Creation

It is objected by skeptics that the early chapters of Genesis contain false science and imaginary history, while they present an unworthy idea of God as an unjust, resentful and arbitrary being. In the spiritual sense, however, the difficulties disappear and criticism is disarmed. Instead of treating the first chapter of Genesis as a historical and scientific account of the beginning of created things, Let us take ourselves into spiritual regions, and interpret the narrative as descriptive of the new creation or regeneration of man. The unregenerate state, when man was immersed in things of sense and of self, and oblivious of his better nature, is typified by the dark and formless void over which brooded the spirit of God to bring out of it order and life. The purpose of the spiritual creation, as of the physical, is the production of man in the image and likeness of God. The attainment of such a state requires that the human soul should pass through various stages of development, which process is represented by the six days of creation. M. W. Haseltine