The Incredible Human Potential: The Gospel of Jesus Christ and the awesome purpose of man
The Maker of mankind is also the Creator of all. On a clear, cloudless night one may behold the star-studded sky. Is it possible there is an unrealized connection between the galaxies with their mighty suns, their planets - and man? In this true story of the incredible human potential, I deem it well to look first to the Creator's overall purpose.
Prepare yourself for exciting new knowledge - the incredible awesome potential for which humanity was created and put here on earth. Winston Churchill said before the United States Congress that there is a purpose being worked out here below. Few indeed know what that purpose is; yet it is plainly revealed. And it's the most exciting, most wonderful, hope-inspiring truth that could ever be revealed. God - Creator of the Universe Did you ever wonder about the countless millions of shining stars you have seen on an otherwise black, cloudless night?
Sometimes they appear like a stupendous skyrocket which has just burst out into a glittering cluster. Many of them are tremendous suns incredibly larger than our sun. Probably most of them are surrounded by planets, like our sun is surrounded by Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the other planets of our solar system. Haven't you wondered about them?
Are any of them inhabited? Did they evolve, as most scientists - astronomers, biologists, geologists - theorize? Or were they created by an all intelligent, all-powerful Creator Being?
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Do any of the planets contain any kind of life, or are all like our moon - dead, decayed, lifeless, wasted, empty, uninhabitable? And if they are in a dead state of decay and lifeless, WHY would an intelligent Creator have created them thus? These are indeed intriguing questions. Scientists are extremely interested in knowing more about these uncountable gigantic bodies out there in space. Science does not know much about the origin of all these mighty bodies. There are many theories - many guesses - many hypotheses - as to how they were formed - but not based on actual revealed fact.
Although astronomers for hundreds of years have been curious about the stars in the sky, many devoting their lifetimes to this study through constantly improved telescopes, they knew nothing about the purpose - or whether there is a purpose. There they design and produce unmanned spacecraft to be sent into outer space to photograph and send back pictures of other planets in our solar system.
In December one came comparatively close 26, miles to Jupiter. It sent back photographs that revealed additional knowledge about this largest of our planets. They did not give any proof of existing life or of conditions capable of sustaining life. Then on February 9, astronomers at the University of Arizona claimed to have discovered through a telescope evidence of water on Jupiter. This I consider highly improbable. Of course, the planet Mars has attracted the widest attention.
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Haven't you wondered if Mars is inhabited - what kind of life might exist there? This very question has supplied the theme for science-fiction movies and a television series viewed by millions. But does human life or some other form - either much superior to man, or much inferior - exist on Mars or any other planet?
Science does not have these answers.
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But the many photographs sent back to Earth from spacecraft on the surface of Mars, and hence being much nearer Jupiter and Saturn than our planet Earth, at least INDICATE a total absence of life on any of these planets - or conditions capable of sustaining life. It had been planned to try to land the unmanned spacecraft Viking on Mars on the th anniversary of the United States as a nation.
The Incredible Human Potential
Actually, this spacecraft, in appearance something like a huge, ungainly Tinkertoy, had been created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. The Viking was equipped to send back photographs from the very surface of the planet Mars. Actually it did land on July 20, The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, operated as a government project, but a division of the California Institute of Technology, is located a short distance from our Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena.
The JPL scientists had arranged to transmit the very first photographs ever take on the surface of Mars to the Ambassador Auditorium so that a public audience might view the transmission of these pioneer pictures. Naturally this transmission of the first actual photographs from a planet farther than our moon was of very special interest to me - not only because of the importance of the first pictures, but also because the Ambassador Auditorium had been designed and built under my personal direction.
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Several people had been sitting in the Auditorium throughout the night. I personally, in communication with the JPL scientists, arrived at the Auditorium about 4: The first pictures began coming in on the large motion picture screen at about 5: The pictures showed clearly to us precisely what is revealed in the Word of God - Romans 8: All is waste, deterioration, a condition of decay.
There appeared no evidence of any sign of life of any sort, or of conditions that could sustain life. All indications are that only our planet Earth is a life-supporting planet. Others appear to be like our moon - dead, decayed, wasted and empty. Our earth is part of the solar system which is part of a single galaxy called the Milky Way. There are many other galaxies on beyond ours. They extend in space distances so vast the human mind cannot conceive of them in terms of miles, meters, or any measure of distance except light years.
So even though science knows comparatively little about the limitless universe, revelation tells us something amazing beyond words about them. The first verse in the revealed Word of God, says: The ancient King David of Israel wondered about the stars and was inspired to tell us God created them. Created - But Why? David was inspired to write, Oh Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: David here limits man's dominion to the present - that which God gave mankind in the creation of man - the solid earth, the earth's atmosphere, and the waters and sea as in Gen.
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That is the dominion man has now. In the New Testament, written much later, far more is revealed. The theme of the context here is "the world to come. This verse speaks of angels as if the world had been put in subjection to angels; in fact, in the very beginning of this book of Hebrews, the first chapter, it is speaking of Christ and angels and the relation of angels to humans. This must be explained a little later. But bear in mind the general theme here, or context, is "the world to come, whereof we speak" - not this present age, now coming rapidly to its end!
Continue on in verse 6: In this psalm, David continued showing specifically that God has now placed in subjection under man the solid earth, the earth's atmosphere or air, and the sea. But now the writer of the book of Hebrews is inspired to follow with something radically different - something to happen in the world to come! This revealed knowledge of God's purpose for mankind - of man's incredible awesome potential - staggers the imagination. Science knows nothing of it - no religion reveals it, so far as I know - and certainly higher education is in utter ignorance of it.
I have said before that God revealed necessary knowledge to our first parents, but they didn't believe what He said! Some 4, years later, Jesus Christ appeared on earth with a message direct from God the Father in heaven, revealing the same necessary knowledge - but only a handful - a hundred and twenty - believed what He said, though many professed to "believe on him" as in John 8: I will explain this - and why - a bit later. But so many of these interrelated points cannot be explained all at once.
But now let's see what is said in this passage in Hebrews beginning where Hebrews leaves off quoting the eighth psalm: Is it possible God could mean what He says "all things"? In the first chapter, the Moffatt translation of the Bible renders the Greek word translated "all things" as "the universe. But wait a moment!
Before you disbelieve, read the next words in the same eighth verse: But what do we see now, today? For it became him, for whom are all things the entire universe] and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings He is now in glory!
He has already inherited the entire universe. He sustains it by His power. Man, if he is converted, having God's Holy Spirit Rom. But see now how Christ already has been crowned with glory and honor - and is already in possession - has already inherited. Begin with Hebrews, chapter 1: The passage continues to show His superiority over the angels - He is the begotten and born Son of God - angels are merely individually created beings. Angels are now administering spirits invisible to us , ministering to us - to us who are now in lower status than angels - but who are heirs of salvation, when we, like Christ, shall become born Sons of God Heb.
Here it speaks of Christ as God's Son: Humans, having God's Holy Spirit are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ - who, alone of all humans, has already been born as God's Son by a resurrection from the dead Rom.
He is our pioneer who has gone on before. We shall follow at the resurrection of the just at Christ's return to earth in supreme power and glory. This eighth book of Romans, verse 9, says if we have within us the Holy Spirit of God we are His begotten sons, but if we do not have His Spirit we are none of His - not Christians at all. This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel message of Jesus Christ - of how this missing dimension was withheld, and the whole world deceived. It has remained undiscovered by science! No religion has revealed it! Higher education has never taught it!
Is it possible the whole world has been deceived - regarding the awesome PURPOSE of human l This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel message of Jesus Christ - of how this missing dimension was withheld, and the whole world deceived. This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel message of Jesus Christ of how this missing dimension was withheld, and the whole world deceived.
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