| Christian Life and Doctrine | June 1979 |
Do You Know?
That those who go to hell will return, that the Bible says that “death and hell [margin, the grave] delivered up the dead which were in them.”? And after this has been done, death and hell will be destroyed in the lake of fire, which is a symbol of the second death of complete destruction. Read Revelation 20:13,14.
That many sincere people who find it impossible to believe in the theories of the Dark Ages, such as the hell-fire doctrine, have learned to accept the Bible for what it really teaches and have faith in the loving God of the Bible and the blessings of his kingdom, where God’s will shall be done in earth as in heaven? Read Ecclesiastes 9:10; Matthew 6:10.
That the idea that all scientists are atheists is wrong? Many noted men of science have affirmed their belief in the existence of a supreme, intelligent Creator. Sir Isaac Newton, one of the world’s great scientists, was a firm believer in the Bible as the inspired Word of God. Read Psalms 14:1; 10:4.
That evolution is still an unproved theory, not a fact of science? That the exhibits in museums, starting with the very low forms of fossil life, gradually coming up the scale of living creatures, are not true to fact and reflect only the imagination of the one who has arranged them? All the facts of creation known to science actually agree with the account found in the Bible. Read Genesis, chapters 1 and 2.
That when Adam and Eve were created, their Creator said nothing about their going to heaven if good or to a condition of torment if bad? That man was created to live on the earth, and that God’s kingdom will eventually be “from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth”? Read Genesis, chapter 3; Psalms 72:7,8; 115:16
What the world’s only hope for survival is? That when that hope becomes a fact, all hate and greed and selfish government will give place to a reign of righteousness under the control of the One whom God has ordained to bless all the families of the earth with health and everlasting life? Read Acts 17:31; Jeremiah 31:33,34; Genesis 22:17,18.
That war will eventually cease and that nations will then cease to educate their people to fight one another? And that all the materiel of war will be converted into the needs of a peaceful society? And when established, this peaceful world will continue forever? Read Psalm 46:9; Isaiah 2:4.
That the world that existed on this earth came to an end at the time of the Deluge, more than four thousand years ago? That the world in which we now live will come to an end, and yet, according to the Bible, the earth abideth forever? Read II Peter 3:5-7,13; Ecclesiastes 1:4.
That the world’s present-day turmoil of crisis upon crisis was foretold by the prophets of God and recorded in the Bible many centuries ago? That the Bible not only describes these conditions but also gives the name and the place of birth of the One who will lead the way out of our confusion into the green pastures of peace and goodwill? Read Matthew 24:7,8,21,22; Luke 2:10,11,14; Micah 5:2.
That the prayer, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,” first offered by Jesus, will be fulfilled in the establishment of a kingdom of peace and goodwill so extensive that it will fill the earth as the waters fill the seas and oceans? Read Habakkuk 2:14.