Herbert W Armstrong

Lessons 21-24 were published before God led Mr. Armstrong to the true understanding of the origin of "human nature." Most of Lesson 21, which covers the subject of human nature, is therefore based on the premise that God put an evil nature in Adam and Eve and that all humans since then are born with this same evil nature. Of course, at the time of its publication, this lesson did reflect and expound the Church's understanding on this subject. Lessons 22-24 also reflect this same teaching.

Ministers should now refer PMs to current Lessons 9-12 if they wish to have them study in depth the subjects of repentance, baptism, the Holy Spirit and God's way of life prior to baptism. These lessons contain thorough Biblical expositions of these important subjects.

Though the CORRESPONDENCE COURSE was shortened to 12 lessons during the '70s, it still continued to faithfully reflect the teachings of God's Church. The course did not become tainted by liberal teachings that crept into the Church during the last decade. (Those who have taken the time to go over the first 12 lessons already know this.) It is as much a "trunk of the tree" course as the old 58-lesson course was: it just was limited to 12 lessons for about 10 years. Now Mr. Armstrong is expanding the course. (New Lessons 13-16 and Test 4 have already been published, with Lessons 17, 18 and 19 at the press and many other new lessons coming along.)