Herbert W Armstrong

We have come to the time of the Protestant reformation which is certainly in this world's history a monumental event. The Catholic church had essentially, as we have seen, dominated western religion, from the Counsel of Lycia, certainly from the time of the Imperial Restoration in the middle of th ...

With this issue we begin a series of articles by Youth 83's Editor-in-Chief on love, marriage and sex. In no area of human life has there been such drastic social change as in that of SEX. Prior to the First World War, it was illegal in the United States to publish, sell or distribute a book of in ...

Here are vital principles new members and old alike desperately need to understand! SO NOW you've been baptized! Today, most denominational leaders are truly elated over rising church attendance, increased Bible sales, a gradual leaning toward religion to supply the answers in a perplexing, franti ...

God's true Church knows the right way of living - the balanced, abundant life. The right way of life with solid, balanced truth about diet, exercise, foods, finances, marriage. This way of life is another vital proof of the true Church of God. SURE, I'm a Christian, but I'm not workin ...

How much of what you believe about religion is really true? How do you discover doctrinal truths? And if you do finally find the right doctrine, are you courageous enough to face and accept it? In a back-page ad appearing on a fairly recent number of the Plain Truth, we tested the Bible know ...

Was the Reformation a return to the TRUTH preached by Jesus Christ? This series of articles contains startling FACTS which you need to consider! PART IX. Millions of books, pamphlets and tracts boldly proclaim as the Protestant foundation: "The BIBLE, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, ...

AMAZING EVENTS that occurred in the Fall of 1914 - and now are again occurring - revealed! What do spiritist mediums and fortune-tellers know? The mysteries of the spirit world revealed by the BIBLE! Here is the plain truth! MYSTERIOUS, invisible, powerful forces are now at work producing profound c ...

PLAIN TRUTH Publisher, Herbert W. Armstrong, recently announced A NEW FOUNDATION and the publication of a strikingly beautiful NEW MAGAZINE for mankind - HUMAN POTENTIAL. The world is a tangled mass of complexity. Masses of humanity are divided by national boundaries, by languages, by wealth or lack ...

WHILE the book of Acts gives us the KEY which shows the beginnings of the false religious system under Simon Magus, it does not describe its activities in any great detail. The Acts, however, performs its purpose in exposing who started the whole mess. God leaves it to the epistles, Revelation and a ...

Does religion have to be a "mystery" in order to understand it? No one truly "understands" the so-called "mystery of the Trinity." Scholarly theologians nevertheless insist their followers must accept the doctrine, though admitting it is a mystery, incapable of understanding! But Jesus said ...

In a recent telephone conversation Mr. [Herbert W.] Armstrong asked me a direct and thought-provoking question. He said, "Dexter, what ever happened to our good old work and service ethic?" After our conversation I thought long and hard about the question. I reflected on the example that M ...

Jesus Christ did not rise on Easter Sunday! Here is an article explaining what Christ did command His Church to observe! Have you ever really stopped to consider why you believe the things you believe? Where did you learn the custom of observing Easter? "I learned it from childhood," you r ...

THE ENVOY ...takes you, in the following pages, on an exciting, thought challenging tour. The most important - and here-tofore unanswered - questions of human existence are these: "What are the TRUE VALUES?" "What is the PURPOSE and true MEANING of life?" "What is THE WAY?&q ...

Before launching into a critical study of the post-apostolic record, we need to examine first the Biblical account of the movements of the Apostle Peter. We need to ask: What would we conclude about Peter at Rome if we had only the New Testament? In attempting to reconstruct the later history of the ...

Scandals in government, industry and religion have captured considerable media attention of late. More sad stories of corruption, greed and moral laxity seem to appear each day. We expect our leaders to be better than we are. When they're not, we're always surprised. But are their moral lapses e ...