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The Beginning of the End
can be learned only from the Inspired Record. In the history of
the Flood inspiration has explained that which geology alone could
never discover. In the days of Noah, men, animals, and trees many
times larger than now exist were buried and thus preserved as an
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evidence to later generations that the inhabitants perished by a flood.
God designed that the discovery of these things should establish faith
in inspired history. But many today, with their false reasoning, fall
into the same error as did the people before the Flood—the things
that God gave them as a benefit they turn into a curse by making a
wrong use of them.
There is a constant effort to explain creation as the result of
natural causes, and even professed Christians accept human rea-
soning in opposition to Scripture facts. Many oppose investigating
the prophecies, especially Daniel and Revelation, declaring that we
cannot understand them. Yet these very people eagerly receive the
suppositions of geologists in contradiction of Moses’ account. Just
how God accomplished the work of creation He has never revealed
to us; human science cannot search out the secrets of the Most High
(see
Deuteronomy 29:29
).
Those who leave the Word of God and try to account for His
created works on scientific principles are drifting without chart or
compass on an unknown ocean. The greatest minds, if not guided
by the Word of God in their research, become bewildered in their
attempts to find the relationship between science and revelation.
Those who doubt the records of the Old and New Testaments will
be led to go a step further and doubt the existence of God. Then,
having lost their anchor, they are left to beat about on the rocks of
falseness and deceit.
The Bible is not to be tested by human ideas of science. Skeptics,
through an imperfect comprehension of either science or revelation,
claim to find contradictions between them; but rightly understood
they are in perfect harmony. Moses wrote under the guidance of
the Spirit of God, and a correct theory of geology will never claim
discoveries that cannot be harmonized with his statements.