CREATION AND REDEMPTION by J. P. Logan

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1878

CREATION AND REDEMPTION.

By J. P. Logan

Which is greater, creation or redemption? It is asserted by many who hold to the observance of the Sunday instead of the Sabbath of the Lord, that redemption is greater than creation. A poet sings,—

“’Twas great to speak a world from naught, ’Twas greater to redeem.”

As the Bible is silent on this question, we must look somewhere else for an answer. Two facts present themselves for our consideration.

If man had not been created, there would have been no need of redemption.
After man was created, had he not sinned there would have been no need of redemption.

So, then, redemption is entirely dependent upon creation, and the fall of man; but primarily upon creation. Is it not therefore folly to speak of redemption as being greater than creation?

J. P. LOGAN.