Comment on GC Votes to Revise SDA Fundamental #6 on Creation by Ron Coleman.
“All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for what I have not seen.†— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Author, Poet, and Philosopher
Once one realizes how little any of us really knows of the past we are free to listen to speculation without feeling threatened – for Jesus left no doubt about the Big issue; the broad (but not very detailed) outline describing our origin and our future.
The more one learns the more one suspects that we are all going to have a lot of surprises when we have the opportunity to look back in time and see clearly how things really happened, (and I believe we will have that opportunity one day).
So leave some room for Mystery – both in the past and the future. There is nothing wrong with some Mystery in our lives. Indeed, it might be good for all of us to sense a little more of that at times …