Genesis Quotes

“Our Lord tells us that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27): it is a witness to our creatureliness, to the fact that we can rest because the government of all things is not on our shoulders, and our Lord is King over all creation.”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, Genesis: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

“The Sabbath is a sign of the covenant. Having received grace and law from God, the covenant people surrender themselves to Him, not only in worship but in the giving of time to God. To yield fifty-two days in the year, on a regular weekly basis, is a covenant act, an acknowledging to God that it is not our power over time but His power on which we depend. We cannot master time and history apart from God. Therefore, by removing ourselves from time, by resting one day in seven, we acknowledge that the determination of all things belongs to God.”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, Genesis: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

“To define man in Darwinian terms as a ‘higher ape’ is to strip man of his high seriousness. To declare man to be a creature made in God’s image, but fallen, is both to stress his high potential as well as his present depravity outside of Christ. Even as Adam defines the old humanity of fallen man, so Jesus Christ, in His perfect and sinless humanity, defines the goal for redeemed man.”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, Genesis: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

“If the origin of things is from within the cosmos, then, possibly, the control of all things can come from something within that cosmos. This faith leads to man playing God, to man attempting to control evolution, to a belief in a world state controlling all things, and to a religious belief in the powers of time and process.”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, Genesis: Commentaries on the Pentateuch