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The Sabbath Reminds Us of God’s Creative Power, May 23
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is
unsearchable.
Psalm 145:3
, NKJV.
Infidel geologists claim that the world is very much older than the Bible record
makes it. They reject the testimony of God’s Word because of those things which
are to them evidences from the earth itself that it has existed tens of thousands
of years. And many who profess to believe the Bible are at a loss to account for
wonderful things which are found in the earth, with the view that Creation week
was only seven literal days, and that the world is now only about six thousand
years old. These, to free themselves from difficulties thrown in their way by infidel
geologists, adopt the view that the six days of Creation were six vast, indefinite
periods, and the day of God’s rest was another indefinite period; making senseless
the fourth commandment of God’s holy law. Some eagerly receive this position;
for it destroys the force of the fourth commandment, and they feel a freedom from
its claims upon them.
Bones of human beings and animals are found in the earth, in mountains and in
valleys, showing that much larger humans and beasts once existed. Instruments of
warfare are sometimes found; also petrified wood. Because the bones found are so
much larger than those of humans and animals now living, or that have existed for
many generations past, some conclude that the earth was populated long before the
record of Creation by a race of beings vastly superior in size to those now living.
Those who reason in this manner have limited ideas of the size of people, animals,
and trees, before the Flood, and of the great changes which then took place in the
earth.
Without Bible history, geology can prove nothing.... When human beings leave
the Word of God, and seek to account for His creative works upon natural principles,
they are upon a boundless ocean of uncertainty. Just how God accomplished the
work of Creation in six literal days, He has never revealed to mortals. His creative
works are as incomprehensible as His existence.—
The Signs of the Times, March
20, 1879
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