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Voice Cries Out
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mid ReligiousConfusion:
Part
Ten
WHATANDWHY
THE
CHURCH?
How could rhe world have become so mixed up? Out of this spiritual wilderness. a voice críes oul in
c/arity and power. with the reassuring truth of the worfd's only and sure hope!
Editor's note: We are printing here,
serial/y, the new book by Herbert
W.
Armstrong with the same title as this
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Part Three
U
NTIL NOW,
l
have
not been able to give
a clear, concise ex–
planation of precise–
ly
WHAT
and
WHY
is the
CHURCH.
And
WHY NOT?
People naturally and nor–
mally think only of and about
physical and material things.
People do not realize it, but
they have been
CUT OFF
from
God! The huma n mind, unless
and until it receives the Holy
Spirit of Goo, cannot think
February 1981
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
spirituaUy--cannot know spir–
itual knowledge--cannot un–
derstand human problems,
troubles, evils or purposes of
human existence.
But the CHURCH is Goo's
Church. And the things of Goo
are a mystery-not understand–
able to the natural carnal mind.
So people may have sorne kind
of human idea of what and why
the Church is, but it is not
Goo's concept.
God has communicated toman
in our day through H is printed
Word, the Holy Bible. But the
real central meaning in the Bible
is spiri tuaL And natural minds
without God's Spirít cannot thínk
spírítually or comprehend spí r í–
tual knowledge. To make it stíll
more a MYSTERY, the Bíble is like
a jigsaw puzzle, made up of thou–
sands of parts which, for under–
standing, must be put together
"here a little, there a little, line
upon line, precept upon precept"
( Isaiah 28 :9 -1 0, 13). And it
requires the addition of the Holy
Spirit to the human mind to put
this spiritual "jigsaw puzzle"
properly together . Even then it
requires time, diligence, patience.
1 have not been able to give this
"what and why" of the Church to
the reader a ll at once briefly.
l
want fully to reveal t he MYS–
TERY!
The CHURCH is the Church of
Goo! God is working out a PUR–
POSE here below. Even Goo could
not work it out quickly, all at
once! Even Goo has had to exer–
c ise patience and work out H is
supreme PURPOSE a step at a
time, according to H is pre-laid
MASTER PLAN!
God 's PURPOSE is to reproduce
H imself through humans com–
posed, first , of matter. To change
material humans into Spírít-com–
posed immortal Goo BEI NGS! And
WHAT and WHY is Goo? First ofall
Goo is CREATOR. To CREATE
describes what God ooes.
But what
/S
God? God is the
supreme Divine FAMILY- con–
sisting of more than one Person–
(Continued on page 31 )
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