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Jesus brought into His teaching none of the science of men. His
teaching is full of grand, ennobling, saving truth, to which man’s
highest ambitions and proudest inventions can bear no comparison;
and yet things of minor consequence engross the minds of men. The
great plan of the redemption of a fallen race was wrought out in the life
of Christ in human flesh. This scheme of restoring the moral image
of God in debased humanity entered into every purpose of the life
and character of Christ. His majesty could not mingle with human
science, which will disconnect from the great source of all wisdom
in a day. The topic of human science never escaped His hallowed
lips. By believing in and doing the words of God, He was severing the
human family from Satan’s chariot-car. He was alive to the terrible
ruin hanging over the human race, and He came to save souls by His
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own righteousness, bringing to the world definite assurance of hope
and complete relief. The knowledge current in the world may be
acquired; for all men are God’s property, and are worked by God to
fulfill His will in certain lines, even when they refuse the man Christ
Jesus as their Saviour. The way in which God uses men is not always
discerned, but He does use them. God intrusts men with talents and
inventive genius, in order that His great work in our world may be
accomplished. The inventions of human minds are supposed to spring
from humanity, but God is behind all. He has caused that the means
of rapid traveling shall have been invented, for the great day of His
preparation.
The use which men have made of their capabilities, by misusing
and abusing their God-given talents, has brought confusion into the
world. They have left the guardianship of Christ for the guardianship of
the great rebel, the prince of darkness. Man alone is accountable for the
strange fire which has been mingled with the sacred. The accumulation
of many things which minister to lust and ambition has brought upon
the world the judgment of God. When in difficulty, philosophers and
the great men of earth desire to satisfy their minds without appealing to
God. They ventilate their philosophy in regard to the heavens and the
earth, accounting for plagues, pestilences, epidemics, earthquakes, and
famines, by their supposed science. Hundreds of questions relating to
creation and providence, they will attempt to solve by saying. This is
a law of nature.