It will be very very rare that we release any transcripts from "Here's Jesus!" before the audio is released, but a question was asked of such profound importance that explains why we are doing our Work so perfectly, why "Here's Jesus!" is so important, that we just had to share it with everyone now.  We simply could not wait.  We hope there are many more questions like this coming.

Linda- This is Speaker Linda Polley.  It's November 4, 2,002 and "Here's Jesus!"  Here's an incredible question to start the week, Nazarene, from our  good friend Dave Wilson, at WIBC, Indianapolis, Indiana.  Does God ever regret giving man free will?

Nazarene- God bless you, Dave, for asking this question!  For it is the most important one that could be ever asked.  No, God never regrets giving mankind free will.  It is by free will that man loves God.  And it is by the love that is given God that He controls the universe.  Without love freely given, God could not do the wonders that He does.  It is the love of God that makes it possible for Him to return His blessings to all that He has created.  No, God never regrets giving man free will.  Free will is the driving force of the universe.  God does regret that sometimes some of His blessed Souls take the wrong path and go down into the Darkness, and destroy themselves will free will, but He could not take free will back.  Because if He took free will back all that exists would slowly decay and die. It is by free will that everything exists.  Free will is God's most marvelous and greatest creation.  It is one of the greatest wonders that has ever come into being.  No, no Dave!  God never, ever regrets the marvelous gift of free will that He gave to all.  It is the greatest thing in all of the universe, and without it none of us could exist.

Linda- That's marvelous, Nazarene!  I thought you'd say something like that!  And I'm not surprised Dave asked such a marvelous question!  We'll be back after the break.

Another young friend Gibby, just made a good comment that is quite common, and I'm glad he did, as we're finishing off this issue of the magazine.  He said "A lot of atheists argue that Jesus couldn't have lived in Nazareth because Nazareth is a relatively new city that didn't appear until well after Jesus' time."  Well the answer is quite simple.  There were actually two Nazareths.  The older one was destroyed by The Romans when The Jews rebelled shortly after Jesus' life.  The new one is built near where the old one was, but close enough that it doesn't really matter.  It is still within the power source that Nazareth was in, so still draws the same energy that the old city did.  Actually, in Jesus' time, Nazareth was a province, a county within Palestine, and not very well liked by The Jews because it was the area where the caravans came through and where people of differing religions exchanged ideas with people in the area.  Those in Jerusalem didn't like these new ideas coming into Israel, being taught to the people, so they looked down on everybody that came from Nazareth and said "What good thing comes out of Nazareth?"