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3481 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 292.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… human nature. To the question of Thomas, Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known …
3482 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 292.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… read nature correctly. Sin has obscured his vision, and of himself he cannot interpret nature without placing it above God. He cannot discern in it God, or Jesus …
3483 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 293 (Ellen Gould White)
Nature Is Not God
3484 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 293.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… nature testifies of God, but nature is not God. As His created work, it simply bears a testimony to God’s power. Deity is the author of nature. The natural world …
3485 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 293.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… the natural world are God. They are not God. All these wonders in the heavens are only doing the work appointed them. They are the Lord’s agencies. God is the superintendent …
3486 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 294.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of nature to which we may not find reference in the Word of God. The Word declares that “he maketh his sun to rise,” and the rain to descend ( Matthew 5:45 ). He “maketh …
3487 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 294.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of nature. God furnishes the matter and the properties with which to carry out His plans. He employs His agencies that vegetation may flourish. He sends the …
3488 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 295.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… exalt nature and the laws of nature above nature’s God. Those who have not a knowledge of God through an acceptance of the revelation He has made of Himself …
3489 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 295.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… from nature alone; for nature itself is imperfect. In its imperfection it cannot represent God, it cannot reveal the character of God in its moral perfection …
3490 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 297.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of natural endowments. But these are all given him by God, his Maker. God can remove the gift of reason, and in a moment man will become as Nebuchadnezzar, degraded …
3491 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 299.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… divine nature. No one should be indifferent on this subject, saying, If we are honest, it is no matter what we believe. You cannot with safety surrender any seed …
3492 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 309.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… human nature at the head of humanity, testifying to the fallen angels and to the inhabitants of the unfallen worlds that through the divine help which has …
3493 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 312.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… is natural for us to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think; but although it is painful for us to know ourselves as we really are, yet we should …
3494 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 320.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… the natural heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. They wrap themselves about with their own righteousness, and are satisfied in reaching …
3495 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 329.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… the natural love of the parent to his offspring. What father could turn from his son who asks bread? Should anyone dishonor God by imagining that He will not …
3496 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 336.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… old nature will again obtain the supremacy, that the enemy shall devise some snare whereby we shall again become his captives. We are to work out our own salvation …
3497 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 340.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… divine nature. Were it brought within his reach there is nothing in it that his natural heart would desire it. The bewitching power of Satan is upon him. All …
3498 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 340.3 (Ellen Gould White)
But God will not be defeated by Satan. He sent His Son into the world, that through His taking the human form and nature, humanity and divinity combined in Him would elevate man in the scale of moral value with God.
3499 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 341.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… man’s nature, transform his tastes, and set his affections flowing toward heaven. Through the union of the divine with the human nature Christ could enlighten …
3500 Selected Messages Book 1, p. 342.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… divine nature combined. Obedient, sinless to the last, He died for man, his substitute and surety, enduring all that men ever endure from the deceiving tempter …