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Psalm 140:7
“O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.”
Today’s Creation Moment is taken from a viewpoint commentary written by Creation Moments Board Chairman Mark Cadwallader.
The date: October 31, 1517. The place: Germany. The event: Martin Luther nails his famous 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door. Luther was primarily protesting the sale of indulgences, a direct attack on God’s free gift of salvation.
As Luther put it, “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest expression every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.”
In addition to defending salvation by grace through faith, Luther also saw that the battle was raging over the Bible’s account of creation. In his pithy way he told the skeptics, “When Moses writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in them in six days, then let this period continue to have been six days. But if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, then grant the Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than you are.”
Luther stressed the biblical view that the Word was God’s instrument of creation, the Word which spoke things into existence and the Word which became flesh to win our salvation. In raising the text of Scripture to the level of highest authority in all things, Luther’s was part of that view which gave birth to modern science – founded in the West by biblical creationists!
Prayer: Heavenly Father, with Satan attacking biblical creation, help me to be bold in defending the truth so others may know they can trust the Bible and turn from the lie of evolution. Amen.
Author: Steven J. Schwartz
Ref: M. Cadwallader, “Where the Battle Rages”, 9/27/11. https://creationmoments.com/content/where-battle-rages. Photo: Creation Moments Board Chairman Mark Cadwallader.
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