Thursday, April 24, 2014

Foolish Questions

"But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." Titus 3:9

"But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes." 2 Timothy 2:23

"We shall meet those who allow their minds to wander into idle speculations about things of which nothing is said in the Word of God. . . . Study the truths that have been revealed." RH Feb. 5, 1901

"I think we must tell them to read and speak of the things that are plainly revealed. We have encouragement in the Word that if we walk humbly with God, we shall receive instruction. But prying curiosity is not to be encouraged. . . . We may answer foolish questions by saying, Wait, and we shall all know what is essential for us to know. Our salvation does not depend on side issues." Letter 58, 1900

"Strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers." 2 Timothy 2:14

"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." 1 Timothy 1:4

"Preach the word." 2 Timothy 4:2

"But we are warned against undue curiosity. 'Shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness,' leading into paths of supposition and imagination, with which we have nothing to do. These are vain, unessential theories of human creation, which keep the mind dwelling upon nothingness. They have in them nothing sure or substantial." RH Feb. 5, 1901

"And although we may try to reason in regard to our Creator, how long He has had existence, where evil first entered into our world, and all these things, we may reason about them until we fall down faint and exhausted with the research when there is yet an infinity beyond." Sermons and Talks, Vol. 1, p. 65

"Christ shows them that, although they might reckon His life to be less than fifty years, yet His divine life could not be reckoned by human computation. The existence of Christ before His incarnation is not measured by figures." Ev 616

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