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THE MISSIÑG.DIMENSIDN
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In the previous installment
we
sawhow the
most vital dimension in knowledge - revelation
-
was
missing from the first " scientific
experiment. " In taking to themselves the
forbidden fruit, the first humans took to
themselves the detennination ofwhat is good
andwhat is evil. And they foolishly rejected the
inexorable spirituallawof (,Yod.
PartiD ·
by
lierbert W.
Atmstrong
T
HERE
is mucb vital,
bask
and impor–
tan! knowledge BEYOND
THE
POW·
ERS OP lotAN TO OISCOVER! Sucb
importan! lcnowledge as what inan
!S,
WHY man is - WHY he was pul on earth
and for wluu IURPOSE. And if there is
PURPOSI!, WHAT is that PUII.POSE? ADd
HOW may we attain it? Wbat
is
THE
WAY
TO
PEAa?
All
nation.s seek añd strive
for PEACE- yet none find it. ln.stead,
they haye wu! What are tbe
nue
VALUES in Iife? Th.ís world pursues the
-~usr
,
11;
,
Those are the most basic and impor–
tan! things man necds to KNOW.
Y
ct be
may
searcb
for the
answcrs
in
vain.
He
can
IO<ÓW tbém ONLY tbrough revela·
tion.
Suc:b qucstion.s as uow did the
.urth
oome to be, WHIIN did it oome into
being, how old is it, how old is human
lifc upon it, and how did life originare
absorb the lime, thoughl, reseárch and
thinking of scienlists,
philosophe~,
bis–
toriam; yet tbey
can
oome up only with
OU'ESSES, THEORJES,
lfYPOTHESES
r
but
NO PROOF - the dcfinite I[NOWUOOE
wbic:b they oould know oNt.y througb
revelation.
In tak:ing lo tbemselvés tbe forbidden
fruit, !he ñrst buman.s
rook ro rhemselves
the determinalion of wbat is
GODo
and
what is
EVll..
1
repeat - in so doing, tbey
rejected the FACT that God's living. in–
exorable spiritual law is
THE
WAY OP
0000 ..:
the
CAUSE
of aU oooo - a.nd ilS
tran.sgression
THE
WAY OF EVIL - the
CAUSS of aU evil. Since they and human–
ity in general aner them have laken to
themselves
the detemunation of what is
oooo, tbey of necessity bave foUowed
TRI!
WAY contraty
10
God's law. They
bave foUowed
THE
WAY that
has
pro–
duced aU the vast mountain of EVIU
that bas desoended on tbis
sid(.
stcx
world!
Tbey made tbemselves compelitors of
the living Ood. That is why it is wriuen
in Romans 8:7: "Tite camal mind is en–
mity [hostile) against Ood: for it is not
subject to
DJE
LA
w Qf God, neitber in–
deed
can
be."
What
lS
tbe
Mlsslng Dimeasioa?
So
what, tben,
is
the NISSING DllotSN·
SION in SEX knowledge - in ALL knowl–
cdge?
6
Ir
ls
revelaJion from Almighty GODI
For even tbough rejeaed by the 1\¡st
bumans- even though rejeaed by man–
kind in general - Ood did bequeath
10
maokind bis REVELATION OF BASIC
KNOWLEDGE. We bave it IN WRmNOI
The Holy Biblc
is
that revclalioo. l t con·
t.ains
bistoty, jnstruction, revelalion of
basic knowledgc, and prophecy.
lt
does not contain ALL knowledgc. It
contains that basic. foundational knowl–
edge
otherwise
inacctssib/e
toman!
Wtu\t,
\b~.
Js
W.ROlJO
. 'l(it.l¡Jcno)N~·
edge production today? Tbe inost vital
dimension
is
MISSINO!
1
bave said that
error generaUy comes from
amuning
a
false premis<:.¿ talten carelessly for
granted without proof, and building on
that premise. ADd whcn tbe
bask
by–
potbesis or premise is false, tbe cnlire
structure built upon ittopples with it!
1
have said that the tools of modero
seico~ ~e
ob.servation, experimentqtion,
and rtason.
Are those tools wrong? NoT
AT ALL! The error oomes from
1Ul1EC–
TION of revela!ion. For revela!ion is tbe
true starting premise. Wben
m.an
sub–
stitutes bis
own
false bypotbcsis, tbc
most vital dimension in tbe knowledge
productioo
ÍS
MISSINO
J
Ood's Word - bis tt<STRUCTtON MAN·
UAL for mankind -
i$
the FOUNDA
TI
ON
ofAU knowledge.
lt
is NOT the sum to–
tal of knowledge.
lt
is tbe foundation -
the true premise - !he
starting
point -
the ooncept tbat directs the approacb
10
the acquisition of further knowledge.
Man S hould Produce
Knowledge
God n<TENDED for mao to PRODUCE
ADomONAl. KNOWU!DGE. He gave
w
tbe basis - tbe foundalioo - thc
premise - tbe concept. But be also pro–
vide<! us with eyes witb whicb
10
ob–
serve, with baods aod feet to explore
and measurc, with means
10
produce
laboratorios, test tubcs, aod means of
EXPERIMENTATION. He gave US awCSÓmc
MINOS witb whicb lO THINK.
In
tbis Worlt of Ood,
1
onen lly from
one place to another via jet plane. lf tbe
pilolS in the ooc:kpit would
swt
the
plane off in !he wrong direá.ion, we
would reacb the
wrong
destination. It is
vitaUy importan!
10
start off in the rigbt
directioo, from the true premise, wi tb
tbe right approach, in
this
m.attcr o f
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION.
God
in
tended man to use observation,
experimentation, .and human reason. He
supplied us with thc basis - the founda–
tion -
rhe srarr
in
the right direction,
witb the rigbt ooneept. But our first
par–
col$ rejected the most vital dimensioo in
al!
knowledge. ADd mankind
has
contin·
ued to reject the vety FO\Il'IOATION of
aU
knowledgc. Knowledge produaion has
bcen operating without
a
foundatjon -
based oo false premises aod erroneous
hypotheses.·
That is
TlfE
R.I!ASON human knowl–
edge produelion has FA<t.ED to solvc hu·
manity's problems and to éure the'
world's
iJis.
Manufaauren of mecbartical or ele<>
trical appliances senil along an
insrruc–
tion manual
with their product. Tbe
Bible
is
our Malcer's tNSTRtJérioN r.tAN·
UAL which he has sen! a long with !he
product ofbis malcing - humanity.
Six thousand years of human misery.
unhappiness and evils ougbt to provide
suflicient PttOOP for those willing
10
see,
that humanity, starting witb our fi.nt
parents, rejected the most vital dimen·
sion. From this p<?int on io
this
series,
'1'~ ~h.all
CP,v¡;r,,t\Je
a~-.i,m!lP+1aP,~S.'!J>j~
of sex and mlirriage with the
mosr vital
dímtnsion
restored.
lt
will prove a real
EYE-OPENEil for those who are
wílllng
to
see!
How
Sbame
ED!efed
Now we oome - in greater but neees–
saty detail - lo the real
souru
of
this
at–
ti tude of shame tbat ftowed oo the lide
of the Babylortian MyStery religion into
the Roman world.
As
stated in Pan
l.
it
bad reacbed Oreece from Egypt. Yet it
s temmed from
a
mueb earlier source -
actuaUy from the forbidden fru.it in–
ciden! in the Garden of
Eden.
Tbere we
find ilS real authorl
The incident. in the Oardeo of Eden
set the course of human histoty from
that moment.
lt
determined the dire<>
tion followed by bumanity from tbe be–
ginning unlil now.
lt
is necessary that we
understand more thorougbly - e-.;en at
cost of parlial repelilion - just11ow the
attitude of shame IOwatd
sex
was
in·
jected ioiO the human tradilion.
Ood had told tbe first man, Adam,
that he, as .a man, was wbolly physical.
Here was the oewly created man. Orasp
the significance if you can! Suddenly, '
full -grown adult MAN received oon–
sciousness.
He looked around. Everywbere be
saw BEAUTY! Tbere were coloñul flow–
ers, stately trees, green lawns, entrancing
sbrubs, shimmering
pools,
tbe audible
laugbter of a rippling stream. He was
surrouoded by breathtalciog magoiB·
cence.
Then the man IQOked
at lllmsd[
He
must bave wondered:
"WHA
T
AW
L?~
Once,
1
remember,
1
fainteci Tben,
when con.sciousoess again eame
sud·
dtnly,
the question was gasped, in–
volu(\tarily: "Where
am
/?"
But Adam
must bave wondered, not only
whur,
but
WHAT!
And God told h.im. "You are DUST."
Afier tlie man had sinned, Ood said:
" ... out of it (tbe ground) wast thou
taken : for ouST
THOU
ART, and unto
dust shalt THOU retum" (Gen.
3: 19).
God did
1101
say
~dUSI
your BODY
is."
He said the
OOIISCIOUS
MAN was dust -
composed of mauer. The revelatioo o f
God is plain:
~ood
formed MAN of the
dust of tbe ground" (Oenesis 2:7). Th•s
man, oomposed of physical matter from
the ground,
becamt
a
soul (same verse).
This scripture does not say Ood put an
immortal soul
inro
a
mateñal body.
h
says .Ood breathed into bis nostrils -
into the w.v<'S lunp. God breathed this
breath -
this
air -
into the man's nos–
trils, just
as
aU men breathe air in aod
out of tbeir nostrils - just as dull!b ani-
mals do!
•
This man, composed of matter out of
the grouod,
beet~mt
a
breathing. living
soul. Tbe soul, then, carne out of the
ground. Tbe
soul
is
composed of
maitu,
not spirit. The wo rd "sour• is translated
from the Hebrew
ntphnlt.
lt
m.eans "life
of animals."
But what has
al!
this lo do with the
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God had personal/y been
with Adam and Eve.
Nothing in God's instruc–
tion regarding sex had
caused them to
experi–
ence shame. In the
privacy of this one mar–
ried couple there was no
shame regarding sex, .
Satan ullered the tlrst recorded líe in
tbe bistoty of manlcind. He told mother
Eve sbe would
not
surcly die - or, in
other
words,
that she
was
an "immortal
soul." But Ood says souls tbat sin
SHALL DIE
(E~ek.
18:4
and
E~ek.
18:20).
Ood said
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Adam and
Eve tbat if tbey took of tbe forbiddeo
fruit, "Thou shalt surely die."
History's
F1m
Reconled Ue
Nolice bow SATAN
KIM§U
pul
in
human' minds the sense
of
shame and
guiltiOward sex_
In the "creaHon chaptert' ' Gcncsis 1,
it is wrinen that in creating man, Ood
created the pbysica l sex !?rgans -
"... male and female created be tbem"
(verse 27). "And Ood saw evety thing
tbat be bad ma.de, and, bebold, it was
vuy oooo" (verse 31). Tbe phys1eal
organs of sex, then, God pronouneed
"VERY GOOO.
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Ood gave the 6rst man and bis wife
full instruclion io regard to bis intended
WEEK ENDINO JUNE 21, 197S