Disguised Infidelity
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Men will endeavor to explain from natural causes the work of creation,
which God has never revealed. But human science can not search out
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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 forever.” Men
professing to be ministers of God, raise their voices against the inves-
tigation of prophecy, and tell the people that the prophecies, especially
of Daniel and John, are obscure, and that we cannot understand them.
But some of the very men who oppose the investigation of prophecy
because it is obscure, eagerly receive the suppositions of geologists,
which dispute the Mosaic record. But if God’s revealed will is so diffi-
cult to be understood, certainly men should not rest their faith upon
mere suppositions in regard to that which he has not revealed. 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
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use of these things which God designed should lead them to exalt him.
They fall into the same error as did the people before the flood—those
things which God gave them as a benefit, they turned into a curse, by
making a wrong use of them.
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