COGWA Ready To Pump Out Useless Diplomas

What is with all the various harlot daughters of the Worldwide Church of God that feel they need to establish "colleges" that pump out useless degrees and certificates?  For decades Armstrongism mocked Christianity for having colleges and seminaries, yet they do the exact same thing.

Flurry started his little "college." Meredith has his.  United has one. Dave Pack is building another one.  Ron Weinland is in the same boat too, which is probably a good thing since he is soon to be incarcerated for tax evasion and therefore could not run his college.

Now the Churches of God are blessed with yet another institution that will be pumping out useless degrees and certificates.  Church of God a Worldwide Association has now started the Foundation Institute Center for Biblical Understanding

Helping individuals establish a foundation built upon the eternal laws and principles of living that will enable people to have a full, happy and exciting physical life and ultimately eternal life in the family of God—this is a vital goal of the Ministerial Board of Directors and the administrative leadership of the Church. It is with that goal in mind  that they have established the Foundation Institute, Center for Biblical Education.

If they weren't serious, this could be take as a big joke.  What kind of biblical understanding are they talking about?  They certainly will NOT be using highly educated biblical scholars to educate their people.  They will be using their own tunnel vision ministers who think they know all.  Plus, the myriads of books articles and videos of HWA will be used as important tools.  Their "education" will be stuck in pre-1986 mode, yet again.  And what kind of "full, happy and exciting life" are they talking about?  The one filled with suicides, depression, alcoholism, and cultic characteristics?  That is the legacy the Churches of God presently have.

All this world needs is another puppy mill dishing out little clones of Lil' Joel and crew.

At least I can hand it to them for not using a derivative of Ambassador College/University.

Fundies and Armstrongism: 99% Leviticus and 1% Luke

Here is a great observation on what fundamentalism is and conservative thought in Armstrongism.

That’s the problem with fundies. They’re 99% Leviticus and 1% Luke. They know the words of Paul by heart but have to look up the words of Jesus, the one they’re allegedly following.

I found this to be particularly true of Armstrongism.  They can quote Leviticus forward and backwards.  They know all the laws, rules and regulations.  But ask them to tell you what Luke is all about and they can't.  They know all the things that Paul said NOT to do, but cannot tell you about the things Jesus did without looking them up. And they wonder why no one finds them credible anymore!

The above quote is from a blog that is following a conference at Bob Jones University and was in the"comments" section on Stuff Fundies Like: BJU Bible Conference Messages

If the Bible is all about Jesus don’t you think Bible conference messages would mention him

 with at least the frequency that they mention… 

tithingpersecutiontheendtimesmoralismtherulesallhailbobabortiongayspoliticsoldtestamentlawhimom
godsperfectwillforyourlifefleeingyouthfullustsrockmusicsoulwinningdidwementionkeepingtherules?

Doesn't this sound just like Armstrongism!!!!!!!!!!!!

Van Robison: The Capacity to Understand

The Capacity to Understand

One of the frustrating realities about human life is that we are all mortal.  Life is short no matter how long we live.  We also are not God and therefore are incapable of comprehending eternity.  Who can fathom the
immenseness of the Sun or its incomprehensible blazing heat?  Who can fathom the immensity of the universe?  No doubt the most sophisticated telescopes on earth can never reach into the never ending vastness of outer-space.  Where is the end of space, stars, planets, galaxies and matter in space?  I would suspect that it will forever be impossible for human beings to find out.  Even if human beings should accomplish travel to "local" planets, that would be "nothing" in comparison to a never ending universe.

Does anyone really understand where human life is leading?  Those who control most of life on earth are either in religious beliefs or political beliefs, but also other areas of human life.  All who have "Holy" books as
their guide will always say that they understand.  Not really!  No one can fathom what the future is, either in the human realm or beyond.  There surely must be millions of people the world over who are frustrated to
the depths of their souls and beings over the seeming unsolvable problems of human life.  Common people have no control over the price of gas at the fuel pump, but live in disgust at being manipulated by those whose
only goal in life seems to be money, power and control.  Who is not weary to the bone over the never ending wars of death and destruction, always hyped up by massive propaganda, fed to the public by the "news" media and government?  With government "the bad guys" are always the other guy.  Who looks in the mirror?

Years ago the Worldwide Church of God published a booklet entitled "1975 in Prophecy" and the church members were led to believe that "the end" is near, and the church will flee to a place of "safety", generally thought of as being "Petra."  Of course 1975 was long ago and as with all individuals and groups who have set dates and led people to believe "this is the end", they were wrong.  They always are wrong.  Ever since people have been saying "Jesus is coming are you ready", millions of "Christians" and church goers who were told that, have come and gone from this life and Jesus has not returned.  Amazingly in the words of Jesus Himself, anyone can read that Jesus said "the Kingdom of God comes not with observation" and "the Kingdom of God is within you" and I wonder why anyone looks for a physical manifestation that is NEVER going to happen?

We are not living in the "end times", unless human beings themselves destroy all life on earth in their madness, through the stupidity of war.  What if the intention of God the Creator is that the earth will exist FOREVER and NEVER cease to produce human beings?  Is it possible to think and reason outside of the norm?  There is no living human being now or ever was, apart from God who knows the future and the Bible does NOT give any details. The Bible may say something about eternity or salvation or everlasting life, but what is that?    And what will beings be doing for eternity and will they be able to live in peace and harmony and happiness for all eternity?  In the human realm it is more than obvious that collectively humans have never moved toward peace on earth and good will among men.  Men have never beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and learned war no more, based upon a passage in the Old Testament.

The human mind is very intelligent and should humans be resurrected with that intelligent mind, that mind will have to be kept challenged and active and busy forever or be so bored that life would have no meaning.  So then what will "spirit beings" be doing for the next trillion years and forever beyond?  We have no clue!  Plucking on a harp is not particularly attractive.  Is there some reason for this human existence?  We are all prisoners on earth and are subject to the elements, the governments, those who control secretly behind the scenes, the religions and all the thinking those goes into human life.  Making sense of it all seems to be beyond human ability.  Even if we "see" we are generally not going to change the course of those who wield power and make the decisions all of us have to live with (often against our will).

If we believe atheism, then this is it and it all ends in the local graveyard.  If we believe in God at least we have hope and an anchor, even though we have no capacity to understand what that future may be.  Do we really control our own destiny?


Van Robison