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Creation and Evolution:
The Bible Explanation
In this third and final installment, we examine the findings of modern science
in the light of God's Word.
by Mario Seiglie
In the first two installments of
this series, we examined the weaknesses of the theory of evolution as an explanation
for the bewildering complexity of the forms of life we see around us. Now we turn
to the Bible itself to see what the Creator God says about His creation.
One important principle to keep in mind is that God does not usually explain all
there is to know about a subject in one place in the Bible. His Word is not organized
so we can turn to one passage and read all of God's revelation about a particular
truth.
God's truths are not revealed all at once. Although He often provides a broad outline
of a truth early in the Scriptures, we find that He later fills in many of the details
elsewhere in the Bible. The Bible itself speaks of this principle when it talks of
"God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in times past to the fathers
by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son . . ."
(Hebrews 1:1-2).
The Nature of Revelation
The Hebrew prophets did not always understand the significance of the prophecies
they recorded under God's inspiration (Daniel 12:8-9). Their knowledge of the particular
truth they received was incomplete.
"Of this salvation," writes the apostle Peter, ěthe prophets have inquired and searched
carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or
what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ (which) was in them was indicating when
(it) testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering
the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the
gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to
look into" (1Peter 1:10-12).
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