A Malmite acolyte has this to say today about COG's who meet for Sabbath services in "pagan" halls - Masonic Lodges, Elks, Odd Fellows, porn theatres, Church of Satan halls and other demonic buildings.
Apostate Malm writes:Another misleading thing in gov’t of the COG’s today…they meet in pagan halls! When this is brought to their attention they pass it off as unimportant and subject the congregation to God’s wrath!! They need to read the OT kings and how the GOOD kings utterly destroyed the pagan places of worship and God called it a good thing…they didn’t rent them to worship God!!
I would say that there are many hall rentals available in most cities and using pagan halls is entirely unnecessary in most cases. I expect that in most cases the elder or a person in the cngregation may well have masonic connections. See Ezek 8 for the masonic abominations of the leaders of spiritual Israel. James
The stupidity that continues to come out of this guys mouth is amazing!
Is God's Wrath Ready To Reign Down On COG's Who Meet In Pagan Halls?
ReplyDeleteNo, God's Wrath would come because of the idolatry, false prophecy, the thieving, deception and taking His Name in vain by these lying pieces of crap.
By that criteria, Malm would not be immune.
Reality is that our God takes bad, turns it around, and uses it to accomplish good. Jesus Christ sanctifies and purifies.
ReplyDeleteSeems like these COGgers are so hung up in their search for hidden paganism that they no longer even have faith in their opening prayers in which they ask God's blessing on their congregation, the speakers, and the services! I like what Paul had to say. Paraphrasing, the jist was "We know that idols are nothing." Instead, these guys are like Peter, focussing on the wind instead of on Jesus Christ.
What a shame!
BB
No problem! Local congregations should be allowed to purchase or build there own meeting halls.
ReplyDeleteOn second thought most congregations of the COG'S are way too small to be able to do that. Some might be able to own there own builings for meeting if all members would stop sending money to there headquarters.
The truth is that the ACoGs are cults. They have no tie to the community, they don't have a building in which to meet and there is no stability. The whole corrupt system was established by Herbert Armstrong who ultimately used the WCG for his Ego. The religion focuses on him, even now that he is dead and proved to be a dead false prophet.
ReplyDeleteContrast this with the Church of God Seventh Day, from whence he stole most of the foundational doctrine: They generally have buildings. The congregations have been stable for many decades. The entire CoG7D in the United States is well connected with members from the different church areas having known each other for decades. The families are intertwined.
Moreover, the CoG7D does missionary work of various kinds. They routinely go into Mexico and South America and set up temporary dental clinics for the general population (so the services are not just for members). They have congregations all over the world. And I believe that they are either more in number than all the ACoGs worldwide or at least equal to them.
The Bible Advocate has been around for nearly a century and a half. While the CoG7D has its challeges, it is not fixated on the preachments of one man and there is a great deal of stability. They are much more Christ centered than the typical ACoG. People have freedom to be who they are and (except for some congregations taken over by former WCG ministers) are quite tolerant of diversity, while adhering to the basic tenets. People are free to grow in grace and knowledge.
At this point in time, they recognize certain Biblical prophecies, but do not focus on them exclusively and obsessively like the Armstrongists do.
It is interesting that The Journal has a picture and devotes a small amount of space to Whaid Rose in the latest issue. The juxtaposition with the much more radical mental noise filled ACoGs is ironic.
The problem with the ACoGs meeting within "Pagan Halls", if there is one, is one of design: No thought or effort was made to make the Church Corporate under Herbert Armstrong anything more than a giant cash machine for him and his projects of self-aggrandizement. In his narcissistic ego, there was virtually no room for the ordinary members to do much more than be nearly irrelevant cogs in a giant soulless machine.
What we may term "valid churches" as opposed to the cults are distinguished in being centered on providing human needs, not the profligate needs of a covetous boastful sociopath. And oh, the image his successors have built on the morally damaged framework he provided!
To you ACoG leaders / founders / ministers: There's not a snoball's chance in hell that you can be competent in a totally dysfunctional system, no matter how many committees you set up to studies to change things.