Wherefore the first thing man has to learn is truth concerning the
first human question, Where am I? How did I come here; and how did
this world come here? To which the Bible answers in its first line-
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'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'
How God created, the Bible does not tell us. Whether he created (as
doubtless he could have done if he chose) this world suddenly out of
nothing, full grown and complete; or whether he created it (as he
creates you and me, and all living and growing things now) out of
things which had been before it--that the Bible does not tell us.
Perhaps if it had told us, it would have drawn away our minds to
think of natural things, and what we now call science, instead of
keeping our minds fixed, as it now does, on spiritual things, and
above all on the Spirit of all spirits; Him of whom it is written,
'God is a Spirit'
For the Bible is simply the revelation, or unveiling of God. It is
not a book of natural science. It is not merely a book of holy and
virtuous precepts. It is not merely a book wherein we may find a
scheme of salvation for our souls.
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