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Believe God’s Word, Not Human Reasoning, May 24
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are
revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the
words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29
, NKJV.
It has been the special work of Satan to lead fallen humanity to rebel against
God’s government, and he has succeeded too well in his efforts. He has tried to
obscure the law of God, which in itself is very plain. He has manifested a special
hatred against the fourth precept of the Decalogue, because it defines the living
God, the maker of the heavens and the earth. Yielding to his devices, people have
turned from the plainest precepts of Jehovah to receive infidel fables.
They will be left without excuse. God has given sufficient evidence upon which
to base faith, if one wishes to believe. In the last days, the earth will be almost
destitute of true faith. Upon the merest pretense, the Word of God will be considered
unreliable, while human reasoning will be received, though it be in opposition to
plain Scripture facts. Men and women will endeavor to explain from natural causes
the work of Creation. But just how God wrought in the work of Creation He has
never revealed to mortals. Human science cannot search out the secrets of the God
of heaven....
Human beings professing to be ministers of God raise their voices against the
investigation of prophecy, and tell the people that the prophecies, especially of
Daniel and John, are obscure, and that we cannot understand them. Yet some of
these very ones eagerly receive the suppositions of geologists, which dispute the
Mosaic record. But if God’s revealed will is so difficult to be understood, certainly
people should not rest their faith upon mere suppositions in regard to that which He
has not revealed. God’s ways are not as our ways, neither are His thoughts as our
thoughts....Humans, with their vain reasoning, make a wrong use of these things
which God designed should lead them to exalt Him. They fall into the same error
as did the people before the Flood—those things which God gave them as a benefit,
they turned into a curse, by making a wrong use of them.—
The Signs of the Times,
March 20, 1879
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