Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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CIENCE and technology provide us a Oy 25: push-button world of the three L’s — leisure, luxury and license. They have led us to believe we have matured beyond the need for God. Modern science will provide all needs and banish all evils. But what is the truth? Let us look again at the fruits. A realistic look at modern science and technology leads only to disillusionment. Their attention is confined to the realm of the material and the mechanical. But problems and evils are Spiritual in nature. Peace, happiness and joy are spiritual values. Yet these basics of human welfare are not their concern. The incredible human potential is outside their domain. True enough, we find accelerating inventions, intricate mechanical devices, labor-saving mechanisms, spectacular tech- nological productions of entertainment and amusement. But then, we observe the failure to teach people to put added hours, days and weeks of leisure to beneficial uses. Instead, human nature has desired to get more and more — and once they get what they want they’re dissatisfied with what they’ve got. These are false values which only increase unhappiness and evils. An increasing segment of adolescents stare a hopeless future in the face, turning to immorality, drugs, violence and, too often, suicide. The principal contribution of science and technology has been the development of constantly more terrifying weapons of mass destruction. This has brought us to today’s No. 1 problem — human survival. Science and technology are not evil in themselves, but an important facet in a good civilization — if we had one. The evil lies in the materialistic concept — the ‘‘get’’ approach to life instead of the spiritual ‘give’ attitude of outflowing love and concern for one’s fellow man. Modern science stands exposed as a false messiah — about to destroy us all! Who else can we look to for hope? Religion seems to be the last bastion of salvation for our weary world. Surely, those entrusted with the teaching of spiritual values will have some answers... . Science and Technology Our 20th century world looks with awe at modern science and technology. Can this “modern messiah”’ deliver the world from ignorance, poverty, disease and unhappiness? ue aaa ree a 4

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Religion Surely we should expect to find, at last, in religion the knowledge of life’s purpose, the True Values, and the Right Way. y YET if we search deeply, with open mind, we find here the saddest disillusionment of all! The Christian-professing churches are divided and in confusion. They have not “‘saved,’’ reformed nor changed the ways of the Christian world into peace, happi- ness, joy, abundant well-being. Bishop Hazen G. Werner once said, “‘We have been dried out by the hot winds of secularism. We who are to overcome the world have been overcome by the world.”’ Harvard Divinity School’s Dean Miller was quoted saying, ‘‘The church simply does not have a cutting edge [i.e., it has thrown away the ‘‘two-edged sword”’ of the Bible]. It has taken the culture of our time and absorbed it.”’ To this, Yale’s former Chaplain William Sloan Coffin adds, ‘‘We churchmen are gifted at changing wine into water — watering down religion.” But what is the real truth? Shocking though it may be, we find those proclaiming the name of Jesus Christ preaching about His Person, yet many teaching diametrically opposite to His teaching, disapproving the laws and cus- toms He practiced, following instead the pagan customs His Word condemns. The churches have not received most of their teachings and practices from the Bible as their basic authority, as popularly supposed. Rather, they have, by interpret- ing it, endeavored to so twist and distort it as to read their human-devised teachings and pagan practices into it! Yet the Bible, taken without interpretation, makes sense! In it — and it alone — we find revealed the purpose of human existence, the meaning of life, the true values, the right way! Here, at last, we find the foundation — the starting point — of all knowledge! You can prove the existence of God. You can prove the inspiration of the Holy Bible — as God’s revelation and instruction book to mankind. One unique College is founded on the revelation of God’s Word — the Holy Bible. Ambassador College teaches ‘‘the Word of God is the foundation of knowledge.”’ Ambassador students are discovering these precious truths and receiving a broadened, balanced, true education. Join us now on a pictorial journey of Ambassador College and its extension activities pioneering ‘‘tomorrow’s education today’’...