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PartTwo:
A
Voice Críes
Out
Amid Religious
·Confusion
How could the world have become so mixed up? Out ofthis spiritual wilderness, a voice cries out in
clarity and power, with the reassuring truth of the world's only and sure hope!
Editor's note: We are printing here,
serial/y, the new book by Herbert
W.
Armstrong with the same tille as this
article. The book wi/1 appear in
bookstores later this year.
Chapter
2
HOWTHESEVEN
TRUTHSWERE
REVEALED
H
ow
IN THIS
age of religious
confusion could one cometo
know these seven basic
truths that decry this world–
gripping conglomeration of beliefs?
Why are people in Thailand Bud–
dhist, those in the Arab world
lslamic? Primarily, of course, be–
cause they and those around them
grew up being taught, and automati–
cally accepting, those faitbs. To
expect one of them to discover the
TRUTH
(hidden from them and also
contrary to the teachings of child-
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by
Herbert W. Armstrong
hood and maturity which engulfed
them) would seem to be expecting
the impossible.
Wby do most people believe the
things tbey believe? Few, indeed,
ever stop to ask themselves in retro–
spect how they carne to accept the
beliefs that have found lodgment in
their minds.
The Source of TRUTH
You probably have seen pictures of
the statue "The Thinker." A man
sitting alone, leaning forward, elbows
on his knees, his hand supporting his
head. T here, supposedly, he sits in
deep t hought, hour after hour, day
after day- j ust thinking!
Supposedly that statue depicts the
manner in which sorne of the reli–
gions of the world carne into being.
But "the T hinker" had nothing to
think
f rom!
No foundation for his
thinking. No facts on which to base
his conjectures.
T he human mind is not equipped
to manufacture truth with no basis
for that truth!
However, few, it seems, really
think!
Most people accept carelessly
what they are taught from childhood.
And, comi ng into maturity, they
accept that which they have repeat–
edly heard, read, or been taught.
They continue to go along, usually
without question, with their peers.
Most people do not realize it, but
they have carelessly
assumed
what
they believe without quest ion or
proof. Yet they will defend vigorous–
ly and emotionally their convictions.
It has become human nature for
people to flow with the stream-to go
along with the crowd-to believe and
perform like their peers around
them.
Further, most people stubbornly
refuse to believe what they are
unwilling to believe. There's an old
saying, "He who is convinced against
his will is of the same opinion sti ll."
I was no different. Of myself, and
of my own volition, I would never
ha ve d iscove r ed t h ese
G R EA T
TRUTHS.
But then, the prophet Moses never
would have discovered the truths he
wrote- the first five books of the
Bible. It required a miraculous act of
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