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TKM!deost
An
onion ror Adli Muhtadi's article "Sa–
dat's Window to Peace,"
in
wbicb he said,
"The only tliÍSling ejement for
a
renewal of
the secretuy or state's
cll'oru
io
the
resion
would be luael's realizalion that it
has
committed
a
lllistili by
001
aoceptin& an
intuim agreement with
E&YJ>t.-
Mubtadí mates two grave errors, both or
which an: hc:avily laden wíth pro-Arab po–
litical opiníon- One, be states dogrnalically
that
a ""mistake"" was
made,
uc.t t.bat
it
was
lsrael's mistake. Sccoodly, he makes it ap–
pear there was a peñectly aooeptable
"agreement" be14 out
lO
lsrael
by
Sadat.
Muhtadi's Atab pn:judíccs are blatantiy
obvious - hardty the type material one
would
expeet
to read
in
the
Plain Trvtlt,
which
has,
over
the
years S>OQtinuaUy tried
to fa.íthfuUy present
AU.
sídes of each
pic–
ture.
NOT
from politieal pplntJ of vicw, but
frotn the ••ovcrview" or the
Creator
and
Bible propbeéy.
The
lsrae!J
govemment neaotiated · fa.ce
to
facc
with E¡ypt throup the daily meet–
iDSSI~'!~eAeaJ&.at..aúle.JOI
on the continent of .Africa. The subject:
How to arrange pving Egypt back
Íl$
belp–
lessly surrollllded 3rd anny. Later, Israel
pulled
back
from íts forward defense line
at lhe Suez Canal i1Self,
allowins
a U.N.
pea<»-keepí.na force
10
take up bulfer
pos¡.
tÍOO$.
but
rctainiGS control ovcr thc strate·
pe Gidi and Milla
passes.
Finally, Israel
agreed to gívc up bolh
passes.
and
tbe Abu
Rodeis oiJ 6clds (eaptured f10m Egypt in
SiDAl), and felt ít was quite l.iteraUy "bend·
in& oYU
backw.tdb
to oll'er Sadat an
hoo–
orable compromise
i__a
return for a
nonbeUigereney rtatement from Egypt.
Por Muhcadí (wbose eredentials l.isted in
tbe. article sbowed
1l
Palestinlan
back–
gródndJ to
aisen
that.brael
made
a
lllÍJ.
take--
by
oot ..acceptiog•• aa interim
agreement
il
unerly misleaclin&. totally
false fiOm tbe lsraeli point or view, and
5EX
(Conh'm4d
fr'ompag~
7)
It
is the prerl)gative of Goo ALONE to
dttertnin e whar ís rigbt and wbal is sin
,.. wbat is good and wbat is evil.
God
bu
oot
dei<J&Ied to rnan the rigbt
or
power
to
decide WHAT is sin - but he
compeú
us
lo·dccide
WHETlll!R 10
sin, or
loobey lús law.
To rightly determine wbat is oooo
r~
quired the creative power to produce
and set in rnotion such inexorable
uws
as
Ibis spiritual law and tbe laws of
pbysies and cbemistry - a law wlúch
·AUTOMATICALLY causes GOOÓ
if
obeyed
and
I!VU.S
wheo di.sobeyed!
Acl.am and-Eve bad only Goo's woRO
that they were mona! and eould die.
Now' Satan disputed Ibis. He said they
were lMMOilTALSOULS.
WEEK ENDINO
JUNE
7, 197S
absolutely lllllilte the
P/Din T111th
editorial
policy.
.•. and Far Ea!l
O.
A.,
E.ugene,OR
Mr. Rader's recen! article oo lhe Do–
mino Theory ten one wilh lhe impreS5ion
that
hls
Tbai
rriend
knows
wbat i.s best for
Southeast Nía and
tlw
is U.S. iJolalion·
ism.
Perbaps
so,
but
1
thiuk my Víetnames<:
friendo mi¡¡bt di.sagree,
3$-
migbt buodn:ds
of chousands of n:fllgeos
in
Cambodia and
Vietnam..
#
For my own pan, each time anotber
eou.nuy
falls
10
Commllllism.
1
see
pan
or
my owo 6-eodom witberil1&
•-Y·
How
many more miluo111 ot pq:>ple must be
Olurdered before somcone answers pJeas
for belp wilh
a
real.istic fono of aid?
William Patrick Oootey,
Atulapotis,MD
A
Paaamaalaa
Orthld
Thank you for printing tbe u:ucb aboul
the
Panama
glveaway
(P/ain Trwth,
ApriJ
S,
L97S). 1
speot four years in lhe Zone
(1962-66),
indudin,; the riots
of
January,
1964,
and
was
elote
eoougb to wbat ....,,
on·10 ·ast. myself oome .utoiliihing.gues:
tiobs.
One expeCI$, of course, lo 6nd rampant
oationali.sm.
ln
a countty li.ke Paoama ....
What a.tonisbed almost
aU
of
us
in tbe
Zone, bowenr, was
to
find tbe
most
ramp–
ant Panamanian oationalism
«ltfHtl
au.d
amplified
in tbc
mass
media of the
U.S.A. ....
Wheo you tbln.k
it
over,
it
does scem
queer
that
for
a
radical mcasure like sur–
rendering the
Canal,
a
major sttatesie and
eeonomie
loss
ror the nation- tbc Scate
Dc–
panment can't lhink up any bener justifi·
eation
than
tha~
maybe it would make
Panama love us. or keep P.anama from
injuri,ng
us.
.
.
Fint, no(\uoy or all or the eoneessions
we'Ve m.ade
10
Panama in lhe
past
have
bought
us
P111ama's love. or cve:n Pan..
ama's tolerance. Second, what on eanh can
WHOW should they
believe?
They
lwl
no PllOOF, except God's word.
But
now
Satan discredJied thal, and claimed júst
lb
e
opposice.
Salan said tbeir intelleclual powers
were
so
great they eould determine for
tbemselves wbat is GOOD and what ís
eviJ. Tbat ·is
a
Goo-prerogative. uYou
can
be Goo!" said Satan.
This Siuan was appealing to their
human
VANJTY.
Remember, tbey bad
just been created,
witb
peñec1
human.
minds,
not Ood minds - but peñect
human
minds. They allowed che tlioughl
lo enter their minds thal tbey possessed
incelleetual powers so GllEAT tbal they
eould assume the God-prerogative of
PllODUCING
1111!
IO<OWUDGe of wbat
is
oooo and what is evtL!
lntellectual vanity seized them! They
were
thrilled,
enthralled; inloxieated
Panama
do
to
jus~
sucb. a
sacriftee?
Wbat
can
Panama pve
us,
or deoy
u.s,
t1w
should persuade •• to give Panama
so
much aslhe time of day? Does any Ameri–
can
teel it
:SO
i.mponaní to
coovioce
the
world we're lhe Oood Guys, tbat we
sbould make saaifices lilte
th.i.s
io
the bope
or
achíeving it?
lf oo,let
him
look atlsrael and her-treat–
ment by the Uoiced Natioos. That's what
bappens when you make sacriftces for
world opinion.
Mloi-Orchids
Alfred B. Masoa, M
D .,
LoagBeacil,
CA
Let me say that lhe
P/Din
Trwrlt news
mapzine
is
one of tbe finest publíshed
io
t.hls
COUD.tty.
lt
mates the "standard" oews
mar;azines look líke childn:o's
primen.
Your litera.te intettec:tual level
iJ
on a
par
wilh the Britísh publication,
Tlt• Econo–
mLJt.
Harold
J.
McBn:en,
New
Sbrewsbury, NJ
Never
in m'/ lito
have l
read a
newspa..
~er
or magwne from oover
to
cover as 1
reacl
Plain T111th.
1 eaD.ool imapne wbo
eould bave
SÍ"""
my name and address to
you butl
than.l:
lhat
person-
Cbeers to
Plollt
Tnrtlt/11
Miss Zia
Meyer,
Salt River, Cape
RSA
Frankly,
1
bad my doubts that my
leUOT
would
sce
tbe Ugbt or day
in
your paper
(week
e~
Apnl
IS, 197S).
Thc trulh
11
bard to CO!De by lhese days.
1
am
beginning to believe that you are
ctying hard
to
telJ
it
~
it
is -
continue
scndiog the
P/aln Trvth
to
us.
'saulOoodman,
BroDJ<.NY
1
ju.st 6.nisbed readin& Pan
U!
of the
lnen:dible H uman
Poteotial
by
Het~n
Atmstron&
and
1 just bave to say -
AMAZ–
n<O! 1 think
it ís wonderful that Hetbert
Armstrong can write such
a.n
inspiring bib--
1ical article twice a montbwhilc he is doing
sucb
a
great job going befotc the nalions of
thís world wilh tbe Oospel
For sllenglh lilte
tha~
Gnd
lt111
to be
dil'<lding it!
Mrs.
Jobo
L.
Bass,
Marietta, OA
with vanily at the grand pr0$pect.
How,
afler
a
U,
could they
be
sure
God
bad told chem the troch?
Tbe Flrst SdendJic
~
They
ldW
(verse
6) -
they used obser–
vation - tbat tbe forbidden tree was
good
for food, pleasant to tbeir eyes, and
deslred lo
mDk~
1hem
wise.
lnteUectual
vanity
was
stirrcd.
In
the ec:stasy of
Ibis
vanity they used
human
mJSOIL
They
~C:
cided
to
'rejrxl rew!laJirm
imparted by
Ood i.nd to b)alce the very first
SCIEN–
TIPtC
I!XI'EIUM.J!NT
1
They
took
the forbiddeo Cruit and ate
it!
Tbey
rook
lo
themulve.r
tbe
pr~
rogative of deciding wbat is GOOO aod
wbat is BVJL. rn so doing, tbcy
rejecf~d
tbe God-cencered WAY of Ood's
spiri-
ne
B•dlwald
eoauo-.,.
At1
Buchwald's parodies
an:
pul!
Margaree
Kellner,
,
Elbcrfcld,
IN
Sorry,
no
mon: donations as
long
as
Art
Buchwald writeS for your magazine.
Herbert Edwards,
Bingbamton, NY
1
think
it
is
wroo& to
have
Art
Buchwald
in the pages of
Ploln Trurlt.
ls
it rigbt to
spend Ood's mooey on a non·Chriscian
writer,: whose pu.rpote
is
to aggra.ndizc
b.ímsel(,
i.e.t
hís
"bumor''?l usume.
rcc
is
paid
10
bim
or
bis
syodieate, ror
the
privi–
le&e of poUuting lhe paga ofuuth with
bis
soothsaying.
politieally (wotlclly) oriented
oommcnts.
Would not thc Work be beuer scrved by
baving·a
colwno wrilteo by
a
.Onv~rted,
praying. Holy Spirit
iospired
autbor
m
bis
p~
and
spaee7
An:
we coming ou\ of lhe
world
by
propasatío,; che worcb or
this
overwcight,
cigar-chompins,
c•rnat..
m.índed bull'oon whosc quality o(hum.or
is
opeo to debate, to (say) theleast?
Hcnry
PtODA,
Ma.ssapequa, NY
•
W~
on
the
Plaín
Tnnh
Jtaff don't ai–
WCI)'I Dfr«
with ...ryrhlng
ÚUil
Art Buclt–
wa/d
wrires
-
and
,....,..
cmaJn ht
woukbt~
DMiyll>g~H
wltlt ou, dtlt.rc (In
«t:uDiily,
~
.prfnt a l'f4r•fNXtfon <>/ltis prollfic put–
put.)
Hawe..
r,
whln
an
llltut•
totlrlll llke
BuchwDid
urou
In on
tltefolblt~
ofhuman
norure, bDth lni/Mdwlly ondon
do•
nallonai
/tw/,
IW
fto/
OUT
ITflden
Jhou/d
~~-
tM
oppartuniry
rD -
what
loe
luu
ro ..
y.
Al
Brllain'•
P'rút«
Charle~
l<lid just tlt•
ollttr
da
y~
"A
most
impt>rttml thing
ú
10
ntaln
)'<IUr "''" of humor. 1f)'<IU lose lhDI, and
)'OUT abi/it)'
lO
/augh DI )'<IUrÚ/j;
')'<IU~.
fk–
f•attd..
On
1M
paint of
"Citrinian
wri1tr.,"
w'rt
not
cmain
ofMr. /Juchwald'1
niiK~oou
per–
.n;as/on.
and
ff'Qifkly
ore not ewn
lnt~rested
In jinding ouL
Hownu. in thls 1/ght, ir
is
lnlnYiff1tg
~o
,.,,.
that
tire
apa~tle
PGU4
"
'HT)I
1/tetrJte
m4lll,
'{IIDted
t/oe
"nDn·Citdstiann
paot
and
- ·
Ef>imenldn.
In
a
pa#Oz<
whlclt •wm–
tually
btco~
part of
scriprur•
(~<•
Titus
1:12).
tual
law,
and,
rejecting
il.
of oecessity
1hey
cbose IM
way
that
transgresses
it!
They
PJONESilllD
in deciding for them·
selves wbal
i.s
rlght
and wbat
i.s
wrong
-
wbat is rigbleousoess and wbat
i.s
sin!
And .bumanity has been doing wbat
seern$
right in its own eyes ever since.
An~
HOW did they do it7 They
(l)
re–
jected revelation, (2) used observation,
(3)
used experimentation, and
(4)
used
human rea.son. And
tirar
is preQsdy the
"scientific" metbod used by modem
sc:ience toda
y!
And the resull of that experimenl?
THEY oreo! Tbey ·produced che firsl
cbild delinquent, the firsl
crim.inaJ
and
murderer!
The most VITAL dimension of lcnowl–
edge
was
MISSJNO from their "scientific' '
proeedure! O
(I'o
&
Continued
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