_1_The Record of Creation

SINCE no human being observed the creation of the world, we have no other authentic account of the creation than the one given by God Himself in the Scriptures. The statements: “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Tim. 3:16) and “The Scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35) include, of course, also the report of the creation in Genesis 1 and 2. We human beings can indeed know a posteriori (reasoning from effect to cause) that all things were created by God. All creatures bear the divine stamp; God’s invisible nature, that is, His eternal power and Godhead, are clearly seen () from the creation of the world, from the creatures (Rom. 1:20). But our knowledge of the particular circumstances of the creation (e. g., of the time in which creation was completed and of the order of creation) is derived solely from God’s revelation in Scripture. Men who presume to correct God’s record of the creation through conclusions drawn from the present condition of the world are playing the role of scientific wiseacres, a procedure unworthy of Christians, as well as of men in general. The discord among professional geologists, for example, as to the age of the earth and of man is so great that only he will speak of “assured results” of geology who has completely renounced the use of what reason is left to man after the Fall.1