1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org
1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org 1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org
THE AUTHOR OF LIFE 25 tional Office of Vital Statistics, that "the average life span in this country U .S .A. lengthened from 66 .8 years in 1947 to 67 .2 years in 1948 . . . . The average length of life in 1900 was 49 .2 years . Thus average life expectancy has lengthened eighteen years in approximately half a century . The decline in the death rate since 1940 has been greatest for children from 1 to 4 years of age ." New York Times, Feb . 16, 1950 That represents what modern medical and social science is supposed to have accomplished for the United States, one of the most progressive countries of the world . An increase of 18 years in the average age-length accomplished in fifty years! Unaided by modern science, the ark-builder Noah, who saw life on both sides of the global flood, lived to be 950 years old . Methuselah his grandfather died in the flood year at the age of 969 years .-Genesis 9 :28 ; 5 :27 . 8 Modern science cannot be depended upon to build man up to live forever . Look at the condition finally of any person whom it may have aided to live to a ripe old age beyond the general average! Modern science does not make for everlasting life . What with its development of bacteriological warfare and its invention of atomic bombs and the hydrogen or "hell" bomb and other weapons of mass destruction, modern science makes rather for death . It contradicts its own benevolent claims by prostituting itself to the aims of this world . Modem science is not the all-essential thing of which to gain knowledge in order to en- 8 . Why is modem science not the essential thing to learn?
26 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE" joy everlasting life. The warning to a faithful servant of God in the first century applies equally to us today : "0 Timothy, guard what is laid up in trust with you, turning away from the empty speeches that violate what is holy and from the contradictions of the falsely called knowledge' . For making a show of such knowledge some have deviated from the faith ."-1 Timothy 6 :20,21, NW. 9 All the investigations by modern science into the heavens, the earth and the atom prove that the entire universe was created by a great scientist of depthless wisdom. That great scientist of the universe is Jehovah God the Creator . The truth expressed by his wise Son Jesus Christ remains unchanged today : What means everlasting life to us dying humans is our knowing first of all the heavenly Father, "the only true God ." As the Father he is the Life-giver . This great Architect of the universe is eternal in scientific knowledge . He has the know-how and the power to create, yes, re-create life by a resurrection and to protect and renew and preserve it forever . His offer of everlasting life to mankind is the only one on which to hope. That offer is through the one whom he sent from heaven into this earth, Jesus Christ . This one we must cultivate a knowledge of also . ' 9 You have the opportunity of life everlasting in the righteous new world of happiness and peace . But there is an enemy opposed to your getting it . You must be warned of him . 9 . So what truth concerning gaining knowledge remains unchanged? 1o. What opportunity do you have? Of whom must you be warned?
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26 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"<br />
joy everlasting life. The warning to a faithful servant<br />
of God in the first century applies equally<br />
to us today : "0 Timothy, guard what is laid up<br />
in trust with you, turning away from the empty<br />
speeches that violate what is holy and from the<br />
contradictions of the falsely called knowledge' .<br />
For making a show of such knowledge some have<br />
deviated from the faith ."-1 Timothy 6 :20,21, NW.<br />
9 All the investigations by modern science into<br />
the heavens, the earth and the atom prove that<br />
the entire universe was created by a great scientist<br />
of depthless wisdom. That great scientist of<br />
the universe is Jehovah God the Creator . The<br />
truth expressed by his wise Son Jesus Christ remains<br />
unchanged today : What means everlasting<br />
life to us dying humans is our knowing first of all<br />
the heavenly Father, "the only true God ." As the<br />
Father he is the <strong>Life</strong>-giver . <strong>This</strong> great Architect<br />
of the universe is eternal in scientific knowledge .<br />
He has the know-how and the power to create, yes,<br />
re-create life by a resurrection and to protect and<br />
renew and preserve it forever . His offer of everlasting<br />
life to mankind is the only one on which<br />
to hope. That offer is through the one whom he<br />
sent from heaven into this earth, Jesus Christ .<br />
<strong>This</strong> one we must cultivate a knowledge of also .<br />
' 9 You have the opportunity of life everlasting<br />
in the righteous new world of happiness and peace .<br />
But there is an enemy opposed to your getting it .<br />
You must be warned of him .<br />
9 . So what truth concerning gaining knowledge remains<br />
unchanged?<br />
1o. What opportunity do you have? Of whom must you<br />
be warned?
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