The Hexaemeron or Creation-Week (2): Scripture’s Viewpoint of the Account of Creation; The First Day

SCRIPTURE'S VIEWPOINT OF THE ACCOUNT OF CREATION First, let us repeat: the beauty of the Scriptural account of creation is its revelation unto us of the living God. First, the majestic words: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, are the keynote of the entire passage. We have more or less grown accustomed to this sublime and majestic truth, and can scarcely estimate and appreciate its force and grandeur. At the time when Moses recorded these words, through the infallible...