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What Our Readers Say NO. 6Ed itionGeneral CommentsThe staff ofour counseling center had

the oppor tun ity to read the art i cl es inyou r February issue of The PLAINTRUTH. We commend you for yoursincere focus on the problems of today'syouth . We have found your publicationsto be a g rea t h el p in counseling andrehabilitating juvenile del inquents andwe wish to cont inue using your maga zine f or t he purpose of enlighten ing ou rm isguided youth . Will you please addou r name to you r mailing list?

Mar k 5.,Probation Counsellor,Salt Lake City , Utah

I am pleased to i nfo rm you t ha t ou r17-year-old college son is changing a lo tas a result of you r interesting articlesabout drugs , sex , th e new genera tionand so on . Formerly he j us t cut ou t th epictures for his p in-up album . Bu t oflate he has been having very lively discussions with me on these topics. He ad mits he has now " seen th e sense in yourmagazine ." Thank you very much foryour publ ications they help train mychi ld .

W .N .,Accra , Gh an a

Learn, Baby LearnThe art icle " Learn , Baby, Learn " in

the March-Ap r il issue was revealing tothe nat ion as a whole. It showed how theinfant's environmen t does definitely influence th e ch ild throughout his entirelife. Although I am no t a parent as yet , Ido enjoy children and hope to havesome of my own. Being prepared tobring up your children w it h optimism,preparation and opportunity is th e re sponsibil i ty of every parent. Could youplease send me your book, Th e PlainTruth A bout Child Rearing?

Ross W. ,Los Angeles , CaliforniaAbout MarijuanaI would like yo u to enlighten memor e abou t th e facts of marijuan a. In myschool over 70% of our bo ys are takingmarijuana and other types of drugs . Ismoke marijuana myself bu t can nolonger conceal th e fact that I am sadlydisappointed in it . Ju st un der half of ou rtu tors are on drugs .

Hector C ,Nigeria

In your last mag azine (March-April)you had an article about marijuana. I am14 and have been smoking it and hashish for 5 years , since I was 9. I agree thatgra ss makes yo u lazy, bu t after youar en 't stoned anymore, it 's all right. I ge t

stoned at l east 3 times a week and I amst ill able to maintain a B-C average inhigh schoo!. Grass is no t screwing upmy life . I am very happy living w it h mys is ter and her husband and my own boyfriend. So far I have no t had any ser iousproblems . So as you can see , I am an average, happy 14-year-old and I don 't likeyour magazine. Pl ease stop sending it tome .

Valerie L.,Palos Verdes Peninsula, California

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mos t i nt er es ti ng and fascin ating studythat I have ever had the good fortune tocome across. What amazes me mos t isthat you ask the questions and then tellme th e scriptures to read . . . then theBible supplies the answers. After doingthe first lesson and r eading the bookletssent to me , I observed you were absolutely righr.

B. T .,Nigeria

Big Bus iness: Fo r Peace or War?In The PLAIN TRUTH mag azine ofMa rch-April , Gary A lexander t reats th ehuge multinational corporations verykindly. He of fers a number of ar gumentsin their support, and th e article is worthreading. He quotes Peter Drucker (M en,Ideas, a n d Politics) as saying , "T his (themultinational corporation) may well beexactly what we need to de-fang th e nat ional ist monster. "The point is thi s, with in vestments allover the world , th e multinational com

pany could no t possibly be in favo r ofall -out war. I ag ree. But I am far fromconvinced th at the big supra-nat ionalout fi ts are always against " lit tl e wars ,"

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PersonalfromComing - A Peaceful WORLD TOMORROW

WHEN you can sit in your living roomat home, and right before your eyes,on telev ision , see an attempted assassination - an attempted MURDER - not simulated by actors, but the

REAL at tempted murder in cold blood , filmed by network TV news only a few hours before, especially ifyour young child ren are looking on - it makes youwonder w hat kind of world we are living in!

Today, presidents, heads of state, those running for politicaloffice, frequen tly are shot - or assassinated. In the WORLD ToMORROW not one will EVER be! That 's one difference between thissick and evil world toda y, and the world tomorrow - when therewill be, at last , ioorldpeace, universal prosperity, abundant wellbeing for ALL!

What 's the cause of all this violence, crime, inequality', moraldecay, wi th more than half the world's population living in ignorance, poverty, fi lth and squalor?

After the attempted assassination of Governor Wallace,ano ther candidate for Presiden t, Senator McGovern, said, " If wehave got ten to the po in t in this coun try where a public figure can 'texpress his views on the issues of th e day - can't seek the Presi-.dency of thi s country, wi tho ut being sho t, then I tremble for thefuture of our country." We'd better ALL tremble - and then lookahead toward a world AS IT SHOULD BE .Wha t abou t these would-be assassins? After the assassinationattempt on Governor W allace, a television commentator expressedthe opi nion tha t our socie ty is called sick and violent , bu t he didno t agree. It is only the occasional " loners" who are sick and dothe killings. His opinion is false - and passing the buck. This sickand violent society, with its new IMmorality, its permissiveness, itsspirit of rebellion , of greed, of envy, jealousy and hate, is producingth e loners.

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In This IssueWh at Our Readers

Say Inside Fron t CoverPersona l from the Editor .Spaceship Earth - Journeyto Oblivion? 2Advance News 8Why We re You Born? 10Radio Log .. .. .. . ........ .. . .. . 19An Arab Speaks toHis Peop le 20What You Can Do 29The Missing Dimension inthe Study ofHuman Behavior 30"Ten Reasons Why I Tithe" 35The Big Question .Survival 4 1

NASA. photo

ABOUTOUR COVERMan has traveled from "Kitty Hawk cothe Moon " in seventy years. He hasl earned how co construct and managecomplex life-support sys tems for assuring the astronauts a safe return. Yet hehas failed co manage Spaceship Earthand co insu re that the planet will behab itable for generations co come.Man's technological innovations forspace travel have no t been parallel withthe development of a right per spectiveand a tt it ude coward his ow n lifesupporc system on this planer. Yet man'sonly means for continuing li fe' s voyageis th e eart h - man's on ly home, hison ly su rvival system.


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OBLIVION?by Jer ry Gentry

Mankind has only one home - the living earth.But pollution is undermining its life-support system.Man must reorder his thinking in terms of planetary housekeeping if li fe is to continue its voyage

on Spaceship Earth .

T HE ASTRONAUTS' voyages to themoon introduced a new globalconcept o f man 's world. W elive on a spaceship named Earth .

Just as the astronauts had to carefull y m ai nt ai n thei r l ife-bubble,humans on earth must also see tha ttheir l ife-support system is perpetuated and no t polluted, if our marv el ou s s pa ce sh ip is to funct ionproperly.

W h a t Pollution MeansIn a fundamental way, pollution

means poor planetary housekeeping.Realization o f the global nature of

pollution has led to the calling ofmankind's first planerwide conferenceon the human environment, whichwas held in Stockholm, Sweden inJune 1972. Delegations from 130widely disparate governments convened to draw up reams o f environmental compromise. Few however,expect th e earth to ge t cleanerimmediately.

To make matte rs worse, environmental rhetoric is slung about asfreely as proverbial mud. To o often itis just a lo t of talk , with few real solu-PLAIN TRUTH July 1972

tions to the CflS1S In man's environment. Th e air is lit tle cleaner for allthe verbiage. People are sick of hearing about pollut ion, bu t it will no tgo away.

Politicians blame other politiciansand run-away technology. Pollu tingindustries say they cannot clean upthe environment and still make aprofit in today's competitive marketeconomy. They say production mustbe high because profit margins arelow. They look to the consumersay, "The public gets what it wants. Ifwe do no t supply the demand (andspew ou r waste from the process),somebody else will."

On the other hand , consumersblink burning eyes at the belchingsmokestacks or the whiskey-brownhaze hanging over cities and blamelocal industries, power companies,and auto manufacturers for not cleaning up air poll ution.

O f course, no amount of blaming,finger-pointing and eco-crying willpay the added social costs o f a pollured environment. People themselvesnow pay these costs with a lowerquality of life.

Th e public demands goods at thecheapest cost. Th e producers o f thosegoods cu t their costs by shifting parto f the real cost of produ cing thosego ods ont o the envi ronm en t in theform o f pollution. People buy theproducts cheaply, bu t pay added costsin polluted air, impure water, poorhealth and a host of o ther ills relatedto our fast-paced, machine-powered,amuen r lifestyles.

Man is the onl y earthly being notgoverned by instinct. This means mancan stop pol luti ng if he so wills. Bu rall to o often , vested interests muddythe solutions and smokescreens clou dthe issues while mankind breathesheavier.

W e must ge t beneath the surfaceo f partisan politics, vested interestsand blame-hurling - daring even toenter the unknown - if we are tofind the cause which will effect aclean environment for mankind.

Man 's BehaviorMan alone among earth's creatures

is capable of polluting . W e must discover what causes man's misbehaviorin relation to the earth as a life-suppor ting spaceship if we are to elimi nate the cause of pollution.

A major influence upon man's behavior has been religion. So great hasbeen the influence o f religion onhuman behavior that the noted historian Lynn White, Jr. , o f the University o f California at Los Angeles, believes C h r i s t i a n i t y is l ar g el yresponsible for the environmentalcrisis. O f course , the Chri stianity

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White refers to is vastly differentfrom the teaching of Jesus Christ asrecorded in the Bible. He refers to thereligion that took over the RomanEmpi re and l abeled i ts elf"Christianiry."

White's often cited paper, entitled"The Histo rical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," was published in Science,the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, March 10, 1967. In this paper,White lays the cause of the environmental crisis at the doorstep of popular Christi an teachings. He asks,"What did Christianity tell peopleabout their relations with the environment? Christianity insisted that itis God 's will that man exploit naturefor his proper ends.

"By destroying pagan anim ism[nature worship] Christianity made itpossible to exploit nature in a moodof indifference."

Astounding as White 's thesissounds, a second though t reminds usthat Christian professing nations haveled the world in the sheer magnitudeof their pollution. Only relatively fewother industrialized nations such asthe USSR and Japan have followedsuit . Japan, in particular, has strivento emul ate the technological prowessof the Christianized Western world.J apan likewise suffers from some ofthe worst pollution imaginable.

Christian nations have indeed setthe example and led the way toward amore polluted environment . Bu twhere did Christians get this idea?Does the Bible really sanction man'srape of the environment? Does thebasic guidebook of Christiani ty teachenvironmental responsibility? It 'stime to examine what the Bible reallyteaches.

Man to DominateThe first environmental command

recorded in the Bible is found in thebook of Genesis: "have dom inion[subjugate, rule] . . . over all th eearth ," it commands man. "Be fruitful , and multiply, and replenish theearth , and subdue it."4

These simple commands have profound environmental meaning . T heyshow clearly that man was intendedto peak the pyramid of life, that is, todominate the earth and all life uponit. The book of Genesis states thatman was made in God's image andwas therefore set above the animaland plant world to rule over it.

But rulership is only half the assignment. Many people often assumethat man has total freedom - license- to maim, destroy, and pillage theearth's resources for selfish ends. Nonsense! This is the way of selfishness,which leads to the pollution of theenvironment. What man must learnis the way of giving, of concern forothers, of keeping the environmentpure.

"The second chapter of Genesisstates that man , after he had beenplaced in the Garden of Eden, was instructed by God to dress it and tokeep it - a statement which has ecological implications," notes Dr. ReneDubos in a lecture reprint ed bySmithsonian Inst itut ion , 1969, entitled, "A Theology of the Earth ."

Modern Christianity, though outwardlyopposed to pollution, has generally failed to understand the environmental and social meaning ofthese plain Biblical statements . Thecommand to Adam to dress and keepthe Garden of Eden clearly implies responsible stewardship of the earthGo d created for man.If the cause of the environmentalcrisis is due to man's permissive attitude toward the environment,brought on in part by Christian attitudes, it is because Christianity fa iledto follow its guidebook, the Bible.

One of the major failings of modern Christianity is that it did not publish man's responsibili ty to take careof his home. Indeed no major religion has made it clear that humansmust maintain the earth 's life-supportmachinery for the benefit of all, if ourspaceship is to survive its voyage.The earth's physical resources havebeen devoured on a first come, fi rstserve basis, with little regard for the

needs of future generations. So far,there have been few attempts and nosuccesses at planetary planning. Scarcity of resources is one reason. Humangreed for short-term profits and lustfor power are others.

Planetary HousekeepingTo save our planetary home, we

must understand how it functions asan inte rconnected living machine.N othing lives of itself on SpaceshipMountains o cans await recycling at theElizabeth , New J ersey plant of M&TChemicals. The company is one of the twolargest recyclers of tin plate scrap in theworld It has been recycling scrap formore than 60 years.


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Earth . No living creature is an island .The actions of each indi vidual affecto thers.One of the basic laws of ecology,

as sta ted by Dr. Barry Commoner inhis recently published book, The Clos-ing Circle, is that "everything is con-nected to everything else."Understanding the living machin-ery of the earth entails the under-standing of simple biologica l princi-ples and eco logica l concepts. Yetmod ern educa tion wi th its emphasison accumulating knowledge has of-ten stressed meaning les s memo-rization of trite term inology and dis-associated facts. It has failed to putacross a practical understanding of thenatural world.

R. Buckrninsrer Fuller, in his bookOperating Manual for Spaceship Earth,Sout hern Illinoi s Universi ty Press,1969, stat es, "O ne of th e most in ter-est ing things to me about our space-ship is that it is a mechanical vehicle,just like an automobile. If you ownan automobi le , you realize that youmu st put oi l and gas into it , and youmus t put water in th e radiato ra nd tak e care of th e ca r as awhole. . . . W e have not been seeingour Spaceship Earth as an integrallydesigned machine which to be per-sistently successful must be compre-hended and serviced in total. "

Along with a new automobile al-ways comes an operating manual forthe par ticular model car. No one

would think of buying a new carwithout obtain ing the opera tingmanual. I t is essential to impart tothe operator certain necessary knowl-edge for safeguarding the car's contin-ued performance.

Earth's Safety FactorOur planetary machine is much

more complex than the automobile,whic h can stop func tioning due to asingle faulty wire or plugged fuel lineor dozens of other malfunctions.What allow s the earth to continuefunct ioning, in spite of the disruptedcycles resulting from pollution? Theanswer is the complexity of theearth's design as a safety factor.

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Tin cans being unloaded at M&TChemicals . M an)' types of cans - tinplate, tin-f ree, steel, aluminum, andbimetallic - are recycled by convertingthem into steel, tin, and other usefulmaterials.

this Spaceship Earth's total weal thwas a big safety factor whi ch allowedman to be very ignorant for a longtime ," states Fuller.

He proposes a set of generalizedprinciples derived from human experience to form the basis of his "Operat ing Manual for Spaceship Earth."Yet new behavior patterns basedsolely on human experience are insufficient. Experience is a dear teacher,bu t not a perfect one. The past record.of human mistakes resul ti ng in themagnitude of the environmental crisisshows that lessons written by humanexperience alone cannot form a complete manual for solving human behavior problems. Man 's unpredictablebehavior sometimes frustrates his better judgment.6

Harrison Brown, in The Challengeof !'rlan's Futu re, states, " I have not attempted to predict the future, for thecourse of events ahead of us dependsupon the action s of man himself,which are, in the mai n, unp redictable."

This facet of man's nature is alsorecognized by the Biblical prophet J eremiah who said, " It is not in man todirec t his own steps." What source,then, can supply the needed set of behavio ral g ui delines, an opera t ingmanual for human conduct towardthe environment?

Historian Lynn Wh ite, Jr. believesthe answer will not be found short ofa new religion.

"More science and mo re technology are not going to get us out ofthe present ecologic crisis until wefind a new religio n, or rethink ourold one," W hite states. "Since theroots of our tro uble are so largely religio us, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it thator not. We must re-think and re-feelour nature and destiny."

New Behavior PatternsThe modern Christian world has

not really followed the Bible's environmental commands to "dress andkeep the garden" - to wisely ruleand preserve our planetary home .Modern Christianity and other religions did not g ive man the righ t perspective in the way he was to treat theearth.

The earth was given to man totake care of, preserve and use on a"sustained yield" basis. "Sustainedyield" means balancing the environmenta l books from year to year. Itmeans no one person or generationtakes away from others or future generat ions by deficit spendi ng of resources which results in future generations having to pay the real debt.

This insures the earth's survival asa produ ctive planet. It also insures abase of resources (wealth ) for allmankind .

A proper global perspective makeseach person individually responsible

for the well-being of everyone else. Itmeans the world "o utside" is reallynot outside at all and should not beused as a dump for unwan tedmateria ls.

Th is new perspective places socialresponsibility upon man to treat theearth and all its natural resources responsibly. It forces man to ask thequestion, "What are the ultimateconsequences?"

Responsible AttitudeFormer Secretary of the Interior

Stewart Udall, speaking of a newtechnological morality, said, " Insteadof asking ourselves 'can we do it,' weneed to ask 'should we.' "

The answer to "should we" is itselfoutside the scope of conventional science. This is a moral ques tion whichrequires a moral answer.

For example, automobiles can bebuilt with small, low-pollution engines. Consumers can buy these cars,but they often prefer the power, speedand personal convenience of cars withbig, heavy-pollution engines.

"My choice can make little difference overall to pollution levels," goesthe argument. People ge t what theywant, regard less of pollutio n, if theycan afford the monetary cost, However, the sum tor al of all our polluting auto mobile engines is po lluted air- an added social cost.

Air po llu tio n is one specific example of how we all pay for the " freedom" of environmental irresponsibilit y - even though au tos may well be"necessary" from other viewpoi nts.

Whether we drive low-pollutionor hig h-pollu tion autos will certain lynot solve air po llu tion overn ight, andis not the major point of this article.The attitude we take toward the environment and the actions resultingfrom our att itude are the importantfactors .

As Professor White said, "Morescience and more technology are notgo ing to get us out of the presentecologic crisis until we find a new religi on or re-think our old one."

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long overlooked the ecological consequences of the sensible Bible command to "dress and keep the garden."This command forms the long neededundergirding to a right perspectivefor using man's knowledge to maintain, not maim, the only home wehave - Spaceship Earth .

The Biblical Garden of Eden actually represents the much larger global ecosys tem . Throughout thisecosystem, natural waste is recycled.As plants grow, elements from light,soil, air and water combine to formwood, leaves, bark and other plant tissues. Waste oxygen from the processof photosynthesis is released into theatmosphere. Animals breathe thisoxygen to burn food. Animal wastefertilizes the soil which supports moreplant growth.

This recycling system continuallyoperates in perfect balance. There areno undesirable waste products releasedinto the ecosystem. "Waste" in thissense is a desirable, useful by-productof production.

Man's Processes PolluteIn contrast, man's great industrial

processes have not provided for thereuse of waste. Often, waste is labeledundesirable, useless and something tothrowaway. Thi s concept is faulty,when viewed in context of the globalecosystem.

Nothing can truly be " thrownaway." Materials and energy can onlybe changed in form , or moved fromone place to another.

What man must do is to model hisindustrial production processes afternatural processes. In the ecosystem,waste from one process becomes input or raw materials for another.

The question remains , "Is manwilling and financialIy able to reorderenvironmental misbehavior to keepplanet earth alive?"

Studies have shown that theUnited States can afford such an environmental cleanup, if the nation sochooses. And the financial costs of acleanup would actuall y be less thanthe money already being paid out

to treat the effects of pollution.But is the United States or any na

tion willing to take such action?History provides no precedent forsuch a dramatic about-face. Andpresentl y all the powerful economic

resources plus roday's scientific geniusare not enough. Man must learn theproper perspective toward his environment. Traditional Christianity hasfailed to give man this right perspective. Yet the Book it supposedly follows points vividly to a future timewhen man's Creator will interveneand give man the needed impetus,knowledge and right perspective heneeds in order to properl y care for hisenvironment . W ithout this intervention, the earth will become a lifeless spaceship hurtling aimlesslytoward oblivion.

Happily, man and his environmentwill be rescued in time by the Onewho created both! Your Bible foretells a time of the "rest itu tion of alIthings" - when the now-pollutedearth will be restored to its once pristine condition.

Valuable steel (on leftin photo) and tin barsa re recover ed byM&T Chemicals Inc.The steel can be usedby steel miffs. Tin isconverted in to solderor strategic chemicals.

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advancenewsin the wake of today's WORLD EVENTS Japanese Industry SearchingEuropean M arkets for "Insurence"

Japan has launched a massive commercial invasioninto Europe. Worries about overdependence on UnitedStates markets and mounting resistance in the UnitedStates to J apanese goods are at the root of this Europeansales thrust.

J apanese expor ts to Western Euro pe doubled between 1967 and 1970. Sales in 1971 reached an est imated$3.2 billion. This year, exportS will probably climb above$3.5 billi on and could easily double again by 1976.

More than almost any other country, Japan must export to survive. Consequently, if trad e difficulties with theUnited States conti nue to mount and exports drop off, theslack will have to be made up elsewhere - nam ely, inEurope. Euro pean bu sinessmen are worried.

The J apanese pu sh into Europe is pro ceeding on anumber of fronts : (1) increasing exportS ; (2) establishment of banks in European cities ; (3) direct investments in joint ventures with European companies; (4)takeovers of European firms; and (5) establishment of facto ry opera tions on European soil.

The export drive is led by steel, ships , autos, chemicals, textiles, TV sets, radios , and cameras.

W est Germany and Britain are the primary targets inthe commercial offensive . In Dusseldorf (the "Tokyo ofEurope" ), for example, there are over 1,750 Japaneseworking for some 120 companies. Oth er Japanese bridgeheads incl ude London , Hamburg , Paris; Milan, andVienna.

japan 's g rowing commercial presence in Europe is,naturally, provoking protectionist react ions . In order tominim ize the se, Japan is proceeding more cautiously thanshe did in her trade invasion of the United States - seeking to avert any major conflicts.

For over two years, Japan has been negotiating withthe Common Market for a trade agreement involv ing reciprocal liberalization. Th e main point of contention hasbeen the desire by the Europeans for a "safeguard clause"to prevent their markets from being flooded by Japaneseexport goods.8

Japan is also beginning a pu sh in to East Euro peanmark ets as a result of present or impending restriction s ofJapanese trade w ith the United States and W esternEurope. U. S.-German Space Cooperation

A David and a Go lia th in the world of space technolog y - West Ge rmany and the United Sta tes - aredevelopi ng an atmosphere of cooperation that is "fantastic, " according to W est Germ an scient ist, Herr AntsKutzer.

Herr Kutzer is the German Project Manager of Proj ect He1ios, a joint U. S.-West German space probe to belaunched toward the sun in 1974. The probe will fly bythe sun closer th an any o ther man-made probe ever hasand will help man und erstand the physics influencing li feon Earth by examining the atmosphere of th e sun.

The project is the largest coo perative effort in spaceresearch ever undertaken jointly by the two governmentsand is fi nanced by a budget o f over $150 mill ion .At the end of Apri l, over 80 of the German scientistsinvolved in the program flew to California's J et Propu lsion Laboratory aPL) in Pasadena for one of a series ofsemiannual meetings aimed at bui lding the necessary communication and cooperation between the two teams.

A banquet held for the visit ing scientists at nearbyAmbassador College exemplified the warm friendship andth e "fa ntastic" atm osphere of coo peration spoken of byHerr Kutzer.

Project Heli os is a joint effort in space for a verygood reason . As Project Manager Kutzer explained,"Space is too exp ensive to be tackled on your ow n - internationa l cooperation is essenti al."

W atch for greater cooperation between W ashingtonand Bonn on space research and other scienti fic matters. Dispute Over Vital Sealane Looms

Increasing big-power activi ty in the Indi an O ceanhas spotlighted one of the world 's oldest and bus iest shipping lanes - the Strait o f Malacca.

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sian Island of Sumatra, is the shortest and safest route between the Indi an Ocea n and the Pacific. Through thisstrategic international waterway pass some 40,000 shipseach year. Some 90 percent of j apan 's oil imports passthrough this strait on their way from the Middle East. Soviet ships - bo th commercial and mil itary - ply th isrou te on their journeys between Vladivostok and the Indian O cean. American and British ship ping also has a bigstake in free passage through th is strait. But that free passage may be in danger - for all concerned.

Indonesia and Malaysia are claiming joint jurisdictio n over thi s vital waterway. The Strait of Malacca is lessthan 24 miles wide at some po int s and bo th nations areclaiming a 12-mile territorial water belt. Consequently,Malaysian and Indonesian representatives at a meeting lastNovember in Singapore s tated that it could no longer beconsidered an internat ional waterway and that the twocountries have the right to regulate shippi ng through it .

The two countries did not state just when and howthey int end to begin enfo rcing control over the Strait ofMalacca, however. Such contro ls cou ld include a total banon certain types of shi ps and the imposition of to lls andfreigh t charges. Presently, Ind onesia is insisting that theSoviet and American navies register with D jakarta beforetheir warships enter the waterway.

In March , the Soviet Union and J apan demandedthat the waters be considered international territory. Dj akart a and Ku ala Lumpu r rejected the demand, backed bythe st rong suppor t of the People 's Republic of China,wh ich is always eager to take a stance opposi ng Moscow .

Part of the joint Indonesian-Malaysian desire fo r control of thi s strait stems from pollut ion dangers from theg iant supertankers traveling the narrow and shallow routewhere collision risk is high . But long-term political con-

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siderations are clearly at the core of the situation. Contro lof the shipping bot tleneck is rela ted to a Malaysian-aurhored plan to eventually make all of Southeast Asia neu tral and free of pressures and influences from the big mili tary powers. But the scheme, if implemented, couldbackfire - and on ly bring on big -power intervention. Swiss Neutrality - Out of Date?

There are indications tha t Switzerland may be contemplating the abandonment of her centuries-old policy ofstr ict political neutrality.

Swi tzerland's forma l indep endence was recognized in1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the ThirtyYears War. The great powers later guaranteed the eternalneutral ity of Switzerland at the Congress of Vienna in1815. The Swiss maintained this neutrality throughoutboth world wars.

A neu trality clause is written in the federal SwissCons ti tution of 1848 and in the charters of all Swiss cantons, and can only be altered by national referendum.

Switzerland has refused membership in the UnitedNations because of uncertainty on whether membershipwould allow full play of her neutrality policy. Amongother objections, she has argued that she could not unreservedly agree to all U. N. sanctions, and tha t under thepresent Swiss constitution, Swiss soldiers could not servein U. N. police forces. Simi lar though ts on neutrality werein part responsible for her no t following Brita in into fullCommo n Market membership.

But tod ay the question is being raised in Switzerlandwhe ther her neutrality may not be a meaningless anachronism . Swiss newsp apers have suggested that Switzerland's neut rality was conce ived in an earlier European context and was designed to safeguard her during warsbetween her surro unding neighbors - especially Germanyand France. In view of the post-war development of aEuropean Economic Community (EEC), some observersfeel that Swiss neutrality may have outlived its necessity.

The question s of U. N . and EEC entry are nowprime topics in Swit zerland. The Swiss consider their relationship with the EEC the most important question facing them sin ce the war. Many Swiss feel it is time to facethe realities of post-war Euro pean events squarely. Theyrealize that they can no longer be con tent to stand on thesidelines of Europe . Ideologically and economically, Switzerland belongs to th e W est. Even if her foreign poli ciesare neut ral, Swiss sympathies are far from it.

Switzerland is now negotiating with the EEC for freetrade preferences to link her to the Community. And earlier thi s year, in the wake of China's entry in to the U. N .,the Swiss Foreign Minister suggested that Switzerlandmigh t at last join the world organization.

As Europe coalesces politi cally and econom ically inthe months and years ahead, it may become impossible forSwit zerland to maintain her "splendid isolation."

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WHYWERE YOU BORN?

Is there any PURPOSE for human life? Does life,after all, have real MEANING you have neverrealized? You need to know!by Herbert W . Armstrong

W AS HUMANITY created andP"t here on the earth by anintelligent and AlmightyCreator for a deinite PURPOSE? An dif so, what is that purpose - andwhy is humanity so to tally unawareof it ?

Or , on the other hand, did humanlife develop, over a period of millionsof years, from lower animal species,by the process of evolution ? Di d wehumans come to be formed andshaped as we ate purely by naturalcauses and resident forces?

These are the two possibili t ies oforigins. Today the theory of evolution has gained a lmos t universal acceptance in levels of higher learning.

Yet biologists and the proponentso f the evolutionary doctrine fail toshow any definite purpose for thepresence of the hu man family on thisplanet. Neither do they tell us whyman is as he is. Man possesses suchawesome in tellectual and pro ductionpowers that he can fly to the moonand return safely, bu t at the sametime he is utterly helpless before theonslaught of thi s world's problems,sufferings and evils. For that matter ,neither has relig ion sho wn man histrue purpose in life.

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that we find the answer. Suddenlyhumanity's number one problem hasbecome the question of SURVIVAL.An d time is fast runn ing out onus.

W hy these mounting , fast-accelerating EVILS?

Neither the evolutionary biologistsno r the world 's religions have so fargiven any explanation. T hey offer nosolutions. Th ey give us NO HOPE !

Q uestion o f Su rvivalW e are no w in a head-on confron

tation with this frightening fact: anyon e of several heads of nations couldplunge this world into the nuclearWo rld W ar 1Il that could erase allhuman life from the earth!

Has man progressed to the pointwhere he is about to destroy himself?Is that the end of the evolutiona ryline? Is that the mann er in whi ch science and technology are abo ut toadminister the death-bl ow to all theworld's religions?

Is it po ssible there may exist asou rce ab le to shed heretofore un recog n ized new ligh t on th is life-and death question?

Is it even possible there exists newevidence, vital to hu mani ty's survivaland the peace of the world, within

the Biblical revelation, heretofore unrecogni zed by theologians, Ju daismand tradi riona l Chrisrianity?

If so, with the immine nt possibility of the obliteration of humanityand with time running o ut , there isno time to be lost in searching itout.

In this crisis hou r o f human existence, no apology is offered for turning the spotlight onto the trul y startling revelation tha t has been rejectedby science and higher education, andthe se vital portions overlooked by religion.

Th e book called the Ho ly Bible itself lays claim to bein g the revelationof basic, necessary knowledge - theINSTRUCTION MANUAL which man'sMaker sent along with the crowningproduct of His making - the hu manMAN!

Could th is least-understood of allbooks reveal PURPOSEbehind the presence o f mank ind on the earth? Doesit explain WHY man is as he is - atonce so creative and yet so destru ct ive? Does it explain WHY man is sout terly helpless before his own problems, yet with such awesome in tellectua l and produ ctive powers? Does itoffer SOLUT IONS? Does it g ive usHOPE?

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Emphatic AnswersTo all these vital questions, the

emphatic answer is a resounding YES!But ask the same questio ns concerning evolution, or the teachings of religions, and the answer is regrettablyNO!

Would it not, then , seem the follyof fools to refuse honest exami nationof these desperately needed answers?Here then , is ou r Maker's crucial

Message to mankind in this crisishour of human history .Expect surprises!How this missing dimension in

knowledge could have been over-looked these millenniums by religion,'science and education is as shockingas the fact that our Creator, in thefirst two chapters of His revealed Instruction Book, tells us clearly andemphaticall y, that man is neither ananimal nor an immortal soul! Thesefirst two chapters of Genesis refutethe theory of evolution two ways:

The very first verse of the firstchapter in the Bible states positivelythat God exists - that God CREATEDthe heaven and the earth. It also statespositively that man is not descendedfrom lower animal species, and thatman is not an animal. And the secondchapter depicts God Himself sayingpositively that man is not an immortal soul - contrary to the very foundational belief of many, or most, relig ions!The very first words in the Bibleare: " In the beginning, God createdthe heaven and the earth" (Genesis1:1 ) . No "perhapses" - no theories- just a positive statement!Ano ther import ant revela tion to

note at the very beginning: Thehuman inspired to do the originalwri ting of those words was Moses.Moses wro te in the Hebrew language.The English word "God" is translatedfrom the Hebrew Elohim - a uniplural noun, like such words as " family,""church," " team," "group." It meansPLAIN TRUTH July 1972

one God, but more than one Personcomposing that one Go d - just as afamily is one family, bu t may be composed of two, five or more persons.

You Are NOT an AnimalNow not ice, in verse 21 of Genes is

1 : "An d G od created g rea twhales . . . after their kind , and everywinged fowl after his kind ." Then inverse 25 : "And God made the beastof the earth after his kind , and cattleafter their kind .. .." And then verse26 : "And God said, Let us make manin our image, after ou r likeness .. . ."

This says plain ly God made whalesafter the whale kind - birds after thebird kind ; cat tle after the cattle kind,ch imps after the chimp kind - bu tGod made MAN af ter the God kind.'That's what it says!And no tice, please, Elobim did not

say "Let me make man after my kind"but "Let us make man in our image,after our likeness." It is the GOD FAM-ILY speaking. (But let me explainhere that, beginning with verse 4 inthe second chapter of Gene sis, a newand different name for God is introduced. In the Heb rew it is YHVHElobim. In the Authorized or KingJ ames Version , the Hebrew YHVH istranslated "LORD" - always in capital letters. I t is there translated "LORDGod." There is no word in Englishwhich exactly renders the true meaning of YHVH. The Fenton translatio n renders it " the Ever-Living."The Moffatt translat ion renders it" the Eternal." Actually, this is thename , used in the Hebrew, for thesame Person in the God Family thatappears as Logos in the Greek [john1:1-3J in the New Testament, and istranslated "the Word ." Its meaning isthe One of the God Family who isthe Spokesman, by whom God [theFather of the God FamilyJ created allthi ngs. It is the One who came inhuman flesh, Jesus Christ.)

Th is reveals clearly, beyond dispute , that man is not an animal.' Man

was made in the image and likenessof God - in the very form and shapeof God . Man was made to have a relation to Go d - a link to God totally unl ike any animal. That willbecome more apparent as we proceed.But why did God make man in

His own image ? Why did He createthe human species at all?Was there special PURPOSE? Is there

a MEANING to human life unreali zedby mankind?PURPOSE Bei ng Worked Out?The late Prime Ministe r of Great

Britain, W inston Churchill, actuallygave the answer when he said beforethe American Congress: "There is aPURPOSE being worked out here below." Of course, he implied a HigherPower , above, doing the workingout.But man, it seems, fails to under

stand that purpose.Now look about you. Look at all

the species and forms of living creatures. How many of those are able tothink, plan, devise, and then bringabout, by maki ng or creating, thatwhich was thought out , designed andplanned?

Instinct, Instead of MindBy instinct, beavers build dams.

But all these dams follow the samepattern. The beaver cannot think outsome new, different pattern and makesome new and different thi ng . Antsmay form ant hills; go phers, snakesand rodents dig holes ; birds bu ildnests. But they always follow thesame pattern. There is no originality,no thinking and designing of a newidea, no new construction.

The beavers' dams, the ants' hills,the gophers', snakes' and rodents'holes, the birds' nests are all madepurely by ins tinc t, not by thoughtand original design ing .A test was made with weaver birds.

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INSECTS AND BIRDS BUILD BY INSTINCTInsects and birds build their own unique nests - withoutprevious experience. They areprogrammedfrom birth tobuildaspecific typeof home. On right-hand page is a long-billed curlewon nest (top), a water ouzel, and a barn swalloweach at nests(bottom left and right). On thispage: wasps building theirwater-cooled paper nest (top), and a prairie warbler (bottom)Each nest is unique to the species building it.PhoI01on tbis p,, !.,: Kil.?J1nt - Plain Truth ( loP)Aflrting - Photo Re1torrhm (bollom)Right-band page: "'(Hugh - Phoo Rmarchm(bottom ~ f ! , Erwin - N,ai fl11,,1 A"dlifxm Soaetv


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FROM KITTY HAWK TO HADLEY RILLEMan 's actions are not limited by instinct. irIan canthink, reason and create. First he learned to fi)l, andwithin the same century he put his foot on the moon .

Bettmann Archil" (top). NASA ~ f ! .

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birds were kept in a place wirh nonest-buildi ng material available tothem. The fifth g eneration had neverseen a nest. But when nest-buildingma terials, along wi th o ther materials,were-made accessible, that fifth generati on immediately made nests. Andthey were weaver-bird nests - notrobins' nests or swallows' nests oreagles' nests.

Evo lution cannot account for thefact that animals are equipped withthe ir marvelou s instinct - yet wi thto ta l absence of MIND power. No r canit account for the absence of such instinct in MAN. Or, for th e vast gulfbetween the powers of animal brainand hum an mind.

M in d Wi thou t Insti nc tMan can design and build great

dams such as the Grand Coulee. Mancan build g reat tunne ls th roughmountains or under rivers, such as theHudson River. Man can invent andbu ild automobiles, airp lanes, ba ttleships, submarines. Man alone , of allGod created, is capable of approaching real creative powers.How Man Has Us ed H is Powers

Look, however, at what man hasactually done with the thi ngs he hashad the intelligence and ability to devise and to make.

Thousands of years ago he learnedto mine and process iron, go ld, copper, and ot her metals. He made implements and constructed buildings- but he also made swords andspears and went ou t to destroy!

Man learned how to organize hiskind int o cities, groups, nations. Butto what use did he put the organization he controlled? He organized theable-bodied of his men into armiesand set out to conquer, to destroy,and to acquire by taking, not alone byproducing and creating.

Man discovered that the powers hepossessed allowed him to produce explo sives, so that he could movemounta ins if necessary - bu t soon heexerted the mos t frenzied energies ofhis nations, at costs of billions of do l-16

lars, endeavoring to develop nucl earweapons faste r than his enemies, andnowvis producing weapons of massdestruction that can blast all humanlife off the earth!

A philosophic count ry doctor oncesaid to me it was his belief tha t everything man's hand ever tou ched ofGod's creation man had polluted , befouled, besmirched, and ruined. Th atstatement seemed radical then . But Ihave been observing, since he saidthat over thirty-five years ago , and Iam almost persuaded he was rig ht.

I need not go further. Just lookabout you and observe. If you are athinker, you'll see how man, endowedwith a portion of God's actual creative power - and the only beingwhich has it - turns thi s power ofdevising, plann i ng , inventing, andproducing int o destructive channels.

Science Running Amuck?Look at the great factories of the

major industrial nations. Here humsand roars the creat ive activity of mankind. Man has made some slight approach toward actual God powers andGod activity in his tremendous industrial developmen t.

But there is one deadly fault withall thi s.Man has learned to exercise scientific, invent ive and mechanical powersin excess of his development in ability todirect theproduct of his eJJorts into rightand constructive channels!

Did God Make Man SoDestructive?

W hy did an all-wise Creator putman on th is eart h? D id the Creatordesign and make man ashe is - withsuch tremendo us in tellect and powers, yet so destructive, and so help lessbefore all his problems?

It may come as a shock to learntrue explanations of revol ting worldconditions, thei r causes - how it allcame about - and of the real PURPOSE for human existence. But readwith your own eyes in your ow nBible - scriptures heretofore overlooked or rejected by man , yet tru e

revelations that have been there allalong ! Moreover the Bible itself tellsus - if we will listen - how it cameabo ut that these foundational, basicTRUTHS have been both rejected andoverloo ked.

Amazing ?Amazing indeed!But now see it for yourself! If you

do not have a Bible, bu y one withoutdelay!

Creation No t CompletedOne of the very first things we

need to realize, that has been utterlyoverlooked in the Bible, is this:Adam's creation was NOT COM

PLETED !The first chapter of Genesis

called the "creation" chapter - actually does not record the completedcreation at all ! Man 's creation wasnotfinished!

Read that amazing truth again! Besure you understand!

W hat was created, as revealed inGenes is 1, was the PHYSICAL creation- the mortal, physical man andwoman - the physical material withwhich to create the SPIRITUAL CREATION!

The Bible plain ly reveals this, aswe shall see. What God actually iscreati ng in the human fami ly is theCROWNING, SUPREME MASTERPIECE OFALL H IS WORKS OF CREATION! Andthat will be, when finished, millions- yes BILLIONS - of humans con verted into perfect SPIRITUAL CHARACTER !

The spiritual creation is still inprogress !

As covered above , God createdAdam and Eve in God's own image,after God 's likeness. He created ani mal life, each animal after its ownanimal kind. But He created manafter the GOD kind. That is, as toform and shape, bu t NOT of spiritcomposition.

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into his nostrils the breath of life; andman [physical mat ter] became a living sou l."W hen God caused breath - air

to be breathed through man's nostri ls, man - composed of physica lmatter from the ground - BECAME asoul. The sou l is composed of MAT-TER - not of spirit.

That's nor what most people believe. But it is what the Bible SAYS!Further it says: "T he soul that sinneth , it shall die" (Ezek. 18:4) . Thatis so important it is stated tw ice, foremphasis: "The soul that sinneth, itshall die" (Ezek. 18:20) .

. . . Bu t God is SpiritGod is composed of SPIR[T - not

of physical matter Oohn 4 :24). Butnowhere does the Bible say man is aspirit. Nowhere in the Bible can youfind the expression " immortal soul ,"or " immortali ty of the soul." In Genesis 1, animals are called souls - thatis, Moses used the word nephesh whi chin Genesis 2:7 is transl ated in to theEngl ish word "soul," while in Gen esis 1:21, 24; 2:19 it is thre e timestranslated "creature."

The Two TreesBut now conti nue with Genesis

2:8, "A nd the Eternal God planted agarden eastward in Eden: and there heput the man whom he had formed.And out of the ground made theEternal God to grow every tree that ispleasant to the sight, and good forfood ; the tree of life also in the midstof the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil" (verse 9) ."And the Eterna l God commanded

the man, saying , Of every tree of thegarden thou mayesr freely eat : bu t ofthe tree- of the knowledge of goodand evil, thou shalt not eat of it : forin the day that thou earesr thereofthou shalt surely die" (verses 16-17).N ot ice for disobedience, God said,

"Thou shalt surely OlE" ! Man is MORTAL, and shall OlE! God said so!N ow what have we seen? God

made man MORTAL - composed ofphysical matter. In Genesis 3: 19 GodPLAIN TRUTH July 1972

said to Adam : " .. . for dus t thou art ,and un to dust shalt thou return ." Hewas speaking to the consc ious MAN- to the human MIND.

Not ice what is symbolized and revealed here. The tree of LIFE symbo lized eternal life. They did no t, asyet, possess immortal life. This wasfreely offered to Adam and Eve asGOD'S GIFT.

But they were required to make achoice.Also in the garden was another

symbolic tree - the tree of " theknowledge of good and evil." Tomake the wrong choice of taking ofthat forbidden tree would impose thepena lt y of DEATH . " Thou shaltSU RELY die," said God - [I ' theychose to disobey and take of that tree.In ot her words, as we read in Romans 6:23: "For the wages of sin isDEATH; bu t the gift of God is ETERNAL LI FE. . . ." This clearly shows thatGo d revealed the Gospel to them.And what is the Bible definition ofSIN? "Sin is," it is wr itten in I John3:4, " the tran sgression of the law."Actually there exist, overall, only

TWO BASICWAYS of li fe - two divergent philosophies. They travel in opposite directions. I sta te them verysimply: On e is the way of GIVE - theot her of GET.More specifically, the one is the

way of humility, and of outgo ingconcern for ochers equal to self-concern . I t is the way of cooperation,serving, helping, sharing; of considerat ion, pat ien ce and kindness. Moreimportant, it is also THEWAY of obedience to , reliance on, and worsh ipsolely tow ard God . It is the GOD-centered way, of LOVE tow ard God andLOVE toward neighbor.T he opposite is the SELF-centered

way of VAN ITY, lust and gree d; ofcompeti t ion and stri fe; of en vy ,jealousy, and unconcern fo r the welfare of others.

The CAUSE of Peaceand Happiness

Few realize this vital fact : The"G IVE" way is actually an invisible ,

yet inexora ble, SPIRITUAL LAW in active motion. It is summarized, inprin cip le, by the Ten Commandments.

I t is a LAW as REA L, as inflexibly re-lentless as the law of gravity! It governsand regul ates all human relation ships!

Why should it seem incongruousthat man 's Maker - the Creator of allmat ter, force and energy - the Creator of the laws of physics and chemistry, gravity and inertia - shouldalsohavecreated and set in motion this spiritual Law to cause every good resultfor man ?If the Creator is a God of LOVE

[I ' our Maker is a God of all power could He possibly have don e ot herwise? Could He have neglected toprovide a WAY - a cause - to pro duce peace, happiness, prosperity, successful lives, abundant well-being ?I repeat: There has to be a CAUSE

for every EFFECT .If there is to be peace, happiness,

abundant well-being, something mustcause it ! God could not beGod wit hou t providin g a cause for every desired good.Isn 't it abo ut time we realize that

in love for the mankind He created,God also created and set in motioninexorably this spiri tual Law to provide the cause of every good result ?

Now let's recapitulate: death is thepenal ty of sin . Sin is the transgressionof th is Law I To transgress this Law isto reject the WAY that wou ld CAUSEthe GOOD all humans want - to turnto the way that causes every evil result. God forbade Adam and Eve totake the frui t of th e tree of theknowledge of good and evi l, underpenalty of death!

Why? Because He wanted them tocho ose the WAY of every desiredGOOD - because He wan ted them toavoid causing evils, sor rows, pains,suffering, unhapp iness. Th erefore, taking this fruit was symbo lic o f transg ressing God 's spiri tual Law!To have taken of the tree of life

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fulfill s th is Spiritual Law (Romans13:10 ) and which God g ives on ly tothose who OBEY Hi s Law (Acts 5:32) .Con sider further: A just God could

no t have warned the first humans ofthe death penalty without havingfull y revealed to them the spiritualLaw - the Law codified as the TenCommandments - th e transgressionof which carried that pena lty . Remember, the deta ils are not wri tt enhere - only the high ly condensedsummary of what God taugh t them.

The Cause ofWorld 's Evils

So God had explained full y toAd am and Eve H is way of life - th e"GIVE WAY" - H is inexorable spiritu al Law. God had already set in motion the Law th at causes all GOOD . H ehad explained also the way that causesevils - the transgression of that Law- else He could no t have told themth at for transgression they wouldSURELY pay the penalty - death.

More clearly stated, God gave manhis own choice. He could choose to causeevery goo d and to receive eternal li fein happiness. O r, he could choose tocause evils. It is HUMANITY - notGod - that causes all the evils th atbefall man . The cho ice is man's.What man sows , that does he reap.

Yet here's the cruci al point: It wasnecessary for them to take His wordfor it - the spiritual Law is as inv isible as the laws of gravity and inert ia!They could no t see this Law. ButGod had told them th e way of good ,an d the way of evil.

Now come to Ge nesis 3."Now th e serpent was more subril

th an any beast of th e field which theEternal God had mad e" (verse 1) .

Mu ch of th e Bible is in symbols bu t the Bible explains its own symbols. It is, of course , very ou t-o f-dateto beli eve in a devil today, bu t theBible plainly speaks of a devil, namedSatan. In Revelation 12:9 and 20:2,the symbol serpent is plainly explainedto represent the devil. (As k for ourfree art icle " D id God Create aDevi1?" )18

The Subtle TemptationN ot ice now , the temp tation.Satan subtly went first to the woman.

He got to th e man through his wife ."And he said unto th e woman,

Yea, hath God said, Ye shall no t eato f every tree of the ga rden? And thewoman said unto the serpent , W emay eat of the fruit of the trees of thega rden : bu t of the fruit of the treewhich is in the midst of the ga rden,Go d hath said , Ye shall no t eat o f it,neither shall ye to uch it , lest ye die.And th e serpent said un to th ewoman, Ye shall not surely die : forGod doth know that in th e day ye eatth ereo f, the n yo ur eyes shall beopened, and ye shall be as gods [marg in, GOD] , knowing good and evi l"(Genesis 3:1-5).The narration here attributes astutesubtlety to the devil. First , he discredited God . In effect, he said , "Yo ucan' t rely on God's word. He said youare mortal and can die . He knows better than that ; He knows your mindsare so perfect th at YOUcan be GOD."

It is the prerogative of God aloneto determine what 's right and what issin - what is good and what is evil.God has not delegated to man therigh t or power to decide WHAT is sin- but He compels us to decideWHETHER to sin, or to obey His Law.To rightly determine wh at is go od

requ ired the creative power to pro duce and set in motion such inexorable laws like the laws of physics andchemistry and th is spiritual Law - aLaw which automatically causes goodif obeyed , and evils when disobeyed !Adam and Eve had only Go d 's

wor d th at th ey were mortal andcou ld di e. N ow Satan disputed th is.He said th ey were IMMORTAL SOULS.

Whom should they beli eve? Theyhad no proof, except God's word .But now Satan discredited th at , andcla imed just the opposite.Satan said the ir intellectual powers

were so great they could determinefo r themselves what is good and whatis evil. That is a GOD-pre rogative."You can be GOD!" said Satan.

Thu s Satan was appealing to theirhuman VANITY . Remember , they hadjust been created, with perfec t humanm inds. N ot God minds - bu t perfecthuman mind s. The y a llowed thethought to ent er thei r minds th atthey possessed intellectual powers soGREAT th at they could assume theGOD-prerogative of producing thekn owledge of what is good and whatis evi l!Intellectual vanity seized them !

They were thrilled , enthralled, intoxicated with vanity at the grand prospect.

How after all, could they be sureGo d had to ld them the tru th ?The First Scientific ExperimentThey saw (verse 6) - they used

observation - that the forbidden treewas good for food, pleasant to theireyes, and desired to make them wise. In tellectu al vanity was stirred . In the ecstasy of this vanity they used humanreason. They decided to reect revelationimparted by God , and to make thevery first SCIENTIF IC EXPERIMENT !

They took the forbidden fruit andate it !

They took to themselves the pre rogative of deciding wha t is GOOD, andwhat is EVIL. In so doing , they rejectedthe GOD-cen tered way of God 's spiritu al Law, and , rejecting it , of necessity they chose the way that transg resses it!T hey pion eered in deciding for

themselves wh at is right and what iswrong - what is righteousness andwhat is sin ! And humanit y has beendoing what seems righ t in its ow neyes ever since.

And HOW did they do it ? They (1)rejected revela tion, (2) used observation , (3 ) used experimenta tion, and(4) used hum an reason . And that isprecisely the "scientific" method usedby modern science today!

And the result of that experiment ?THEY DIED ! They produced the firstjuvenile del inquent, the first criminaland murderer!T he most VITAL dimension of

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AN ARAB SPEAKSTO HIS PEOPLE

The Mideast has seen three Arab-Israeli wars intwo decades. The bitter fruits of these wars havebeen widespread destruction, the loss of thousandsof lives, and the tragic displacement of refugeeson both sides. But where are the solutions?

by Raouf el-Gamma l

Raouf el-Gammal lived the first 22years of his life in the Middle East,graduating from the University of Alexandria in Egypt. In 1963 he was chosenas the official delegate of the A rab Republic of Egypt to the New York HeraldTribune World Youth Forum held inthe United States. Prior to his departurehe received extensive instruct ion inMiddle Eastern affairs and in particular the Palestinian refugee question . Under the auspices of the Ministry of Education he visited many of the refugeecamps and was thoroughlyschooled in theA rab point of view. His wife, also agraduate of the University of Alexandria, is a Palestinian refugee born inHaifa.

W y is it that news sourcesusually report the propagan da of militant Arabgroups who are by far in the minority?Isn 't it time that the voice of those

Arabs who believe the who le MiddleEast question should be solved peacefully and realist ically were heard?There are many Arabs who believethat the Palestinian refugees havebeen used as political pawns.

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the refugees' side of the Middle Eastdilemma.

Recent HistoryThe background to the Palestinian

question was first drawn by the pen ofTheodore Herzl - the founder of theZionist organization. Many Jews hadbeen returning to Palestine in the late1800's in far greater numbers thanthey ever had before . On the whole,the Arab reaction at that time wasquite favorable. The Jewish contribution to the economy led to a rise inthe living standard of many Arabs.

During World War I, the Britishentered the Middle East scene. Theyappo rtioned various territories to anumber of Arab monarchs. The eastern two thirds of Palestine was givento Abdullah, the second son of theSherif of Mecca, and came to becalled Transjordan. Western Palestinewas kept under direct British rule. By1922, the League of Na tions officiallydesignated Great Britai n as Manda tory Power in Palestine. In the late1940's, the British - unable tohandle the explosive siruation - tookthe issue to the U. N.

U . N . Parti tion PlanThe United Nations announced a

parti tion plan in August 1947. Palestine was to be partitioned into anArab state and a Jewish state, whileJerusalem would be placed under theinternational trusteeship system of theU. N .

The Jews accepted the proposal.The Arabs did not. The U. N. votedfor partition, 33 to 13, in November1947, with the help of (ironically) thebehind-the-scenes diplomacy of Andrei Gromyko, Russia's delegate tothe United Nations . Britain, whichsaid it would no t vote for a planunacceptable to both sides, announced it would surrender its mandate on May 15, 1948.

The Arab ExodusT he exodus from Israel began

when fighting broke ou t after theU. N. resolution of November 29,1947. Villagers and townspeople wereencouraged by their leaders to "t emporarily" wit hdraw to neighboringterri tories.

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Er1Jt Her{, _ Plan Truth

Some A rab leadersprivately admit thatPalestinian refugeeswere often kept intentsjor political rea-sons after the 1948partition. It wasn'tuntil two years agothat the last refugeesbegan to move jromtents into hastily builtbousing (photo atleft).


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Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin elHusseini, was one of the primary instigators of that " temporary evacuation" po licy. His main objectivewas to clear the way for advancingArab columns. Supposedly the Arabswere to rerurn to their homes in thewake of the victorious Arab armiesand obta in their share of abandonedJewis h properties.The result of this unfortunate pol

icy was the birth of one of the mostagoniz ing headaches the Middl e Easthas ever seen - the Palestinian refugee mess.

How Many Refugees?The estimates of how many refu

gees were involved have varied fromabou t 500,000 to 1,300,000, depending on who compiled the statistics.From the outse t, the United Nati on s Relief and W orks Agency(UNRWA) was unable to separatethe genuinely displaced refugees fromthose who simply wished to benefitfrom relief operations . And there wasno shortage of candidates - the localunemployed, the poverty-stricken, ind igenou s po pula tio n, an d th enomadic Bedouin . According to theUN RW A review series (September1962), "Relief agencies were confronted with the problem of false andduplicate registrations from the veryinception of their operations."In Ju ne 1966, giving the number

of refugees as 1,317,749, UN RWAemp hasized: "The above statistics arebased on the agency's registrationrecords which do not necessarily reflect the actual refugee populationowing to factors such as.the high rateof unreported deaths and undetectedfalse registration."The statistical discrepancy is further pointed up by UNRWA which

estimated that the proportion of ineligib les drawing rat ions may be as highas one th ird to one half in some hostcountries (89th Hearing Foreign Assistance Act of 1965, page 192).In 1949 the Economic Survey Mis

sion set up by the Conciliation Commission of the U. N . put the figure22

at 718,000. O ther estimates were500,000 and 600,000 .Dr. W alter Pinn er, in his book The

Legend of the Arab Refugees, concludestha t refugees, according to the officialU. N. definition, currently number nomore than 50,000 in Lebanon , 75,000in Samaria, Judea and Transjordan ,125,000 in Gaza, and 2,000 in Syria.The difference between these fig

ures and UNRWA statistics is explained by 466,000 self-appointed refugees - 15,000 from villages in thevicinity of the now defun ct Israel-]or-

THE BALFOURDECLARATIONOn November 2, 191 7, Lord Bal

four , t he n B ri ta in 's Secretary ofState for Foreign Affairs, publisheda statement on policy in the formof a letter to Baron Rothschild. I tstated :" H is Majesty's Governmen t view

wit h favou r th e establishment inPalestine of a na tion al home for th eJew ish people, and will use theirbes t endeavours to faci litate th eachievement of thi s object, it beingclearly understood that nothing shallbe don e whi ch may prejudice thecivil and religious righ ts of existingnon-Jewish commun ities in Palestine , or th e rights and political sta tusenjoyed by J ews in any othercountry."

dan armis tice lines, 177,000 unrecorded deaths , 109,000 ex-refugees resettled in 1948, and 225,000 exrefugees who have become self-supporting since 1948.Jews and ARABS Mig rated

to PalestineIt is the general assumption that all

immigrants to Palestine in the 1900'swere Jews, but according to the En-cyclopaedia Britannica (1911), therewere 400,000 inhabi tants in Palestineon both banks of the Jo rdan River.Given the extremely high birth

rate among Arabs, this populationwould have doubled from 320,000 to640,000 by 1946. In reading the vari-

ous reports on the census, however,one notices that there were 1,600,000Arabs on bot h banks of the JordanRiver in 1948. The obvious conclusion is that many thous ands of Arabsin Palestine in 1947 had immigratedto the area from neighb oring countries between the years 1911-1947.The motive for Arab immigration

can be attributed to the constant flowof Jewish capital and know-how intoPalestine.

Why Refugees?I t is the general assumption that

the "poor and miserable refugees, victims of the Zionists," are all crowdedinto tents, helpless and unable to carefor themselves. But the tru th of themat ter is far removed from these falseassumptions and from gro undlesspropaganda.Many Palestinians have emigra ted

to other countries around the worldand have become successful and productive cit izens. Some have been appointed to cabinet posts in the Arabgovernments. There are also Palestinians in the Israeli government, such asthe Dep u ty Minister of Heal th, AbdelAziz Zuibi, a prominent MoslemArab from Nazareth. The DeputySpeaker of the Knesset is another example of a responsible Arab whostrives to build rather than destro y. Atotal of six Palestinian Arabs are inthe Knesset (Parliament of Israel).There are tens of thousands of Palestinians in Kuwait, Lebanon, Jo rdan,Egypt, South America , the UnitedStates, etc. Many hold advanced degrees in such fields as medicine, engi neering, teaching, and the sciences.The Palestinians now living in

wretched camps are there because ofone of two reasons, or both:

1. They like it in the camps.2. The Arab governments deliberately keep them there .

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Even though the refu-gees live in the newcamps in "solid" dwell-ings , their childrenstill play in the sandsof the arid land whenit's hot and in themud when it's coldand rainy

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ing lived in the Middle East for overtwo decades.

Many simply took advantage of theU. N . relief and food dis tribution an opportunity to eat and do little.Many of these supposedly wretchedrefugees refused the opporrun ity toreloca te elsewhere. Many have said tome, speaking of Gaza: "This is ourhome ; we like it here. W e will stayhere unti l we ge t all of Palestine."

The Israelis have offered to settlesome of the Gaza refugees in Sinai.T he refugees were offered modernapartments at el-Arish, but in manycases they would no t leave the camps!

Most, if no t all, of the upper- andmiddle-class Palestinians refused tolive in the camps. When suddenlyconfronted with the reality that theyhad lost Palestine, they simply settledelsewhere and prospered.

Refugees K ep t in TentsThe second reason may at first

seem farfetched, but other responsibleArabs and several Arab leaders haveadmitted that this is the case.

Until recently, most of the Arableaders privately admitted that the refugees were kept in tents as a deliberate policy . Finally, an Arab leaderbrough t it ou t into the open . TheDeputy Chairman of the Revolution ary Command Council, Libya's number two man, Major Abdel Salam Jalloud, admi tted that the Palestinianrefugees have been "kept in ten ts" forover two decades as a planned policy.At a meeting wi th sheikhs of theGulf principalities last Ja nuary, hesaid :"The Arabs have kept the Palestinianreugees in tents, according to a plannedpolicy for the return o Palestine - therehabilitation o the Palestinians inA rab countres would have lost themPalestine for good."

This has been the reasoning of cer-Street scene in Ain-el-Bacba , the largestrefugee camp inJordan. The camp housesapproximately 60 ,000 refugees from theSix-Day War. The Jordanian govern ment hasprovided small clay buildings.

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rain Arab leaders for the last two decades. Keep the refugees helpless andwretched as a "testimony to theworld of what Israel did to theArabs ." Obviously this policy hasn' tworked. The refugees are still displaced and Palestine is now history .The pro blem is that the Arabs arehaving a war with their own tor

men ted vision of themselves. It is notIsrael that the Arabs hate so much,and far less the Jews because they areJews. But the fact that the Arabs believe that the West, acting from guiltafter the extermination of six millionJews in Nazi Europe between 1941and 1945, imposed Israel on them andthen abandoned them in admira tionfor Israel. What the Jews brought toIsrael that was offensive to the Arabswas not their Jewishness. It was theirWesternization and their ability tosucceed. This infuriates the Arabs.

A Positive AspectWhile most of the Arab countries

refused to grant citizenship to thePalestinians, King Hussein of Jordangranted citizenship to all Palestinianswho wished to live in his kingdom .Even though there are camps, Jordan- with what l it tle resources it has has tried to improve the lo t of the refugees and has succeeded. A trademarkof the camps, such as those found inGaza, is filth and misery, bu t not soin some camps in Jordan where tentshave been replaced with permanentdwellings. Health clinics, vocationalt ra in ing and many services have enabled some refugees to become selfsupporting . The reason the refugeesin Jordan - unlike the Gazites - aremore willing to improve their lot isthe fact that they are treated as citizens.While Gaza was under Egyptian

administration prior to Israeli occupation in 1967, it was held under siege ;the refugees had to have a special permit to travel to Egypt proper andevery opportunity to become self-sufficient was denied them . They werealways treated as aliens and not fellowArabs.26

Some Pale st in ian s are rea listicenough to place the blame where itbelongs. They are no t blinded by propaganda that whi tewashes the errorsof the past and covers up the realfacts. I t takes courage on the part ofPalestinians to "say it like it is." Thethen secretary-general of the PalestineArab Higher Committee was onewho did . He said in 1948: "Our leaders told us to ge t out so that we canget in. . . . the fact that there are refugees is the direct consequence of theaction of the Arab states in opposingpa rt iti on and the Jewish state . TheArab states agreed upon this po licyunanimously and they must share inthe solution of the problem ."

Bold New Plan for PeaceVirtually no progress has been

made toward peace between Israel andits Arab neighbors since the Six-DayWar of June 1967. (Peace would undoubtedly usher in the beg inning ofthe end of the plight of the refugees.)In March 1972, King Hussein outlined a bold , ambitious plan thatmight conceivably be a basis for normalizing, in part , relations betweenJordan and Israel.

In a speech at Basman Palace inAmman, King Husse in addressed 500of his subjects, including representatives of the Israeli-occupied WestBank of the Jordan River. The kingproposed the creation of a new autonomous region of Palestine , consistingof the West Bank with its 620,000Arab residents. Jordan and this areawould form a political entity calledthe United Arab Kingdom . The Palestinian capital would be in the oldsector of Jerusalem ; foreign affairs, defense and the economy would be controlled by a federal government inAmman.Israel's official response was under

standably negative, as were most ofthe responses of the Arab governments. However, in a troubled areawhere stalemate and hosti li ty represent the status quo , there was a measure of hope in the fact that someoneat last had made a different move .

What About J ewish Refugees?There are many Jewish refugees set

tled in Israel from Yemen, Egyp t,Iraq, Syria and Morocco. These countries have expelled large portions oftheir Jewish populations, often withou t allowing them to carry any property with them . The total number ofsuch refugees could run as high as475,000, depending upon what oneaccepts as the definition of a refugee.The wealth left behind by these refugees was considerable.There are two sides to the story ,

and it is onl y fair to present both . Weare not a ttempt ing to be judges ; weneither praise nor condemn. It wouldactually take a superhuman judge, amerciful , all-knowing, all-powerfulBeing to settle this complex and , attimes , illogical question.


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Those Palestinians who believe inthe all-or-nothing policy have beenlooking for some sort of delivererwho would take them "back home"to Palestine . When you think of it,they are in Palestine, whether it'sGaza or the West Bank of the JordanRiver. But somehow they have thedream of a home back there whereeverything was just fine, " until theJews took it from us."

The fact is that many of these refugees have never even been there! Theywere born and have lived all theirlives in the camps. They simply heardfrom the "old timers" that they belong in Palestine and they should always look to the day when they canreturn . In the meantime, they are sitting around in their tents , multiplying and degenerating. What the realrefugees need now is to wake up to

the reality of the situation. Palestineis now history. Israel is in the MiddleEast to stay, and the only logical solution is right education and relocationin the neighboring Arab countries,some of which are more than capable(thanks to the oil revenues) of absorbing them with ease, if they reallywanted to.

There are some legitimate claims- on both sides - to lost lands andproperties. These should be settled ,but until they are, there is no point inwaiting for some Saladin to drive theJews into the sea.

The Arab nations don't havea chanceof defeating the Israelis militarily.Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, the influential editor of the Cairo newspaper AI-Ahram and a confidant ofSadat, told Egyptians in March of thisyear to forget about an all-out war

with Israel and that the only alternative now was a political settlement.Heikal went on to say that the Arabsdo not have the required militarypower to dislodge Israel from eventhe smallest town in Sinai or the Golan Heights.

Arab leaders acknowledge thisquite freely. War will not accomplishanything constructive but will furthercomplicate the situation. And as inthe past, more Arab territory wouldprobably be lost.

Look at OtherPalestinians

If the Arab world wants to avoid agreat debacle, then it's high time thereal facts behind the Palestinian question were discussed freely.For over two decades the Arabsand the Israelis have been arguing

The Jordanian government has providedhealth clinics for Pal-estinians. The refu-gees living in Jordanare treated as citizensand are providedwithvocational trainingand other services.Some refugees have be-come self-supporting.Emu - Pain Truth

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about who has commi tt ed the mostatrocities and who should possess theland of Palestine . These useless arguments have produ ced nothing butmore hatred and strife. The questionsho uld be approached in a differentway. The Palestinians must look atthe situation realistically. They mustnot go on leading a relatively useless,unproductive life, just to prove thatthey have been wronged.The best examp le for the camp

dwellers to follow is that of their ownpeople. As mentioned earlier, manythousands of Palestinians have reset tled elsewhere , and they are prospering . We are not advocating thatthe Palestinians sho uld leave theirown people and culture to resettle , farfrom it; the Arab countries haveample room. Libya, for example , hasan acute shortage of manpower, andA RA B-ISRAELI COO PERATIONIsrael provided training for a refugee-run orange g rowing and packing oper-ation in the Gaza strip.

it is a very rich country, grossing $2billion a year from oil revenues alone .Neither are we advocating that thePalestinians should abandon legitimateclaims to lost properties.

Look at the Jewish RefugeesThe half million or so Jewish refu

gees from Arab countr ies have resettl

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