Article April 20, 1899 Issue

Reply to Rev. Wheat

Frank P. Casey

Daily Pantagraph

Editor Pantagraph:—I wish to reply to Mr. Wheat's article in your issue of March 15, which has just come to my notice.

Mr. Wheat says, "God made man's body out of the dust of the ground." The Bible does not say so. In the first chapter of Genesis we have given us the account of God's creation, wherein man was last created and created in the image of God; and all that God created and created good. In the second chapter of Genesis we find what seems to be another account of creation wherein man is the first that was formed; and throughout this account everthing is the reverse of the account given in the first chapter. But in the second chapter it is the Lord God that "formed man of the dust of the ground." Now a lord is a ruling thought; and the Lord God is only the highest mortal concept of God, which may not be—in fact is not—God at all. We observe that this Lord God creation, or this mortal concept of creation occurs only after "there went up a mist." It is indeed a misty conception.

If "man is a dual being," an amalgam of both animal and angel as Mr. Wheat states, then God, of whom man is the likeness, must also be part animal. It seems to us that this is the double-minded condition against which the Scriptures warn us.

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