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PartThree:
A
Voice Críes
Out
Amid Religious
Confusion
How could the world have become so mixed up? Out of this 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.
Chapter3
WHOANDWHAT
IS GOD?
1
W
AS
RETURNING to my hotel in
New Delhi sorne years ago from a
prívate conference with Mrs.
lndira Gandhi, Prime Minister of
India. Ever since arriving in India I
had noticed cows and oxen wander–
ing through the streets. I had never
seen such an.imals straying loosely
through city streets in any other
country.
"Don't these cattle stray quite a
distance from borne?"
J
asked of the
car driver.
"O yes," he answered.
" But when," 1 asked, "they wan–
der all over the streets so far away,
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how do their owners know where to
find them, to drive them back home
for the night?"
The car driver smiled. "The own–
ers don't. But the cattle and oxen
know their owners and where they
live. They find their own way borne
in the evening."
Immediately I thought of the
scripture in the first chapter of
Isaiah, which 1 had never understood
so perfectly before this living expla–
nation.
" Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O
earth. For the Eterna! hatb spoken, ' 1
bave nourished and brougbt up chil–
dren, and they have rebelled against
me. The ox knoweth his owner, and
the ass his master's crib: but Israel
dotb not know, my people doth not
consider. Ah, sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity, a seed of evil–
doers, children that are corrupters:
they have forsaken the Eternal
... they bave gone away backward"
( Isaiah l :2-4).
And this was spoken of ancient
Israel, a nation to whicb God bad
revealed Himself by many evidences
and miracles. How much less do
other nations know about God–
about WHO and WHAT God is!
Of the peoples of tbe Roman
Empire, God inspired tbe apostle
Paul to write:
"For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness
and wickedness of men who by their
wickedness
suppress the truth.
For
what can be known about God is
plain to them, because God has
shown it to them. Ever since the
creation of tbe world his invisible
nature, namely bis eterna] power and
deity [spiritual], has been clearly
perceived in the things that have
been made [physical]. So they are
without excuse; for although they
knew [about] God, they did not
honor him as God, or give thanks to
him, but they became futile in their
thinking and their senseless minds
were darkened. Claiming to be wise,
they became fools" (Romans 1:18-
22, Revised Standard Version) .
The billions now living on earth
not only are ignorant of the most
important knowledge- WHO, and
WHAT God is- they seem
not to want
(Continued on page 40)
The
PLAIN TRUTH