"The seventh day Sabbath focuses the worshiper's mind on the great truth that Christ created the world in six literals days, and rested on the seventh day, the truth denied by evolutionists today.
God the Father “created all things by Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 3:9. "For by Him [Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him." Colossians 1:16. So Christ is just as much the Creator God as God the Father.
Q: Now what would we think of Christ if He created, as the
evolutionists allege, through a slow process, requiring millions of years of predation, animal suffering, and death?
Q: Now what would we think of Christ if He created, as the
A: We would think that Christ is a cruel creator indeed.
--But the Adventist doctrine, which keeps in memory that Christ created a good world, free of death, disease, and predation, in six literal days, and rested upon the seventh day, protects Christ from this charge of being a cruel creator.
*The Sabbath doctrine also emphasizes Christ’s role as redeemer from the Fall. Because our minds are weekly focused upon the original perfect world of the seventh day of that first creation week, we realize how terrible was the fall of our first parents, and how necessary and important is Christ’s role as redeemer from the Fall.
It is only by contemplating each week the fact that we were created in innocent perfection and fell into sin that we see the necessity for our redemption both as a race and as individuals.
Hence, the Sabbath doctrine greatly glorifies Christ in His role as the Second Adam, the redeemer of the race that the first Adam caused to fall into sin."
F.D. Nichol
