Further Study: Sabbath: A Gift From Eden
“God created man in His own image.
Here is no mystery. There is no ground for the supposition that man was evolved by slow degrees of development from the lower forms of animal or vegetable life. Such teaching lowers the great work of the Creator to the level of man’s narrow, earthly conceptions. Men are so intent upon excluding God from the sovereignty of the universe that they degrade man and defraud him of the dignity of his origin. He who set the starry worlds on high and tinted with delicate skill the flowers of the field, who filled the earth and the heavens with the wonders of His power, when He came to crown His glorious work, to place one in the midst to stand as ruler of the fair earth, did not fail to create a being worthy of the hand that gave him life. The genealogy of our race, as given by inspiration, traces back its origin, not to a line of developing germs, mollusks, and quadrupeds, but to the great Creator.”-Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 45.
Discussion Questions
- Why is the relationship between Sabbath and Creation so significant in these last days? How is this truth expressed in Revelation 14:6, 7? Look again at the question at the end of Wednesday’s lesson as you discuss the above question.
- At about the same time that Charles Darwin started promoting his theory of evolution, God raised up a church that upheld the seventh-day Sabbath as a distinctive belief. More so, God raised up that church to proclaim the three angels’ messages of Revelation 14, which calls upon us specifically to worship the One who created the heavens and the earth. What, then, could be more tragic, or a deeper fall from faith, than for those professing to be members of that church to argue in favor of evolution?
- In recent years, science has revealed a complexity in life that boggles the mind. Charles Darwin had no clue whatsoever about just how complicated even the so-called “simple” cell really is. We know now that even the most “simple” cell is more complicated and more intricate than Darwin probably ever imagined. Look at the irony here: many scientists believe that life arose by chance alone. Yet, the more complexity that science finds in life, the less likely it becomes that chance could have done it. That is, the more that science reveals about the complexity of life, the less likely science’s grand theory about the origin of life, atheistic evolution, becomes. Discuss.
That’s right–Amen! Because i am very, very glad that the ‘building blocks’ of any given biological system does not “flashing-ly” ‘spring’ or ‘sprawl’, and that there is a very purposeful, ordered [step-by-step] process to it all from the way the cell grabs oxygen with the abundance of hydrogen gas & molecules (multiple gases) everywhere to make water so it can can breath, hydrate itself and feed it self by turning things into glucose–cell food. And also even to the very complicated, purposeful steps, in the ways that a bee polinates flowers to make pollen–things that are too much on purpose repetitively.
i am also truly happy all cell processes are not hap-hazard because peanut butter containers would be filled with deadly molds upon being first opened everytime. This is after all air (that molds need To reproduce) have been vacuumed out of it from the air-tight, sealed-for-freshness process.
Is it Ok for all of us to give Praise?