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From Eternity Past
fathom. In the days of Noah, men, animals, and trees many times
larger than now exist were buried and thus preserved as an evidence
to later generations that the antediluvians perished by a flood. God
designed that the discovery of these things should establish faith in
inspired history. But men, with their vain reasoning, fall into the same
error as did the people before the Flood—the things which 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 human reasoning is accepted even by professed Christians
in opposition to Scripture facts. Many oppose the investigation of the
prophecies, especially Daniel and the Revelation, declaring that we
cannot understand them. Yet these very persons eagerly receive the
suppositions of geologists in contradiction of the Mosaic record. Just
how God accomplished the work of creation He has never revealed to
men; human science cannot search out the secrets of the Most High.
See
Deuteronomy 29:29
.
Those who leave the Word of God to account for His created works
on scientific principles are drifting without chart or compass upon an
unknown ocean. The greatest minds, if not guided by the Word of
God in their research, become bewildered in their attempts to trace the
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relations of 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 upon the rocks of infidelity.
The Bible is not to be tested by men’s 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 reconciled with his statements.
True Science and the Bible Agree
In the Word of God many queries are raised that scholars can never
answer. There is much among the common things of everyday life that
finite minds with all their boasted wisdom can never fully understand.