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Section 5—Warning Against Spiritistic Sophistry
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must be given as food that only which will strengthen the religious
experience.—
Manuscript 42, 1904.
The Church is Christ’s Fortress
The church is Christ’s fortress in a revolted world, and it must
be strictly guarded against the enemy’s wily arts. In it no laws are
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to be acknowledged but the laws of God. Those whom God has
set as watchmen are not to look on quietly while efforts are being
made to lead men and women away from the truth into false paths.
Careful watch is to be kept against seducing spirits and doctrines of
devils. God calls upon ministers and medical missionaries to take a
firm stand for the right. The severe denunciations that Christ uttered
against the Pharisees for teaching for doctrine the commandments of
men show the necessity for guarding against all theories that are not
in harmony with the truth of God’s word.—
Manuscript 78, 1904.
Exalting Nature Above Nature’s God
The general method of educating the youth does not meet the
standard of true education. Infidel sentiments are interwoven in the
matter placed in schoolbooks, and the oracles of God are placed in
a questionable or even an objectionable light. Thus the minds of
the youth become familiar with Satan’s suggestions, and the doubts
once entertained become to those who entertain them assured facts,
and scientific research is made misleading on account of the way its
discoveries are interpreted and perverted.
Men take it upon themselves to rein up the word of God before
a finite tribunal, and sentence is pronounced upon the inspiration of
God according to finite measurement, and the truth of God is made
to appear as a thing uncertain before the records of science.
Work of False Educators
These false educators exalt nature above nature’s God and above
the Author of all true science. At the very time when teachers should
have been firm and unwavering in their testimony, at the very time
when it should have been made manifest that their souls were riveted
to the eternal Rock, when they should have been able to inspire