Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism
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BIBLICAL SABBATHISM 97<br />
quire quotation, but they all<br />
bear witness to the inseparable<br />
nature of creation and redemption. It<br />
is a process which will not end till death is swallowed<br />
up in victory.<br />
Such in the barest outline with many phases untouched<br />
is the biblical network of symbolism by<br />
which God's eternal life is related to man's imperfection,<br />
sin and death. It is not to be treated as a<br />
system of magical knowledge, but as a revelation<br />
suited to our very simple and very poignant spiritual<br />
needs. It must form the background against which<br />
all scientific efforts to explain the world are to be<br />
viewed. It is woven with the colors of life. It is<br />
rich with all the varieties of normal religious experience.<br />
Any philosophy which offers a systematic<br />
view of the world must compete with it<br />
richness, variety and reality. The scene must be<br />
largely handled. The food must satisfy the great<br />
hunger of the soul.<br />
Against such a background, then, appear the various<br />
technical problems of creationism.<br />
are told that creation does not explain, we are told<br />
in<br />
When we<br />
that God does not explain; that redemption does<br />
not explain; that all the intricate network of religious<br />
imagination is an illusion, that it is a mere<br />
rainbow. But the Christian remembers that the
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