Limiting God's Knowledge by Albert Weeks

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1871

Limiting God's Knowledge.

By Albert Weeks

“MAN has power to prevent what God has said shall come to pass, else predestination is true.”

This is the position a preacher took after listening to a discourse by the writer, in which the condition of things in the last days was shown to be the reverse of a world converted to Christianity. See 2 Tim. 3 : 1–5. Now I cannot see that the above preacher's conclusion is the most reasonable one that can be drawn. I would ask, Has not God power to give us the history of this world in advance, and still let man remain a free moral agent? Surely none that have a very exalted idea of the divine nature would thus limit God's foreknowledge.

We prefer to accept the prophetic portion of the word of God, as part of that Scripture which is profitable for doctrine, 2 Tim. 3 : 16, and gives us information that we could not gain in any other way. 2 Pet. 1 : 19. Let us accept of what God has been pleased to reveal, and shape our lives accordingly.

ALBERT WEEKS.