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Didn'tBelieve
What
HeSaid
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he more 1 travel around the earth, the more
J
see the sickcning conditions in the world
today, and the more 1 glean from history, the
more convinced I become that the real root
cause
of all of humanity's troubles and evils may be
summed up in six words: "They didn't believe what He
said." And they still don't believe what He says today!
Suppose you had suddenly come into consciousness
-just now having been suddenly created the first human
being. Your Maker is sitting beside you, revealing to you
viral knowledge
so direly necessary for you.
He tells you that He has made you and the wife He
has created beside you so that you can reproduce your
kind. ln due time you will populate the earth with
millions of your offspring.
He reveals to you that He has provided for you a
WAY
OF UFE
that will
CAUSE
and produce
PEACE
between
individuals, groups, and nations that shall arise. This
way of life is the result of following an inexorable
spiritual law as automatic and relentless in continua]
action as the law of gravity, which He demonstrates to
you. lt is the basic law of His government by which He
rules the vast universe He has created. lt is the law of
love. lt will produce peace, happiness, joy, abundance,
universal prosperity, and if you and your children choose
it as your way of life, He will give you also the gift of
eterna! life, which you do not yet possess.
This way of life is symbolized by a tree, called the
"tree of life," in the midst of the beautiful garden where
He has placcd you. But also, in case you decide to
reason out your own way of life- taking to yourself the
decision and knowledge of what is good and what is
evil- then there is a second vcry special symbolic tree
which also produces fruit. That tree is the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. But your Maker
FORBIDS
you to take of this trce, which means disobedience to His
law, and if you choose to disobey and take of that tree,
you shall die, since the penalty of
SIN
(the transgression
of His
LA
w)
is
DEATII.
Would you
BELIEVE
what your Maker said? Would
you?
The PLAIN TRUTH March 1979
Adam and Eve didn't.
God their Creator had given them His way of life. lf
they rejected it, turning to their own way, it would bring
sorrow, curses, unhappiness, suffering- and death!
But Satan, in the symbolic form of a serpent, carne
along and said God lied. They would not surely die.
They were immortal souls. He reminded them of the
superior human minds they had. They could work out
their own way of life- and after all, could they believe
God? They only had His word for it.
They must have said, "Yes, that's right! After all, how
can we be sure? All we have is God's word for it. We'd
better
do an experiment,
and be sure! Let's put it to the
test. Let's
take
to
ourse/ves
the decision- the knowledge
of what is good and what is evil."
They made the first scientific experiment. Even today,
the scientific method rejects revelation as a source of
knowledge and understanding, and utilizes observation,
experimentation, and human reason.
Adam and Eve rejected divine revelation as the
foundational basis of knowledge, as does modern science
today. They didn't believe what their Creator said! And
it was "when the woman saw [observation] that the tree
[of the forbidden fruit] was good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to
make one wise [human reason], she took of the fruit
thereof [she did the experiment), and did eat, and gave
also unto her husband with her; and he did eat" (Gen.
3:6).
Sorne 4,000 years later, God sent Jesus Christ, His
Son, into the world with a message from heaven. This
message was essentially the same as He had instructed
the first two humans. lt had to do with God's
government and rule over them, of His way of life that
would cause every good, and with the gift of eterna( life.
But again, humans (with few exceptions- 120 in all)
did
not believe
what He said! They called Him a liar!
Let me quote: "As he [Jesus] spake these words,
many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews
which believed on him, l f ye continue in my word [His
MESSAGE],
then are ye my
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