第666号 是颅相学还是上帝的能力？
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第666号 是颅相学还是上帝的能力？
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MR No. 666 - Phrenology or the Power of God?
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加利福尼亚有个传道人在耍弄颅相学，在传道的时候，作为赚钱的手段。他在许多方面弄虚作假，他的行为使人灰心。他甚至说一些已婚夫妇彼此不相配。上帝从未给他这种职权。{9MR3.1}[1]
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A certain minister in California was tampering with phrenology, while carrying on the ministry, as a means of making money. He falsified in many respects, and discouraged souls by his course. He even said to some married couples that they were unfitted for each other. God never gave him such a commission. {9MR 3.1}[1]
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我想知道的是你们有一颗怎样的心。魔鬼有极好的头脑，却有一颗妒忌的心。反叛的心进入撒但里面是没有理由的，罪孽是无法解释的。{9MR3.2}[2]
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What I want to know is what kind of a heart have you. The devil had a splendid head, but he had an envious heart. There is no excuse for the rebellious heart that came in Satan, and that iniquity is unexplainable. {9MR 3.2}[2]
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这个传道人说过：“我不得不使用颅相学，好还清债务，”而他当时每周在领15到18美元的薪水。我对他说：“我奉拿撒勒人耶稣基督的名斥责你的精神。”他认为他能做这种奇妙的事，还使一个年轻人也这样认为，他就回家去，靠他贫穷母亲的收入生活，却还从未做过那种奇妙的事。他要告诉他们关于他们自己的事。那些做这种事的人有百害而无一益。{9MR3.3}[3]
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This minister said, I shall have to use phrenology in order to get out of debt, and he was receiving from $15 to $18 per week. I said to him, I rebuke your spirit in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He thought he could do such wonderful things, and he made a young man think the same, and he went home and lived upon the earnings of his poor mother, and has never done that wonderful thing yet. He was going to tell them of themselves. Those who practice this work do a hundred times more harm than good. {9MR 3.3}[3]
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传道人得到证书可以将上帝的道指教人。他们可以克服自己遗传的和养成的倾向。颅相学家会告诉他们关于婚姻等等的事，还有女人作忏悔，像对一位天主教的神父作告解一样。{9MR3.4}[4]
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Ministers are granted credentials that they may instruct people in the Word of God. And they can overcome their hereditary and cultivated tendencies. The phrenologist would tell them about marriages, etc., and confessions were made by women as they would confess to a Catholic priest. {9MR 3.4}[4]
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这些事已被展现在我心眼面前，我可以向你保证，我对现行的颅相学没有一丁点儿的信心。（颅相学在其初期发展阶段对思维科学的形成作出了重要贡献。正是颅相学给了美国的改革家们最初的希望，认为罪犯、精神病人和其它有心理缺陷者可能并非无法救助。见约翰.D.戴维斯，《颅相学，风尚与科学：一场19世纪的美国改革运动》（新港：耶鲁大学出版社，1955年）在澳大利亚，怀夫人发现颅相学竟得到复临教会的某些传道人的提倡，当作是上帝的能力在改变品格上的实际替代品，还当作是婚姻辅导的依据。她和许多其他宗教领袖反对这种做法。）这种学说已经成为一种骗术。我们有比这个更高级的工作。论到那些做这些事的人，肯定不能说：“你的公义必在你前面行；耶和华的荣光必作你的后盾”（赛58:8）。他们并不知道耶和华的荣光是什么。……{9MR3.5}[5]
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These things have been opened before my mind, and I can assure you that I have not one particle of faith in phrenology as it is now handled. [PHRENOLOGY, IN ITS EARLY DEVELOPMENT, MADE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EMERGING SCIENCES OF THE MIND. IT WAS PHRENOLOGY THAT GAVE AMERICAN REFORMERS IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY THEIR FIRST HOPE THAT CRIMINALS, THE INSANE, AND OTHER MENTAL DEFECTIVES MIGHT NOT BE BEYOND HELP. SEE JOHN D. DAVIES, PHRENOLOGY, FAD AND SCIENCE: A 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN CRUSADE (NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1955). IN AUSTRALIA, MRS. WHITE FOUND PHRENOLOGY BEING ADVOCATED BY CERTAIN ADVENTIST MINISTERS AS A VIRTUAL SUBSTITUTE FOR THE POWER OF GOD IN CHARACTER TRANSFORMATION, AS WELL AS A BASIS FOR MARRIAGE COUNSELING. SHE AND MANY OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS PROTESTED AGAINST THIS.] It has become a fraud. We have a higher work than this. It certainly cannot be said of those who practiced these things, And thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward (Isaiah 58:8). They do not know what the glory of the Lord is. . . . {9MR 3.5}[5]
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基督不久就要来临。我们必须传扬第三位天使的信息。要使用圣经，这才会改变品格。{9MR4.1}[6]
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Christ is soon to come. We must preach the third angels message. Use the Bible, which will transform character. {9MR 4.1}[6]
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那个利用颅相学作为手段要赚更多钱的传道人的妻子说：“我的丈夫有能力处在最好地位。”他对人心的影响力是惊人的。但他并没有行在上帝希望他行在的光中，如今他在卖刷子谋生了。{9MR4.2}[7]
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The wife of the minister who used phrenology as a means to bring in more money, said, My husband is capable of standing in the highest positions. It was astonishing the influence that he had over human minds. But he did not walk in the light as God would have him, and today he is selling brushes as a means of making a living. {9MR 4.2}[7]
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我对巴特勒弟兄（不是前面提到的那个搞颅相学的传道人）说过：“上帝希望你传讲祂的真理。”但他说：“请看我的头，我没有信心的力量，我决不能去讲道，我完全是个无信仰的人。”{9MR4.3}[8]
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I said to a Brother Butler [not the minister-phrenologist aforementioned], God desires that you should preach His truth. But said he, Look at my head, I have no power of faith, and I can never go and preach, and I am just as full of infidelity as I can be. {9MR 4.3}[8]
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但我告诉他，上帝已指示我看到他应该去传讲这信息。他确实去了，而且在做工几年之后，他说：“怀姐妹呀，我头中的空洞已经全填满了。”这是因为他一直在培养信心，并且按上帝的路线作工。{9MR4.4}[9]
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But I told him that God had shown me that he should go and proclaim the message. He did go, and after he had labored some years he said, Sister White the hollow in my head is all filled up. It was because he had been cultivating faith, and working in Gods lines. {9MR 4.4}[9]
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你可能会说这是由于颅相学，但它乃是由于上帝改变人心的恩典和能力。那些从事这种按头脑解读品格的人，以知识的名义实行各种欺骗。他们可能试图改造品格，但他们决做不到。要传讲基督，介绍那模范，并以祂的路线作工。……{9MR4.5}[10]
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You may say it was due to phrenology, but it was due to the transforming grace and power of God. Those who engage in this work of reading character by the head practice all kinds of deception under [the] profession of knowledge. [They] may try to reform character, but they never do it. Preach Christ, and present the pattern, and work in His lines. . . . {9MR 4.5}[10]
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在第一位天使信息的早期，一个很傻的穷人深受真理感动，他就去找一个博学的长老，重述下面的话：“G长老，看哪，新郎来了，你们出来迎接祂”（太25:6）。（G长老说）“弟兄，请给我们你的理由。”但他提不出任何理由，然后继续重述这些话，而不设法证明主很快就要降临，因为他自己给不出任何理由。但他却重述这些话：“看哪，新郎来了，你们出来迎接祂。”上帝的灵就降在他们身上，G长老便跪下，在主面前承认了自己的浮夸和骄傲。{9MR5.1}[11]
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In the early days of the first angels message, one poor man that was foolish was impressed with the truth, and he went to a learned Elder and repeated the following words, Elder G_____, behold, the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him. [Elder G_____ said] Give us your reasons, Brother, but he presented no reasons, and kept on repeating these words, instead of trying to give proof for the soon coming of the Lord, for he of himself was unable to give any reason. But he repeated the words, Behold, the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him. And the Spirit of God rested upon them, and Elder G_____ fell on his knees and confessed his pomp and pride before the Lord. {9MR 5.1}[11]
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上帝差派了这个穷人，使那个博学的人屈膝并在上帝面前承认自己的状况。{9MR5.2}[12]
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God sent this poor man and brought the learned man to his knees and his position before God. {9MR 5.2}[12]
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“智慧人在哪里？文士在哪里？这世上的辩士在哪里？上帝岂不是叫这世上的智慧变成愚拙吗”（林前1:20，另见21-25，和林前2:1）？使徒保罗能够用雄辩对雄辩，用哲学对付哲学。他能以人们自己的立场对付人。现在他说：“因为我曾定了主意，在你们中间不知道别的，只知道耶稣基督并祂钉十字架”（林前2:2；另见3-10节）。{9MR5.3}[13]
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Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? (1 Corinthians 1:20. See also verses 21-25, and 1 Corinthians 2:1). The apostle Paul could meet oratory with oratory, philosophy with philosophy. He could meet people on their own ground. Now he said, For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified (1 Corinthians 2:2. See also verses 3-10). {9MR 5.3}[13]
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惟有上帝能改变人的品格。耶稣基督进入我们的世界，要藉着髑髅地十字架的大能恢复失丧的人。“我们所领受的，并不是世上的灵，乃是从上帝来的灵，叫我们能知道上帝开恩赐给我们的事。并且我们讲说这些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言语，乃是用圣灵所指教的言语，将属灵的话解释属灵的事（或作：将属灵的事讲与属灵的人）”（林前2:12,13，另见14-16节）。{9MR5.4}[14]
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God alone can transform character. Jesus Christ came into our world to bring back through the mighty power of the cross of Calvary that which was lost. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual (1 Corinthians 2:12, 13. See also verses 14-16.) {9MR 5.4}[14]
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我们希望你们意识到这些事。我们希望你们明白上帝之灵的作为。（《文稿》1893年12号第4-7页，〈在新西兰帐篷大会以上的证道〉，1893年3月28日）怀爱伦著作托管委员会1978年11月2日发表于美国首都华盛顿{9MR6.1}[15]
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We want you to sense these things. We want you to understand the working of the Spirit of God.--Manuscript 12, 1893, pp. 4-7. (A Sermon at Camp Meeting in New Zealand, March 28, 1893.) White Estate Washington, D. C. November 2, 1978 {9MR 6.1}[15]