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Knowledge Received Through God’s Word
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So everyone may be able, through his own experience, to “set
his seal to this, that God is true.”
John 3:33
, A.R.V. He can bear
witness to that which he himself has seen and heard and felt of the
power of Christ. He can testify:
“I needed help, and I found it in Jesus. Every want was supplied,
the hunger of my soul was satisfied; the Bible is to me the revelation
of Christ. I believe in Jesus because He is to me a divine Saviour. I
believe the Bible because I have found it to be the voice of God to
my soul.”
He who has gained a knowledge of God and His word through
personal experience is prepared to engage in the study of natural
science. Of Christ it is written, “In Him was life; and the life was the
light of men.”
John 1:4
. Before the entrance of sin, Adam and Eve
in Eden were surrounded with a clear and beautiful light, the light
of God. This light illuminated everything which they approached.
There was nothing to obscure their perception of the character or
the works of God. But when they yielded to the tempter, the light
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departed from them. In losing the garments of holiness, they lost the
light that had illuminated nature. No longer could they read it aright.
They could not discern the character of God in His works. So today
man cannot of himself read aright the teaching of nature. Unless
guided by divine wisdom, he exalts nature and the laws of nature
above nature’s God. This is why mere human ideas in regard to
science so often contradict the teaching of God’s word. But for those
who receive the light of the life of Christ, nature is again illuminated.
In the light shining from the cross, we can rightly interpret nature’s
teaching.
He who has a knowledge of God and His word through personal
experience has a settled faith in the divinity of the Holy Scriptures.
He has proved that God’s word is truth, and he knows that truth can
never contradict itself. He does not test the Bible by men’s ideas of
science; he brings these ideas to the test of the unerring standard.
He knows that in true science there can be nothing contrary to the
teaching of the word; since both have the same Author, a correct
understanding of both will prove them to be in harmony. Whatever
in so-called scientific teaching contradicts the testimony of God’s
word is mere human guesswork.