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AIR-AGE MIRACLES VOLUME 80, NO. 39
OCTOBER 20, 1953
UNITED PRESS
PURPOSE OF PROPHECY
your Bible Questions finswered The Offending Eye Please explain Matthew 5:29, 30. Mrs. R. 0. T.
-20 Editor Arthur S. Maxwell Assistant Editor . . . Charles D. Utt Volume 80, No. 39
October 20, 1953
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CONTENTS 2 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 9 10 11 12 12 13 15 16
YOUR BIBLE QUESTIONS ANSWERED EDITORIALS : SALVATION BY GADGETS ? SECRET
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STRANGE CONVENTION WE DARE NOT FAINT
Elman J. Folkenberg Donald W. McKay SHIPS WITHOUT ANCHORS . Helene Washer WHAT CHRIST DID FOR YOU . George S. Ashlock SATAN'S BIGGEST LIE Carlyle B. Haynes LIVING STONES Taylor G. Bunch RELIGION4IN ACTION M. Carol Hetzell THE PURPOSE OF PROPHECY . Dallas Youngs TRUST HIM STILL (POEM) . Hazel Hartwell Simon YOU DON'T DESERVE IT Eda A. Reid HOPE ON Marie Lund THE GUEST AT THE DOOR . . Sanford T Whitman
AIR-AGE MIRACLFS IN THE NEWS
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OUR COVER
Question of Chronology
Mounted in the nineteen-foot wind tunnel at Langley aeronautical laboratory, this scale model of a new jet plane is tested with compressed air which reaches a speed of 200 mph at a density of 2 1/3 atmospheres. From such tests will emerge the stronger, faster planes of tomorrow which will break the amazing records set up by the planes of yesterday. See "Air-Age Miracles," by Elman J. Folkenberg, on page 5 of this issue.
We read in Acts 7:4 that Abram left Haran after the death of his father, Terah, who lived to be 205. Genesis 11:32. However, Genesis 11:26 and 12:4, 5 establish the fact that Abram left for Canaan when his father was still alive, that is, 145 years old. Please explain the disagreement. H. C. J.
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The verses read: "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." The word "offend" as here used presents a difficulty to the modern Bible reader. In 1611. when the King James translation was made. to offend was understood as putting a snare or stumbling block in the way of someone, or causing him to sin. These meanings more nearly represent the idea of the original Greek word than the word "offend" as it is commonly used today. The right eye that causes offense represents sins pleasing to the sight or other senses, and the right hand those that may be gainful (because the right hand is the most useful in earning a living). To save the body and prolong life men often submit to the amputation of a limb or the removal of an organ. In the same way we must be willing to part with every sin, though we have cherished it as we do the right eye or the right hand, if holding on to it will lead to spiritual death and final destruction. Eye and hand mean more than the members of the physical body. Removing them would not remove sin, for one could be sightless and maimed and yet harbor sinful thoughts and desires, "Hell" in these verses is translated from the Greek word Gehenna, the name of a valley near Jerusalem where refuse of the city was burned. It is used as a type of the lake of fire in which Satan and the wicked will be deC. D. U. stroyed. See Revelation 20:9, 10.
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