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MYST
AGES
The
MysteryofMan
We continue, with this fifth installment, the serial
publication of Herbert W. Armstrong's latest book
Mystery of the Ages.
I
T SEEMS
incredible indeed!
Higher education teaches
technical courses in hu–
man physiology, anatomy,
anthropology and psychology.
The universities take man
apart and study him minutely
inch by inch. They study ev–
ery facet and phase of man.
They take the human brain
apart and study it, yet the
human mind remains a near–
total mystery to even the
most advanced psychologists.
They do not know
WHAT
man
is or
WHY
he carne to be!
That is the great Mystery
N umber 3 that has never been
understood by humanity.
Is he merely the highest animal
species, descended by resident
forces, with no intelligent planning
or designing, by the process of evo–
lution? Why does. man have the
thinking and reasoning ability and
possess all the human fund of
knowledge that is impossible for
animals to have? ls he an immortal
soul? Is he human flesh and blood
with an immortal soul within him?
Just what IS a human person, after
all? And WHY?
Why is mankind here on the
earth? Did we simply
happen?
Or
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was there DESIGN and PURPOSE?
We say there is a CAUSE for
every effect. The effect, here, is
man. Man is
here.
HOW- WHY did
he come to be here? Was he
put
here, or did he just
happen
by
blind, senseless, unintelligent pro–
cesses of evolution?
We ought to
want
to know!
This is a mystery that has baf–
fled higher education.
Higher education during the
twentieth century has come, with
virtual unanimity, to accept the evo–
lutionary theory. It no Ionger even
considers the possibility of a de–
signed and planned creation by a
God of supreme mind, perfect intel–
ligence, and limitless power. But the
evolutionary theory cannot in any
degree explain a paradoxical world
of awesome accomplishment that is
at the same time utterly helpless to
salve its problems of mounting and
continually escalating evils. It can
give no purpose for human exis–
tence. Higher education contemptu–
ously ignores, without any consider–
ation whatsoever, the biblical truths
revealing man's presence on the
earth and the causes of the present
state of civilization . Education in the
civilized world today has become en–
tire!y materialistic. Education has
become a combination of the agnos–
ticism of
evolutio~.
the politics and
economics of Karl Marx and the
morals and social patterns of Sig-
mund Freud. Higher education re–
mains in utter ignorance of the mys–
tery of mankind and of human
civilization.
But higber education does not
know. And it doesn't
want
to know!
Wben we invade the questions of
WHAT and WHY, the intellectuals
- the custodians of KNOWLEDGE
- shy away or stand up and fight.
Of the questions WHAT and WHY is
man, they are willingly ignorant!
So, education shuts its mind, and
its mouth in tigbt silence. Science
doesn' t know. Religion does not re–
vea!, for it also doesn't know!
Yes, incredible-but TRUE!
God Enters the Picture
WHY this willful ignorance? Be–
cause Goo is involved. Satan
is
hostile against God. Satan sits on
the throne of this earth and has
blinded t he minds of the intellectu–
als as well as all other levels of
society. Consider, for a moment,
the most highly trained mind with
severa! letters of advanced degrees
following bis name. He is higbly
trained in certain specific areas in
which he has extensive, compli–
cated and intricate knowledge. But
ask him about sorne area of knowl–
edge outside bis specialized field
and he is as much in ignorance as
those wbo are lacking in the more
advanced labyrinths of education.
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