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Testimonies for the Church Volume 8
The Work of Creation
The work of creation can never be explained by science. What
science can explain the mystery of life?
The theory that God did not create matter when He brought the
world into existence is without foundation. In the formation of our
world, God was not indebted to pre-existing matter. On the contrary,
all things, material or spiritual, stood up before the Lord Jehovah at
His voice and were created for His own purpose. The heavens and all
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the host of them, the earth and all things therein, are not only the work
of His hand; they came into existence by the breath of His mouth.
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things
which do appear.”
Hebrews 11:3
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“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made;
And all the host of them by the breath of His
mouth....
He spake, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.”
Psalm 33:6-9
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Laws of Nature
In dwelling upon the laws of matter and the laws of nature, many
lose sight of, if they do not deny, the continual and direct agency of
God. They convey the idea that nature acts independently of God,
having in and of itself its own limits and its own powers wherewith
to work. In their minds there is a marked distinction between the
natural and the supernatural. The natural is ascribed to ordinary causes,
unconnected with the power of God. Vital power is attributed to matter,
and nature is made a deity. It is supposed that matter is placed in certain
relations and left to act from fixed laws with which God Himself cannot
interfere; that nature is endowed with certain properties and placed
subject to laws, and is then left to itself to obey these laws and perform
the work originally commanded.
This is false science; there is nothing in the word of God to sustain
it. God does not annul His laws, but He is continually working through