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Section 5—Warning Against Spiritistic Sophistry
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first thing that medical missionaries need to do is to gain a right
conception of God, not a conception based on their own human
judgment, but a conception based on a constant study of God’s word
and of the character and life of Christ.
God’s word and His works contain the knowledge of Himself
that He has seen fit to reveal to us. We may understand the revelation
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that He has thus given of Himself. But it is with fear and trembling,
and with a sense of our own sinfulness, that we are to take up this
study, not with a desire to try to explain God, but with a desire to gain
that knowledge which will enable us to serve Him more acceptably.
Let no one venture to explain God. Human beings cannot explain
themselves, and how, then, dare they venture to explain the Omni-
scient One? Satan stands ready to give such ones false conceptions
of God.
To the curious I bear the message that God has instructed me not
to frame answers to the questions of those who inquire in regard to
the things that have not been revealed. The things that are revealed
belong unto us and to our children. Beyond this, human beings are
not to attempt to go. We are not to attempt to explain that which
God has not revealed. We are to study the revelation that Christ, the
Great Teacher, has given of the character of God, that in spirit and
word and act we may represent Him to those who know Him not.
Where Silence is Eloquence
In regard to the personality and prerogatives of God, where He
is, and what He is, this is a subject which we are not to dare to
touch. On this theme silence is eloquence. It is those who have
no experimental knowledge of God who venture to speculate in
regard to Him. Did they know more of Him, they would have less
to say about what He is. The one who in the daily life holds closest
communion with God, and who has the deepest knowledge of Him,
realizes most keenly the utter inability of human beings to explain
the Creator....
God always has been. He is the great I AM. The psalmist de-
clares, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
Thou art God.” He is the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity.