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Creation Provides Evidence for Faith, February 14
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are
revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever.
Deuteronomy 29:29
.
The Word of God is given as a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path.
Those who cast His Word behind them, and seek by their own blind philosophy to
trace out the wonderful mysteries of Jehovah will stumble in darkness. A guide has
been given to mortals whereby they may trace Jehovah and His work as far as will
be for their good. Inspiration, in giving us the history of the Flood, has explained
wonderful mysteries, that geology, independent of inspiration, never could.
It has been the special work of Satan to lead fallen man to rebel against God’s
government, and he has succeeded too well in his efforts. He has tried to obscure the
law of God, which in itself is very plain. He has manifested a special hate against
the fourth precept of the Decalogue, because it defines the living God, the Maker
of the heavens and the earth. The plainest precepts of Jehovah are turned from, to
receive infidel fables.
Man will be left without excuse. God has given sufficient evidence upon which
to base faith if he wish to believe. In the last days the earth will be almost destitute of
true faith. Upon the merest pretense, the Word of God will be considered unreliable,
while human reasoning will be received, though it be in opposition to plain Scripture
facts. Men will endeavor to explain from natural causes the work of creation, which
God has never revealed. But human science cannot search out the secrets of the God
of heaven, and explain the stupendous works of creation, which were a miracle of
Almighty power, any sooner than it can show how God came into existence.
“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are
revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever”.... God’s ways are not as our
ways, neither are His thoughts as our thoughts. Human science can never account for
His wondrous works. God so ordered that men, beasts, and trees, many times larger
than those now upon the earth, and other things, should be buried in the earth at the
time of the Flood, and there be preserved to evidence to man that the inhabitants of
the old world perished by a flood. God designed that the discovery of these things
in the earth should establish the faith of men in inspired history. But men, with their
vain reasoning, make a wrong use of these things which God designed should lead
them to exalt Him (
Spiritual Gifts 3:94-96
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