Herbert W Armstrong

It's true - smoking DOES cause cancer! Smoking IS injurious to health! Read, in this article, backed up by plenty of statistical PROOF, what your Creator says about smoking! It's BIG BUSINESS Tobacco is the nation's fifth largest cash crop, and the third largest crop for export. ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - Five decades ago, in the first, edition of The Plain Truth, I could not have written this "Personal." I did not then have UNDERSTANDING of the only real value of a human life. But The Plain Truth was born a magazine of UNDERSTANDING. Thankfully, as this ...

Have you ever started watching a movie when it was halfway over? If so, you were probably frustrated because of not knowing what events led up to the moment you came in. You didn't know who the characters were, or what the story was about. Being born into today's world is much like coming in at ...

What about this whole church question - as it concerns YOU? WHERE IS the original true Church which Jesus Christ founded - the one the living Jesus Christ STILL HEADS today? That is the question that haunted me, back in 1926 and early 1927. I had been reared, like many of our readers, in one of the ...

Get your mind in fourth gear and come to understand answers to some questions almost nobody dares ask. If God has existed forever in the past, and He is going to exist forever in the future - then, how did He ever get to now?" asked a bright young student in my sophomore class in Old Testament ...

Seething racial outbursts in Harlem, Rochester, St. Augustine, Jersey City, Kansas City and around the world indicate serious TROUBLE ahead. Where will it lead? And WHY? Screaming headlines tell of racial violence. The world over, explosive racial hatreds have been bursting to the surface. In Roches ...

It is time we understood the relationship between gold, inflation and government. And how they affect you! On August 15, 1971, President Nixon dropped a bombshell that rocked the entire world financial system to its foundations. By executive decree, he cut the dollar loose from gold. He invited fore ...

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 ...

How can we determine what is truly worthwhile in the realm of literature, art, music, the theater? On every side we are exposed to what is rightly or wrongly called artistic creativity. It either serenades us or it blasts at us from radios and stereos. It soothes our eyes or it assaults them from th ...

You have to go back to Honest to God to remember any book that has so stirred up the British religion. The culprit? A book entitled The Myth of God Incarnate by John Hick. Few religious works in living memory have captured the attention of the small and usually sedate church-going public. ...

In Abraham, God found a man after the Flood who would obey Him. He commanded him to leave his home country and told him He would make of him a great nation and give him and his offspring forever all the land he saw (Gen. 12:1-4; 13:14-15). Ultimately, Abraham's twelve grandsons found themselves in ...

ONE of the mysteries of the Bible is the identity of Melchisedec. Who is he? We read, in Hebrews 6:19-20, that Jesus Christ, after His resurrection, was High Priest "after the order of Melchisedec," Or, in the plainer English of the Moffatt translation, "with the rank of" — equal ...

Millions repeat this prayer daily. But did Christ intend it to be repeated word for word? What is the real meaning and purpose of this prayer? Here are the answers from your own Bible! DEVOUT parents teach their children from infancy to repeat the "Lord's prayer." Certain religions require their c ...

Which FAMILY must the Christian put first - the natural human family or the GOD Family into which he is begotten? IF YOU ARE really a Christian, you are a begotten child of God - begotten into the GOD FAMILY. God says, through the apostle John, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it dot ...

How could the world have become so mixed up? Out of this spiritual wilderness, a voice cries out in clarity and power, with the reassuring truth of the world's only and sure hope! HOW IN THIS age of religious confusion could one come to know these seven basic truths that decry this world-gripping ...