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What Odors Stemming from the Human Body
Bring to Mind
Unless they take precautionary measures, if people go hungry for
even a short period of time, unpleasant odors can arise from their bodies
when they walk at a fast pace, climb stairs, or move about during their
daily lives. Even if they do not move about much, every part from their
hair to their feet will soon become dirty and lead to unpleasant smells un-
less they bathe and groom themselves. Just as there is a specific purpose
behind the creation of everything in the universe, so there is considerable
in wisdom in the odors that arise from the human body.
If God so wished, He could have created our scent-perception sys-
tem in such a way that we would not notice unpleasant smells, or
else have created all aromas to seem attractive to human beings.
In that case, what is His wisdom behind the creation of unpleas-
ant odors?
No doubt that they signal a weakness and a deficiency for
human beings. Deficiencies of this sort in people’s
bodies are a means whereby they
can reflect that they
have been created
