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HUMANITY
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was made in the
form
and shape of
God. For example, notice the
human hand. God has hands (
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Chronicles 6:4). What animal with
hooves, paws, claws, could make a
fine handmade watch? Even if they
had man's mind no animal could
make what man can. How could
any animal make a computer? And
2) man has mind, while animal has
only brain with instinct.
Yet animal brain, in form and
shape and even quality, is almost
precisely like human brain. But the
character and quantity of output is
vastly different. Animal brain is
equipped with instinct. Human
brain with MINO power.
Ever see a calf born? In two or
more minutes it is on its feet and
walking. l t knows where to go for
its dinner.
lt
knows how to suck
milk. The stupid cow stands dull–
eyed, waiting for the calf to suck its
dinner.
Compare that to the birth of a
human. The human baby is utterly
helpless at birth.
lt
will need about
a year to be able to walk-and it
will have to
/earn!
l t will need a
human mother to care for it, do
everything for it, teach it little by
little. But the human baby has
MINO power. At birth its mind is
unfilled with knowledge or with
instinct. The human must be guid–
ed by MINO, rather than instinct.
But KNOWLEOGE must be fed or
acquired by the mind.
Man's Need vs. the Animals'
Man was made to NEEO knowledge
in two areas, as contrasted from
animal needs.
Animals were created with brain
equipped with instinct. Man was
not. Man was made with MINO,
almost totally devoid of instinct.
Man's
mind.
containing KNOWL–
EOGE, must think and direct what–
ever he does.
At our borne in Tucson, Arizona,
we have a few animals. We have
three dogs, two ferrets and a dwarf
kid. My wife has a pair of horses.
When we take a ferret out of its
cage, it automatically will seek
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sorne tiny enclosure it can crawl
into. On ground it will seek to
climb into and up my trouser leg,
or any small enclosure into which it
can squeeze its tiny head . That 's its
instinct. If a car or someone on foot
approaches outside, the dogs begin
to bark. They don't know WHY!
They do not think and reason and
consider, "Shall
1
bark?" l t's auto–
matic instinct. The young kid will
butt our small dachshund , "Sir
Hans Armstrong," if she is dis–
pleased with him. H ans looks
bewildered. He can't understand
this. He doesn't have that same
instinct. Neither does Gretchen
understand why Hans barks.
But MAN was made to need
KNOWLEOGE for relationships in
two directions:
1) to work with matter and
things;
2) for close relationship with
God , and also with fellowman .
Man was by creation equipped
with materialistic MINO to work
with matter and things. In that area
man has achieved wonders. But his
relationship with God, and with
other humans, is a SPIRITUAL rela–
tion~hip.
This , man has never
understood! Adam did not under–
stand it! The most highly educated
today do not understand it.
Man was made with one spirit
within him from birth (in essence
form), which empowers his brain
with materialistic intellect. But he
needed another Spirit-that of his
Maker- the Holy Spirit. Without
it his mind is only half complete.
As .an infant baby is helpless by
itself, and needs parental care, so
even the human adult is helpless
before his fellows and his God by
himself-and he needs spiritual
guidance, knowledge and help from
his God. Without this, man is as
helpless before his problems and
troubles as a newborn infant in its
mother's arms! But man has never
realized this. He has felt smugly
self-confident-self-reliant. He has
chosen to "go it alone" without
God. And he has gotten himself
into a world of trouble!
But now, first, consider the dif–
ferences between human and ani–
mal brain.
How does human MINO differ
from animal brain? Man's physical
brain is not superior, except in
slight degree. But (Job 32:8) there
is a spirit in man and no such spirit
in animals. Man is not spirit. He is
matter from the ground. The spirit
essence in man enters with his first
breath. This spirit is not the man–
it is something
in
the man .
If
he
swallowed a very small marble, the
marble would be
in
him, but not
the man or part of him. The spi ri t
cannot see or hear or think. T he
physical brain sees through the eye,
hears through the ear. Knowledge
therefore can enter human brain
only through the five senses. Man
can know naturally ONLY physical
or materialistic knowledge.
But man was created to need
another Spirit-the Spirit of Goo!
T his was free ly offered to Adam if
he would choose the tree of LIFE.
The Holy Spirit from God would
have given man contact with
God-would have opened his mind
to comprehension of spiritual as
well as physical and materialistic
knowledge. Without the Spirit of
God added to his human spirit,
man was
limited
to materialistic
knowledge-his mind was
only
half therer
He can know only what
is seen, fe lt , heard, smelled or
tasted.
Again, WHAT
IF
Adam had tak–
en of the tree of LIFE? Adam was
made from the ground-with a
physiochemical temporary exis–
tence. He did not have LIFE. Like a
wound-up clock running clown, he
was in process of dying with ea:ch
breath he took. At any time he was
only one breath away from death–
cessation of existence. This is true
of YOU, even as it was of Adam.
It was the Creator Goo who
offered him freely the gift of LIFE.
But HOW does God impart that gift
of life to man?
By
Hls Splrit
God would not have bestowed life
on Adam in a manner different
than he offers it to those he calls
today-for God is the SAME, yester–
day, today and for ever (Hebrews
13:8).
God gives LIFE through the Holy
Spirit. But when one receives the
Holy Spirit he is only begotten-
The
PLAIN TRUTH