Note and Comment by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 10, 1910

Note and Comment

By Editor

“Nobody Knows”

As indicative of the sad condition of doubt or agnosticism that is being fostered by the “liberal” attitude of a large portion of the professed “body of Christ,” we quote the following from a journal which has the word “Christian” as a part of its name. The journal in question is dated Feb. 10, 1910. Says the editor:—

Nobody knows, or is likely in time to discover, the origin of life upon this earth, or the precise way in which the world we inhabit rolled into the planetary system and became a visible member of the sidereal universe. Concerning the end of things and the way in which human life will cease upon the earth and the earth itself yield up its separate existence to feed the life of some other sun or star, we are quite as much in the dark in spite of all the learned expositions of geologists and astronomers. We know that the earth has had an almost endless past, and that its future is equal to any eternity which the human imagination can compass.

Now, we do not believe that we need to be so much in the dark as this “Christian” journal professes to be. The Word of God, in quite explicit language, tells a great deal about how “the world we inhabit rolled into the planetary system,” and how life originated upon this earth. It tells also, and in very explicit language, what the end thereof will be. Inspiration does not put the creation of this world in the “almost endless past,” nor does it promise that this earth in its present state will have a future “equal to any eternity which the human imagination can compass.” It does state, however, that there will be those who will be teaching practically what the writer of the above extract is teaching. See 2 Peter 3:3, 4. “This is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light.” John 3:19. The writer whom we quoted above has no right to say, “Nobody knows.” He who believes God’s Word does know. God has given the light; if we choose to reject it, the blame rests upon us alone.