinthians 10:31 is a more general statement.
"The Lord desires that genuine missionaries shall go out as pioneers from our schools. They are to be fully consecrated to the work as laborers together with God daily enlarging their sphere of usefulness. The influence of a consecrated medical missionary teacher in our schools is invaluable. CT 251.2"
Direct citation 80% 1 Corinthians 3:9
"For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building."
EGW directly uses the phrase 'laborers together with God,' which is a key phrase from 1 Corinthians 3:9.
"God experience the new birth, their honesty, their uprightness, their fidelity, their steadfast principles, will unfailingly reveal it. CT 251.3"
Direct citation 95% John 3:3
"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
EGW directly references the concept of the 'new birth,' which is central to John 3:3.
"Oh, what words were spoken to me! What gentleness was recommended through the grace abundantly given! The greatest manifestation that men and women can make of the grace and power of Christ is made when the natural man becomes a partaker of the divine nature, and through the power that the grace of Christ imparts, overcomes the corruption that is in the world through lust. CT 251.4"
Direct citation 90% 2 Peter 1:4
"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
EGW directly alludes to the concept of becoming 'partakers of the divine nature' and escaping 'the corruption that is in the world through lust,' mirroring 2 Peter 1:4.

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