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The New Testament retains unmodified the teaching of Genesis 1 (see Acts 14:15; 17:23-26; 2 Cor. 4:6; Heb.
1:8-11; Rev. 4:11, and 14:6,7).
The following extract from Appendix 5 of The Companion Bible may be useful:
`The introduction to Genesis (and to the whole Bible) - Gen. 1:1 to 2:3, ascribes everything to the living God,
creating, making, acting, moving, and speaking. There is no room for evolution without a flat denial of Divine
revelation. One must be true, the other false. All God's works were pronounced "good" seven times, viz., Gen.
1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31. They are "great", Psa. 111:2; Rev. 15:3. They are "wondrous", Job 37:14. They are
"perfect", Deut. 32:4.
Man starts from nothing. He begins in helplessness, ignorance, and inexperience. All his works, therefore,
proceed on the principle of evolution. This principle is seen only in human affairs: from the hut to the palace;
from the canoe to the ocean liner; from the spade and ploughshare to machines for drilling, reaping, and binding,
etc. But the birds build their nests to-day as at the beginning. The moment we pass the boundary line, and enter
the Divine sphere, no trace or vestige of evolution is seen'.
The reader who would appreciate the testimony of a scientist on this important theme should consider the
writings of George McCready Price, M.A. `The Phantom of Organic Evolution', originally published by Revell, is a
good book with which to start.
CHAPTER 13.
SATAN AND THE CHURCH OF THE MYSTERY
1.
THE DECLARATION.
We believe that Satan has no authority in the heavenly places to which the church of the mystery has been
translated. Demon possession is attached to other spheres and callings. We believe that Satan's one means of
access to the believer is through ignorance of the truth, and that recovery from his captivity is by repentance and the
acknowledging of the truth, which makes us free.
Conquerors do not go out to wage war against a conquered foe, neither are they haunted by the fear of his
activity. We are more than conquerors in Christ. We are delivered and translated out of Satan's authority. We have
a command to withstand the spiritual forces of this world's darkness and are provided with complete armour and
with one weapon, the Word of God. We are assured that apart from lowering the shield of faith not one fiery dart of
the wicked can reach us.
To sum up we would say that our attitude to the Satanic system is expressed first of all by our position in Christ
as `far above all'; and that everything else is relative to the fact that we are `seated together' there.
2.
SCRIPTURAL GROUNDS.
`Can ye be angry and sin not? (Author's translation). Let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give
place to the devil' (Eph. 4:26,27).
`Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil' (Eph. 6:11).
` ... that ye may know ... what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the
working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at
His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this world (age), but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things
under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him
that filleth all in all' (Eph. 1:18-23).
`Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son'
(Col. 1:13).