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Orchlds aflll Onion.: What's lt a/1 aboutt
/11
two
words. il's
c(u\$fi'UCtive com1nent.
Constntctlvt not only ro
Plam Truth
sraf¡.'
but ul.so to
ou,.
six .milflon
rtadtn.
In this
column.
wt
wi/1
pub/bll
r~Mtkr
f«dbod..
tltt
pros antl c-on.s
-
tire orthub and tite
OniOIU
liS
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41
lttlpfu/
Dr l!lltf'tllllll
co~ntary
on
nlatN
usuu
You, wr
IWldtr:t.
4n lfi'VIi«<
ID tltro•
)'Otlr
orchuh and
onit>ns our
"'42)'
(tltat's
'14-ht,-. the buck stops).
Tltt
fnlriat
rtaction has bttn
o~tr
whelm1"'81Y spontan"'us aJrd
construciiVt!,
though
Plain Truth
formal chang• htu
~IIOktd
th'e
most
lmmtdwte commtnt
-
tht
l'a.tl
majorlty
favorabl~.
Thtrt
Wtrt
somt few
-
ont or two CD.Jts
-
whtrt
lltt
lt)'~!Wntltating
rttlikr obvlously au
' '"
DltltJn
ltim.Hlf
and
Mllt
ws
an tnYtloptt
ji/1«1
""h
bod
t-aúL
Tllu• h•..•
~
Y"'
dlSCI'fn«< tite
differt'ltU INtttwn
ax·gnnd·
'"1 and
COitSTAICti'Y
aiti~llm
But 1'"'
1Jtmt llmt
letters
Thc:
amele
in
Plain Tf'lltlt
ror thc
wed:
endona Feb 8th was
so
lnl<r<$1on& tul
1
wt.Sh
lt
had
been
lon.ger. h was ractual.
¡en-.
Wbat
11n ama:ting
marvclous
revclation
or
knowledge.
No more
ama~ing.
awesome,
eye~openiog
pwage eould be wrinen,
has so astonishingly revealing onedocsn't
fully srasp
11
JUSI rea<ling <¡uockJy tlltou¡h
FIISt
1
quoced from verse
29
of Romans
8
staiUIJ
Chnsr
wu
lbe lintbom of
NA>IY
aamtUN
In Hebnws
2
~>"e
S«
lbat Chrut. 1he fit>t
human
10
be boro by a resurrOCIIOn from che
dcad, has been gloritied and now sustaons
lhc
cnure un.ivcrsc.
He
i.s:
out p•onecr who
has
go11e on
ahcad. Al bis
recuro to earth in
powcr and glory chose who have been con·
verted and received God's
boly
spirit shaU
be bom in
lO
che Ood family by
a
resurrec·
tion. Then
thc
tntlre un/ver-u
will
be
put
in
lO
subjection
Ut-~OElt.
them!
Tben, from RomtiU
8.
ifwe
havo and are
led by the holy spirit of Ood. we sh•ll be
raaStd
to
spint composition aod 'mmonahty
•• the God fanuly
oven
as ChNt
was
111
1\
D.
31 upon
bu
ruurrection.
Now once again from verse
19,
"For the
creallon wait:s wllh eag.er longin¡ for the
reveahng of the sons of Ood"
{RSV),
Tbl$
bappe•u
el
che time of the resurrecdon,
when tbosc wbo are human actua.Uy become
- by
a rcsurrection or instantanC'Ous
tltnngt
from mona! ftesb
10
spirit immotUlol)' -
IIODJofOod.
Now
undenc.nd please.
Why
should lbe
whole uni\'erse - the aeation -
be
wautng
..,,tb
"1" longrng
for lhe act\laJ
b1rth and
appeann& of
all !bese ..,..
of Ood. 10 be
boro
IDIO
lbe family of
0ocr.
Tbe foll...ing
venc.s
portray
a univenc 6JJed
with
planeu
on decay and fuúlity - yet as or subjeeced
now
to th.is dead state
in
bope! "
1
Bc<:ause 1he
crcat10n itself {thc
universe not now capable
or sustoining life) will be set free from
its
WllEK ENDTNG MARCH 8, 1975
ernlly unbiased ond conccmed
n
mosc inlrigu·
ing subject - ptopbccy. For chose
re~gious
persons who accepl only sorne pans of
thc Bible and some of
the beliefs
or
Chns–
ti3nity. propheey
u
probably one of tbc
areas
of
interqt and cons1deration.
Your bavin¡ 10 categorize c:erta1n ideas
intO
broad:er
catc:¡orics had an
unfortunate
ell'ect oo keeo perception of the subject.
Organiud rehgiom. for eumple, must de·
mand
that
a person·s
think•n&
or ... ideas
... be mostly wichin prescribed boundaries
or
it
is
oomp1etclyotuside.
Jeane
Dixon,
wbom
you
mentioned
in
your article. th.ou¡h n practiCing Catholic,
would probably be classified
as
occult be·
cause •he
Ita$
coo many beliefs and prac·
tite$
whi~;h
Cbnsti;uucy c.annoc aec:epL
And
withLD.
the cate¡ory ..
oa:uh"
are a
nu.inbe:r
or
1deas wb1ch
are thougtu of
as
(belongingl 10gc:ther only
b«ause
each
does not belong anyploce e
be•. ..
Jeny
R.
Anderson.
Minneapolis, MN
1
was
just
ceadmg
the new
Plain Truth
(quite a oomedown
from the
magazine
you
used to publish) and your article, "Tite
lncredible
Human Potential,"
leads
me
to
two ques:tions:
..
(1) Doesn't Oeoc>i• 3:6 say tbat Eve -
not Adam. as you st:ue commiucd tbe
lint sin
by
catm& lbe fruu and lhen
givtng
it
to
Adam
to
eat?
(2}
You spoke
Gl
r~ngth
ahout bow you'd
bondage to decay and obtain che glorious
liberty or the children
or
Ood."
1/ow
did
aU
!he planetl fllll into !he bondage of
decay? Surely Ood did no
e
so creace them!
What could have caused allthl$ "bondage
to decay..
?
Was this thc sc.te oa whic:b Ood created
tbem?
Everything
we read in
God~s
reve:aled
Word about God's
c~atíon
\hows
it
to
have
been a peñect
etuuon.
Tbe
eanh
was 6.rst
created a peñect creauon orglorious beauty.
Faces rcgarcling that will appear
m
pan four.
We
.sbaU
see lilat angels inhabued the eanb
prior
to
the ereation
or
mao.
Angets.
wbo
were pcrrect from the
creation
unlil iniquity
or lllwlessncss was
(ound
In
them,
caused thc
wbole sutface
of lhe earth lO
tu
m into a
s1ate
o(
decay,
confus1on
and emptiness. as we
shall 5ee. Could the whole univcrse b.ave
beeo c:reated capable or susc.ining life?
(1
do
not know
now
whether phys•c:al or spirit
hfe.)
We
are
oot
101d
spec•lically
by
revelation
in God's Word wbelher
11
was or
no~
but
what we are cold iodu::accs
1l.
at1d
this
throws
additiooaJ li¡ht oo why Ood dccided to ae·
ateman!
Continue
this passage in
Romans
1:22:
'Wc: know.that the whote
creation (universe]
has been groaning
an
lravail
togerh.et untH
now." Coo.sider that the
crcation
is
c:om·
pared
tO
a mother
about
lO
be
dellvered
of
her dilld. The aeauon
i.s
ptctured as g;roan·
ing in uavat11n bope (vei$C
20}
awaiting tbe
blrth of lbc oluldren or Ood.
1t
is
as
if
lbe
Q'eation
is
tbe
motber and God
is
the father.
1\nyway the whole thrust of the passage is
that when we
(coovt:ned
humans)
are
bom
of Ood - thcn baving the power and glory
of Ood - we are going 10 do as God did
when this eanh had been laid
'"watte
and
empcy"- Hebrew
tohu ondbohu
{Gen.
1:2)
tell us what the "true Gospcl'. messagc
or
Chrisl
wa.s.
but you
n~vC!r
once told us. ln
racc,
what that
it.
You talked
m
Jt.
around
it,
obout
it - told
us
how Satan deceoved
the
world.
ett..
etc..
but
ne<tt
ona:
lUI
exacd)
what tllat Gospel of Cbrist's was (is).
N"" tn one simple pangnph
(2S
words
or les.) would
you
speU out
orad/y
wbat
you
feel the Oospel
is,
without beaung
around
the bush
an
column aller oolumn as
you did in che anicle?
George Hoog3$ian,
Memphis,TN
•
C1rtainly
Ew
wa.t
1h~
fost nrortnl
rhat
sinntd.
Salan and
one third
(wlto
knows how
many mllllom thatos) of
th~
Gllg<ls
~old
th•
dullnctlon •fb<ting rrb<tlliows ond sJnful
,,..
•icuslo
E~
Adam. ofcou.ru.
•w~l.
But
wlrt. pla«
IH'
sltow.
all
·~
loxrs.
/l.~tord·
ln8
quuuon
two:
Rnn~r
tltot Mr. Arm·
.slrong:t ar1itle i1
onlytht
fir.st
installment
of
a compltte
strl~s.
PatlC!nce pltast. Thls In
stollm•ntls l011d«f. But ifyou'rrlookmgfor
a qulck clut,
1
suggest you recd Jon
11//l's
column "Why Not?" on
page
7. Ed,
In the latest
PT
anicle entiúed. "llow
Liberaced Can You Oet?" l
f~lt
somethmg
more oeeded co be said reganhng
~ber•·
lion
or
women The article:
i051nuatcs that
a
woma.n
must
be
married
bcfon~.
shc can
be
fulfilled or hberated. lf some would n1ther
gec theit fulfillmeot from
a
eareer- JUSIIS
a
mao hu thc opportuniry
10
do - does
this make hcr less of a woman?
Can•t
she
still fulflll the basic characteristics men·
tjoned IR
Proverbs
31
as
well as
qualitie.s
or
a
good Christian wichout being matried?
There seems to be too much prcssure. in
every
peer group
and
socicty in
sencral
10
g~t
mar,td.
Does
this
pressure have any–
llun&
10
do wilil the fis;ng divotce rate?
/\re
people beift& "forced" in
lO
mamage
111
order to get a beuer
JOb,
=do~
etc.? TblS
applles to men
as
,..u.
Could it be possoble
- ChnJt
who
tenewed
"che face
or thc
eanh" (Psalm 104:30)
was
renewing whac
had been destroyed by the rebellion
of
the
sinningangcls.
Whatthese wonderful passages imply and
indicacc
&<>es
far beyond the amount specifi·
cally revealed.
To
VUP
lile wbole of lbe musa&• of the
lun&dom ofGod requires many cupten hke
this one.
h
u
the all-encompas.stn&subJ<Ct.
Tb1s pasuge 1ndicates preasely wbat all
astronomers
and .scienrific
cvidenc:e mdlcates
- the suns are as balls offire, giving outlight
and heac; but the planets, except for chis
carth.
are
in a statc of
death,
d~cuy
and
f'utility -
but
not forever -
walllng
until
converted
humans are
80RN
lhe
childrcn
or
God:
boro
inco
lbc
very divine
family of
Ood. rorming theltingdom ofOod.
Jesus' goopel
was
the 'kingdom of Ood,
Wbat 1am showing you here
IS
that Cbrut's
ppel
or the kingdom actually •ncludes all
this knowledge bere revealed - cven che
whole unoverse tS
10
be nlled by
us.
who,
wuh God tbe Falilcr and
Cbris~
become che
k.u~gdom
orGod.
Ood
is
!irse
of
all
Creacor, but Ood is olso
ruler, And
he
is educatot.
who reveals
knowlcdge beyond and Ou!Slde the sc:ope of
bumlln
nacure.
Pul
aU
these scriptures cogechcr
1
hove
wed in this onstallment, and you begin to
¡ralp the incredible human potcntlll. Our
potenual
is
10
be boro into the
Ood
ramoly.
rec:etvtn¡ t.oeaJ
power!
We
are
to
be
aawn
JUnsdrcbon over
the
entire univcru.
What are we going 10 do then? These
scriptures indicate we shall impan life to
biU1ons and bi!Uoos of dead
plan~u,
as life
has been imported co this eanb, We shall
create, as
Ood directS and
instructs.
We
shall
rule through all etemiry! Revelat.ion
21
and
thac
everyone
is
not neceS$aríly made to
livc in the marria&c
state"'
Was the apostle Paul Out of bne when he
said,
"1
say therefore co the unmarried and
widows,
h
is
good ror them ¡r liley abide
even
as
1" (1
Cor.
7:8}? Notict:
YCBC
38:
"So
lben he cut giveth her •• marriage
doeth well; but be that goveth her not in
marriage
doeth bener:·
Must
w~
categorw: people
who
are not
married as
lacking in
homlones.
drive.
scx
appeal. etc.? Are
wc
that Hmited
in our
scope? Wc
are
nol he
re
co judge each other
but rnther to be
a
tigbt and example
to
tht
world.
ean·c a single person fulfilllillS role?
Why don't we lec each person decide on.
thetr
owo
whether or not
they
w1U
marry
and
~:
... -oid
cmbanusm&
Atu.auons.
jokes.
and
iosinuations
ooncem&nJ
not being
m.arried?
Reader.
Missiuippi
. ..
Plain
Tflllh
is facing up to faets of
che
tim~.
and Ll's not the paper it's
printed
on that holds any meanina. but whal is
printed thercio..
Mrs. Lyle H. Hopkins.
Mason City,
1/\
1
have just read "Orehods
&
Onions"
which l cnjoyed. You dese rve an orchid.
for instead of pvin& up your maga>joe,
you c:lw>ged the formal - mucb
1~
ex·
pensive.
but
more oncn.
reaching more
people. Buvo! Don't gove up lile ship!
Lots of Orchids!
lloward L. Spencer,
Canandaigua. NY
... 1
especially like che
~ew
format of
the PT. Sinee l'm oot
onc
who cnjoys long.
wordy articles, these
shor~
hard·bicting to
the poinrooes
are
vtry
Ultere:sun¡.
It
seems
e-..sier
lO
get
it
rcad sinc:e
1 have a very
M\on
auention
sp.an.
Mr. and Mn Ray Sunons,
F""o, NO
22
show
there woll then be no pain, no suf·
ferlng, no
evil.
becausc wc
shalt
bave
leamed to ehoosé God's way or good. lt will
be
an eterna! life of accomplishment,
OOD·
51anrly looking fotwnrd on super·joyous
anticipation
lO
new progress and
ac–
eomplisliment. and sull looking
back
also
on accompltShments wtlb uppmess and
JOY
over
what sball bave bcen already accom–
plished.
We sball never
grow
ured and weary.
A(.
ways alive -· fuU of JOy<>US energy, vitality,
c:xuben.nc
lifc and
&tren¡th
and
power!
Whac
a potential!
But
why!
Why7 Hu Qod purposed all of
chis?
Thete is
still
much to reveal. With
this
instaUment,
addcd
to the
previous ones,
we
bave only started uplatmng the true gospet
Why was it opposed? What u tbe cause of
aU
human
wre1cbcdness
and
sutrerin&?
What
is
the
ongm
o(
ev111nY"'ay?
Wbat
ls
tbe ongm and source
or
human
narure;
:tnd
how
$ball
humans
be
nddod
or
ot?
Why
was man ma<fe
monal.
or material
substanoe from the ground?
Why
docs man,
who
i.s
composed
ofmauer
che
.same as anj–
mals.. who dies thc samc
death
as animals.
have
a
mind
thousonds
o(
times greater in
mentaJ
outpuc lhan
:lnimals whose
brains
are vinually equal to human brain, both
quantitalively and qualitauvely? What
malees tbe dilferenc:e?
Wlly
Ls
thc human
mind, while ablc lO invent
che
eompu~r.
fty
10
the
moon
and
back,
helpless
in the rac:c or
its own problems
and
relauons wilh otbcrs
be"' on
eanh?
I'U explain aU these things
Science has no answers:
religion
has failed
to teU us;
education
1s
in IGNORA.NCE on
these questions. Beginning with
pan
rv,
we
shaH
proeec:d
to
the
ucirin¡
answers.
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