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secure an experimental knowledge of God and His will.—
Counsels to
Parents, Teachers, and Students, 19
(1913).
Christ Employed the Science of All True Science—Without em-
ploying any compulsion, without using any violence, He [Christ]
blends the will of the human subject to the will of God. This is the
science of all true science, for by it a mighty change is wrought in
mind and character—the change that must be wrought in the life of
every one who passes through the gates of the city of God.—Lt 155,
1902. (
My Life Today, 340
.)
Research Does Not Conflict With Revelation—God is the foun-
dation of everything. All true science is in harmony with His works; all
true education leads to obedience to His government. Science opens
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new wonders to our view; she soars high and explores new depths,
but she brings nothing from her research that conflicts with divine
revelation.—
The Signs of the Times, March 20, 1884
. (
The S.D.A.
Bible Commentary 7:916
.)
Science Cannot Search Out Divine Secrets—“The secret things
belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed
belong unto us and to our children forever” (
Deuteronomy 29:29
). Just
how God accomplished the work of creation He has never revealed
to men; human science cannot search out the secrets of the Most
High. His creative power is as incomprehensible as His existence.—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 113
(1890).
The Bible Our Guide in Science—We are dependent on the Bible
for a knowledge of the early history of our world, of the creation of
man, and of his fall. Remove the Word of God, and what can we
expect but to be left to fables and conjectures and to that enfeebling of
the intellect which is the sure result of entertaining error.
We need the authentic history of the origin of the earth, of the fall
of Lucifer, and of the introduction of sin into the world. 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.
Wherever Christians are, they may hold communion with God.
And they may enjoy the intelligence of sanctified science. Their minds
may be strengthened, even as Daniel’s was. God gave him “knowledge