these other features, we should do what the Father Himself has done, commit

all judgment into the hands of Christ.  This judgment demands more than any

mortal can bring, to be according to truth:

'For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things

contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto

themselves: which shew the work of the law written in their hearts,

their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile

accusing or else excusing one another' (Rom. 2:14,15).

Nothing of all this that is written in the Scriptures permits this

knowledge to alter the presentation of the Gospel to those who have the

privilege of hearing, nor the heavy responsibility resting upon those who,

having heard, do not believe.  We cannot take shelter behind the mercy of God

to those indicated in Romans 2, for we range rather with Israel, who have

heard, 'Have they not heard?  Yea verily' (Rom. 10:18):

'The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single,

thy whole body shall be full of light.  But if thine eye be evil, thy

whole body shall be full of darkness.  If therefore the light that is

in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness?' (Matt. 6:22,23).

In other words to revert to our figure of a pair of scales.  If we

cheat by manipulating the balances and substitute fifteen ounces for a pound,

the index on our scales will endorse the deception and cheat the customer.

Conscience cannot take the place of the revealed will of God as made known in

the Scriptures.

See article Reckoning7.

Creation.  At first, when thinking of a doctrinal analysis, the question of

creation, as set forth in Genesis 1, may appear to be a subject a little

outside its scope, and indeed into the question of evolution and the modern

scientific attitude we do not purpose to enter.  It is evident, however, that

if we have no Creator, or Maker as Job so often calls Him, we are responsible

to no higher power than to man.  If we are not responsible to any power other

than that of man, we may transgress man -made laws, and be subjected to man -

made penalties, but we cannot Sin, for sin is the transgression of the law

(of God) (1 John 3:4).  Any system of teaching, therefore, that eliminates

the Creator, robs the creature of the moral law, with all its hideous

consequences.  Romans 1:19 -25 shows the place this creation occupies in its

witness to the uncorruptible God and the dire consequences that follow the

worshipping of the creature more than the Creator.  Further, if there be no

original creation of heaven and earth, then the creation of a new heaven and

new earth ceases to be a possible or rational goal.  In addition, the

doctrine of Colossians 3:10, 'The new man which is renewed in knowledge after

the image of Him that created Him' is emptied of its meaning.  He who sets

aside the man Adam in Genesis 3, sets aside the Second Man, the last Adam of

1 Corinthians 15, and in so doing leaves the world with the pessimistic and

fatalistic slogan, 'Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die'.  Contrary to

frequent misquotation, such cannot add the words 'and be merry'!  Without a

Creator, there is nothing left but an unrelieved and unilluminated

conclusion, 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity'.  (See booklet,

Creation, The New.  As a spiritual extension of the creation of a new heaven

and a new earth, the apostle speaks of a new creature, a new creation, as a