FUTILE ATTEMPTS OF MODERN SCIENCE (so-called):

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” 

1 Tim 6:20

That the Creation account is unscientific and in clash with the discoveries of modern science is one of the common statements. It has, however, no foundation whatever. The proofs that there is no error in the account of Creation as revealed in the first chapter of Genesis, have been furnished by the investigation of Science. The order of creation as given in the first chapter is the order, which, after years of searching— the most laborious searching-Science has discovered.

Over and over again has Science with its guesses and speculations been forced to bow in submission before the simple and brief description of the Creation in God's Word. There is no clash between the Bible and the results of true scientific research. Geology, astronomy and other sciences have had to retrace their steps more than once and acknowledge their mistake; the first chapter of Genesis will never have to do that."

A. C. Gaebelein

(The Annotated Bible, Vol 1)

NOTE: There are some misguided Christian theologians who attempt to reconcile the biblical account to accommodate modern claims of science. They do so by putting ideas into the Word that are not expressed in the biblical account. For example, some claim that a single day of Creation could have been millennia instead of the common 24 - hour day; this however does not accord with God's account. God created the vegetation of earth on the third day: "12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.  13 And the evening and the morning were the third day."  Then, God created the Sun, moon and stars on the fourth day. How could the green vegetation survive millennia without the sun to provide the necessities of life? "16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

    The same bunch who insist that there is no difference between men and women, or that men can get pregnant, are the same who deny the Biblical Creation account.

(J. Ogles)

 CROESUS QUOTE

"No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace , in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons."

CROESUS (6th cent. B.C.). Lydian king. Remark to King Cyrus. In Herodotus (484?-420? B.C.), The Persian Wars, 1.87, tr. George

Rawlinson, 1942

 THE FAMILY ALTAR

September 4.

"And He said unto me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for My

strength is made perfect in weakness." 2 Cor. 12:9.

The bufferings of Satan which the Apostle Paul had to endure

for a while filled him with great alarm. Again and again he cried

to his Lord for deliverance from this terrible affliction, but received

the answer which our Lord gives him in the words just read. From

this answer we see that the apostle suffered these satanic afflictions

not by any fault of his own, but by the will of God, and further-

more, that they could not rob him of God's saving grace, but had

to serve to strengthen and ground him in a faith that wholly relies

on God's mercy and help. Let us remember this answer of our

Lord when Satan would assail us with his fiery darts of doubt and

unbelief or even with blasphemous thoughts that fill a Christian

soul with horror and dismay. Then let us not think, as the devil

wants us to think, that we have lost faith and God's grace, or that

God has given us over to perdition, and for this reason permits us

to be harassed by such vile, satanic thoughts. No, indeed not!

From Paul's example we learn that it is just God's true, believing

saints who are thus afflicted. God permits the devil to assail them

in order to teach them their utter helplessness outside of His pro-

tecting and sustaining grace. Thus He frees them from all dan-

gerous spiritual pride and self-confidence, and they learn to cling

more firmly to His hand, which alone can save them from the

terrible and merciless power of the devil. When the old Evil Foe

thus afflicts us, let us courageously put him to shame, as did Father

Luther, who relates the following experience: "Once upon a time

the devil said to me, 'Martin Luther, you are a great sinner and

you will be damned.' 'Stop ! Stop !' said I ; 'one thing at a time.

I am a great sinner, it is true, I confess it. What next?' 'There-

fore you will be damned.' 'That is not good reasoning. It is true,

I am a great sinner, but it is written, Jesus Christ came to save

sinners; therefore I s hall be saved! Now go your way !' So I cut

the devil off with his own sword, and he went away mourning

because he could not cast me down by calling me a sinner."