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my pride hit me immediately after
the second time my business had
been destroyed. The effect was dev–
astating.
It
was utterly frustrating.
Nevertheless 1 was determined to
prove both my wife and sister-in–
law wrong.
The dual challenge drove me into
a determined almost night-and-day
research. That intensive study con–
tinued for six months before 1 found
the proved answer. Yet the study has
never ceased to this day.
Both challenges focused on a
common starting point-the book
zation that 1 had
assumed
the real–
ity of God, because from childhood
I had heard, and therefore assumed,
it. For a while my head was swim–
ming. Was all 1 had ever believed
mere myth and error, after all?
Now 1 was determined to k.now the
TRUTH! My mind was being cleaned
out from ideas and beliefs previous–
ly taken for granted.
Of all the writings on evolution,
Dr. P.E. More alone had culled out
many discrepancies in the theory.
Yet he, too, went along with the
doct rine overall.
But now I had, first of
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'\
all, to prove or disprove
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the existence of God.
It
was no casual or superfi-
cial study. 1 continued in
ow in this age of
this research as if my life
depended upon it-as, in
religious confusion could
actual fact, it did, as well
one come to
kDOW
as my marriage. I also
studied books on the other
these seven basic mysteries
side of the question.
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that I did find irrefutable
of Genesis in the Bible and the sub–
ject of origins-although that was
only the beginning.
These challenges carne at a peri–
od in life when I had ample time on
my hands. 1 plunged with intense
concentration into the study.
Researching the Bib le and Oarwin
1did not begin the research in Gen–
esis. First 1 delved thoroughly into
the works of Darwin, Lyell, Haeck–
el, Huxley, Spencer, Vogt, Charo–
berlín and More, and even into the
earlier works of Lamarck and his
theory of "use and disuse," which
preceded Darwin's "survival of tbe
fittest" hypothesis.
Immediately those writings ap–
peared convincing. (They neces–
sarily are, to have won virtual uni–
versal acceptance in the world of
higher education.) 1 readily under–
stood how the field of education
had been gripped in the clutch of
the evolutionary concept.
Evolution is the agnostic's or
atheist's attempted explanation of
the presence of a creation without
the preexistence of an intelligent
Creator.
This initial stage of my research
rudely shook my faith in the exis–
tence of God.
It
brought meto reali-
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PROOF of the existence of
God the Creator- and 1 found
proof positive of the fallacy of the
evolutionary theory. The over–
whelming array of college brain–
washed minds to the contrary not–
withstanding. I had the satisfaction
of winning the admission of one
Ph.D . thorough l y steeped in
evolutionary thought-who had
spent many years in graduate work
at the University of Chicago and at
Columbia-that I had definitely
chopped down the trunk of the evo–
lutionary tree. Like Dr. More,
though, she had been so thoroughly
brainwashed in evolution she had to
continue in what she had acknowl–
edged was PROOF of its falsity.
Also 1 had the enjoyment of
being able to cause my sister-in-law
to "eat those words" branding me
as "ignorant." All of which was
mere vanity on my par t, which I
had not yet eradicated.
1 had proved the reality of THE
GREAT MAJESTIC Goo! But my
wife's challenge was still torment–
ing my mind. Already, in the evolu–
tionary research, 1 had studied
Genesis.
1 knew each of the world's reli–
gions had its own sacred writings.
Once God's reality was proved, I
had expected to continue in the
pursuit of comparative religions to
see if any such sacred writings
proved authoritative. Through
which of these-if any----did Goo
speak to mankind?
Since 1 had to research the Sab–
bath question anyway, and already
I had delved into Genesis, 1 decided
to continue my study in tbe Bible.
A Doctrine at a Time
1 carne across, early, the passage in
Romans 6:23: "The wages of sin is
death." 1 stopped, amazed.
"Wages" is what one is paid for
what one has done. Here 1 was star–
ing at a statement diametrically
opposite to my Sunday school
teaching (prior to age 18).
"Why," 1 exclaimed, "how can
that be? 1 was taught in church
that the wages of sin is EVERLAST–
ING LIFE in an eternally burning
hell."
Another shock carne on reading
the last part of the same verse: "but
the gift of God is eterna! life
through Jesus Christ our Lord."
"But," 1 questioned in disillu–
sionment, " 1 thought 1 already had
eterna! life-1 am, or 1 have-an
immortal soul. Why should 1 need
it as a gift?"
1 researched the word
sou/
by
means of a Bible concordance.
Twice I found the expression, "The
soul that sinneth, it shall d ie"
(Ezek. 18:4 and 18:20) .
Then 1 remembered 1 had read
in Genesis 2 how God said to the
first humans, who were souls, " But
of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt
surely die."
In Genesis 2:7 1 read how God
formed man of the dust of the
ground and breathed into bis nostrils
the breath of life, and man (dust–
matter) "became a living soul." This
stated plainly that a soul is physi–
cal- formed from matter. 1 found
that the English word
soul
is trans–
lated from the Hebrew
nephesh
and
that in Genesis 1 fowl, fish and ani–
mals- all three- were
nephesh,
as
Moses was inspi red to write.
Next, 1 happened to read where
Jesus said, "And no man hath
ascended up to heaven, but he that
carne down from heaven, even the
Son of man" (John 3:13). 1
researched the heaven and hell
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