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Part Four:
A
Voice Cries
Out
Amid Religious
Confusion
How could the world have become so mixed up? Out of this spiritual wilderness, a voice críes 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 will appear in
bookstores later this year.
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Part Tvvo:
WHOANDWHAT
IS GOD?
HE CHARACTER OF both
od the Father and Christ
e Son is that of spiritual
liness, righteousness and
absolute perfection.
That character might be summed
up in the one word LOVE, defined as
an out-flowing loving concern.
It
is the way of giving, serving, help–
ing, sharing, not the "GET"
way.
lt is the way devoid of coveting,
lust and greed, vanity and selfish–
ness, competition, strife, violence and
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by
Herbert W. Armstrong
destruction, envy and jealousy, re–
sentment and bitterness.
God's inberent nature is the way of
PEACE, Of JUSTICE, MERCY, HAPPI–
NESS and JOY radiating outward
toward those He has created!
WHAT and HOW Does God Create?
Since God is Creator, to
know
Him
we need to understand WHAT and
HOW He creates- what is His overall
PURPOSE.
God's major PURPOSE is the creation
of His very own perfect CHARACTER
within His own created living beings.
But did you know that there
Js
something that even Goo-with all
H is mighty and supreme power
can–
no! do--of
Himself by
fiat?
God has created many things. The
ancient King David mused, "When I
consider thy heavens, the work of thy
fingers, the moon and the stars which
thou hast ordained"-great, vast in
size and distance-works of God's
creation, David then asked, "What is
man, that thou art mindful of him?"
(Psalm 8:3-4.)
Yes, a hundred thousand people,
assembled in the Pasadena Rose
Bowl on New Year's Day, seen from
1,000 or 2,000 feet above, look like
tiny insignificant ants-or even
smaller insects. WHY should God be
mindful of insignificant MAN? In the
second chapter of Hebrews this same
psalm is quoted, and there God's
Word proceeds to reveal that in MAN
God purposes to complete the very
highest pinnacle of the perfection of
His creation! Yet God cannot do this
alone-all by Himself! We were
created to have our part in this
supreme act of creation.
God's own perfect and righteous
spirituaJ CHARACTER in MAN is the
supreme goal of God- His ultimate
PURPOSE! But MAN must have
a part
in this supreme feat of creation!
This creation of character within
created beings requires the existence
of MIND within those beings-the
capability of thought processes, rea–
soning, decision making. Of allliving
things and beings God has created,
only two, angels and humans, have
that mind-power.
lt
is, therefore,
only in angels and humans that God's
perfect spiritual and righteous char–
acter may be formed.
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