Editors: Edwin F. Harvey & Lillian G. Harvey

DEEPER TRUTHS FOR CHRISTIANS, No. 3

The Message of Victory, October-December, 1978

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FALLACY

By Edwin and Lillian Harvey

Ever since the episode in the garden of Eden as recorded in Genesis 3, Satan has sought to obliterate God by substituting man—his needs, his success, his joys and triumphs.  One would hardly know that God had created this earth and had a Divine purpose as Owner in mind.  Man’s happiness and well-being and not God’s demands are uppermost.  In these closing days of this age of grace, this antagonist of all righteousness has posed as a very interested partner in the salvation of souls.  We underestimate his cunning—this prince of the world—if we do not recognize that he is a most religious being and has gained apparent ascendancy even in evangelical circles.  He has, especially in recent years, dictated policy for many of the large campaigns and efforts ostensibly for the reclamation of man.  He has succeeded with a large portion of the church by showing them the kingdoms of this world and the methods to win them.  He has exalted man, and dethroned God.  He has done this so cleverly that many of Christ’s followers hardly recognize the terrible swindle he has perpetrated in the name of religion.

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