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In previous installments we have covered the
FACTS- as they were from pagan times, as they
cóntinued through medieval Chris tian repression, as
they are today under the "newmora/ity. "
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
H
ISTORY has
been
writte11
-
in un·
happy. frustruted mnrringes - in
licentious tMmorality today. But the
"new morality" is not solving the prob·
lem. Rather, the Western world has
leaped from the frying pan into the fire.
The more human leaders have
tampered with moral codes, social regu–
lations. forms of government, and inter–
national movements for peace, the
further they have plunged the world into
evils. wars and vi6\enee, human misery
aod sutrering. And the fnrther they have
driven humantty from mankind's tran·
seendent potenual.
There
IS -
1
repeat again and again -
a CAUSE for every etrcct. ·
•
And the
cause?
The .MISSIHO DIMEH·
stOH - the baste.
foundationa~
ttHOWL·
EDOB - tbe 1ruc premise for
all
explanattons. philosophies, and guid–
anec in eonduet. And the WAv OF LIFE
that would CAUSe all good.
Our first parents rejccted revelation
as
the
stamng point
in knowledge and
human eonduet. They rejccted the LAW
of Ood. All humantty has oontinued m
that fatal error.
Through six thousand long and pain–
ful years the lesson
has bun "'rilltn
in
cruel EXPERIEHCE.
Man is a physical being - but with a
spimual allrlbutt.
And of the whole
man. the MINO, with its spiritual at·
tribute nnd potential, is the
al(-imporranr
factor. The body is merely the mecha·
nism or vehicle that the MIMD directs
and uses. But how is MINO connected
withssx?
Sex anatomy and sexual fbnetioning
is eonnected d irectly with the mind
through the system of nerves. There cañ
be no use of sex apart from the mind.
Every bodily aetíon ís directed, oon·
seiously or subeonsciously. by the mind.
The human sexual response cannot
function unless profound phySiological
changes occur in the genual arcas of
both sexes - aod these changes are
pbysío-psycholovcauy produecd -
ac–
tually geoerated in the mind.
And
so
tiiSthat ATTITlJDE is an
a/1-im·
portant
factor of sex and direetly associ–
ated with its every function
So there are TWO phases ofany use of
sex - the one, of first imeortanc:e. the
meolal·spintual phase; the Other, physi·
cal.
Thus, as
10
almost
evcry
aetivity of
life, ATTITUDe is of prime importanec.
Dircctton ofmtnd!
Now let's UNDEilSTAHD what is so fa–
tálly WllOHO with all this modero
knowledge of sex. In both the "old mo·
10
rality" and the "ncw morality" of •his
world's teachings and customs, tONO ·
RANCE OP THE CREATOR'S INTEHDED
PUI\POSES and dissemination of evil
moral
teachings has- poisoned human
minds and injected damage-causing Ar–
TITUOES.
A mixture of halj good food and halj
potassium cyaníde wi/1
kili
you
a.r
surely
as the dose ofpota.rsium cyanide alone!
Not
aU
of the purely mental
phys~eal
knowledge published in this modem on–
slaugbt of sex books has been correct. by
any mcaru. But even
if
the dissemina–
tion of the physical details. of its<lf. were
completcly true. it
is
COMBIHED. IR every
case - whether
in
sueh a book or from
other
sourees -
with a false and po•·
sonous
Al'1'TTUDE OF
MINO
concem1ng_
$eX PUllPOS'ES
and uses!
Jt
thUS becomcs DEADLY MOilAL ANO
SPIRJTUAJ.. POISOH. And today•s worJd
IS
gulping down the fatal dosage!
Today, knowledge of physical details
is abundantly available. Yet even
among books dissemínating biological
tnformation.
1
have not found a single
volume 1 wouJd want to rccommend to
our radio listeners and
P/ain Truth
rcad–
ers. And when physical inforrnation is
oombined with a poisonous mental
allÍ·
tude. it emphatieally destroys moral pu–
rity
and charactcr.
So WH ERE NEXT?
So, WHERE
NOW?
WHERE, for the knowledge of RIOHT
PURPOSES and USES?
WHERE, fo r the supreme AUTHORITY
for morals? WHERE for the right
alll·
tude?
In no field is th'e faet more positively
demonstrated tbat the WoRo oF Ooo is
the FOUHDATION OF KNOWt.l:DGE than in
this area of
sex~
•
1/0W,
andfrom
where.
and
when,
did
sex originate?
And wHv?
You shall sce that there was grcat
PURPOSE - greal MtANINO behind the
ori&Jn of sex. There was intelhgcnce. de·
sign. and wisdom in its planning.
1t
was
CRtATED by the all-intelligent. all-pow–
erfu1, all·HOLY Creator!
The an.swers
are
found
111
the Btble.
And the place to begin is at
TitE
BEOJN·
NI"NG!
Here
lS
the beginning:
~In
the beginning Ood created the
'beavens aod the
eanh"
{Gen.
1:
l. RSV).
WHO- WHAT lS God?
1
have quoted that passage in the
English language. But whcn Ood in·
sp~red
Moses 10 wnte 11. originally, it
was wnuen 1n thc Hebrew language.
What
1
quoted
15
a t.ranslation from the
Hebrew. And '" the Hebrcw, the word -
or the MAME - translated into the
English name "Ood" was
Elohim.
That
is a umplural noun.
ll
is un!J>Iural. like
such words as
group. church, crowd, Jam–
ily,
or
orgam:atiolf.
Take, for examplc, thc word
clrurch.
You will read, in
1
Corinthions
12:20,
that the
church
ÍS
Only ONE CHURCH '–
the "one body" yet oomposed or
"many
me¡nbers."
Even though il takes
many
persons
10 consttlute the church, it
IS
not
many churches - it ts only the OHE
CHURCII!
A family is made up of more than one
person. yet only the
one
family.
And so. mcredible as it may scem 10
those who do not rightly and fully UN·
DERSTAHD the Btble - and only an in·
6nttestmal mmonty does - Ooo 1S not
merely one person. nor even limited toa
"trinuy;· but Ooo
IS
a
FAMILY.
The doctnne of the tnnity
IS
false. lt
was foisted upon the wor1d at the Coun–
eil of Nteaea.
lt
IS
che pagan Babylonish
tnmty of Ntmrod. Semiramis and tforus
- of father. mother and child - sub–
shtuting tbe holy splfit for the mother.
Semiramis. and ealhng ita "person."
Ood tS
a
KJNODON - the suprenie di·
vme
FAMU..Y
whach
RULES
the umverse!
The whole OOSPEL Jesus brought to
mankmd ts. merely, the good news of
thc KIHODOM OF
000 -
and thac king·
doro
IS
Ood.
lt
is
a FAMILY - a RULINO
divine family into which human$ may
be bornl
ll
•s
vitally neecssary that we UNDER·
STAND this truth -
1J
we are 10 under·
Stand the MSANIHO and PURPOSES ofsex!
There is only the
ONE GOD!
Because
of false teaching - including that of·a
"trinity" - nenrly nll of us have been
renred from ehildhood to
assume
that
Ooo
is
one lndMdual person.
ll
is
true
that o11e ptrson - the Father - is
head
or the family, but ench pcrson in the
Ood FANILY is an individual divine per–
son.
Elohm•
is the divme FAMILY - only
OHE famtly, but more than one divine
person. Jesu> Christ spoke of His divine
father as Ooo. Jesus said He was the
Son of Ooo {as well as the Son of
man).
Jesus
IS
called Ooo in Hebrews
1:8
and
elsewhere. All the holy ansels are OOm·
manded to worshtp Jesus (Heb.
1:6;
Psalm
97:7,
1)
and none but Ooo
may be worshtpped 1
In OencsiS
1:26.
Elohtm
said, "Let
us
(nol me) make man in
our
image."
So the Etemal FATHU
is
a person and
IS
Ooo. Jesus Christ is
a
dtfferent
pcrson
- and
is
Ooo. They are two separate
and iodivtdual persons (Rev
4:2; 5:1,
6-7). The Father is Supreme Huo
of
the Ood family - the Lawgiver.
Christ tS the WORD - the divine Spokes–
man.
8ut when Jesus was begouen withm
His human mother Mary. He was not. as
all other me11, begonen of a human
father, but or Ood, by the ageney and
power ofOod's spint. He bccame - as a
human - the son ofOod. He called Ood
His FATHER. He prayed to His Father.
So we have a
Father-and·Son
relation·
shlp.
11
is a FAMILY rclationsrup!
But it goes further. Humans, in the
likeness
of Ood, may rcceivc the gifl of
Oód's HOLY SPIRIT (Aets
2:38-39).
This spirit emanates from the very
person - the spiril body ofthe Father.
1t
bcgets us with His
very
life - Ooo life –
eternal life, on entering into us. preeisely
as a human ovum is begonen with the
huma11
father's life wben the sperm-cell
from bis body impregoates the ovum.
But it . is oot a bom human chi1d until
nine months later - it
is.
thus far. only
begouen.
Those thus converted become the
be–
gonen SoNS or Ood - aetually cbildren
ofOod {Roro.
8: 14-17).
But il
is
well at this point
lO
make
elcar the faet that
noM
orller
is
a
son of
Ood. The widely belicved "Fatherbood·
of-God and Brotherhood-of-man" doc–
trine is, by seriptusal autbority. FALSE!
The Pharisces had sa id to Jesus.
" ... we have one Fatber, even Ood."
Jesus answered, '1f Ood were your
Father. ye would love me.... Ye are or
your father. the devil, aod the lusts of
yous father ye will do" {John
8:41-44).
In one of His parables, Jcsus said,
"... the good seed are the cbildren of
the kingdom; but
t~e
tares are !he chll·
dren of the wicked one" - that is, chil·
dren of the devil. The aposiJe Paul said
to
a
human sorecrer. "Thou child of the
devil . .." (Acts
13: 10)-
Agaio, "In this
the ehildren of Ood a re manífest, and
thc children of the devil: whocver doeth
not righteousness is not of Ood , . ."
(1
John
3: 10).
One does no t become
a
son ofOoo until begouen ofOod by
re–
ceiving Ood's holy spirit.
Th
is
brings up another signifieant
point and answers the question: ls abor–
lion murder'l The human who
is
begot·
ten or Ood. but_ as yet UD·BORH, is
already
a
CJULD
of Ood
(1
John 3:
1-2).
The bcgonen but unborn fetus
is
the
CHU.D of its parents. To
kili
it
is >1Ull·
Of.R! But the human who is bom is the
ohild of his human father - but only
thosc begottcn of Ood are children of
God.
Those thus
begouen
of Ood a.re bap–
tized into (that is. irnmersed into -
put
into)
Ood's CHURCH
(1
Cor. 12: 13).
The CHURCH
is
the affianced
BRIDE.
lO
MARRY CHRtST al His glorious retum to
canh
(Eph. S:2S-27; Rev. 19:7). So we
have the father-and·son rclauonship
and
a/so the husband-and-wlfe rrlation.shtpl
The CHURCR of Ood, now,
is
the
be–
goneo faniily of Ood's children
as
yet
unbom to _spirit immortality.
Bu~
al
Christ's coming. wbeo tbe begouen mor–
tal
heirs
become the spirit-<X>mposed
BORN
inheritors
Of lhe, ÓOD KJ>IODOM,
WEEK ENDINO AUGUST
2,
197S