Posted By: Rick H
Creation in the Beginning....Literal Creation and our beliefs - 07/15/11 12:54 PM
I came across some interesting quotes on why the literal Creation of 7 days is foundational to our beliefs. Just 5 years after Darwin's ''Origin of the Species'' Ellen White wrote:
"...I was then carried back to the creation and was shown that the first week, in which God performed the work of creation in six days and rested on the seventh day, was just like every other week. The great God in his days of creation and day of rest, measured off the first cycle as a sample for successive weeks till the close of time..."
"...The supposition, that the events of the first week required seven vast, indefinite periods for their accomplishment, strikes directly at the foundation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. It makes indefinite and obscure that which God has made very plain..."
"..Geologists claim that the world is very much older than the Bible record makes it. They reject the Bible record, because of those things which are to them evidences from the earth itself, that the world has existed tens of thousands of years. And many who profess to believe the Bible record are at a loss to account for wonderful things which are found in the earth, with the view that creation week was only seven literal days, and that the world is now only about six thousand years old. These, to free themselves of difficulties thrown in their way, ... adopt the view that the six days of creation were six vast, indefinite periods, and the day of God's rest was another indefinite period; making senseless the fourth commandment of God's holy law Just how God accomplished the work of creation he has never revealed to mortals. His creative works are just as incomprehensible as his existence." 3SG 90 Chapter IX. - Disguised Infidelity
(ALSO see that in THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY VOL. 1 (1870) CHAPTER 8. DISGUISED INFIDELITY Ellen White, pages 85-93)
Here is the White Estate on Ellen Whites view..
"Although Ellen White uses the phrase “unity in diversity,”[16] and stated “Instructors in our schools should never be bound about by being told that they are to teach only what has been taught hitherto,”[17] she maintained that the landmarks and pillars of Adventist truth were to remain. Concepts that impact the science of geology which she “was shown” to be identified as permanent include six literal, empirical, historical 24-hour days of creation, culminating with a literal 24-hour Sabbath day of rest, and human life on earth non-existent before the literal creation week described in Genesis"
(Interpreting Ellen G. White’s Earth History Comments
Faith and Science Conference II, Glacier View, Colorado
August 13-21, 2003, Presented By Cindy Tutsch, Associate Director Ellen G. White Estate)
[16] Francis D. Nichol, SDA Bible Commentary, 7 vols. plus supplement. (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1970), 6:1083.
[17] Ellen G. White, “Manuscript 8a,” 1888, Ellen G. White Estate, Silver Spring, MD.
"...I was then carried back to the creation and was shown that the first week, in which God performed the work of creation in six days and rested on the seventh day, was just like every other week. The great God in his days of creation and day of rest, measured off the first cycle as a sample for successive weeks till the close of time..."
"...The supposition, that the events of the first week required seven vast, indefinite periods for their accomplishment, strikes directly at the foundation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. It makes indefinite and obscure that which God has made very plain..."
"..Geologists claim that the world is very much older than the Bible record makes it. They reject the Bible record, because of those things which are to them evidences from the earth itself, that the world has existed tens of thousands of years. And many who profess to believe the Bible record are at a loss to account for wonderful things which are found in the earth, with the view that creation week was only seven literal days, and that the world is now only about six thousand years old. These, to free themselves of difficulties thrown in their way, ... adopt the view that the six days of creation were six vast, indefinite periods, and the day of God's rest was another indefinite period; making senseless the fourth commandment of God's holy law Just how God accomplished the work of creation he has never revealed to mortals. His creative works are just as incomprehensible as his existence." 3SG 90 Chapter IX. - Disguised Infidelity
(ALSO see that in THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY VOL. 1 (1870) CHAPTER 8. DISGUISED INFIDELITY Ellen White, pages 85-93)
Here is the White Estate on Ellen Whites view..
"Although Ellen White uses the phrase “unity in diversity,”[16] and stated “Instructors in our schools should never be bound about by being told that they are to teach only what has been taught hitherto,”[17] she maintained that the landmarks and pillars of Adventist truth were to remain. Concepts that impact the science of geology which she “was shown” to be identified as permanent include six literal, empirical, historical 24-hour days of creation, culminating with a literal 24-hour Sabbath day of rest, and human life on earth non-existent before the literal creation week described in Genesis"
(Interpreting Ellen G. White’s Earth History Comments
Faith and Science Conference II, Glacier View, Colorado
August 13-21, 2003, Presented By Cindy Tutsch, Associate Director Ellen G. White Estate)
[16] Francis D. Nichol, SDA Bible Commentary, 7 vols. plus supplement. (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1970), 6:1083.
[17] Ellen G. White, “Manuscript 8a,” 1888, Ellen G. White Estate, Silver Spring, MD.