What a strange opening to a book! To providence and redemption.(A. "With your intellect and soul? That is, the exercise itself, and the end of that exercise, are the same thing. — purpose? (2) Good beginnings are made with worthy ends in view. II. Therefore —" A grizzled old cattle raiser glanced over his spectacles at the boy. Without observation, parade, flourish.2. Science and philosophy alike presuppose HIM.III. Learn the comprehensiveness of the opening sentence of the Bible.2. Is there reason to anticipate that when the point shall be reached of transition from the present to the coming age, the law of exterminations will again take effect? THE MEANING OF THE WORLD. Is not this one of the child's first thoughts, and one which life's long experience but deepens and confirms — that it was God who created all things? By the moral convictions of humanity. He sought to impress on them that, though these things passed through various add successive stages, God was there. "Let Us make man" — "make," as if little by little, a long process, in the course of which man becomes a party to his own malting! Without Him they could not be. Perhaps the sublimest question mortal man can ask. C. Hughes, M. It appeared in One who claimed to be the Son of God, and who manifested powers, in proof of this claim, such as well befitted it — powers which later, by one of His disciples, were suggestively called "powers of the age to come," and who finally became the firstborn from the dead, being the firstborn son of the resurrection. These testify that we are not parts and particles of God, but distinct personal subsistences. "In the beginning," the immeasurable fullness of creative power and goodness. Gaussen.)DesignWm. We shall now attempt to answer this question by the following train of reasoning: —. Therefore —" A grizzled old cattle raiser glanced over his spectacles at the boy. This was mentioned in the Bible long before learned men had found it out for themselves by observation. For His own pleasure and glory (Revelation 4:11).2. This account of creation, though leaving so much to be elucidated, is in harmony with fact in a sufficient degree to GIVE US CONFIDENCE IN THE THINGS WHICH REMAIN TO BE ILLUSTRATED.IV. 36, 37, Creation is the act of the triune God, in the sense that all the persons of the Trinity, themselves uncreated, have a part in it — the Father as the originating, the Son as the mediating, the Spirit as the realizing cause. II. 2. Matter and force do exist, or matter under some plastic power passing through innumerable changes. THIS ACCOUNT OF CREATION EVIDENTLY ADMITS OF MUCH ELUCIDATION AND EXPANSION. VARIOUS KINDS OF BEGINNINGS.1. 4. P. Lange, D. D.)The work of God and the work of manJ. Only two answers are possible. The material universe began to be.III. Creation is not a fashioning of preexisting materials, nor an emanation from the substance of Deity, but is a making of that to exist which once did not exist, either in form or substance. THE PRECISE PROBLEM. The fact of His existence lies at the foundation of all physical science, and must be admitted as its first and most essential fact. Observe the value of simplicity when regarded as bearing upon the grandest events. By God's Spirit.III. )Creation's birthJ. Every effect must have a cause. 6, 7, If sin bad not been an incident, foreseen and provided for, the world might have been a Paradise. But if science begins by refusing to admit, or by failing to perceive, the First Fact, and the Great Cause of all things? So that the continued gratification of these feelings, and thus the continuance of His happiness, was undoubtedly an end of God in creation; but, as we have seen, this was His subjective, and not His objective end. He gives rather a rough outline which is to be filled up as life advances. Sermon Series What was BEFORE the beginning?1. What FOLLOWED the beginning?1. BELIEF IN THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE OUT OF NOTHING IS THE ONLY ACCOUNT OF ITS ORIGIN WHICH IS COMPATIBLE WITH BELIEF IN A PERSONAL AND MORAL GOD. That young man, Joseph Nisima, is now Principal of a Native Christian College at Kioto, the ancient sacred capital of Japan.(E. According to him the material universe has a spiritual origin, and before and after each creation he would write the word "God."2. DENIES POLYTHEISM. The reality and truth of life in the human world.(J. A. It is used in this sense in the 10th verse of the 1st chapter of Genesis: "God called the dry land earth." (2) The answer of Scripture. Where, then, did all this measureless, unutterable, inconceivable quantity of matter composing this material universe come from? Now this is the only foundation of a true religion for humanity.II. It is design. The beginning contains what follows.(J. We accept Bushnell's idea of "anticipative consequences," and would illustrate it by the building of a hospital room while yet no member of the family is sick, and by the salvation of the patriarchs through a Christ yet to come. We must begin with Him. What was IN the beginning?1. If you say it’s more difficult to forgive, you are right. 11, If the earliest vertebrates of geological history were types of man and preparations for his coming, then pain and death among those same vertebrates may equally have been a type of man's sin and its results of misery. If our desire is for the beginning of the goodness of God in our characters, it is a desire which shames sloth.(J. P. Lange, D. D.heaven and earth: —1. )God firstF. There is no contradiction, I think, between any result as to the world's age at which science may arrive, and the record with which the Book of Genesis opens. III. If love or goodness was the true motive for creation, it implies God's continuous interest in created life. That does not answer the question. GENESIS. No! We read in the Psalms of a time "before the mountains were brought forth" (Psalm 90:2); and we read also in Proverbs of a time "before the mountains were settled" (Proverbs 8:25), while they were yet being tossed and thrown up by the mighty power of fire. The question is legitimate. Stages in process of formation implied.II. Why not already solved, so far as we are concerned, in this "simple, unequivocal, exhaustive, majestic" alpha of the Bible — "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"?(J. Now this is the only foundation of a true religion for humanity.II. It gives us an unbeginning, almighty, personal, self-conscious, voluntary God.4. Involves the freedom of the Eternal Being. E. The testimony of reason. We need the excitation of sensible objects. In other words, it is entire conformity to the moral law, which consists in loving God with all the soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbour as ourself. Strange that there is no argument on the being of God. When we began, he was still in his mother’s womb. A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION. What occurred in the beginning? God therefore must be a moral Being. It is spoken of in the Book of Job, about three thousand years ago (Job 28:5). But if science begins by refusing to admit, or by failing to perceive, the First Fact, and the Great Cause of all things? "Or hear with your tongue, or taste with your ears?" James. Evolution is the great faith of the scientific world today. DENIES POLYTHEISM. The lesson Moses had to tell the people he ruled when he brought them out of a land where material force was everything; where men worshipped the physical universe — the fruits of the field, and the moon and stars of heaven — was, that there was a God beyond all these; that these were only the works of His creative power. In Him was manifested a type of life transcending beyond measure embodied life as we know it here. If he possesses in himself the power to accomplish his ends, without aid from any other source, then, as far as they are concerned, he is entirely independent; and this is equally true, whether these ends are within or without himself. God creates atoms; man fashions molecules.3. It is the august separatrix between the creature and the Creator, between the finite and the Infinite. This argument proves that its first cause (i.e., God) must be possessed of intelligence. S. Smith, B. D.I. The other answer is the first verse of the Book of God: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." First, they affirm that the conception is an anthropomorphic one, inapplicable to the works of nature. Man's free agency is limited by conditions; but God is not limited by conditions. To begin to steal, however small the theft; to begin to lie, however trifling the falsehood; to begin selling things for what they are not, and by false weight and measure, however the deception may escape discovery; to begin to swear, however silent the oath may be kept; to begin dissolute practices, however trimly they may be dressed up.2. The reality and truth of life in the human world. It thrilled my heart to study how she was raised up out of obscurity and married to Joseph. So also with our own spiritual life. 3. Heaven for earth.(J. Is it not mere chance?" THIS ACCOUNT OF CREATION EVIDENTLY ADMITS OF MUCH ELUCIDATION AND EXPANSION. Thus this word "create" is the divinest word in language, human or angelic. We object to it upon the following grounds:(1) It virtually denies the infinity and transcendence of God — by applying to Him a principle of evolution, growth, and progress which belongs only to the finite and imperfect. Lastly, there is one specially spiritual principle which glorifies this chapter, and the import of which is universal, "GOD MADE MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE." This lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot it or the circumstances that introduced it. Nor is this suggestion so wide of the mark as might at first appear. "No." infinite, secret of creation, but the "manifestation of the visible world God manifest. Are there no marks of intelligence? No honest criticism can destroy God's truth.2. )The creationD. We need a material arena for self-discipline.

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