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The IICREDIBLE HUMAN POTEITIAL
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The Missing Dimension in Knowledge
Part 111
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D
OES
rr make sen.se to you -
wh~n
hu·
,
monlly has bcen eodowed wi(h sucb
tremendous mental powtr -
that
more thao
RAI.J'
Of
all
people on earth should be illiter–
ate. Uvi.ns in abjea poverty,
near $l&rvation..
in fihh and sqU11or; that io one country of26
million peopl<- only
3..,
con reod and write
and percapita income is only
$69
pcr year'?
Ooes
it
malee scnse to you that human
~iviliz.ation
has dcvc:loped modc.rn science.
higher educatioo, the world's reli¡ioos and
its
great
g,o,·emments. yet all these are tn
total i¡noranc:e of the
way
to
world peaoe?
None of these can tcll us
what man is,
whethtr he was put on eartb for a purpose.
what that
PURPOSE IS,
where
h~
is going
or
lww
1<>
g<tthen_
Does
it make sense
to
you - Wlth the
human endowed with such grc:at powers -
lhat the world should be filled with so much
unhapplness. troubles and evils?
Did (iod Almighty the Creotor purpose
and ord&ln all of tbLS?
We may blame
it
all on human nacure. but
did Ood
create man
with
lhis
cvil to harass
him?
h's
time
to clur
up
this mystcry. lt's
time
wc
undcrsta.nd.
h's lime wc come 10
the
~wer
o(
these
supposedly
un&nS\\oerable
queslions
that
seem
to
baffle
aU human
thought.
Mao Has
Rt~tod
Tbb
lú>owltdge
What
is
che
most necessary of
all
knowl.
edge
10
know?
lt
Í$
the knowledge
or
what man is; the
knowledge of why he is - !he
PUkP0$6
for
whkh
humanlty
was put
on
carlh; the
l<nowledge of the way to ac!tieve that pur–
pose - or the way to world pcace. peace
betwecn individua.ls., groups
and
n:nions; che
knowledge of the eause of all the world"s
troubles and evils: the knowledge of the so–
lutioo to all tbese problems: tbe knowledge
of t._e true valuc:s - whal
is
important a.nd
what is
unimportant.
Thut
is
!he
rnilSing
dimension
in
lcnowledge.
Look at lhc situation as
it
is now'- our
prcscnl. pulsatio¡ twtnticth ccotury. Sup–
posedly this
is
tbe day of enlightcnment aod
mass production of knowledge. 8oth mod–
em
science and
higher
education have re·
jcctcd thc
sole
sourcc
of this
basic
knowlcdg.e - rcvclahon - and no rcligioo
has slven us
Ibis
most-needed knowledge,
tbough
1t
is
alJ
cootained in the book geoer–
ally supposed to be the
source
of belicf of at
least thrce ofthe world's great religions.
Look at the
situation
as it
w.s
more than
1900
years ago. Jesus Christ carne from
heav<n with a messoge from God containing
thi.s
knowledge, But even most of tho<e who
beJieve
on hlm
disbelieve thc ntcssage he
brought and demanded bis erucifixion for
de<Oiarin¡
i~
His
apostles went rorth pro–
datmtn¡
t.he
mea.a¡e; tbey
lOO,
Wlth
ooe
possible exocption,
wcrc
martyrcd. Berore
the cnd or the first eentury, Christ's gospcl
messag•
was suppressed a nd a sputious "gos–
pcl" proclaime<L
Go now
alJ
tbe way bad< to the be¡inning
of bumanity
!'•
lhe earth. Our very
6.rst
parents rejected
thls
same revealed
knowl·
·edge imparted to
them by their
Maker in
penan. They disbelieved
what hr Jald
They
disobeyed by stealtng the forbiddeo fruiL
Tbey
t041c
to
themU!Iva
tbe lnowledge of
what
tl
¡ood
a.nd whal is
evil.
AU huma.nity
has followed their
examplc
ever since.
The Eterna! Ood nevertheless has made
6
by
Herbert W . Armstrong
Does
it
make sense to you why the human mind is so capsble it can
produce the íncredíble computer and the accomplishment o f sending
man to the moon and back, ye t is utterly helpless in fact to solve our
problems here on earth ?
thos vital revealed knowledge and truth
available to any
wiUing
to
BELISVE
whal ht.
says
-
in his inspired book, the Book or
boob - the lloly Bible. This book has oc–
tually become the world's
best
seller. But
this precious book has bcen interpreted and
mislnterpreted, distorted, lwisted,
mis·
represented, misunderstood.
and
mali&ned
.ts
no othcr
book
ever
has.
Humans have wriuen
uncounted
millions
o(
book.s- People
IELIEVll
what
lb
ese
boob
uy, though they may be partly, mostly, or
total!y in error and devoid of trutiL
l>eople take
thue
boob literally to mean
whalthey
.ay,
Yet of the Boble they
wiU
say.
"You surely don't tak.e the Bible
literal/y,
do
you?' ' Tbey will not believe
thlt
book means
what it says.
ll
is llle very Word or the living
God, but they refuse
10
bclieve what God
"'Y'·
And thus dl!belie'-ing humanity oonunues
stumb1ing
on
1ts
way~
pslin¡
up the moun·
tains or
human woes.,
d1sc::onren1,
unhappi·
ncss.
SorTow.
pain. suffcri.ng. and death.
Yet the Eterna! God of truth aod merey
makcs available evcn
today -
jn
this
eod·
lime
or
lhe preKnt evil wortd - this Yllll
m&$$ing knowledge to thosc wi.Uing
lO
be–
licve
what
~~~
sa)•J
and
ro
o«
y
Ir.
Porty-eight years ago ON
PROOP, 1
came to
8ELlEVE
and
OlfY,
And in hLS Word
the
loving God has
opened
my
m1nd
to tbe awesomc burn•n
po1ential -
10
tbe
miss-inx dlmension In
know/~dge,'
t()
the
CAUSES
of
&U humanity"s
evils
and
to
Lhe
WAY
to
world peace and how
01
ftnaUy is
gt>ing to cono<
And the same God
o(
aU
aeatíon
lJ
now opcnin&beforc me the
doors
to
unusual favor an lhe eyes of hcad$
or
state
aH
over
che world as an
ambassador
wlthout human portfolio for world peace
and a builder or bridges ror peace between
nation.s..
Tht
Vast
U
ni-verse-
aod Man
lo this book of
alJ
books, God revoal.!
himself
lS
Creator of
all,
not merely the
ea.rtb and man.
but
the
tJttln bmitless unl·
""'"'· On
a
clear, cloudless night ope moy
behold tbe star-studded sky. Tbe Maker of
manl<ind
is
also the Creator of
aiL
ls it pos–
siblc
there
i.s
an
unreaUzed
connection
~e.
tween the galaxics
with
Lheir
migbty
aunJ,
their pboeu and man?
la
this>UUt JlOty Of
the
mlssing dun<nsion
In knt>wledgt
and of
the
lnrrtdible humon
pot<ntlal,
1
deem it well to look firs t lo !he
Creator's ove"'ll purpose. Prepare yourself
for exciting new knowled¡e - tbe iru:redoble
awesome
potenual
for -.·hteh
hu.maJuty
wu
created aod put here on eanh.
Winston Churchill said before the United
States Congress thatlhere
is
a purpose being
worked
out
btre
betow.
Few
indecd
know
what that
purpose
is; yet it
is
plainly re–
vealed
And it's
1he
most
e·xcicing. most wonder·
rut.
hopc.inapiring
trulh
thtU oould be
I'Q•
vealed.
Cod- Crutorollht
Unh·ene
Did you
ever·wonder
abouc
tbe coÚntlcss
millions ofshinin¡stars
you
have seen on an
otberwise black, cloudless night? Sometimes
they appear like
o
stupendous skyroelcet
whicb has just burst out into
a
sJíttering
cluster. Ma.ny
of them are tremendous suns
incn:dibly larget than out
sun.
Probably
mon
ot
them are surrounded by planets, like
our sun
is
surrounded
by
Earth, Mars. Jupi·
ter,
Satum, and the other
plancts
or
our
solar systt.m.
Haven't you wooderod about tbem?
Al~
aoy of them inhabited? Did tbey evotve, as
most
scicnlists-
a.stronomers. biolo¡ists,
ge–
olo¡jsiS - theorize? Were
they ereated
by
an
all-intelligent, all-powerful Creator B<:ing?
Wcrc
tbey
c:reated and set
in
space
roa.
,.
ru•rosl?
Do
any
or the planets contain aoy
lúnd or life, or ore allloke our mooo - dead.
decayed, lifeless, wasted, empty, uo–
inhabilllble?
Aod
if
lhey are in a dead state
or
decay
attd lifclcss.
wHY
would att in–
tcUi¡ent
Creator
b.ave
created the.m
thut?
Or–
did be?
Thesc are indeed incriguing questions.
Sci·
entists
are
extremely lnterestc!d
in
knowing
m.ore about the$e uncountable ¡igantic
bod·
ies
outlhcre
in
space. Scienoe: docs
no1
tnow
much about the on¡in o{
aD
tbese mighty
bodies
in
spacc.
Tbere
are many
cheories
-
many guesses - mony hypotbeses -
as
to
bow they were fonncd -
but
not
based
on
natural ract
Socnce t<ntJ;ally re¡eeu
UV~LAnoJ>f
as a
basic source of knowledge. Altbough as–
tronomers
for hundreds of
years
have been
cuñou.s
obout the stiU'S in tbe
sky. many
devotin& their lifetimes
to
this study through
const&Jitly improved telescopcs. yet tbey
t.new
no1hing about
the
purpose -
or
whether there
is
a purpose.
ln Pasadena, CaJj(omia, a
shon
disumoe
from Ambassador College
is
the world–
famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory (known
as JPL), opcrated by Cahfomia lrutitute of
Technology, devoted primarily to U.S. r,ov–
emmcnt
and spaoe
prOJCCts..
There they
de·
sjgn
and
produce
unman.ned
spaceeran
to
be
seot into outerspace
10
photograph and seod
back pictures of olher planets
!JI
our solar
system. RecenOy (Oecember
1974)
one come
comparatovely elose
(26,000
miles) to Jupi–
ter.
ll
sent back photographs that rcvealed
additional koowledfe about this IMgest of
• our planets. Tbey dtd not give any proof of
exislln&
lo
fe or of condotions capable of
SU$-
tainong hfe,
_
More receolly (February
9, 197S)
mrono·
mers
atthe
Univershy
or
Añzona
clalmed
to
have discovered
through
a
telesc:ope
tvi·
de.nc:e
o(
wattr
oo Jupiter. Tbis 1 consider
highly doubúul.
Of
COUI'$e.
thc:
planet
Mars has lttracted
the widest attent.ion.
1 aven't
you
wondered
ir
Mars
i.s
inhabit.cd -
what
ldnd of life
might exist
there7
1~h•s
very
question
has
suppbed
tbe
t11eox
for
tcien<»fiaion
movies
and
a
telc:vislon
5eries viewed
by
miUJons.
On July 4,
1976 -
the 200th anniversary of
the
United
States as a natjon - something is
pla..n.t\ed co
hap~n
on Mars.
An unmanned
spacec:raft named tbe "Vikins." on appeor–
ance something like
a
huge, UD&Olnly tinl<er–
toy, is due
10
laod on Mars and send baek to
earth photog.raphs
rrom
the very
surface
of
M
a,..
But
doa
human life or some other form -
either
much
superior to rnan.
or much infc·
rlor - cJtist on Mars or any other planet?
Scieoce does not have tbe answer. But lhe
mony photosraphs sent back to
Earth
from
spaoecnft Oyu>g muc!t
noartr
Mars, Venus.
Jupiler and Satum than out planet Eanh at
least INDJCATil a 1otal absencc or life on
any
or
tbese planets
or
condidon.s
capable
of
sustaining üfe.
All
iftdic:ations are
lhal
()nly
our
planet
eanh ts a life·supporting planet. Others ap–
pear
10
be like our moon
dead, decayed,
wasted and eonpty.
0\lr
earth is part of the
solar system which is
pan
of
a
single galuy
ealled the Milky Way. Tbere
are
maoy otber
plaxies
on beyond our Malky Way. Tbey
cxtend
in
spacc d•sr.ances so
va.s1
thc: human
mind cannol
conccive
or them
in temlS of
miles,
meten.
or
any
mea~urc
or
distante
excep< light years-
So cven tbough scienoe
kno'OI$
compara–
tively little
about the limitles.s
urUverse.,
reve·
lation tclls us
somethin¡
amazing beyond
words
about
thtm.
Tbe
first
verse
in the
revealed
Word
or
God,
says:
"In the beginnons
God
created
the
beave:n
and
earth...
Tbe
word ..
beavc:n"
in lhe A.
V.
should be traMlated "heav–
ens.t sinoe lhe original Hebrew is in the
plural.
Th.<>
anoiem •King-.Da~
of lsroel won·
dered about lhe
stars
and was
inspired
to
tell
us
(iod c:reated
them.
Crcated- Bul
Wby?
David was in.spired
to
wrile. "Oh Lord
our
Lord.
bow e.<eellent
is
tby name in all the
eanh! wbo bast set thy glory above the heav–
ens•• ,. When
l
consider tby heavcos_ the
work of thy fingers, the moon and the
scars, whicb
thou hast
ordnined:
what
is
mao, lhat thou an mindful of him?" (Psalm
8: 1, l-4.)
1t
may be that King Dovod was not goven
the revelation of the real connectioo
be·
tween man
and
lhe sta.rs or
outer
space,
ror
he conr.inues:
..-For lhou
hast made
him
a
httle
lower
than lhe
ao&eb.
a.nd haJI
crowned him witb sJory
an4
honour. Thou
madest him
10
have
dominion over lhe
works of thy hands; lhou hast pul all Oainp
under bis rett: all sheep nnd
oxen,
yea, and
the beasts of tbe 6eld: tbe fowl of the air.
and tbe
fish
of the
sea-
aod whatsoever
pu–
seth through the paths of the seas. O Lord
our
Lord.
how
exceJient
is
chy
name in all
the earth!" (Psalm
8:5-9.)
David
herc
limits man'¡
dominion
to
the
preseot - tbat wbich God pve mankind
on
lhe creation of man - the solid eanh. the
eanh's
atmospbere.
and
tht
watei"S aod se.a
(as in Gen.
1:26-28).
Th:u is tbc
dominion
man
has
now.
In the
New
Tesr.ament.
wrluen mucb
laccr.
far
more
is rcvealed.
In the book of Hebrews we read: "Por
unto lhc angels hath he )God) not put an
subjection the world
10
come, whereor we
spcak" (Heb. 2:5). The theme of the context
here
is ..
tbe world 10
come.··
Tbere
is
bul one
cuth.
but
lhe
Btble
tpeaks
of three
world.s..
ages.
or civiliuuons
on
the carth -
1be '"world
1h11t
then
ws.s,.
(thé antediluvla n world from Adam 10
Noah); Ibis ""present evil world"" (from the
Flood
u.ntíJ Christ•s rctum.
ye1
future); a.nd
"the ""rld
10
come• (whac!t
StartS
when
Christ comes and scts up the kingdom of
(iod).
(Continued on
pngt
14. coL
J)
WEEK ENDINO MARCH 8,
197S