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eluded science, religion, education
aod govemments - answers to the
seemingly unanswerable?
What
I
knew was something un–
discovered by science, something
outside the field of technology, over–
Iooked by religion, untaught by
education.
Yes, it would seem one should
retort with that age-old cliché, "Just
who do you think you aré" They
should ask, "Do you set yourself
above science, religion, education?"
And
I
answer, "No. indeed!"
I
have just been willing to BELIEVE the
SOURCE of knowledge and truth. lt
was all there for any and everyone
lO
know,
IF
THEY WOULD ONLY HAVE
BELlEVED!
Well how did it come about?
Back in 1926 1 was challenged! 1
was challenged on the theory of
evolutioo and on a biblical question.
1
wasn't religious.
1
knew virtually
nothing of the Bible.
1
had no inter–
est in it.
I
did have an interest in
Darwin - even back into Lamarck's
theory of use and disuse.
I
delved
into those theories anew.
I
re–
searched Darwin's
Origin ofSpecies,
Huxley, Haeckel, Spencer, Vogt ,
Chamberlin. They, of course, in–
stilled within me no biblical faith.
But
1
wanted to research both sides.
1
believed in the slogan, "Get ALL
the facts - tben decide."
In that world's best seller, the
book which, it seemed, as Bruce
Barton said, "nobody knows,"
1
found astonishing facts. There
1
found the ANSWERS. lt required no
extraordinary intellect. lt needed
only willingness to BELIEVE wbat is
true. There
1
found, available to all,
what science has never discovered,
religion has overlooked, education
has never taught.
1
noticed the incident of the "for–
bidden fruit. " It portrays the ever–
living Creator instructing the man
PLAIN TRUTH October-November 1974
and the woman he had just created
in what they needed to know.
It
por–
trayed him revealing basic knowl–
edge - knowledge undiscoverable
and unobtainable, except by revela··
tion from the SOURCE. But tbe first
humans
didn't believe!
After all,
they had only their Maker's
word
for it! The serpent suggested their
Maker was not a reliable source of
knowledge.
"You shall not surely die," he
lied, contradicting the Creator's pos–
itive statement. When Eve
observed
that the forbidden fruit was good
for food, pleasant to the sense of
sight, and intellectually challenging,
intellectual curiosity seized her, and
she decided to make the first "scien–
tific" experirnent.
The scientific
method
is observa–
tion, experimentation, and reason,
but rejection of revelation. She dis–
believed, disobeyed, seized the for–
bidden fruit , and induced her
husband to join the experiment.
They took to themselves production
of the knowledge of what is good
and what is evil.
Result of that experiment: They
died! And their posterity have been
disbelieving, disobeying, relying on
themselves for the production of
knowledge,
and dying,
ever since!
1
noticed how J esus ca me ,
purportedly with a message of fac–
tual truth from God. But though
sorne "believed on him," they didn't
believe what he said!
I
read in the
book of John: "As he spake these
words , many believed on him. Then
said Jesus to those Jews which be–
Jjeved on him, if ye continue in my
word [bis revealed knowledge], then
are ye my disciples indeed; and ye
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free" (John 8:30-31 ).
Tbey answered him contro–
versially.
Jesus said, "Ye seek to kili me,
because my word hath no place in
you .... and because
1
tell you the
truth, ye believe me not" (John
8:37, 45).
Actually, biblical revelation
shows that the God whose teaching
was disbelieved by Adam and Eve
was the very same personage who
later became Jesus Christ. And the
message Jesus brought was the iden–
tical teaching he had imparted to
the first humans. And after three
and a balfyears ofChrist's teach ing,
there were only 120 disciples (Acts
1: 15).
These grew aod even multiplied
for a while. But then the great per–
secution set in (Acts 8:
1).
And soon
ensued the " lost century" in the his–
tory of the church. When the curtain
lifts, about a century later, we be–
hold a church called "Christian,"
teaching doctrines which are mos tly
the very antithesis of Christ's teach–
ing- and his gospel , the Kingdom
ofGod, no longer being proclaimed .
l oto this world have sprouted up
many religions. But the "missing di–
mension" in knowledge has ap–
peared in none. That original and
basic essential knowledge is still
MISSING.
Science has not discovered it. Re–
ligions have overlooked it. Educa–
tion has not taught it.
And what is that missing basic
knowledge?
1t
is the knowledge of WHAT man
is, WHY man is. WHERE man is go–
ing, and WHAT '
ÍS
the WAY.
lt
is
knowledge of the CAUSE of all
human ills and evils.
1t
is knowledge
of the
w
AY that would CAUSE world
peace - that would produce univer–
sal prosperity, happiness, abundan!
well-being. l t did not take any ex–
traordinary intellect to discover it in
the biblical revelalion.
lt
required
only a willingness to BELIEVE.
1
decided, back in 1926, that
1
should give biblical revelation as
much credence as the Darwinian
theory and the writings of his pro–
moters Haeckel and Huxley.
1
found
in the Bible the facts that explained
WHY man is as he is - with intellect
so great he can tly to the moon and
back, yet utterly unable to solve his
own problems or to live at peace
with himself and his neighbors here
on earth.
I
found revealed the
CAUSES of all our troubles. And
I
found the WAY that will cause all
GOOD.
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