"A practice that is laying the foundation of a vast amount of disease and of even more serious evils is the free use of poisonous drugs. When attacked by disease, many will not take the trouble to search out the cause of their illness. Their chief anxiety is to rid themselves of pain and inconvenience. So they resort to patent nostrums, of whose real properties they know little, or they apply to a physician for some remedy to counteract the result of their misdoing, but with no thought of making a change in their unhealthful habits. If immediate benefit is not realized, another medicine is tried, and then another. Thus the evil continues. MH 126.2"
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
Both passages address the consequences of a lack of knowledge and the rejection of wisdom. Hosea 4:6 speaks of spiritual ignorance leading to destruction, while the EGW passage discusses the lack of knowledge regarding health and the misuse of drugs leading to disease. The parallel lies in the destructive outcome of neglecting knowledge.
"By the use of poisonous drugs, many bring upon themselves lifelong illness, and many lives are lost that might be saved by the use of natural methods of healing. The poisons contained in many so-called remedies create habits and appetites that mean ruin to both soul and body. Many of the popular nostrums called patent medicines, and even some of the drugs dispensed by physicians, act a part in laying the foundation of the liquor habit, the opium habit, the morphine habit, that are so terrible a curse to society. MH 126.4"
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
EGW's warning against harmful substances and their impact on the body aligns with the principle of 1 Corinthians 6:19, which emphasizes the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit. While not a direct quote, the underlying theme of bodily health and its spiritual implications connects the two passages.