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Danger in Speculative Knowledge
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fine gold.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls:
For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,
Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Whence then cometh wisdom?
And where is the place of understanding? ...
Destruction and death say,
We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
God understandeth the way thereof,
And He knoweth the place of thereof.
“For He looketh to the ends of the earth,
And seeth under the whole heaven....
When He made a decree for the rain,
And a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Then did He see it, and declare it;
He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
And unto man He said,
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
And to depart from evil is understanding.”
Job 11:7-9; 28:12-28.
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Neither by searching the recesses of the earth nor in vain endeav-
ors to penetrate the mysteries of God’s being, is wisdom found. It is
found, rather, in humbly receiving the revelation that He has been
pleased to give, and in conforming the life to His will.
Men of the greatest intellect cannot understand the mysteries
of Jehovah as revealed in nature. Divine inspiration asks many
questions which the most profound scholar cannot answer. These
questions were not asked that we might answer them, but to call
our attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach us that our
wisdom is limited; that in the surroundings of our daily life there are
many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings.
Skeptics refuse to believe in God because they cannot compre-
hend the infinite power by which He reveals Himself. But God
is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of
Himself, as from that which is open to our limited comprehension.