CREATION VERSUS EVOLUTION 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 Gods 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 Gods works are perfect. In the Introduction to Genesis (chapter 1:1-2:3) fortysix times everything is ascribed to direct acts and volitions on the part of God as the Creator (see Appendix 4. I.) :- God (or He) created 6 times (1:1,21,27,27,27; 2:3) God moved 1 once (1:2). God said 10 times (1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26,28,29). God saw 7 times (1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31,) God divided 2 twice (1:4,7) God (or He) called 5 times (1:5,5,8,10,10). __ Brought forward. = 31 God (or He) made 7 times (1:7,16,25,31; 2:2,2,3). God set 1 once (1:17). God blessed 3 times (1:22,28; 2:3). God ended 1 once (2:2). He rested 2 twice (2:2,3). He sanctified 1 once (2:3). __ = 46 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 emphasising 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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