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He more 1 travel around the
eanh. the more
1
see the sicken–
ing conditions in the world
today, and the more
1
glean
from history, the more convinced
1
bocome that the real root
cause
ot 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 hav·
ing been suddenly created the first
human being . Your Maker is sitting
beside you. revealing to you
vital
knowledge
so direly necessary for
you to know.
He tells you that he has made you
and the wife he has created beside
you so that you can reproduce your
kind . In due time you will populate
the eanh with millions of your off·
spring.
He reveals to you that he has pro–
vided for you a
WAY OF uFE
that will
C-'USE
and produce
PEACE
between
individuals, groups, and nations that
shall arise. This way of lile is an
inexorable spiritual law as automatic
and rele;,tless in continua! action
as
the law ot gravity, which he demon–
strates to..you. lt is the basic law of
his government by which he rules
the vast universe he has created.
1t
is the law of !ove. lt will produce
peace, happi ness. joy, abundance,
universal prosperity. and if you and
your children choose it .as your way
of lile. he will gove you also the gift
of eterna! lile. which he has not yet
given you.
This way of life is symbolized by a
tree in the midst of the beautiful gar–
den where he has placad you, called
the " tree of l ile." 8ut also, in case
you decide to reason out your own
way of lile - taking to yourself the
decision and knowledge of what . is
good and what is evo!. then there is a
second very special symbolic treo
which also produces fruit . The tr11e
is the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil . 8ut your Maker
FORBIOS
you to take of this tree, which means
disobedience to his law, and if you
choose to disobey and take of that
troe. you shall die, since the penalty
of
SIN
(the transgression of his LAw)
is
DEATH.
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FllB. 22. 1975
Would you anteve what your
Maker saia? Would you?
Adam and Evo didn ' t.
God their Creator had given them
his way of lite. lf they rejected it.
turning to their own way, it would
bnng sorrow. curses, unhappiness.
suffering - and deathl
8ut Satan. in the symbolic form of
a serpent. came along and said God
lied. They would not surely die.
They were immonal souls. He re·
minded them' of the superior human
minds they had. They could work
out their own
way
of lile - and
alter all. could they believe God?
They only had his word for it.
They must havo said,
"Y
es. that's
rightl Alter all, how can we be sure?
All we have is God-'s word for it.
We' d better
make an experiment.
and be surel Let's put it to the test.
Let' s
take to ourselves
the decision
- the knowledge of what is good
and what is evil."
They made the first scientific ex·
periment. Even today. the scientific
method rejects revelation as a
source of knowledge and under·
standing.
Adam and Eve rejected divine rev–
elation, as does modern science
today. They didn 't believe what their
Creator said! And it was " when the
woman saw [observation] that the
trae [of the forbidden fruit] was
good for food, and that it was pleas–
ant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make one wise (human
reason], she took of the fruit thereof
[she made the experiment], and did
eat, and gave also unto her husband
with
'her:
and he did aat" (Genesis
3:6).
Some 4,000 years la ter. God sent
Jesus Christ, his son, into the world
with
a
message from haaven. This
message was essentoally the same as
he had instructed the first two
humans. lt had to do with God's
government and rulo over them, of
his way ot lile that would cause
every good and with the gift of eter–
na! lile.
8ut again, humans (with few ex·
ceptions -
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20 in all) did
not be·
/ieve
what he saidl They called him a
liarl
Let me quote: "As he [Jesus]
spake these words, many believed
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THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HE SAlO
on him. Then saod Jesus to those
Jews which believed on him.
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ye
continua in my word (his
MESSAGE],
then are ye my disciples indeed; and
ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free" (:John
8:30-32).
They answered hom sarcastically
and hostilely. They were Abraham's
descendants and were already free.
"1
know that ye are Abrahall)' s
seed," Yesponded Jesus.
"but
ye
seek
to
kili
me,
because my word
(his gospel message] hath no place
in you."
They believed on the messenger
- but they
rejectedhis message
-
they didn't believe what he saidl
Jesus continuad, "8ut now you
seek to kili me, a man that hath told
you the vuth (his gospel message],
which
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ha
ve
heard of God."
Later, Jesus said, "and because
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tell you the truth,
ye
believe
me
not
...
why
do ye not
believe
me?"
(verses 45-46.)
Befare the end of the first century
that message was suppressed and
another false "gospel" subst ituted
(Ga la tians
1
:6·
7 -
A.D. 58) .
Christ's message was not pro·
claimed to the world again until now
- in the latter hall of the twentieth
centuryl
8ut God saw to it that his word -
his message to mankind - was in·
spired and put into his
written
word.
But even today, the religions that
have appropriated Christ's name
preach about the
PERSON
of Christ
- about the
MESSENGER -
but
they do not prQ!:Iatm his
MESSAGE
- his
rrue
gospel.
And in many basic doctrines they
toach the
very
opposite of what
Jesus and the first apostles taugnt.
Volume
XL
No.
3
They condemn the customs Jesus
observed, and observe customs
Jesus and the Bible condemn.
Today, a professing adherent of
"Christianity" will say, in surprise,
"Why, you surely don't take the
8ible
/iterqlly,
do you?"
Humans have written books by
the millions. People read and take
them
literally. They take them to
mean what they say - and say
whatthey mean. 8ut the Bible? They
can't seem to
believe
it can mean
what it plainly says.
For example, the 8ible says, "The
wages of sin is
DEATH"
(Romans
6 :23) . But professong ChnStians will
say,
"But death doesn' t
mean
daath
- it means everlasting tite in hell
tire! " God s.o.vs"death" - but they
don't bel ieve what God
ssys -
and
since this is his word. they don't
believe what God saysl
·
This same verse
says,
also, " But
the gift of God is eterna! lile through
Jesus Christ our Lord." Do they be·
lieve eternallife is a gift of God? No,
they believe we are "immortal
souls" who already
hove
eterna! l ile.
8ut God says in his Word " the soul
that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel
1
8 :4) . God says that - but proles·
sing Christians don' t belieye what
he
says!
He
says
the same words
again in Ezekiel
1
8 :20 .
God said the same thing to Adam
and Eve: " ... in the day that thou
eatest thereof [of the treé ot the
knowledge of good and evil)
thou
shalt
surely
die"
(Genesis 2:
17) .
And in verse seven God says he
" forrned man out of the dust of the
ground. and breathed into his nos·
trils the braath of lile; and man
[made of the dust of the ground)
(Conclnutd on
pog•
IZ. CfJI. /)
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