SECTION 6.
THE EARTH PROVED TO HAVE IMMOVABLE
FOUNDATIONS.
[multiple biblical quotations omitted]
There is, however, one question which the enquirer
still may ask — Granting that the Earth has foundations,
to what are these foundations fixed, for there is no
stability in water by which the Earth could be firmly
held? To this I answer — the Bible does not say that
the Earth was fixed to the waters or seas, but that it
was founded (ol) upon or over them, which we know
from other Scriptures previously mentioned to be
positively true — " the waters under the Earth '' —
Exod. XX. 4; Deut. v. 8. What difficulty would there
be for God, who made the strong firmament of the
Heavens above, and with whom all things are possible
— Mar. ix. 23, except to " deny Himself " — z Tim. it. 13,
to form such a vast basin of impregnable rocks as would
contain the whole waters of the Great Deep? Is it
not written He hath " bound the waters in a garment ?
Who hath established all the ends of the earth ? " —
Pro. XXX. 4. Upon such a basin the foundations of
the mountains could be settled, and the hills which
were of old — Pro. viii. 25. " The pillars of the Earth
are Jehovah's, and He hath set the world upon them "
— / Sam. ii. 8, Job ix. 6. The mountains, and other
lands, which have been already discovered in various parts
of the farthest known Southern Seas, may in all proba-
bility, form the beginning of those impassable barriers
which girdle the mighty basin of the world's location,
designated by Job as — " a circumference upon the face of
the waters, unto the boundary of light with darkness" —
Joh xxvi. 10.
One more question may still be asked — By what
means could this stupendous basin of rocks be upheld?
I reply at once — by the Fiat of God, " upholding all
things by the Word of His Power " — Heb. i. 3. Thought
utterly fails in attempting to solve the problem of God's
Omnipotence. It becomes lost, like a little child in a
pathless forest.
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