p. 16 | Men Versus God

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 12.

Men Versus God

Men versus God.—Much is made now-a-days as to what learned men may have to say concerning a doctrine or belief. The majority of Christian scholarship, it is said, is against the “Higher Criticism.” What of it? Suppose they were for it? Would that affect the truth? It may be that one man knows a fact, and 1,000 others do not believe it; does that change the fact? So far as the Gospel of Jesus Christ is concerned the men of worldly wisdom have always been found against its work for their day. The children of the Exodus doubtless believed in God’s work through Abraham and Joseph, but not through Moses. The Pharisees and scribes and learned doctors of the law in the time of our Lord’s sojourn on earth believed in God’s work through Moses, or thought they did, but they rejected Him whose coming Moses predicted. Many learned men will tell us to-day that they believe in the work of Jesus and the apostles for their day, but they do not believe the things which Christ and his apostles taught for our day. The only true faith is a present living faith, which lays hold of a present Saviour, a present truth, a present Gospel. “All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field; . . . the grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of God shall stand forever.” “Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.” “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence.” But those who trust in God will find him in Jesus Christ “wisdom and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” “He that doeth the will of God [not of men] abideth forever.”