GOOD NEWS Beyond Today's Bad News - Michael A Snyder - September-October 1982

Michael A Snyder

The journalist looked at me, stunned. We were in the press area covering a nuclear disarmament rally. One of the press corps wondered why The Plain Truth would send someone to cover a disarmament rally. "You say in your magazine that God is going to destroy the earth," this woman journalist said. "So why would you be interested in any human effort to disarm?" "Because," I answered, "God isn't going to destroy the earth and neither do we publish such a message. What we do publish is the good news that God will send his son Jesus Christ to stop humans from destroying the earth and all humanity on it. Man will continue to misgovern himself to the point where the situation requires divine intervention to avoid ultimate human extinction. Therefore, we're very interested in efforts of men, who are cut off from any true knowledge of God, to halt the process of destruction." Stunned at this remark, she continued as other members of the press joined in: "But doesn't the Bible say that God will destroy the earth? And anyway, why do you even use the Bible as your authority and reference point in The Plain Truth?" - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library