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Medical Ministry
From time to time we need unitedly to examine the reasons of
our faith. It is essential that we study carefully the truths of God’s
word; for we read that “some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils [demons].” We are in
grave danger when we lightly regard any truth; for then the mind is
opened to error. We must take heed how and what we hear. We need
not seek to understand the arguments that men offer in support of
their theories, when it may be readily discerned that these theories
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are not in harmony with the Scriptures. Some who think that they
have scientific knowledge are by their interpretations giving wrong
ideas both of science and of the Bible. Let the Bible decide every
question that is essential to man’s salvation.—
Letter 25, 1904
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Restraint and Moral Control Destroyed
We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who
hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered
into it. “It is written,” is the weapon used by the world’s Redeemer.
Let us keep close to the word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His
messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.
Christ is over all the works of His creation. In the pillar of fire
He guided the children of Israel, His eyes seeing past, present, and
future. He is to be recognized and honored by all who love God.
His commandments are to be reverenced and cherished and obeyed.
They are to be the controlling power in the lives of His people.
The tempter comes with the supposition that Christ has removed
His seat of honor and power into some unknown region, and that men
need no longer to be inconvenienced by exalting His character and
obeying His law. Human beings are to be a law unto themselves, he
declares. The sophistries he brings in discount and make nothing of
God. Restraint and moral control in the human family are destroyed.
Restraint upon vice grows more and more feeble. The world loves
not, fears not, God. And those who do not love or fear God soon
lose all sense of obligation to one another. They are without God
and without hope in the world.—
Manuscript 92, 1904.