Past Opportunities for Paradise

Proving Paradise is Humanly Impossible

It’s apparent that God has given mankind 6,000 years of remarkable independence. It seems God has been letting human beings experiment to see if they can bring about paradise without God. And, amazingly, God has occasionally blessed humanity with unique advantages and opportunities to bring about universal peace and prosperity. Obviously, man has always failed. Because of all the special opportunities, man can never say, “God, if only you had given us this kind of opportunity, we would have produced paradise.” The good news? Someday there will be paradise on earth!

Don Hooser is a minister for the United Church of God. He lives in McKinney, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.  He and his wife Elsie had three children, and she died in August 2020.  Don married Judy in January 2022.  Mr. Hooser graduated in 1963 from Southern Methodist University with a degree in mechanical engineering, and graduated in 1966 from Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas.  For most of the time since then, he served as the pastor of churches in Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. From 2011 until his retirement in 2021, his primary responsibility was answering the many letters written to the Church.