Bible Study and the Mind
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for debasing, exciting literature that enfeebles the moral powers and
wrecks the faculties God has bestowed for usefulness. Bible knowl-
edge will prove an antidote for the poisonous insinuations received
through unguarded reading.—
The Review and Herald, November 9,
1886
. (HC 202.)
Protects From Superstition—If the teachings of this Word were
made the controlling influence in our lives, if mind and heart were
brought under its restraining power, the evils that now exist in churches
and families would find no place .... The teachings of the Word of God
are to control mind and heart, that the home life may demonstrate the
power of the grace of God....
Without the Bible we should be bewildered by false theories. The
mind would be subjected to the tyranny of superstition and falsehood.
But having in our possession an authentic history of the beginning of
the world, we need not hamper ourselves with human conjectures and
unreliable theories.—
The Review and Herald, November 10, 1904
.
[97]
It Improves the Reasoning Faculties—If the mind is set to the
task of studying the Bible for information, the reasoning faculties will
be improved. Under study of the Scriptures the mind expands and
becomes more evenly balanced than if occupied in obtaining general
information from the books that are used which have no connection
with the Bible. No knowledge is so firm, so consistent and far-reaching,
as that obtained from a study of the Word of God. It is the foundation
of all true knowledge.
The Bible is like a fountain. The more you look into it, the deeper
it appears. The grand truths of sacred history possess amazing strength
and beauty and are as far-reaching as eternity. No science is equal to
the science that reveals the character of God.
Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, yet he
said, “Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither
ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall
hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.”—
The Review and Herald, February 25, 1896
.
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Fundamentals of Christian Education, 393
.)
Endows the Faculties With Vigor—Why should not this book—
this precious treasure—be exalted and esteemed as a valued friend?