How Did the Universe Originate and when Did the World Become a Habitable Earth?: The True Answer in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures Read Before the National Academy of Theology : Sketches on a Few of the Great Problems of Science, Philosophy, and TheologyPress of H.P. Witherstine, 1891 - 122 pages |
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Page 62 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 62 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good. And GOD blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 17 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 67 - But overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie all around us ; and if ever perplexities, whether metaphysical or scientific, turn us away from them for a time, they come back upon us with irresistible force, showing to us through nature the influence of a free will, and teaching us that all living beings depend on one ever-acting Creator and Ruler.* Lord Kelvin frequently expressed himself very emphatically on this matter.
Page 76 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Page 61 - God saw that it was good. -And God said', let the earth bring forth' grass', the herb yielding seed', and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind', whose seed is in itself on the earth'; and it was so.
Page 91 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 62 - BLESS the Lord, O my soul : O Lord my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 67 - Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe.
Page 58 - When he established the heavens, I was there: when he drew a circle on the face of the deep: When he made firm the skies above...