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Positively NOTHING is more important than the answer to that
question. Did human nature just develop in us by evolution? At
what stage? We are supposed to have evolved from some lower
animal vertebrate--something similar to an anthropoid ape. But
anthropoid apes do not indulge in constant violence against their
own kind, as human nature seems to cause people to do. Some
animals--by natural instinct--feed on certain other species. But
animals do not constantly fight violently against their own kind.
Was the HUMAN race CREATED by an almighty supreme Creator
GOD? Did God design and create us with a "heart that is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9), and
a mind that "is enmity [hostile] against God, and is not subject
to the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Romans 8:7)?
It is recorded in the Bible that God saw all that He had
created and made, and that it was --- WHAT? Very GOOD? Or very
BAD? I have quoted--in this article--a person saying, "Just look
at that sweet, beautiful little baby just born, and full of all
that despicable, evil human nature." But ARE human babies born with
such an evil, hostile nature?
WHAT, after all, is the real basic CAUSE of all these troubles
and woes that beset mankind? I hope you'll look forward eagerly to
reading this article in the next PLAIN TRUTH!
Two things account for all the evils we humans have suffered
all over the world for six thousand years. Human nature, of course,
is one. The forbidden fruit incident recorded in the second and
third chapters of Genesis is the other. The first humans rejected
the rule and government of God the Creator--took to themselves the
determination of the knowledge of what is good and what is evil--
what is right and what is wrong. They cut themselves off from
contact with God and the guidance of God. Their human descendants
have ever since continued to be cut off from their Maker.
God has adopted a "hands-off" policy for a 6,000-year duration.
Humans have organized their own ideas and kinds of governments.
They have devised their own life-styles, cultures, civilizations.
They can't agree on how they want to be governed. Certain ones
have risen to leadership, establishing a form of government, a
kind of religion, a style of culture. The world has had absolute
monarchies, constitutional monarchies, dictatorships, various
democratic forms, republican forms, fascist forms, and communism.
Armies fight wars for one form to prevail over another--and each
has brought its troubles and its evils.
Man's religions have enslaved, deceived, and led people into
this and that superstition. And in a humanity that cut itself off
from contact with its Maker, not one of the major organized religions
has had the TRUTH.
Not one reveals WHY humanity was put here on earth. Not one
explains WHY the human mind can invent astounding mechanisms, learn
to fly to the moon and back, but can't solve his own problems with
his own kind here on earth. Not one knows the REAL PURPOSE for
human life--where humanity is going--or what is THE WAY. Not one