The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.