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"Remember matter decays -
CHANG ES. Spiril DOES NOT CHANGE.
The human spirit acls as a sculptor's
mold. God gives it (in lhe resurrec–
lion) a new. different body (1 Cor.
15:38)
as pleases Him. But the spirit
MOLO shall have preserved the
MEMORY, the CHARACTER developed
- good or evil - lhe personalily, lhe
precise FORM ANO SHAPE, even lO lhe
fingerprints.
"So much. briefly. for lhat.
"So lo prepare for lhe crealion of
man. God firsl RENEWED THE FACE
OF THE EARTH by supernalura)
power (Ps.
104:30).
Here Lucifer.
now having his name changed to
Satan ('Enemy.' 'Adversary'), must
by divine LAW remain on the throne
of lhe earlh UNTIL a successor has
been qualified,
and been inducted
inlo office. God reslrained Satan
from making contact with the man
and woman He had created - UN–
TJL He could put into their minds
lhe KNOWLEDGE of God's govern–
ment, based on His LAW - the WAY
of LOVE - or. as
1
somelimes say it
for simplicily. 'GIVE' inslead of
'GET.'
"This is symbolized in the Bible
(Gen. 2 and 3) by the two trees in
lhe Garden of Eden. The tree of
LJFE symbolized THE WAY of Goo's
GOVERNMENT - based on Goo'S
LA
w
OF LOVE.
lt
symbolized also
God's Holy Spirit. which. received
by a human and
added ro the human
spirit,
impregnated man with Goo–
life - eterna! life. The tree of the
knowledge of good and evil - if its
fruit was taken and ealen by man -
represenled man's laking to HIMSELF
the knowledge of whal is oooo and
whal is EVIL - lhat is. deciding for
himself which is the RJGHT WAY of
life, and which is the EVIL way. God
had explained lhat HIS LAW ofLOVE
was the right way that would lead to
PEACE. happiness, cooperative effort
and achievement, and resultant uni–
versal abundant well-being.
"God explained all about His
GOVERNMENT and His LAW, trans–
gression of which is SIN and leads
only Lo EVIL resulls. Otherwise He
could not have pronounced on hu–
manity the DEATH SENTENCE for dis–
obedience.
"Then God allowed Sata n to
present HIS WAY - the SELF-cen–
tered way of vanity; lust and greed;
The
PLAIN
TRUTH
March 1977
envy and jealousy: competition with
st rife, violence, murder. war; resent–
ment againsl aulhorily.
"God had freely offered to GIVE
of everything in lhe Garden
except
the one tree whose fruit would bring
evil, suffering and death lOman.
"Satan immedialely attacked
God's WORD- His veracily.
"'ls God so loving - so generous
- as He pretends?' challenged Salan
sneeringly. 'Did He nol hold back
one lree for Himself?'
"'He said we may eal of every
tree in lhe Garden .' answered
Mother Eve. 'excepl that one tree.
For, He said, if you lake of il, you
shall surely DIE.'
"'You shall NOT surely die.' de–
nied Satan fla tly. 'God lied lo you.
You have
·only His Word.for it!
You
have no PROOF! You are an IMMOR–
TAL souL. You shall not
ever
die.
God deceived you. He knows that
when you eal lhat forbidden fruil,
your eyes wj)) be OPENED lO "NEW
TRUTH" - il will give you great ex–
citing lhrills of intellecl ; you will
COme into SCIENTlFlC KNOWLEDGE.'
"This appealed lo her intellectual
VANTTY.
"She utilized the tools of MODERN
SC tENCE: First, she rejected the
WORD OF Goo as the SOURCE of
basic knowledge. She DISBELJEVED
WHAT Goo SAJO - as mankind has
done ever since. Second. she used
observation. When she 'saw that the
tree was good for food. and that it
was pleasant Lo the eyes, and a tree
desired to make one wise, she took
of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also un to her husband with
her; and he did eat' (Gen.
3:6).
"The tools of modero science are
1)
rejection of revelation as the basic
source of knowledge,
2)
observation.
3)
experimentation,
4)
reason. Eve
(and Adam) rejected Goo's WoRo,
used observation, reason, and then
EXPERIMENTED. As a result of that
experiment, they brought human
suffering, sorrow, anguish, con–
fusion, unsolvable problems and
mountainous evils into the human
world.
They died!
And death passed
upon all men (Rom.
5: 12).
"There. Mr. Chairman. was lhe
START - the source and CAUSEofall
YOUR unsolvable problems here in
the largest country on earth - prob–
lems you must admit are too over-
whelming for your exalted abilities
to handle. That was the START. Hu–
manity has
cominued
taking TO IT–
SELF the knowledge of good and evil
- of the right way and the wrong –
and
what
IWI'e
we?
Eight hundred
million of you think Communism is
the best WAY. Three hundred mi l–
lion Russians think Russian Com–
munism is best. Severa! hundred
more millions in the United States.
Weste rn Europe and elsewhere
think our form of democracy is best.
" Buddhists think they have the
r ight religion. Confucians think
theirs is right. Moslems are sure
theirs is right. Christians think all
olhers are wrong. and only theirs is
right.
"WHAT HAVE
we.
Chairman
Mao? CONFUSION, CHAOS. human
suffering. over half of all humanity
in abject POVERTY. living in filth and
squalor, over half illiterate. In af–
fluent countries. the rich getting ri–
cher, the poor getting poorer. And
al!
seem UNHAPPY. We have wars –
both civil and internalional - all
over lhe earth. We have violence in
every country. We have halred, re–
sentment, bitterness. We have UN–
REST, FRUSTRATION - NO REAL
HOPE! Yel you human leaders keep
coming up with NEW 'isms' - new
varieties of government - always
pos ing as BENE'FACTORS Of th e
people. Bul conditions
grow worse
and worse -
and the world is headed
now at increasing speed into the
vorlex of
the supreme world crisis at
the close o.f this age of man-made
civilization."
Chairman Mao:
"You present a
NEW fictitious prehistory back–
ground - a clever and even
lhoughtful - if nonsensical - chain
of evenls to explain man's plight.
But BE POSITIVE, Mr. Armslrong.
You have given me no solution -
no hope whatsoever."
Myse!f'
"Not so fa r, Chairman
Mao. So far
1
have given you the
CAUSE - and the prehistory lhat led
up to it. But now
1
bring you real
HOPE - the ONLY hope - for
you
yourself HAVE NONE!
Chairman Mao:
" I
have hope -
1
give MY VAST PEOPLE HOPE - and
Chinese Communism is that hope.
It
s imply takes TIME!"
Myself'
"Yes.
1
know. Mr. Chair–
man! And so do rhy countrymen
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