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The IICREDIBLE HUMAN POTEITIAL
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The Missing Dimension in Knowledge
Part
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F
EW PEOPI.6 indeed know
whot
~a
human being really
IS.
Few know
HOW we carne to be here on the earth,
WHETHER we were put here for a PUR·
POSE, WHERE we are going, 01 WRAT
is
the WAY!
In preceding installments
J
have
shown what caused God to c.-eate
WAI-1
and put
him
bere on the eanh, the true
PUltPOSE for human hfe. the breath–
taking AWESOME human potential. and
HOW God planned
lO
actually REPRO·
DUCE HtiiiSEI.l' by
a
reproductive process
out ofearthly material substance.
Even a human manufacturer sends
a long with the instrument or device be
manufactures an tNSTl\UCT!ON BOOKLET
describing what bis product is intended
todo with full direeuons for acoompli.sb–
ing its purpose. The most peñeet mecha–
niSm ever designed and made
is
the
marvelous mind and body that is MAN.
Jt
is only natural that our Maker did send
along His lNSTl\VCnON BOOK - reveal–
ing for our good what we ARE. WH'Y we
are, where we are going,, and what
is
the
way.
Yet man has made this the most
MISunderstood, misinterpreted and ma–
liglled book that ever carne into human
hands.
Nevenheless. the JIIJSSlNO OIM.ENSION
IN KNOWU'IXlE
is
aU there revealed. The
inc:redible HUWAN POTENnAL
is
tbere re–
vealed aitd made plam -
if
NAN would
onJy read it - and BELIEVE_WHAT
IT
SAYS!
That
is
our source bool:..
lt
covers pre–
history, history, instruction for the
present, and propheey revealing the fu–
ture.
1t
reveals. as we have shown in pre–
ceding installments, tbat originaUy from
eternity. there existed Ooo and with
Hun there coexisted.
also
from etemity,
'"THE
Wol\o," a second PQSON wbo also
is God. God created all things by and
tbrougb the coexisting $PIRIT BEINO
called
"THE
WORO" (John
1: 1-4).
In Genesis
1: 1,
the Hebrew word
which Moses wrote, translated "God,"
is
Elohlm,
a uniplural name meaning ONE
Goo who is composed of
mor< thon one
~rson.
l o otber words.
D
divint FAM–
IL Y.
of wbich the Ooo mentioned in
Jobn 1:1
is
HEAO.
We bave seen bow the Bible reveals
thal God tirst created angels -
also
spuit beings composed of spirit, though
lesser beings than God. and lacking in
creative power.
Next, God created - brought into
existeoce - the physical uníverse. in–
cludíng tbe earth. At earth's creation. a
third of tbe angcls were placed here.
They were pul uoder rule of the
OOV·
ERmtV<T OF Goo. administered by the
great archangel Lucifer, a cberub. Un–
der 1he GOVERNMENT o• Ooo the eanh
was
1\lled
with wonderful PEACI!, HAPPI·
NESS and JOY. But ultimately Lucifer led
bis angels into rebellion. The GOVERN·
MENT OF Goo was rejected. no longer
10
by
Hetben
w
Armstrong
HOW could the great God, who is spirit reproduce
Himself out of PHYSICAL MATTER? And why the
vast superiority of human MINO over animal brain?
enforced. The eanh as
a
result became
answer. One scientist. earning his Pb.D.
waste and empty, in confusion and utter
in the new science of brain research,
darl:.ness.
concluded that, of ne<:essity. tbere has to
Then in six days God renewed the
be sorne nonphysieal componen! in
face of the eanh. During this "crea11on
human brain 1hat does not exist in
ani-
week" of Oenesis 1, God formed the
mal brain. But most seienüsts wiU not
first llfe forms that reproduced them·
admit the possibility of the existence of
selves - the flora, plant Life. ln plant life
the nonphysicaL
there was simple reproduction. without
What other explanation is there? Ac-
consciousness - no brain.
tually, outside
of
the ver¡ slight degree
Next God created the fauna - animal
of physical superiority o human brain.
life on eanh, in which He placed BRAIN,
science has NO explanation. due to un-
with
a
limited conseiousness. yet witbout
willingness to concede even the possi-
tbe thinking. reasoning. decision-making
bility ofthe spiritual.
process. and witbout etbical. moral or
Wben roan refuses to admit even the
spintual capabilities.
very
eJÓstence of htS own Maker, be
Finally
ea
me the creation of MAN -
shuts out of his mind vast oceans of ba-
created
tn
Ood's own image and likeness
sic lrue knowledge, fact, and UNDER·
- form and shape - but oomposed of STANOINO. When he substitutes FA8LE
physical MATI.ER from tbe eanh. MAN,
for truth, he is, of a ll men, MOST tONO·
to be
born
ultimately into the
very
Ooo
RANT, though he professes himself to be
FAMILY, was designed to have GODLY·
wi.se.
type MINO - abi lity to think, 10 reason,
When man, in tbe name of science.
to make
choice~"alfd~decisions,
capab1e - denies hi.s Maleer.
he
blinds bis núnd to
of forming ethical, moral and spiritual
wbat he
is,
wby he is, where he
is
going.
auitudes.
and wba1 is THE WAY! No wonder this
God's PUilPOSE in creaúng man
IS
to
world is 611ed with evils! There has to be
reproduce Himself- witb sucb perfect
a CAUSE for every el!'ecJ!
spiritual CHARACTElt as ONI.YGoo pos-
But wheo our miods are opened
to
the
sesses - who WILL NOT and therefore
knowledge of our Goo and His pur-
CANNOT ever SIN
(1
John
3:9).
poses. tben we have glorious access to
Such perfect spiritual aod holy char-
lhe V8St MISSJNO OtMENSION OF 1\NOWI.-
acter cannot be created by fiat.
lt
mus1
eooe: the very knowledge th at God is
be
developed,
a nd that requires TIME and
th'e divine fAMILY - that God is REPRO·
EXI'El\IENCE.
OUCING HIMSELP - that He is using
Such character is the ability in asingle
MA
TTER
in tbe process, and that He
enúty to come lo comprebend and dis-
opens our understanding to
vast
vistas
únguish tbe true values from the false.
of new knowledge.
the right way from tbe wrong. to c:hoose
So
now CONSJDU. God is composed
the rigbt and reject the wrong. and, Wllh
of SPIRIT. God ÍS CllEATOl\, DESIONER,
power of WIU.. to
DO
the right &od re·
1\ULER, EDUCATOR. God has SUPREME
sist the evil.
MINO. He
JS
tbe PEilFECT HOLY ANO
Animals
are
equipped with BRAIN and
1\IGHTEOUS CHAilACTtll!
ins tinct. But lhey do not have power to
But He is using material substance
understand and choose moral and spiri-
from tbis physicnl earth with which to
1ual va lues or to develop perfect spiri-
REPRODUCE HIMSELF. Out of physical
tual CHAI\ACTER. Animals have BRAIN,
EARTH He has formed MAN in God's im·
but no inteUect - instinet, but no ability
age and likeness (forrn and shape).
to develop HOI.Y aod GODLY CHAI\AC·
But
if
man is to 8ECOME God, in tbe
TER.
process of God reproducing Himself,
And that piaures tbe transcendental
then the CHARACTER that is to be buih in
DtFFERENCE between animal BllAtN and
us wusT emanate from God - and the
human MINO.
spirit
Ul'E
that is 10 be ours also must
But WHAT CAUSES tbat vast differ-
emanate from Goo.
ence?
In other words. God has had to plan
Thcre is vinually no difference in de· to
bridge the gap
between MATTER (of
sign. shape, nnd contruction between
which MAN is now wholly composed)
anima.! brain and human brain. The and SPIRIT (which God now is. and man
brains of elephants, whales, and dol- must become). Maner is
NOT
spirit -
pbtns are larger than human braUI, and cannot
be
converted into spirit.
HOW,
the chimp's brain is slightly sma.ller.
then. can God change mortal material
Qualitaúvely the human brain may be
MAN into immortal, spirit-oomposed
very slightly superior, but not enou$h to
Goo?
remotely acoount for the dill'erence in
Man is oomposed
wholly
of MATTEJt.
output.
God says:
~
And the ETI!RNAL God
What, then, can account for the vast
formed roan of the dust of the groun<1.
diJference? Science cannot adequately and breatbed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living soul"
(Gen. 2:7). MAN was made out of the
dust of the ground. He receives his tem–
po~"MY
human life from air. breatbed in
and out of his nostrils. His
lift
is in the
blood (Gen.
9:4, 6).
But tbe lifeblood is
oxidiud by breathing air, even
as
gaso–
line 1n the carburetor of an automobile.
Therefore breath
is
the "breath of life"
even
as
the life tS in the blood.
Notice carefully that MAN. made
wbolly ofmauer, BECAMt: a
living seu/
as
soon as the Bl\EATH gave
him
his tempo·
rary physical life. Tbe scripture does
NOT sny "immortal" soul. Man does not
havt
an "immortal" soul. He
1S
a soul
as
soon as physical
LJI'E
enters him.
The Hebrew word for
~soul"
is
nt–
phLsh.
In Genesis
1:2(}.24,
anirnals are
caUed
ntplttsh
three úmes - only the
translalors translated lhe Hebrew word
thcre
..
crmrur~
.
•,
Animals bave the same
temporary physio-ehernical existence
as
man . 8oth die the same death
(Eccl. 3 : 19-20).
"'!'he soul that sinneth. it shall die' '
(Ezek.iel 18:4). Again, God's Word snys:
"The soul thnt sinneth, it shall d1e"
(Euk. 18:20). Adam was
a
soul, and
God said to him, in regard to lhe tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. " . .
10
tbe day that thou eatest tbereof thou
shah surely die" (Gen. 2 : 17). Bul Satan
denied this, and Adam and Eve believed
Satan. as most of bumanity has ever
sinoe.
So Jet
U$
UNDHRSTAND! Man
is
fLESH
and &LOOO - composed wholly of MAT·
TER - and that living matter
/S
a
living
soul. The souL is composed of physical
MATTEI\, nOI Spirit.
Now
1
have explained that human
brain is almost identical 10 animal brain.
But man was made in the form and
shape ofGod, to have a special relalion–
ship w1th
God -
to have the potenúal of
being
born
into the FAMTLY ofGod. And
God is a SPIRIT (John
4:24).
To make it possible lo
bridgt tht gop
- or to make the transition from MAN,
composed wholly ofMATTER, intoSPIRtr
beings in God's kingdom. then to be
composed whoUy of spirit. and at the
same úme to give MAN a MINO hke
God's - God put
a
spirit
in each
human.
lo Job 32:8. we read. "Tbere
tS
a sptnt
in man : and the inspiration of tbe Al·
mighty gtveth them understanding."
This is a great TRUTH, understood by
but very few.
'
1 call this spirit the HUMAN spirit, for it
is
IN
each human,
even
though ít
is
SPll\IT ESSENCE and DO! matter. lt is NOT
a spírit
ptrson
or being.
lt
is not the
MAN, but spirit essence
IN
the man.
1t
1s
NOT a
soul
-
the physical human is a
soul. The human spirit imparts the
pow'r of
JI'ITUL~CT
10 lhc human
bram
The human spirit does oot supply
human
LJFE -
the human LJFH is in the
physicaJ BLOOD, oxidized by the BREATH
oflife.
WEEK ENDINO SEPTEMBER 6, 197S
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