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Now comes the big truth! Sex was 'designed and
created in humans not only
for
reproduction, but
also
for
purposes total/y foreign
to
animal or plant
life!.But the
world
has continued in unhappy and
wrétched IGNORANCE of these glorious and' God–
bestowed purposesl Why?
by
Herbert W.
Armscrong
T
tns brings
U$
again
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that striking
truth, that
rnE
WORO OF Goo
IS
Ttn; FOVI'OATION OF Al..l.. KNOWLBOOE!
GOD
is
th~ suprem~
EDUCATORI
The
Bible is far, far, from the
sum total
of
knowle<jge. )l
ÍS
lhC BASIS, the FOVI'OA•
TION, the
startlng pcint,
and the founda–
lional
approoch
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lhe ac:quis1tion of
discoverable knowledge!
God, through the Maker's instrucúon
book, reveals
what man connot otherwist
ltarn!
Full TRUTH comes from the bibli·
cal
r~elation.
PLUS ac:quired and dis·
coverable knowledge revealed tn the
Bible.
Man, without divine revelation, has
been able to observe that plant life re–
¡produces. animal life reproduces, and
human lite reproduces. From this, tONO·
RANT of divine revelation. man has for·
mulated erroneous and bappmess–
destroying conoeplS about purposes and
uses
ofse>t.
Through the centuries pagaf\ dualism
had assumed and tauglu the erroneous
premise that the
only
purpose of sex
is
reproduction - and it
has
viewed even
that
purpose
with suspicion!
Not undu–
stonding
tbe real meaning and true pur–
poses of marriage and inheriting ilS
concept from the Babylooian mystery
rcligion, it placed marriage on a LOWER
PI..ANE tban ceJibacy,
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Today educators, scientists, psy–
chologislS. doctO!$, and lhose who set
the moral staodards rely oo the evolu–
tionary conoept as their assumed and er–
roneous basic premise and approach
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knowledge.
Thty
do not know the origin
or PORPÓSES of sex. THEV do not know
how. wby, or wheo MARRJAOE origi–
nated.
Tbe Bible reveals knowledge
oth~
wíse unacquirable!
So once again, Jet us
go to that source of knowledge!
Remember. the ETERNAL (Heb.,
Yah·
weh),
who literally spoke to and in–
struaed Adam and Eve. was the very
pe=n of lbe Godhead who later
be–
carne Jesus Chrut.
Jesus taught the Pharisees precísely
the same thing about sex that He had
taught Adam and Eve. To the Pharisees,
He said: "Have ye not read. that he
which made them at the beginning
made them maJe and female, and said,
. For this cause shall a man leave
father aod molller, and shaU cleave to
his wife ..." (Mau.
19:4-5).
f'ór whal cause shaU a man mnrry7
Because God made them male and fe.
maJe - because God created sex.
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Sex did not evolve.
lt
was Goo, by
miraculous creátion. who made man
ma/eondfemale!
And Glld always has
a
purpose for wbat He doe$!
So
becauu
God created sex, He OR·
OAJNEO THE MARRIAOE INSTIT\ITlON.
And 11 is Goo wbo binds together,
as
husband and wife, aman and woman.
MARRIAOE, lhen. is the /.cond-namcd
PURPOSE ofsex!
Marriage is a physical union, but a di·
vine institution. Almighty Goo ordained
it!
1t
d•d not evolve.
Notice, in the scnpture quoted abovF•
Jcsus sa•d to the Pharisees. "Have ye not
read ...
?"
He quoted an a lready wriuen
passage of Scripture. He said the Phari·
secs sbould have read it!
Whtrt
is that
scripture found?
lt
is found in the
sec–
ond chlpter of Genesis.
lt
is
part
of the
brief SUWMARV record Of the ETERNA!.'$
original insuuction
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lbe newly created
Adam and Eve. The creatlon of Eve had
just been described, and Ood then said:
"Tbcrefore sball a man leave his fat her
and his mother, and shall cleave unto
his
wife" (Gen.
2:24).
So the Almighty revealed the sacred
MARIUAOE
institution to the first man
and woman.
WHYMarrlage?
·WHY did
Óoo
ordain the human rela·
tionship of.MARRJAoe?
Tbe old reprcssive. dualistic morabty
taught that the
only
purpose of sex was
reprbduction. But if merely reproducing
their kind were the
only
purpose of sex,
NO MARRIAOE WOULO BE NECESSARV!
God made
onimaú malt and ftmalt.
Animoú rtproduct
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BUT
THn'
DO
NOT
MARRV! Marriage is not neoessary to
prop-eate.
We can. through se>t, have reproduc–
tion without marriage! lndeed, lhat is
one ol the world's greatest evi.li today.
Tbere is entirely too much
reprod~aion
without marriage!
Antmal.s reproduoe.
~ut
animals do
not marry! Animals are bom with
instinct.
They need Jiule o¡;. no teaching.
Eversee a Uule calf born? The mother
cow does not need to call an obstetrical
physician or go toa hospital for the de–
livery of her calf.
As
soon as it is boro.
the calf will begio to stagger to its feet.
while the cow just stupidly stands wait·
ing. She does not need to teach ber
cal'
bow
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walk, how to take its food, how
to do anything. A liHie wobbly and un-
sleady the firstthirty, sixty or nincty sec–
onds. the calf is up and walking in just a
minute or
two.
Now bow long does it take a
human
infantto
leam
10
wallc? Usually a year -
and often more. But the newborn calf
walks almost immediatcly. No one
teaches Íl.
TIIS
CALF HA$ INSTINCT. And
where does it slart walking? lt has no in–
struction from anyone.
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starlS walking
for its 6.rst "d1nner."
lt
knows
wbere to
go. And the mother cow just stands stu–
pidly still
wb~e
her calfsucks its mil
k.
And where is "Daddy" - the bull?
That's hard to say. Perhaps miles away.
He probably is nowhere around. And
soon tbe calfwill not even need lhe mili<
from its mother - and will be on ilS
own. Tbere
IS
no marriage - no fAMILV
l..!FE- NO HOME
LIFE.
But with humans all this is dift'erent.
The purely
reproductíve
prooess is the
same in all mammals. But beyond this,
al//s differtntl
The
only
purpose for sex
in animals is reproduction. But H\IMAI<S
ARE OIFFERENT! In humans reproduction
is
not
the only purpose of sex. A $CCOnd
purpose is MARRIAOE - and there is yet
a
third p),ll'posc!
Tbe oewborn human does not get up'
and walk immediately to its food. The
tiny baby is absolutely
htlpless.
1t
has no
insúna in the strict sense of the word.
h
has MINO - but at birth tbere is
NO
KNOWLEDOE
3$
yet in ilS mind.
lt
\vJOws
virtually
nothlng
at birth.
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must be
tauglrt!
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oeeds parenlS lo teach it!
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matures so very much more slowly than
animals!
Y
et
1lS potentiality
is
infinitely
htgher!
And for this higber purpose.
pa·
renta! guidanee and FAMII..
Y
LIFE are
NECESSARV!
For God had said: "Let us make man
in
OUR IMAOE. "
God made caule "after lheir kind' ' -
after the
col/le
kind. He made "every
winged fowl aner his
kind~
- after the
winged fowl k1nd! But He made MAN
af·
ter tht GOD klnd!
Man's Deslioy
Now, incredible as it may sound to ·
those wbo do not UNOERSTANO the reve–
lation of God's TRUTH - and only an in–
finitesimal minonty does - Goo is a
PAMILY!
And in MAN. God is reproducinl? H1s
kind! Man has the suprerñe potenuality
of being actually born into tbe very di•
vine Goo FAMILYf
Do
you realtte what that means? Of
eourse, God is
compostd
of immortal
SPIRIT - while man. like animal$, is
composed in
thls
life of material FLESH
- mauer! Butthe transcendent
esstnt/a/
factor is that Goo IS PERFECT SPIRITUAI..
CHARACTER!
JI
IS the Supreme
ID·
telligenoe. combtned with boly and ngh·
leOUS CHARACTER Of MINO Iba! most
imponantly dislinguishés Goo from
every other living creature. No animal
has this potential - but it is the true des–
t.iny of MAN .
or
course God, lOO. pos·
sesses supreme ALI..·MIOIITV POWER. But
without right CHARACTER. this power
would be destructive and dangerous!
Wha t
ls
this
righteous spiritual char–
acter?
1t
is that controlled ab•lity, in a sepa–
rate independent entity,
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come to
a
riglrt know/edge
of the TRUE from thc
false - the RIOHT from the wroog -
and. by free choice. to CHOOSE the right
and the true; and, ·rurther. to use the
self-disc1pline to
will
and lo aauaUy
DO
th~
right. And how is right defined? By
the spirituallaw ofGod!
This necessitates thnt each individual
human be an independcnt entity, with a
mind of his own - with freedom of
choice (free moral agency) - and it re–
quires
MINO power - intelligence -
U'J ·
teiiCC1 - abiUty lO absorb KNOWLEDOE,
to reason, to think. to plan, -devise, to
draw conclusions. to
w/1/,
and ¡o act.
lnanimate objects have no mind .
make no decisions, have no character
Animal$ have instinctlnStaUed in
broíns.
But an•mals do
not
possess
human-leve\
eoDSCiousness of self. and do not absorb
knowledge from which they reason .
make choice. and willto act even
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en –
forcing self-discipline. Animals do not
comprehend such th1ngs as
an,
litera–
ture. mus•c. Animal$ do not imagine.
and by thought and reasoning processcs
desjgn creatively. Animals do not ac–
quire scientific knowledge. Animals do
not crente, queslion, or decide whether
to obey moral codes. They develop nó
character.
Humans are boro wllb MINOS
Humans must be taught or learn. But
the human mind can absorb knowledge
and reason from it - think creatively.
formulate plans. make decisions, render
judgmenu. and exercisc self-discipline.
Man has the POTENTIAI.ITV of devel–
oping ri&hteous
~HAMCTER .
So the human baby is boro without
knowledge. but with capac:ny for ac:quir–
ing it and developing righteous CHARAC·
TER . The human has the supreme
potentinl of receiving God's own HOLV
SPIRJT which Ímpar1S the divine naturc
and equips the MINO to eomprehend re–
vealed
spíritual
knowledge!
Human babics are bom helpless!
They need the tender care, the loving in·
struction. the palien! training and dis–
cipline and the warm affeaion aod love
of a father and a mother. They need the
warmth and protection and security of
family and borne Ufe. And tbey are of
supreme importance - for they are lhe
potenual HEIRS OF GOO!
This righteous CHARACTI!R is not ere·
ated instantaneously. 11 develops
lhrough
experience.
and experienoe re–
quires nwE. lnstinct in animals
is
auto–
matic.
stt
in the animal brain from birth.
But divme rigbteous CHARACTER must
be developed over a span ofyears.
J>ll
this is
one reason
for marriage at1d
the FAMILV relationship.
But there are more! There are otber
WEEK ENDINO AUOUST 23, 197S