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Those who allow prejudice to bar the mind against the reception of truth cannot receive the divine enlightenment. Yet, when a view of Scripture is presented, many do not ask, Is it true--in harmony with God's word? but, By whom is it advocated? and unless it comes through the very channel that pleases them, they do not accept it. So thoroughly satisfied are they with their own ideas that they will not examine the Scripture evidence with a desire to learn, but refuse to be interested, merely because of their prejudices. --TM 105
Men Call Evil Good, and Good Evil.
[Isaiah 5:19-23 quoted.] The class here represented, in order to exalt their own opinions,
employ a reasoning which is not authorized by the Word of God. They walk in the sparks of their own kindling. By their specious reasoning,
they confuse the distinction that God desires to have drawn between good and evil. The sacred is brought down on a level with common things.
Avarice and selfishness are called by false names; they are called prudence. Their rising up in independence and rebellion, their revenge
and stubbornness, in their eyes are proofs of dignity, evidences of a noble mind. They act as though ignorance of divine things were not
dangerous and even fatal to the soul; and they prefer their own reasoning to divine revelation, their own plans and human wisdom to the
admonitions and commands of God. The piety and conscientiousness of others are called fanaticism, and those who practise truth and holiness
are watched and criticized. They deride those who teach and believe the mystery of godliness, "Christ in you, the hope of glory." The principles
underlying these things are not discerned by them; and they go on in wrong-doing, leaving the bars open for Satan to find ready access to the soul
(RH Dec. 22, 1896).