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Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

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investigating the prophecies, especially Daniel and Revelation,

declaring that we cannot understand them. Yet these very people

eagerly receive the suppositions of geologists in contradiction of

Moses' account. Just how God accomplished the work of creation

He has never revealed to us; human science cannot search out the

secrets of the Most High (see Deuteronomy 29:29).

Those who leave the Word of God and try to account for His

created works on scientific principles are drifting without chart or

compass on an unknown ocean. The greatest minds, if not guided by

the Word of God in their research, become bewildered in their

attempts to find the relationship between science and revelation.

Those who doubt the records of the Old and New Testaments will be

led to go a step further and doubt the existence of God. Then, having

lost their anchor, they are left to beat about on the rocks of falseness

and deceit.

The Bible is not to be tested by human ideas of science.

Skeptics, through an imperfect comprehension of either science or

revelation, claim to find contradictions between them; but rightly

understood they are in perfect harmony. Moses wrote under the

guidance of the Spirit of God, and a correct theory of geology will

never claim discoveries that cannot be harmonized with his

statements.

True Science and the Bible Agree

In the Word of God many questions are raised that scholars can

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