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The Foundation of All Knowledge
N
o
TWO
people believe alike in all
things. Nobody agrees with
EVERY–
BODY
else. The purpose of
The
Plain Truth
is to inform, to chal–
lenge, to stimulate
THINKING,
checking
and
PROV ING
what you believe.
We always say to new readers, do not be–
lieve what we say-or anyone else says- BE–
CAUSE we say it. But listen without prejudice,
check, verify, PROVE- and then believe what
you find PROVEO true. If you do, we think
you'll come to believe what you read here.
A lady from London, England once wrote me: "1
notice you say the Gospel message is an educational
message. lf this is so, it is not for us and for mil–
lions and millions of other people. This statement is
not biblical. . .. The Bible was not written to in–
for ro man's mind, but to change man's hear t. "
WHAT's THAT? T his statement of mine is not
biblical? The Bible was not written to inform the
MINO?
lt
ÍS
VERY IMPORTANT that OUr readers UNOER–
STANO whether the Bible was written to inform the
MINO! And whether the only TRUE Gospel is an
educational messa:ge. Entirely too many have been
OECEIVEO into the false idea that the ÜOSPEL is an
ir rational, sentimental, ethereal superstition. THAT
IS THE REASON, more than any other, that modero
education, and educated people today, have utterly
REJECTEO the Bible, the true Gospel, and belief in
Goo!
And my statement is NOT BIBLICAL? I will now
show you-if your mind is open-precisely how
COMPLETELY biblical it is!
This lady in London put her finger on the very
CRUX of
al/ this
world's tragedies, its sorrows,
pains and sufferings, its hear taches, its poverty, il–
literacy, filth and squalor, its crime, broken mar–
riages, v.iolence and wars!
The CAUSE of all unhappiness and wretchedness
is WRONG education, and LACK ·of the knowledge
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that can be received
only
from the revelat ion of the
Creator- in His Word.
- .
And WHY?
Simply because the world has thrown away the
BASIC TEXTBOOK of true education-the Holy Bi–
ble! The world has gotten all mixed up. T he world,
like this lady in London, has not realized j ust
WHAT the Bible
!S!
The Bible
/S
the FOUNDATION
of
ALL
KNOWLEOGE- and the true APPROACH to
the acquisition of all discoverable knowledge.
It
is
our Maker 's INSTRUCTION BOOK of needed knowl–
edge acquirable from no other source.
What is the most basic knowledge?
It
is the PURPOSE for the very existence of hu–
man life here upon the earth! lt is to know the
MEANING of life.
It
is to discern the TRUE values
from the false.
1
t is to know THE
w
AY to peace,
happiness, abundant well-being, and eterna! life;
THE
w
AY to what fundamental ists call "salvation."
To know just what
/S
"salvation." Is it a PLACE-a
geographical location; is it a changed
condition?
Is
ita change of
composition--or
WHAT? And HOW
do we obtain it? Is that KNOWLEOGE important?
Does the Bible teach it?
Is it rational? Does it make sense?
Nowhere but in the Bible can one obtain THIS
BASIC NECESSARY KNOWLEOGE! Qf course, there
seems to be an almost endless amount of knowledge
that MAN can learn, discover or acquire by himself.
God gave man eyes that see, ears that hear, hands
that feel. God gave man a MIND that can reason,
feet to carry him about , hands that can design and
make instruments. He can make telescopes and mi–
croscopes. He can build and equip laboratories,
conduct experiments. He can travel and explore.
But he cannot d iscover, by himself, WHAT he
himself
/S,
or WHY he is. Did he just
happen,
without intelligent design, by a purposeless pro–
cess called "evolution"? Or was he CREATEO,
and put here FOR A PURPOSE? And
what
is that
purpose?
Yet that letter from the lady in London says
"the Bible was not written to inform man's mind,"