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46 graveyards in their disastrous, feeble, futile efforts to fly! And if true - the fossil record would ABOUND with such evidence. You would see fossi l lizards with just a T INY H INT of a feather, g rowing from one elbow. You'd see dozens of other strange creatures, with feathers growing from thei r tails, their knees, and their heads. T here would be broken, sprained, bedraggled, watersoaked feathers ALL THROuGH the fossi l record - si nce evolution would have you believe the development from scales to feathers took MI LLiONS and M IL LIONS of years! But why not look at it in REVERSE? What if, as the first "feathers" made their appearance on li zards, they were UNWELCOME? H ow would YOU feel about a stupid feather growing from your tailbone? Probably - a little weird I Probably, you'd PLUCK IT OUT! (After aU, people shave and shave and shave-and still the hai r g rows back - and people burn, and electrocute, and shave, and pluck, and even remove whol e patches of skin, just to get rid of unsightly body hair.) How wou ld allY self-respecting, slithery li zard feel when he suddenly found FEAT IIERS on his forearms? Think of what kind of feathers they'd be, with him dragging them in and out of holes in the rocks, over logs, into lakes and rivers, up thorn bushes, and across sandy deserts! He'd probably tear the things out with his teeth in sheer frustration! A greatly magnified artist's view of a feather! Each tiny member firmly inte rlocks with the other, making the feather one of the most powerfully built, yet lightest structures! © Arnbllnodor Colle9f1 Tbe PLAIN TRUTH Then the evolutionary process (which has not been proved) would have been halted at this ridiculous "stage," and to this day, you would observe dejected lizards, pulling at broken "feathers," or trying to rub them off against brush and rocks. No - evolutionary thought just DOES NOT I·IAVE THE ANSWEH for the true origin of /l ight! T he fantasticall y complex, beautiful, inspiring species of birds around lIS, with their breathtak ing ability, their almost incredible migratory powers, and their SP.ECIALLY built bodies just CANNOT BE EXPLAINED by millions of tons of MISSING EVIDENCE! Vast DIFFERENCE Between Birds and Reptiles! Certainly, many creatures lay eggs. Crocodi les do. Birds do. But so do duck-billed platypuses, and so do insects. But here, the simi larities stop! The huge, powerfully bui lt, scaled and armor-plated reptiles, with their gigantic jaws, their meaty, bony, powerful tails, and their weathered, wrinkled, thick leather-like hides are about as FAR from being the "closest living rdati ves" to our birds as they can be! Think of it! Birds have tiny, fragile, porous AIn-F RAM E skeletal structures. They have air sacs through their bodies, which act as "extra lungs." They have a fa/lid heartbeat, with rapid metabolism. They have a myriad of different kinds of beaks, claws, wings, and heads - each for a SET, SP ECIFIC and very SPECIAL PURPOSE ! Man wi [1 stop at nothing - no matter HOW preposterous it seemsin his attempt to explain the marvelous CREAT ION without a great and Wonderful CREATOR! One of the GREAT PROOFS OF GOD is DESIGN! Tt is FAR more logical to point to egg-laying, bony frames, and various simi larities in characteristics in ALL creatures, as proof of ONE GREAT DESIGNER, who util ized ONE GREAT MASTER VLAN in H is Creation, than to say one "evolved" from the other ! When you view a row of simi lar buildings, YOll observe they were de- January, 1967 signed by the SAME ARCH ITECT - you don't reason the little ones "evolved" from the big ones. And when you see the similarities in "nature" YOLI arc seeing the SAME SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH! One GREAT AR CHITECT designed ALL LIFE - CREATED IT - PUT IT ON THIS EARTH FOR A GREAT PURPOSE! What a truly breathtaking study it would be if, throughout ornithology, the wondrous, warm, loving, and oftentimes HUMOROUS wisdom of GOD were taught to our children, in place of the empty suppositions of the no-God theories of today! Next month, we' ll see some of the positive MARVELS in the bird world and you'll be impired by them! ~od from the Editor (Colltinued from page 2) chest. It is referring to man's NATURE - h is attitude, or spirit, or tendency of MIND. It is referring to his natural CHARA CTER! But HOW does God go about changing this deceitful, wicked NATUREthis "heart" - this attitude of MIND? WHAT is the Gospel Message for doing that - for giving "salvation"? Jesus began His Gospel Ministry and teaching, saying, "11le time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: REPENT ye, and BELIEVE the Gospel" (Mark 1:l, 14-l5). Two conditions H e said WE must perform, REPENT, and BELIEVE! On the great day of Pentecost when Peter had received God's H oly Spirit, he explained the WAY of salvation: "REPENT, and be baptized everyone of YOll in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:38). Again, same teaching: Two conditions - REPENT, and BE LI EVE, To "be baptized" is the outward ceremony of the inward BELIEVING. Example: The eunuch said to Philip, "See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, if thou
January, 1967 BE LIEVEST with all thine heart, thou mayest" (Acts 8:36-37). Yes, TWO conditions. That, WE must do. Then GOD does the "saving" - the converting. God GIVES His Holy Spirit. But now HOW does one REPENT ? What does the word "repent" MEAN? The dicti onary definition is, "To change one's MIND." "Godly sorrow worketh repentance" (II Cor. 7: 10). This is done in and by the MIND! Paul was concerned about the MIND. He said: "Let this MIND be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2 :5). How does one BELIEVE, in order to be "saved"? One must BELiEVE with the MIND. The very last words of the apostle Peter's letters were : "But grow in grace, and in the KNOWLEDGE of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" ( II Pet. 3: IS). What is the FOUNDATIO N of knowledge - the Jtarting approach to wisdom? "The fear of the ETERNAL is the beginning of wisdom: a good UNDER STAN DING have all they that do 'His commandments: His praise endureth forever" (Psalm 111 olD). Speaking of the Spiritual GIFTSwhich God g ives to His begotten children - to the heirs of salvation - we read this INSTRUCTION to the MIND: "Now co ncerning spiritual g ifts, Brethren, I would not have you igaorant." Through Paul, GOD says He does not want us to be IGNORANT - but UNDERSTAN DI NG and KNOWLEDGABLE of MIND! Continue: "... Wherefore I give you to UNDERSTAND, ... Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit .... For to one is given by the Spirit the word of WISDOM; to another the word of KNOWLEDGE by the same Spirit; to another FA ITH by the same Spirit ..." ( I Cor. 12 :1, 3, 4, 8-9). The MOSt IMPORTANT of all the spiritual gifts which God gives His people are, first of all, WISDOM"; second in im ~ portance. KNOWLEDGE; third, FAITH. These all are imparted to the MIND ! Jesus Christ said that we should ac· tua lly LIVE BY "every Word of God" - that is, every word in the Bible (Luke 4 :4). How may we do that, unless we allow God's Word to speak to, and instruct Our MINDS ? The PLAIN TRUT H What does STUDY mean? Do we "STUDY" with our MINDS - or our hearts? We find th is INSTRUCTION and TEACHING: "STUDY to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be as hamed, rightly dividing the Word of T ruth" ( II T im. 2:15) . That is a COMMAND! One can STUDY, and rightly divide the Word of God O171y with his MIND! God teaches - yes, COMMANDS ! that the Scriptures are to be STUDlED with the MIND. Otherwise, how could we know God's WILL for us? So we find this command : " Wherefore be ye not unwise, but UNDERSTANDING what the will of the Lord is" (Eph. 5: 17) . What a tragedy that so much of this world is DECEIVED. MILLIONS have been deceived into a FALSE "salvation," inoculated with the spiritual poison that "salvation" and the "Gospel" are concerned on Iy with a sanctimonious mental anesthetic, shutting up the MIND to God's real TRU TH, accepting the counterfeit of a sentimental "feeling" of piety. And other MILLIONS have been conve rsely deceived into supposing that this ethereal impractica l, irrational superstition of these professing but deceived "Christians" constitutes the teaching of the Bible. So these millions, in va nity wanting to be considered rational, and educated - regarding themselves as thinkers - throw . away the Bible without so much as an examination of its co ntents. BOTH, these "pious" sentimentalists, and these "intellectuals," are DECEIVED! Going off in opposite directions - to the opposite extremes from the TRUTH, they are both headed for the same ultimate destination, unless there can be a mind-opening! The Bibl e is the very SOURCE of RATIONALISM, of basic TRUTH. Also it is the very SOURCE of the only TRUE Gospel and genuine SALVATION. Surely it is the Book almost NOBODY knows! What, then, IS the Holy BIBLE? It is the revelation of that BASIC all· important knowledge which is otherwise utterly inaccessible to the mind of man - the knowledge of WHAT man iSi of WHY man is; of the true va lues; of THE WAY to peace, happiness, abundant well-being, suc· cess, and of ETERNAL life. It is the FOUNDATION of all knowl· edge - scienti fic, physical, and spiri tual. Not the sum-total of knowledgefa r, far from it! It is the Jtarti11g poinl - the BASIS, providing the prop· er approach toward the acquisition of knowledge that is discoverable by man. It contains history, prophecy, wisdom, spiritual knowledge, TRUTH. No one can be properly ED UCATED except by and through it. No one can know the way to eternal li fe, except by what it contains. Yes, I REPEAT! - "the Gospel Message IS an educational Message !" It is RATIONAL ~ It MAKES SENSE! And it is REAL! Wid- our READERS SAY (Collti1med from imide front cover) old bogeyman ... it inclines me to the belief that there must be a government subsidy for printing this kind of anti Soviet propaganda." Man, Coventry. United Kingdom • For ye(lfS, The PLAIN T RUTH has wal'1led of a THIRD power bloc il1 the world which will sf(pe1'sede RlISsia as the greatest threat to peace.' A s a sle1lth l yolt receive an "F." GERMANY (Conli1l1led from page 22) ing power and urgency today. When are we going to WAKE UP? If we should fail to warn you of the meaning of world events, your blood would be on our heads! But you are being warned through the pages of the magazine you now hold in your hands! God requires YOII to decide whether to seek Him and His protection - or go the way of the world around you. God has provided a way of escape from the coming catastrophe. Will you heed' Before you do another thing, sit down and write for the free article : "There is a Way of Escape!" It will open your eyes to the truth! 47
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