The fact that creation was supernatural means, among other things, that it can be grasped by the human mind only through the channel of special revelation. God alone can tell us how the world began, because no man was there to see it being created, and even if a human observer had been present, he could not have understood fully what he saw apart from God’s own interpretation. “Gird up now thy loins like a man,” said God to Job, “for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding” (Job 38:3-4).

     However, our difficulty in grasping the doctrine of creation is not due so much to the fact that we are finite as to the fact that we are sinful. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (I Cor. 2:14). There are few doctrines of the Bible that seem more foolish to the natural man than that of supernatural creation, for such events are not happening today. But creation is at the same time most definitely one of the supremely important “things of the Spirit of God,” for without it the Scriptures and Christianity would fall to pieces. Remove this doctrine and the entire superstructure collapses.

(John C. Whitcomb Jr., The Early Earth, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1972; From Chapter 1, The Nature of Biblical Creation, 21-22)

d generations. In more ways than one, it is at the very heart of the Bible. The central chapter of the Bible is Psalm 117, which is also the shortest chapter in the Bible. The next chapter contains the central verse of the Bible, Psalm 118:8, which affirms very appropriately that: “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” Then the next chapter, Psalm 119, is the longest and most amazing chapter in the Bible.

     But more importantly, the Book of Psalms is the heart of the Bible in that it speaks to our own hearts more eloquently and fervently than does any other book. It is the book of praise, the book of singing―but also the book of comfort and even sometimes the book of anger. It is a book of testimony and a book of prayer. It speaks of joy in the midst of sorrow and hope in the midst of despair.

(Henry M. Morris with Henry M. Morris III, Treasures in the Psalms, Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2001, From Introduction, 13)