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The·
Family–
God's
Plan for Mankind
S
OMETHING
caused the
Creator God to decide
to create
MAN
on this
planet.
Few indeed know what it was
and what the PURPOSE for
humanity's presence really is .
WHERE are we going, and what
is tbe way ?
These are the most vital ques–
tions. Yet, 1 repeat still again,
science cannot give the answers.
No religion has the explanation. No
university teaches this most impor–
tant of all knowledge.
God ls Ruler and Educator
Most people know almost nothing
about God. To understand our–
selves,
WHY
we are, where we are
going and how, we need to know
more about our Creator.
Our present life is like going on a
journey. Suppose you had just won
a prize- an all-expense-paid trip to
sorne other country. Wouldn't you
want to know where you are going,
how to get there and as many
things as possible about this trip?
Should we not, then, be even more
filled with eager anticipation to
know as much as possible about
this one great trip of life? And to
know that, you need to know sorne
things about the God who is send–
ing you and providing the way.
It
is vital at this point, then, .to
know this, as revealed in the Bible:
The Eterna! God not only is Cre–
ator of all that is, but is the RULER
over all he creates and also the
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by
Herbert W. Armstrong
EDUCATOR, the revealer of basic
knowledge. He reveals through the
Bible vital knowledge otherwise
inaccessible to man . Yet man–
kind-generally- has rejected tbis
revelation as a source of basic
knowledge.
The Bible is far , far from the
sum-total of knowledge.
It
is the
BASIS, the FOUNDATJON, the start–
ing point and the foundational
approach to the acquisition of dis–
coverable knowledge!
God, through his instruction
book, reveals what man cannot
otherwise learn! FULL TRUTH
comes from the biblical revelation,
PLUS acquired and discoverable
knowledge approached through the
CONCEPT revealed in the Bible.
Today educators, scientists, psy–
chologists, doctors and those who set
the moral standards, rely on the evo–
lutionary concept as their assumed
and erroneous basic premise and
approach to knowledge. They do not
know, for example, how, why or
when the family originated.
But the Bible reveals this knowl–
edge otherwise unacquirable!
So once again, let us go to that
SOURCE of knowledge!
God Ordained Marrlage
J esus Christ said: "Have you not
read that He who made them at the
beginning 'made them male and
female,' and said, ' For this reason
a man s ha ll leave his father
and mother and be joined to his
wife .. . '? .. .
Therefore what God
has joined together, Jet not man
separate"
(Matt. 19:4-6, R e-
vised Authorized Version through–
out).
Marriage is a pbysical union but
a divine institution. Almighty God
ordained it!
It
did not evolve!
It
is
not of MAN's devising.
Notice, in the scripture quoted
above, Jesus said to the Pharisees,
" Have you not read ... ?" He
quoted an already written passage
of Scripture. He said the Pharisees
should have read it! Where is that
scripture found? It is found in the
second chapter of Genesis. It is part
of the brief SUMMARY record of the
ETERNAL's original instruction to
the newly created Adam and Eve.
The creation of Eve had just been
described, and God then said:
"Therefore a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to
bis wife ... " (Gen. 2:24).
So the Almighty revealed the
sacred MARRIAGE institution to the
first man and woman.
· Why
Marriage?
Now stop and think for a moment.
Why did Qod ordain the human
relationship of MARRIAGE?
Animals reproduce. But animals
do not marry! Animals are born
with instinct. They need little or no
teaching. As soon as a calf is born,
it will begin to stagger to its feet,
while the cow just stands waiting.
Sbe does not need to teach her calf
how to walk, how to take its food,
how to do anything. A little wobbly
and unsteady the first minutes, the
calf is soon up and walking.
But with humans all this is dif–
ferent. The newborn human does
The
PLAIN TRUTH