Where Were You?

"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding." (Job:38:4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
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In chapters 38-41 of Job is recorded a remarkable series of 77 questions about the creation--questions which God asked Job and his philosophizing friends, and which they were utterly unable to answer. At the end of the searching examination, Job could only confess: "Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not" (Job:42:3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
See All...). Modern evolutionists, despite all their arrogant pretensions, still are not able to answer them either, over 35 centuries later!

But there is one who can answer them, and His answers echo back from another ancient document, the marvelous eighth chapter of Proverbs. To God's first question, "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth," comes His answer: "When he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him" (Proverbs:8:29-30 [29] When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: [30] Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
See All...). The speaker here is the divine wisdom. He is the Word of God, the pre-incarnate Son of God, soon to become the Son of man. In this amazing chapter, He echoes an answer to the most searching of God's inscrutable questions to Job and his friends:

"Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth?" (Job:38:8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
See All...). "He set a compass |literally 'sphericity'| upon the face of the depth: . . . When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment" (Proverbs:8:27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
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See All...). "When he prepared the heavens, I was there" (Proverbs:8:27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
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Our Savior was there! "For by him were all things created" (Colossians:1:16For by him 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:
See All...). One more question: "Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?" (Job:38:17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
See All...). Yes, and they have not prevailed! "For whoso findeth me findeth life, . . . all they that hate me love death" (Proverbs:8:35-36 [35] For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. [36] But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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--Henry M. Morris (October 6, 1918 - February 25, 2006, Biblical Creationist and Apologist)