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NO Goo in this vast universe worthy of
homage."
At least, so tbought a professed
atheist.
And the turned-off youth of today?
They, too, wonder. Wrote one young
teen-ager,
"l
am a teen-ager, a child of
the 'age of skepticism' . . . frankly,
I
am
ANGRY AT Goo for choosing this gener–
ation for the manifestation of His
wrath."
Millions of teens, having seen the
blatant hypocrisy of much of pro–
fessing "Christianity" - the "do as I
say, don't do as
I
do" generation of
once-a-week listeners and "never-doers"
- have simply rejected the traditional
"mainstream" of "Christian thought."
Trouble is, they THINK that by
rejecting many of the more com–
monplace religious denominations, they
have automatically rejected the Bible,
and Christ, and God.
Not so.
But teens wonder, too. Do
condiúom
in this nuclear-armed, overpopulated,
polluted, war-sick, disease-ridden,
tragedy-filled world indicate any suc–
cesses
tvhalever
for the traditional
"Christian" struggle?
Or doesn't it frankly look like Satan
WJNS ALL THE BATTLES?
During ·world War Il, a young Ger–
man soldier wrote to bis home pastor
from Stalingrad:
" In Stalingrad, to put the guestion of
God's existence means to DENY it ... I
have searched for God in every crater,
in every destroyed house, on every cer–
ner, in every friend, in every foxhole,
and in the sky.
God did
1101
show
Himself,
even though my heart cried
for Him.
"lf
there should be a God, He
is
only
with you in the hymnals and the pray–
ers, in the pious sayings of the priests
and pastors, in the ringing of the bells
and the fragrance of incense, but NOT
IN STALINGRAD."
And so a youth, caught up in the
shock of war, searched through tradi–
tional avenues for God, and couldn't
find Him.
"The Invisible God"
What about the claims of the atheist?
Would a world "nearer our hearts
desire" without suffering and death be
The
PLAIN TRUTH
the only
proof
of a "God worthy of
homage" in this vast universe?
The greatest question in all this is
"DOES Goo EXIST
?"
Is there a God ?
If
so, can you PROVE JT? Is God a
personal being, who hears, and answers
prayers?
What is His NATURE, if He exists?
Is He a loving, merciful, forgiving
God, who
is
interested in PREVENTING
tragedy? Does He PROTECT humans?
Does He STOP WARS?
If
you haven't yet proved whether
Goo JS, then you need to write imme–
diately for our booklets on
Does God
Exist?
and
The Proof of the Bible.
Also, reguest sorne of our colorfully
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lV
hale of a Tale, A T heory fo1· the Birds
and
Fishy Stories Abottt Evoltttion.
Science PROVES there is a God.
It
is
absolutely unshakable -
the ONLY
intelligent answer. A creation demands
a Creator. Life OEMANDS a Lifegiver.
Power, energy, force - all demand a
soURCE of power. Design is not
through randomness or caprice, but by a
Designer. A g reat
S11stainer
KEEPS it al!
working. Laws REQUIRE a Lawgiver.
And God has NOT Jeft this world with–
out a witness. He has given Hls WoRD.
And the WoRD of God, the Bible,
stands PROVEO.
God's Word is the
handbook
about
human nature, the book that explains
about life and the way it should be
Jived .
While it sounds utterly impossible,
the
amwers
to the perplexing guestions
of youth, the bewilderment of Peter, the
f
rustrated anger of the soldier at Stalin–
grad, and the cynical atheist, are very
plainly revealed in God's word!
God explains WHY He permits acci–
dents, sickness, murder, and wars! He
plainly reveals WHY humans suffer and
shows WHY HE DOES NOT PREVENT it.
What are the Causes
of Human Troubles?
But first, what
caJtsed
little Tommy's
death? WHY the problems? WHY war?
For every
effect
there
is
a CAUSE:
That's a living principie. There must
be
causes
for effects - action to bring
about reaction.
WHY was the little boy struck by the
January
1971
automobile? Perhaps the answers are
simple, if tragic; perhaps they're very
involved. First, wbat about Tommy's
tra ining? Had he been taught
never
to
run into the street? W hat type of dis–
cipline had he received during bis
young life? What about protective
fences? Wbat about speed restrictions
in the neighborhood? An automobile
was involved. But automobiles are not
constmcted
by men whose whole pur–
pose is the SAFETY of other human
beings.
Assembly-line production - with
built-in obsolescence, huge engines
and fl imsy bodies in ever-changing
shapes - does not demonstrate care–
fully hand-crafted machinery that is
totally SAFE. Perhaps the automobile
had defective brakes. Perhaps the driver
had been drinking oc was under the
influence of drugs. Even heavy doses of
smog can markedly slow clown a
motorist's reactions in an emergency.
So can pain killers, like aspirin. And,
strange as it may seem, even an
arg11-
ment at home
could have so affected the
driver of the auto that he was driving
angrily, at unreasonable speed!
So there were many, many unknown
factors involved in the accident that
killed little Tommy. Let's ask little
Peter's guestion again - and see
spe–
cific
answers.
Peter asked God (or d1allenged God
because his
mother
had asked) to
remo11e the effect
of perhaps many,
many voluntary human actions. Were
the two boys chasing one another? Had
Tommy run into the street to retrieve a
ball? Was he actually attempting to see
how
el
ose he could come
to
the car?
( Very real cases are on record of such
pranks; and one, of which
1
know per–
sonally, resulted in the death of a
child).
The
ca1tses
could have been myriad.
If
you wish to read, with your own
eyes, some of the most nearly
tmbe/ie–
vable
advice you can imagine con–
cerning children's ventures into busy
streets, you should write immediately
for your free copy of our book,
The
Plain Tmth Abo11t Chiid Rearing.
Peter's letter didn't list any causes for
the accident. Perhaps Peter's mother
could have REMOVED THE CAUSE. We'!l