We are starting the School of the Prophets. We have been in this
school all the time. The revelations of the Lord Jesus Christ to the
human family are all the learning we can ever possess. Much of this
knowledge is obtained from books, which have been written by men who
have contemplated deeply on various subjects, and the revelation of
Jesus have opened their minds, whether they knew it or acknowledged
it or not. We will start this School of the Prophets to increase in
knowledge. 12:1106.
There are a great many branches of education: some go to college to
learn languages, some to study law, some to study physic, and some to
study astronomy, and various other branches of science. We want every
branch of science taught in this place that is taught in the world.
But our favorite study is that branch which particularly belongs to
the Elders of Israel--namely, theology. Every Elder should become a
profound theologian--should understand this branch better than all the
world. 6:317.
The Christian world is actually coming to the point that they will
dismiss the Bible from their schools; and by and by they will dismiss
it from their pulpits and get one to suit themselves; they will hew out
for themselves cisterns that will hold no water. 13:213.
_Science and Religion_--I am not astonished that infidelity
prevails to a great extent among the inhabitants of the earth, for the
religious teachers of the people advance many ideas and notions for
truth which are in opposition to and contradict facts demonstrated by
science, and which are generally understood. You take, for instance,
our geologists, and they tell us that this earth has been in existence
{398} for thousands and millions of years. They think, and they have
good reason for their faith, that their researches and investigations
enable them to demonstrate that this earth has been in existence as
long as they assert it has; and they say, "If the Lord, as religionists
declare, made the earth out of nothing in six days, six thousand years
ago, our studies are all vain; but by what we can learn from nature
and the immutable laws of the Creator as revealed therein, we know
that your theories are incorrect and consequently we must reject your
religions as false and vain; we must be what you call infidels, with
the demonstrated truths of science in our possession; or, rejecting
those truths, become enthusiasts in, what you call, Christianity."
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