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Section 5—Warning Against Spiritistic Sophistry
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You know that Satan will come in to deceive if possible the very
elect. He claims to be Christ, and he is coming in, pretending to
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be the great medical missionary. He will cause fire to come down
from heaven in the sight of men to prove that he is God. We must
stand barricaded by the truths of the Bible. The canopy of truth is
the only canopy under which we can stand safely.—
Testimonies to
the Church Regarding our Youth Going to Battle Creek Obtain An
Education, 32-33.
The True Higher Education
Human fallacies are abundant and specious. Unseen agencies are
at work to make falsehood appear as truth; errors are clothed with a
deceptive garb that men may be led to accept them as essential to
a higher education. And these fallacies will deceive many of our
students unless they are thoroughly guarded, and unless they are led
by the Spirit of God to take the grand and holy truths of the word into
their hearts and minds, accepting these as the principles underlying
the higher education. No instruction can exceed in value the pure
instruction of God, which comes for the enlightenment of all who
will be enlightened.
Our students must be educated to understand that there can be no
education higher than that which was given by the Great Teacher to
the world. We must guard our students from temptation by making
the sacred truths of the word of God the basis of their education.
This higher knowledge, the knowledge of the glory of God, is to
shine into their hearts, that the excellency of the power may be of
God and not of men....
Warn every student that he must be wide-awake. Let this truth be
firmly fixed upon the mind by our ministers and by all who in faith
are acting a part to rid the human mind of error, that there can be no
higher education than that which came forth from Him who gave
His life that humanity might grasp divinity, and fallen man become
one with God. The teacher who is so foolish as to think that he can
give to the students a more perfect knowledge than that given by
the Great Teacher, Christ Jesus, is ignorant of what constitutes the
higher education.—
Letter 98, 1909
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