Literature

In January 1997, we decided to reprint and distribute Herbert W. Armstrong’s final book, Mystery of the Ages. Weeks later, the Worldwide Church of God filed a lawsuit trying to stop us. (Mr. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church, but after he died, his successor rejected his teachings and stopped producing his written materials.) We responded to its lawsuit by filing our own

counterclaim—seeking to reprint and distribute 18 additional works of Mr. Armstrong’s that we consider central to our beliefs.

The Missing Dimension in Sex is one of those 18 works. There simply is no other book like it. When you read it, you will understand why.

As Mr. Armstrong explained in “Read This First” (see page ix), he began working on this book in 1949, a year after he founded Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. He needed a textbook for his Principles of Living course. But he soon discovered that this material needed to reach a much wider audience. So he wrote this book with you in mind.

He first published it in 1964 under the name God Speaks Out on “The New Morality.” At that time, a cultural revolution was sweeping across the Western world. “The revolt is on,” Mr. Armstrong wrote, “against prudery, repression and ignorance.” The world had gone from saying nothing about sex to saying everything—but much of it was wrong! This “new” knowledge, he said, was wholly physical. None of the so-called “authorities” approached the subject of sex from a biblical foundation. That’s why the fruits of the revolution have been so evil.