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are especially directed against the fourth commandment, because it
so clearly points to the living God, the Maker of the heavens and the
earth.
There is a constant effort made to explain the work of creation as
the result of natural causes; and human reasoning is accepted even by
professed Christians, in opposition to plain Scripture facts. There are
many who oppose the investigation of the prophecies, especially those
of Daniel and the Revelation, declaring them to be so obscure that
we cannot understand them; yet these very persons eagerly receive
the suppositions of geologists, in contradiction of the Mosaic record.
But if that which God has revealed is so difficult to understand, how
inconsistent it is to accept mere suppositions in regard to that which
He has not revealed!
“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those
things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever.”
Deuteronomy 29:29
. 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. His creative power is as incomprehensible
as His existence.
God has permitted a flood of light to be poured upon the world
in both science and art; but when professedly scientific men treat
upon these subjects from a merely human point of view, they will
assuredly come to wrong conclusions. It may be innocent to speculate
beyond what God’s word has revealed, if our theories do not contradict
facts found in the Scriptures; but those who leave the word of God,
and seek to account for His created works upon 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 relations of science
and revelation. Because the Creator and His works are so far beyond
their comprehension that they are unable to explain them by natural
laws, they regard Bible history as unreliable. Those who doubt the
reliability of the records of the Old and New Testaments, will be led to
go a step further, and doubt the existence of God; and then, having lost
their anchor, they are left to beat about upon the rocks of infidelity.
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These persons have lost the simplicity of faith. There should be a
settled belief in the divine authority of God’s Holy Word. The Bible
is not to be tested by men’s ideas of science. Human knowledge