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The God of Science and Revelation, September 21
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with
wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
1
Corinthians 1:17
.
Those who read and listen to the sophistries that prevail in this age do not
know God as He is. They contradict the Word of God, and extol and worship
nature in the place of the Creator. While we may discern the workings of God
in the things He has created, these things are not God.... The physical creation
testifies of God and Jesus Christ as the great Creator of all things. “All things were
made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was
life; and the life was the light of men” (
John 1:3, 4
). The psalmist bears witness,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is
no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard” (
Psalm 19:1-3
)....
The uneducated heathen learns his lessons through nature and through his own
necessities, and, dissatisfied with darkness, he is reaching out for light, searching
for God in the First Great Cause. There is recorded in Genesis various ways in
which God speaks to the heathen. But the contrast between the revelation of God
in Genesis and the ideas of the heathen is striking. Many of the pagan philosophers
had a knowledge of God that was pure; but degeneracy, the worship of created
things, began to obscure this knowledge. The handiwork of God in the natural
world—the sun, the moon, the stars—were worshiped.
Men today declare that Christ’s teachings concerning God cannot be substanti-
ated by the things of the natural world, that nature is not in harmony with the Old
and New Testament Scriptures. This supposed lack of harmony between nature
and science does not exist. The Word of the God of heaven is not in harmony with
human science, but it is in perfect accord with His own created science.
This living God is worthy of our thought, our praise, our adoration, as the
Creator of the world, as the Creator of man. We are to praise God, for we are
fearfully and wonderfully made. Our substance was not hid from Him when we
were made in secret. His eyes saw our substance, yet being imperfect, and in
His book all our members were written when as yet there was none of them. He
breathed into our nostrils the breath of life. The inspiration of God has given us
understanding.—
Manuscript 117, September 21, 1898
, “A Personal God.”
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