The Biblical Sabbath and Natural Theology
By Editor
A friend sends us an article from the Elmira Telegram, on “Natural Laws versus Theology,” and asks us to notice it. It is hardly worth while to spend time over such productions. In the first place the writer does not believe in the Bible. The only God in which He does believe is what nature reveals. He demands logic in theology, a thing in which nature is woefully deficient. The strange thing is that men can turn from the God of the Bible to worship nature, as to which, in some respects, there is nothing more cruel and inconsistent. Of course the reason of this is given in the Bible, and that is sin,—the perversion of God’s laws,—the great problem which the wise Master is now working out, the complete solution of which will be an effective lesson to all eternity. The writer criticizes the Biblical Sabbath; claims that it is not possible for men to observe it in different sections, and yet it is an undeniable fact that the simple practise of devout souls has stultified all the declarations of science through all the years; for wherever the religion of the Bible has gone, there souls have observed the Sabbath without any trouble. The same record which gives to us the origin of the Sabbath also declares: “When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” And again: “God that made the world and all things therein, . . . hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.” And wherever men have gone, there have they been able to serve God and keep His Sabbath. The lack of a recognition of the fact that sin is in the world and that God’s laws are perverted, leads to all these utterly inconsistent conclusions of those who follow evolution.