Danger in Speculative Knowledge
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Both in divine revelation and in nature, God has given mysteries to command our faith. This must be so. We may be *ever searching, *ever inquiring, *ever learning, and yet there is an infinity beyond.
In the sanctuary of the wilderness tabernacle and of the temple that were the earthly symbols of God's
Let none seek with presumptuous hand to lift the veil that conceals His glory.
One of the greatest evils that attends the quest for knowledge, the investigations of science, is the disposition to exalt human reasoning above its true value and its proper sphere. Our first parents were led into sin through indulging a desire for knowledge that God had withheld from them. The lesson is for us. The field into which Satan led our first parents is the same to which he is alluring men today. He is flooding the world with pleasing fables. By every device at his command he tempts men to speculate in regard to God.
The theory that God is an essence pervading all nature is received by many who profess to believe the Scriptures; but, however beautifully clothed, this theory is a most dangerous deception. Darkness is its element, sensuality its sphere. The result of accepting it is separation from God. And to fallen human nature this means ruin. The spiritualistic theories concerning God make His grace of no effect. If God is an essence pervading all nature, then He dwells in all men; and in order to attain holiness, man has only to develop the power within him.
These theories, followed to their logical conclusion, sweep away the whole Christian economy.
Only that which He sees fit to reveal can we comprehend of Him. Reason must acknowledge an authority superior to itself. Heart and intellect must bow to the great I AM.
Unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out. Romans 11:33