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God Created Man!
Here is a truth perhaps never before
understood by man!
Here
isA WESOME TRUTH!
Look, now, at the situation as God
must b.ave seen and considered it God
has given us rninds
/ike
the rnind of God
- only inferior and timited. Go!i made
us in bis iroage, after bis tikeness (fonn
and shape), only composed of matter in–
stead of spirit. But God says to us "Let
this MTND be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus" (Phi!. 2:5). We can leam to
tbink b.is thoughts after him. lf we bave
bis spirit, we can learn to think, to sorne
degree, even as
RE
THtNKS!
How must God have looked at tbis
situation after the colossal debacle of
Lucifer and the angels tbat sinned?
This
LUCIFER was the Supreme MAS•
TERPIECe of God's creative power as a
single, separately created spirit being! '
He was created the most perfect in
beauty, mind, knowledge, power, in–
teUeet and wisdom within the alrnighty
power ?f God to create in a being witb
power
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think, reason, make cboices
and decisions on bis own. God knew
that
n.o
bigher, more perfect being could
be created.
Yet
this
superior being, trained and
expericneed at the. vcry th rone of the
GOVERNMENT OF
Goo over the universe,
had resorted to wrong reasoning and
madc a diabotieal decision. He worked
on the angels under
him
until be tumed
their minds to rebeUion also. Tbis,
in:
cidentaUy, migbt bave talcen Lucifer
millions of years. In
alJ
ptobability be
bad to begin perverting the minds of llis
angels one at a time, at ñrst. He ha<! to
malee them feel dissatisfied, wronged by
God, and inject re.sentment and bitter–
ness into them.
When Lucifer allowed thoughts of
vanity, jealousy, envy, lust and greed,
then resemment and rebelti.on, to enter
and OCCUpy bis mind, SOMETHING HAP·
PSNEI> TO HIS MINO!
flis ntind became
perverted, distorted, twisted!
His tllink.ing
beeame warped. God gave him and the
angels control over tbeir own minds.
They can never straighten them out -
never again think rationally, honestly,
rightly.
'í
bave had a number of personal ex–
pcrience.s wi th demons through a few
demon-posse.ssed pcoplc. 1 have cast out
a few througb the name of Christ ,and
power of the holy spirit. Sorne demons
are silly, lilce spoiled cbildren. Sorne are
crafty, sbarp, shrewd, subtle. Sorne are
belligerent, sorne are sassy, sorne are sul–
len and morose. But aU ase perverted,
warped, twisted.
Look, now again at God's overall su–
preme
PURPOSE.
1t
is
to develop the
El>fTIM
LtMrTteSS PHYSICAl. UNIVSRSE
and to DEVELOP GOOLY, PUF:eCT CIIAJ\·
ACTER IN THE MILLIONS OF SPIRIT BEINGS
WHO SIIALL 00 THIS OEVELOPING!
That is THE A WESOME PUR–
POSE!
For tltis PURPOSE, God created mil–
lions of angels - spirit beiogs composed
of spirit - holy angels. Theo he created
the PHYSICAL UNIVI!RSE and this earth,
and he put angels here to· develop this
earth, ruled by
TH.e
GOVSRNMSNT OF
Goo.
, But tbe k.i.ng he set as ruler- LuctFER
- rebeUed, revolted, misled a third of aU
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the angels, aod TRe GOVERNMeNT OF
Goo no longer govemed tbe eartb.
God already had created the highest,
most perfeet super angel. Lucifer was
the supreme masterpieee. lf Lucifer and
bis angels we.nt wrong, there was no as–
surance the other two thirds would not.
As God surveyed
this
tragic cata–
clysm, be must have realized it left HIM·
set.F .as the
ONLY
8EING who will not
and CANNOT SIN!
Tbe only possiblc
ASSURANCE of aocomplishing hiS great
PURPOSE was for him oow
to reproduu
himself!
But let us answer another question be–
fore proceeding:
WHY
is
it IMPOSSIBLll for God lO sin?
No greater pow'er exists that will prevent
him - but God has simply by his o.wn
power - supremc and abovc aU power
- set himselfthat he
wi/1
nor!
Wbat God saw was tbis.
No
being less
rhan God
eould be
<:4rtainly
relied upon
Ni:VER
to sin, that
is,
NEVER
to turn
against God's LAW. To fullil his PURPOSE
for the entire UNtVERSE, God saw that
notbing less than HIMSELF could be
abso·
lurely relied upon
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carry out his SU·
Pl\t;;'fE PURPOSE throughout the entire,
V8Sl, endle.ss UNIVÉRSE!
The question might be raised: Could
not
God
have known, in advance
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wbat
Lucifer aod ti!• angels under him would
do? Doesn' t God koow EVERYTHtNG?
Tbe answer is NO. lf God were to have
known in advance what choice they
would make, he would bave had to
FORCE them to make it - taken away
from them power to think. to reason, to
have a choiee, ro make decisions. God
'does not
CHOOSE
to
know, in advance,
what vou or 1 will .be thinlcing, reason·
ing, deciding tomorrow or in tl¡e
futu~e .
He gave these spirit beings, as he gives
us HUMAN beings•. the power to think for
ourselves, to choose, to make decisions.
Otherwise we should be nothing more
tban automatons, doing what we are
made todo. He
simp~
did not
choose
to
know.
His
PURPOse rncludes the devel–
opment of CHARACTER in bis· created
beings.
'
AU that had happened caused God to
now CREATE THE MOST STUPENDOUS CRE•
ATION Ol' ALL -
by REPRODUCJNG
H/MSELFI
Reproducing HlMS.ELF??
Now carne the
CROWNING PIN–
NACLE
of even
Ood's
unmatched cre–
ating POWER! Now carne the very zenith
of all divine accomplishment! Now
eame a project so
incredulously transcen–
dently
A
Wl!SOME it is hard for the human
mind td'¡eally grasp.
How eould
rhe grear GOD
- self-exis–
tent,
before
all else, CRSATOR of aU else,
repro~uee
HtMSEtF into multiplied
mil·
lions
of Olhcrs JUST UK.E HJMSELf - di–
vine, supreme in power, perfect in
character - each by bis own choice
per·
fectly
lilce-rninded with the Father, each
having so set hirnself tbat be CANNOT
SIN?
PART VI of this series
wiJI
reveal
HOW God planned to carry out this in–
credibly AWSSOME feat of
reproducing
himself
ln
this PART V,
1
have shown
WHY
Ood decided lO crcate HUMANS
and putthe human fami ly here on earth.
. PART VI will explain wbat few, indeed,
have ever understood -
HOW
Ood
planoed lO REPRODUCE HIMSEl..F. 0
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s!rill
by
Stanley A. Aader
Solzhenitsyn and Détente
LOS ANGELES, July 13 ....:
An
amat.ing thing bappened last week in Washing–
ton.
~lexande~ Solzheni~yn,
tbe
N~bellaureate
in litera tu re and the most widely
acclalll;led antt·Communrst wrrter m the world today, was visiting the United
States for speaking engagements in Washington and New York. Wbile visiting
Washington, he..reque.sted a meeting with Presiden! Ford at the White House,
butthc Pre.sideot, acting through bis pre.ss seeretary, lamely exc.used bimself from
such a meeung because of the pross of
bu.~ine.ss
and other i'!lportant White
House mauers.
.
Yet during the same week Presiden! Ford did bave the time ro spend with
Pelé, the world renowoed soocer player wbo has come baclc from a sbort-lived
retircment to sigo a multimillion·dollar contract with a professional U.S. soccer
team. Pictures of Presiden! Foid with the soccer superstar were widely dissemi–
nated throughoutthe Unitcd States and the free world.
Because of the public outcry the presidential press seeretary was fina lly
forced to concede that the Presldent had detiberately failed ro meet witb Mr.
Solzhenitsyn beeause lO·do so might have displeased the J!.ussians and hence
injured the delicate fabric of détente.
In October 1973, just two days before th_e outbreak of bostilities i.n the
Middle East between the Arabs and the Israelis in what has become known as the
Holy Day War, forrner South Vietnamese Presiden! Thieu was telling Mr.
Armstron~
and me in Saigon that tbe third. world war has been going on for
almost tbtrty years but tbat the United States and its aUies bave failed to
reeognize \ his beca use tbe war did oot have the eonventional classic form ofprior
Y'orld wars. Presiden! Tltieu explained, bowever, that the Soviet Union h.ad been
steadily and steadfastly fighting the third world war politically, ideologically,
economically and militarily - but by
proxy
in tbe last instance. He asserted that
major hostilities, for example, could break out again at any time in the Middle·
East or in Vietnam and, in either case. others would be doing the Soviet bidding
and fighúng.
Last week during bis two addre.sses in the United' S tates, Mr:. Solzhenitsyn
differed from President Thieu in perhaps only one sense. The exiled Russian
author seemed to suggest tllat the third world war had already been foug)lt and
lost by the United States aod its democratic ames.
Perhaps .Presiden! Thieu and Mr. Solzhcnitsyn are both right, but certainly
our own Presrdent Ford has demonstrated that somethiñg is seriously wrong with
the attrtude of the White House (and that's the position of tbe United States)
toward détente. The Russians, on the other hand, do not seem to be confused or
deluded at all. Détente means to them merely a period during which direct
conf~ontation
between the two major superpowers is assi<!Jiously avoidéd, but all
else
tS
done: short of the ultimate provocative act, to continue tbe worldwide
struggle for supremacy on an ever increasing scale.
In tbe United States, in tbe meantimc, there is apparently deep-seated fear
that almost anything might disturb the delicate fabric of détente. Nothing
demonstrates more clearly than Presiden! Ford's timidity witb respect to the
proposed meeting between him and Mr.
SolzheniL~yo.
AOd yet, Presideni Ford in
his recent visit to Europe, which included bis meeting in Salzburg with Presideot
Sadat of Egypt and all of the NATO allies in Brussels, reasserted U.S. determina–
rion to lead tbe free world and to honor its obligations wherever they may be.
Surely some.thing must be done to avoid súch'a public diSplay of presidentia!
w: aknes_s or presideotial fear or presidentia! unwillingness to do anything that
mrght
drsple~e
the Russians. Everyone will agree tbat we musr avoid a major
?Oofitct between the two superpowers because such a confiict would undoubtedly
mvolve the use of nuclear weapons on a scafe sufficient to destroy civilizatioñ in
both the United States and the U.S.S.R . if oot the rest of the world. But one
cannot help but ask whether the steady willingness to givé and concede on issue
after issue with the Russians over the past thirty years (as so beautifully asticu–
lated by Mr. Solzhenitsyn in bis two public addresses in the Uoited States) has
contributed to the survival of civilization as we know it, or whether it has merely
delayed the proeess by which tbe Westem demoeracies will find themselves
totaUy submissive and cornpletely under tbe yolce.of international communism as
directed from Moscow.
·
For more than forty ye¡¡rs
Plain Trurh
has beeo in total accord witb Mr.
Solzhenitsyn in warning its readers everywhere of the menace of worldwide
eommunism. Thus, one can see that
Pklin Truth
under the guidance of Mr.
Herbert W. Armstrong has been in the vanguard of those who saw only too
clearly the danger that imperialistic communism would pose to the free world in
t~e
aftermath ofWorld War 11.
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