tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post3433382375579878348..comments2024-03-29T06:42:44.507-07:00Comments on Banned by HWA! News and Observations About Armstrongism and the Church of God Movement: Only Zealous Converted Wet Nurses Allowed!NO2HWAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02018654662518613623noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-52785829791323757082017-03-02T04:42:10.976-08:002017-03-02T04:42:10.976-08:00Last year Malm claimed on his blog that woman are ...Last year Malm claimed on his blog that woman are biblically commanded to cover their heads with some head covering such as a scarf, at church services. Boy, that's really going to make a woman a better person. Such attention to trivia must be compensation for ignoring important parts of Gods laws.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-81136119003908020072017-03-02T02:12:30.138-08:002017-03-02T02:12:30.138-08:00Anon 1120 –
I remember when one of our ministers,...Anon 1120 –<br /><br />I remember when one of our ministers, who called himself “the original Greek” embarrassed a Greek woman in the congregation when talking about Jews “uncircumcising” themselves to assimilate into Greek culture during the Hellenistic period.<br /><br />Anonymous63 – <br /><br />Again, two different issues. Certain conditions applied when entering the tabernacle or temple, which were built so <i>God could dwell among His people</i>. The gift of the Holy Spirit is with the individual, as the <i>Spirit lives within you</i>. <br />The body as a temple and circumcision of the heart are not New Testament concepts, as both were mentioned in Torah. Paul’s statement in 1 Cor. 6:19 was made while the Second Temple was still standing, and as Acts shows, Paul was a Temple Jew. <br />Entering the temple required ritual cleanness, and being unclean through everyday life was not a sin. If Jesus touched a leper or a dead body, he would have been unclean and not able to enter the temple without undergoing an involved purification process. Paul’s statement specifically dealt with sin against the body.Hosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285219921252563944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-86269516475645301322017-03-01T23:20:02.003-08:002017-03-01T23:20:02.003-08:00"It's common sense that if men don't ..."It's common sense that if men don't need to be circumcised, neither should babies. Malm is grasping at straws to maintained the Pharisaic traditions."<br /><br />exactly...circumcision is a non-issue to Christians.<br />Paul wrote: Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 1Cor. 7:18<br /><br />besides, I suspect that the circumcision Malm forces on his followers is not the proper circumcision prescribed by God....it was the Hellenistic rabbis that came up with the idea of removing the entire foreskin...God never commanded that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-53187612244238873242017-03-01T19:08:15.705-08:002017-03-01T19:08:15.705-08:00Anon 207 wrote: It's common sense that if men ...Anon 207 wrote: <i>It's common sense that if men don't need to be circumcised, neither should babies.</i><br /><br />Two entirely different issues. In short, circumcision of boys was a matter of covenant identity, circumcision of adults had to do with ritual conversion of Gentiles to Judaism. Acts 15 dealt with the problem that some Jews felt that since Christianity was an extension of Judaism, Gentiles who wanted to become Christians also had to become Jews by ritual conversion, which included circumcision.<br /><br />Paul circumcised maternally Jewish Timothy as an adult, and denied an accusation that he was teaching that circumcision of baby boys was not required.Hosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285219921252563944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-5699272038616548712017-03-01T18:44:06.475-08:002017-03-01T18:44:06.475-08:00Isn't the repentant, baptized person supposed ...Isn't the repentant, baptized person supposed to be the temple of God's Holy Spirit? If so, just how is the "unclean" (designed to function in this manner) mother/woman, supposed to stay away from 'the temple' until the days of her "purification" are complete? In one breath these "teachers" can say there is no physical temple now then say the bible says that each individual is 'the temple'. Talk about mind mess. How is a mother/woman supposed to stay away from herself?anonymous63noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-1226193752134849682017-03-01T14:11:27.261-08:002017-03-01T14:11:27.261-08:00Being a less than infrequent visitor to Malm's...Being a less than infrequent visitor to Malm's website, I can only comment based on what is written in this article. <br />He is right that the issue of <i>tamei</i> and <i>tahor</i> (Hebrew for unclean and clean) had to do with entering the tabernacle or temple. Total immersion was also required - which made me smirk when I heard Bob Thiel say baptism was a NT thing and it was a replacement for circumcision. The same Hebrew word for "uncleanness" after childbirth is the word used for "unclean" meats. <br />Of course, HWA and his school of biblical skolers (or is that <i>scullers</i>?) made a real pig's breakfast of clean/unclean and circumcision.Hosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285219921252563944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-67372346154239653472017-03-01T14:07:22.494-08:002017-03-01T14:07:22.494-08:00It's common sense that if men don't need t...It's common sense that if men don't need to be circumcised, neither should babies. Malm is grasping at straws to maintained the Pharisaic traditions. <br />He accuses young people of just wanting to have fun if they don't desire Christs return next week. He has 4 children, but if they desire marriage and family, they are being selfish and hedonistic. A person who cherished human life, would not say that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-81978043132014230932017-03-01T11:00:00.707-08:002017-03-01T11:00:00.707-08:00Reality is that HWA made us Anglo Saxon gentiles i...Reality is that HWA made us Anglo Saxon gentiles into Israelites so we'd have to become first century Jewish Christians. It was a fallback for him so that more accurate understandings of the New Covenant could somehow never apply!<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-14792900704832297772017-03-01T10:49:09.441-08:002017-03-01T10:49:09.441-08:00You just don't understand.
For Olde Testament...You just don't understand.<br /><br />For Olde Testament Christianity to work (you know, the one without the Holy Spirit), you MUST believe that what isn't specifically excluded in the New Testament is part of the New Covenant from the Old Covenant! This comes straight from G. G. Rupert!<br /><br />Yes, to be a Christian, you must keep the Law of Moses. The only thing really done away with is the sacrifices on the altar. All else remains. Besides, the circumcism thing predated Moses by a couple of generations. So there.<br /><br />So if you want physical blessings without spiritual ones, you must keep the Law of Moses in all its glory. After all, the fault wasn't in the Covenant, it was with the people, so the Old Covenant isn't REALLY done away. It's just been modified a little bit.<br /><br />We do recommend that anyone who believes the above not become a contract lawyer....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com