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PERSONAL FROM
Understanding
theWayto
Peace
me give you a little
UNDERSTANDING
of war and
PEACE.
Why can't the heads of government in the
nations of the world realize that ONLY
Goo
has
the ANSWERS? That the BIBLE is the most
up-to-the-minute source of knowledge and
UNDERSTANDING in today's wor ld for the
solution of all problems?
The Plain Truth
is a world NEWS magazine,
keeping you abreast of the KEY world happenings
leading
US
directly into the PEACEFUL and HAPPY
WORLD TOMORROW- but, too, it is MUCH MORE! lt
is a magazine of UNDERSTANDING-understanding
not only
of key happenings in world news, but
UNDERSTANDING of life itself, of the PURPOSE and
real meaning of life--of the CAUSES of problems and
troubles, whether personal and individual, national or
world problems- and of their SOLUTIONS, and of
HOW, and WHEN, and by WHAT MEANS all tbese
giant problems
are going to be
solved!
More, and most important of all,
The Plain Truth
brings you UNDERSTANDING of the very Word of God,
the SOURCE of TRUTH- and of the PROPHECIES of
events soon to occur, in the next two, five or 10 years!
WHY do nations go to WAR? WHY does God
allow
wars, violence, human suffering? Many reason
if God is LOVE, be surely would not
want
all this
suffering! And if he is aii-POWERFUL, he could
prevent it. So WHY doesn' t he?
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Certainly God could stop it- and in fact, soon
will!
But why not millennia ago?
For a supremely important reason! A PURPOSE is
being worked out here below. Man was put here on
earth for the development of right CHARACTER. That
PURPOSE requires free moral agency in man. It is
necessary that man be given both the prerogative
and the ability to
make his own decision!
Otherwise
he would be an automaton-no character.
There is A
w
AY that wíll produce peace-a
way
to happiness, abundant well-being-and with it, God
will
give
eterna) li fe!
What is that
way?
The Eterna! Creator set in
motion not only the laws of physics and
chemistry- laws like gravity and inertia- but also a
spiritual
law that is THE
w
AY to aH these wanted
blessings. lt 's a simple matter of CAUSE and EFFECT!
That law is
the way
of LOVE. And !ove is outgoing
concern. lt is giving, helping, serving, sharing-but
human nature
pulls
humanity in the exact opposite
direction-into being SELF-centered, selfish, greedy,
the way of vanity-the way of getting, taking,
accumulating--of competition, strife, envy, jealousy,
resentment, hatred.
God's great spiritual LAW is simply, the CAUSE of
peace, happiness, abundant well-being. The violation
of that law, by yielding to the pulls of human nature
is simply, the ABSENCE of peace, happiness and
abundant well-being.
God laid before man the knowledge of bis
law-his WAY! He compels manto CHOOSE! Would
man
want
God to FORCE him to go God's way,
contrary
to the desires of human nature? Never! He
would cry out, "God is unfair!" Man
wants
the right
of free choice.
So to fulfill bis PURPOSE, the Creator marked out a
duration of 7,000 years. The first six of tbose millennial
"days" were set aside for man to CHOOSE whether to
OBEY God's law-that is, voluntarily come under
Goo's GOVERNMENT--or work out bis own ideas of
HUMAN government. Man chose to reject God, bis
government and bis law. He elected to follow the
desires of bis carnal self-centered nature.
Yielding to HUMAN NATURE is the CAUSE of war.
Obedience to God's law of peace is the CAUSE of
peace. o