IS IT CREATION OR EVOLUTION?
By L. A. R.
Do We Have a Reminder of Actual and Infinite Creative Power?
The Efficiency of This Power in Conversion
A NOTED geologist has said that there are two possible explanations for all phenomena which take their origin in the far backward abysm of time. One explanation is of a great power working through a short period of time. The other is that of a lesser power working through a proportionately greater time. We recognize the first of these as the explanation given in the word of God, of creation by the mighty mandate of Jehovah. The second is the teaching of evolution in which eons of ages are needed in which to produce the world by purely natural power. SMALL CONCEPTION OF POWER
This geologist has stated the point exactly. If we accept evolution, we have a very small conception of the power of creation. If we accept the doctrine of creation, as given in the Bible, we have a conception of a tremendous power, so great that it could speak all things into existence. "He spoke, and it was; He commanded, and it stood fast [endured]." We have illustration of this in the record of creation. God had but to speak, and all things stood before Him. He said, "Let light be," and light was. He said, "Let there be a firmament," and it was so. He said, "Let the waters gather into one place," and it was so. He said, "Let the earth put forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind," and it was so. God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven," and it was so. God said, "Let the waters swarm with living creatures, let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven," and so it was. God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures," and it was so. Therefore we believe even as inspiration states it, Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which previously did not appear, by that word came into existence. Heb. 11:3. Truly this was a mighty power that God exerted. Just as inspiration said, He did it with the breath of His mouth, mere breath; yet it was God's breath, and accomplished the purpose. THIS MIGHTY CREATION COMMEMORATED
It is such a creative work that the Sabbath commemorates. This is what we read in the opening verses of the second chapter of Genesis, and this same thing we read in the fourth commandment. God blessed the seventh day, hallowed it, set it apart for holiness, because in it He rested from all His creative work. He who observes God's Sabbath, commemorates God's mighty power, and trusts in that power to save him from sin, and to place him at last on the right hand of God. Thus it is that God has made His mighty works to be remembered. Ps. 111:4. And by means of the Sabbath, we remember His mighty works. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
L. A. R.