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Appendixes To The Companion Bible
This Is Appendix 5 From The Companion Bible. The
Introduction to Genesis (and to the whole Bible) Genesis 1:1-2:3,
ascribes everything to the living God, creating, making, acting, moving,
and speaking. There is no room for evolution without a flat denial of
Divine revelation. One must be true, the other false. All God's works
were pronounced "good" seven times (see
Appendix 10), videlicet: Genesis 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31.
They are "great," Psalm 111:2.
Revelation 15:3.
They are "wondrous," Job 37:14.
They are "perfect," Deuteronomy 32:4.
Man starts from nothing. He begins in helplessness,
ignorance, and inexperience. All his works, therefore, proceed on the
principle of evolution. This principle is seen only
in human affairs : from the hut to the palace ; from the canoe
to the ocean liner ; from the spade and ploughshare to machines for
drilling, reaping, and binding, etc. But the birds build their nests
to-day as at the beginning. The moment we pass the boundary line, and
enter the Divine sphere, no trace or vestige of evolution is seen. There
is growth and development within, but no passing, change,
or evolution out from one into another. On the other hand, all
God's works are perfect.
In the Introduction to Genesis (chapter 1:
It will be noted that the word "God" (Elohim, see Appendix 4. I.) occurs in this Introduction thirty-five times (7 x 5), the product of 7 and 5, the numbers of spiritual perfection, and grace. (See Apppendix 10.) There are also ten words connected with the word "God" ; this is the number of ordinal perfection (Appendix 10). There is only one verb used alone with the pronoun "He", instead of "God", and that is the verb "rested". This makes eleven in all ; for the significance of which see Appendix 10. The word "and" is repeated 102 times : thus, by the figure Polysyndeton (Appendix 6), marking and emphasizing each separate act as being equally independent and important. Evolution is only one of several theories invented to explain the phenomena of created things. It is admitted by all scientists that no one of these theories covers all the ground ; and the greatest claim made for Evolution, or Darwinism, is that "it covers more ground than any of the others." The Word of God claims to cover all the ground : and the only way in which this claim is met, is by a denial of the inspiration of the Scriptures, in order to weaken it. This is the special work undertaken by so-called "Higher Criticism", which bases its conclusions on human assumptions and reasoning, instead of on the documentary evidence of manuscripts, as Textual Criticism does. |
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