Jesus was saying…”But the universe was not created from nothing, and neither was there “chaos;” for in God’s economy of being there is never any chaos, which, if it should be, would mean the absence of the workings of God’s laws of harmony.
“But the earth and the firmament ‘were’ created – at one time they had no existence as such, and at a coming time they may cease to have such existence. This creation was in an orderly way, according to design. Such creation was not only through what your wise men may call accretion or evolution (that is, self-evolution), for every new or additional exponent of growth was the result of ‘numerous’ laws working together in the creation of God’s universe.
“To grow, to become nearer perfection, implies the decay and disappearance of some elements which have performed their missions and work in the growth of the thing created. In all this work of creation, there are laws of disintegration and apparent retrogression operating (as well as laws of positive construction and advancement); and again these laws do not operate by chance, but by design. The All-Creator knows when, for the purpose of bringing forth the perfect creature (be it man, animal, vegetable or mineral), the laws of decay and retrogression, as well as the laws of advancement and increased effectiveness shall operate; and God never makes a mistake in setting into operation these laws, and never pronounces the result of His work “not good.”
“As has been said, a thousand years are as a day to God; and while for many long years it may appear to humans that there are retrogression and delay in bringing to perfection a creature of the Creator’s works, yet that apparent retrogression is not such in fact, but only a course or method adopted for bringing forth the higher or greater perfection. I know it is difficult to explain these workings of God’s creation to the finite earthly mind, but you may grasp some conception of what I desire to make known.
“I will stop for the present, Your brother and friend, Jesus.”
I will vent now; my computer doesn’t do what I wish. When I try to type a word in italics, it changes all the words into italics, so I enter single quotation marks to ’emphasize’ the word. The message following this one was posted in 2 Blogs, on March 26, 2012, titled “The Creation and Fall of Humans.” Amen