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reproducing afler its own kind - caule
afler the caule kind, horses afler the
horse kind. etc.
But now God
(Eiohim)
said,
~Let
us
make man i,n
our
image, afler
our
like·
ness (forro, shape] ..
::
(Gen.
1:26).
in
other words. "AFTER THE Goo KIND."
God had created angels OUI of SPIRIT.
But now. for Hís own reproductivo pur·
pose, MATTER. olfered God the propenies
He needed.
And so ••.. . the EnRNAL God formed
man of the dust of the ground" - out of
MATTER (Gen. 2:7).
•.• IF
IIJid
WHEN Man Sinned
Al this point we must considera baste
principie of Goo's GOVERNMENT. The
state can never be without a head. God
placed Lucifer on the throne of the
eanh. He was no longer administering
tbe OOVERNJ.!EioiT OF Goo - he was now
disqualified - but he (his name now
cbanged to Satan) must remain on that
throne until bis successor has qualifted
and
also beco
anducted lnto office. The
very
fact
that Satan was there to tempt
the flrst humans- that he is, even now,
"the god of this world"
(11
Cor.
4:4)
and
"tbe prince of the power of the air"
(Eph.
2:2) -
tS sufficient evidence of
this basic principie of the OOVERNMENT
OFÚOD.
Knowing this. God knew tbe inevtta·
btllly that Satan would tempt the
~rst
ereoted MAN to disbelieve God and com–
mit sin. If the 5uper archangel and all
bis
holy angels had been led into rebel·
lion, how mucb more certain that man,
made lower than the angels, would also
sin!
Can you visualitt God and with Him
the Word
(also
God - of the God
FAM·
Man, to be reproduced
into the God famil y,
was designed to have a
God-like mind, an abi/ity
to think, reason, make
choices - to devel op
God-like character.
tLY) planning this supreme feat of their
creattve power? The Word volunteered
to give up temporarily tbe supreme
POWEll ánd OLORY be had possessed al·
ways (John
17:5), 10
divest Himself of
all chat, to be begouen by God. born in
human llesb for the pu.rpose of deatlt
(Heb.
2:9).
Stnce God delegated the ac–
tual MAKINO of man to che Word. He.
whcn
pltysieally born as a human being,
for tite
purpbse
of death. wou.ld,
In
tltat
death, be g.ving a life of greater value
than the sum total of AU. HUMAN LtVES
- since He was their MAKER. And, being
OtVtNE as·well as human - being Godas
well as man, He in the person of Christ.
would be able to
all{)/d
stnning. Titen
He, who NBVER sinned, although
tempted in all poiniS jusi like the rest of
us humans.
In
death could PAY in our
stead
Tire
PD<o\L
TY WE
HAVE INCURllEO.
By creating MAN out of
ph~cal
mal–
ter, being mortal, man could ote. So
man's penalty for sin was placed at
DI!ATH.
(~for
the wages of sin
ÍS
DEATH:
WEEK ENOING AUGUST 23,
t97S
but the otFT of God is eterna! tife
tbrough Jesus Cltrist our Lord" -
Rom. 6:23.)
God tbe Father would have power lo
resurrect Christ
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immorlallife
from
rhe
dead
-
tbus making
a
resurrection to
immortal spirit-composed life possible
for humans.
SO. Gód's master plan for aecomplislt–
ing his PURPOSE took form and shape.
IF
man sinned - as all but Jesus nave - it
could thus be possible for him
10
REPD<T
- 10
tum FROM sinning
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be reconciled
to God and to live Goo's WAY oP Ltfe.
In other words, to turn
to
tite oovERN·
WENT OF Goo. aocept its rule over lttS
life. aoeept Cltrist as hts Saviour and
coming KtNO. He, Christ. would qualify
10
REESTAJILISH tite OOVP.RNMENT OF
ÚOO ON THE EARTH!
But what if sinning man
refused
10 re–
pene - to tum PROM Saum's way and lo
let tho oovERNMSNT Of Goo rule in his
life? Then tltere would be the
ucond.
death for any or
all
sucb (Rev.
20: 14) -
when they would
cease to exlst
-
be as
if
they had
never been
(Obadiah
16).
But was Ibis, aU
l
have just covered
above. all that God (in the persons of
GOO ANO tite. WORD) had
\0
consider?
No. Far Crom it!
The plan wns
10
make MAN out of
physical substance. But how would God
reproduce
Himself
or bring perbaps mil·
lions upon mtllions
into
the Goo FAM·
ILY?
TMs necessitated that God's very own
LlfE -
divine Goo-life - be impaned.
God
/S
a spim -
composed
ofspirit.
What
a
marw:lous
plan God now oon·
ceived . He would form mon of physical
MATTEll -
so that,
if
man IOtaUy failed,
be
could be as though he had never
been. SO God made man of PHYStCAL
substance. formed and shaped like God
so tltat man could be converted -
changed Crom mauer into spirit com–
posiuon - a spint-composed member of
the Goo FAMtLY.
Can your mind grasp what matcbless
wisdom. power of destgning and plan–
ning. made our transcendent human
po–
tential possible?
Ood first formed PLANT Ufe - the
llora. This was living mauer reproducing
itself, bu¡ l"ithout self-consciousness -
without brain . Next God created the
fauna - animal life, in whiclt He placed
8RAtN, with a cena.in consciousness, yet
without tbe thinking. reasoning, deci–
sion-making processu. But MAN. 'to be
reprod~ced
into the Goo FAMtLY, was
designed
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have
a
ooQLY type Mt ND,
ability to think. reason. malee choices
and doeisions - develop God·like CHAR·
ACTER.
How could all chis be done? Actually
tbe brain of an elephant. a wbale or a
dolphin is Virtually equal in complexity,
design and· quality and larger in size
than human brain. The chimpanzee is
also virtually equal. but slightly smaller
in size. WHv, ahen,
i.s
the \human MINO
so
trans«ndently suptnor
10
antmal
brain?
PART
VIl
of this series will explain tite
amazing dilference between animal
bram a¡td human mind - another MISS·
INO DIMENSION io knowledge unexplain–
able by science. untaught by ll'igher
education. not revealed by any religion
- an astoundmg eye-opener. indeed. O
ltt-
8,;_,¡
by
Stantey
R. Rader
Jerusal-, Au¡ust 1
Has Israel developeclthe A·bornb and, tf so. tbe means
10
deUver it? Has
Israel thus become the seventh member of the nuclear club - following the
United States. Russia, England. France. China, and India?
lf so, the prospects in the event of another Israeli-Arab armed co_nOict are
more terril)'tng and ominous for all mankin'd - beeause, oonfronted with the
threat of defeat and destruclion, would Israel refrain from using its a10mic
weapons ifsuch weapons do indeed exist?
Fonunately, mucb progress seems to have becn made in receot mooths in
the painfuUy slow process of arriving
at
the next stage of an Egyptian-lsraeh
accord which would lead
10
another Israeli "'!ithdrawal in the Sinai. But, al the
same time the condilions in Egypt - economic, social and politieal - appear
more volatile than ever before. and time does not seem
10
be working for Egypt
and Presiden! Sadat. Tbe reopening of the eanal and the rebuild,ing ofSuez City
- are they not additional trumps , for
lsra~l
in the event of
a
b!>"kdown in
negotiations? Can Egypt alford another oostly war
anda
reduction of that wbich
bas
beco
sodearly won?
Meaqwhile. as the natioos of the thin;l world are preparing to muster thetr
vote
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eject Israel from the United Nations because of its continued occupation
sinoe
1967
ofArab territory.thirty-tlve or more European heads ofstate, plus the
Umted States and Canada. celebrated the signing of the European sccurity
document at Helsinki and thus reeognized officiaUy the land acquired by Russill'
in the coursc of World War
ll
(as weU as thc division of Germany) and the
general hegemony of Russia over all ofEastern Europe - a factor condition that
bas prevailed for more Iban thirly years.
Cenainly we would all welcome
a
true world peaoe - a
trut
relaxation of
tensions and
a
t rue end of the arms race - but does the pomp and circumstance
of the world leaders in Helsinki give us reason
10
fee.l that the world
is
a safer
place today - when the United States still spends more \han
$100
billion for
defense. and when even Brazil and Argentina and other smaUer notions scr;eam
for their own atomic bomb and admission to the nuclear club?
Certainly the virtues of détente are yet
10
be proved, and the risk would be
100
great for
us
to reduce our defense spendtng and our diligence
tn
lhe face of
continued defense spcnding by the SOviet Union. Yet perltaps it is flmdamentally
true that it is beuer to be working with and talking with
o~e's
enemies than
ftghting them.
And yet the Helsinki conference does appear
10
thts observer to be some–
what ofa surrender afler
a
thirly-year
"cold war"
for a free Europe.
COMPUTER
PROGRAM FOR
WORLDPEACE
1;.1ke twelve years to do it; stir in rnil·
lions of statistics on trade, allianoes.
mail migrauon, treaties. U.N. votes,
•military dashes and wars; digest it
all
in
a eomputer whiclt analytes these activi–
ties in terms of sucb national character–
istics as wealth, ideology. religion.
education. race and population; and out
pops the formula for world peace.
The computer showed mathematieally
tbut various forms of cooperation were
statisticaUy irrelevaot
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armed conftict.
Htghly touted cultural exchanges. trade.
or joint spaee ventures may be 'fine in
themselves, but they assuredly do not
keep natiolts from war.
This monumental task was recently
completed at the lnstitute of Research
on lnternational Problems al the Uni·
v_ersily of Hawnii.
The resuh? Peaoe is caused by
power.
the computer said, and power alone.
~Peace
is purcbased by making yourself
stronger than your adversary ... or by
dismantling power and submiuing to
one's enemies." states Dr. R.
J.
Rummel,
director of the institute.
The computer study is
f~scinating
ver·
ification of a bibli<:ál image that makes
traditional
~establishment"
theologoans
sputter and issue apologetic disclaimers:
"And 1 sáw lteaven opened, and behold
a white horse; and he tltat sat upon htm
was called Fanhful and True, and in
righteousness he doth judge and make
war... . And he was clothcd with a ves·
ture dipped in blood: and
bis
'llame is
called The Word of God. And the or·
mies which were in heaven followed him
upon wlúte horses ..." (Rev. 19: 11- 14).
That's not exactly the description of a
sad-eyed pactfist, but it is the descriplton
of a world ktng come
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bring peaoe,
which we discover - by the Bible and
the computer - will requirc a display of
di
vine
pott.--er.
-
JeHCalkins
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