Poor Herb just cannot get a break anymore. Dissidents have picked at him for years. Ministers and members have rebelled. Now the latest Apostle is claiming Herb started watering down the gospel and doctrines starting in the late 1960's. Of course there is the proverbial bogey man that caused it - Stan Rader. Rader caused HWA to slip further down that slippery slope into grievous sin.
The Apostle writes today:
The Apostle is trying to warn the COG's that they are grievous sinners because they eat out on Saturdays, might watch some TV or go to the park. Gone are the days of having to dress up in "sabbath wear" while at home whenever the broadcast came on. Gone are the days eating cold leftovers on Saturdays when you got home from an incredibly long and boring church service. Gone are the days of having to eat dried beef sandwiches on stone ground whole wheat bread and carob cookies while during home on the long 150 mile trip. Of course having to drive over 300 miles for church services was not considered a sin for some reason.You should also know that there was very little real difference between GTA and his father, Ted’s ouster was a political maneuver arranged by Stan Rader and come over Ted’s sexual problems rather than doctrine. You should also know that the major COG Groups today only pay lip service to HWA and have actually made many changes to his positions. In fact they SHOULD be willing to grow and change and should have never paid lip service to him in the first place. Instead they have paid lip service to him as if he were a god while continuing on the path of more and more doctrinal laxity and lukewarmness.
HWA was always all about the money and always ran the church as a business, and his way of dealing with the financial crisis was not to cut back on his friend Rader, but to loosen the baptismal requirements that he had been using before about 1969. After that time a gradual loosening came about as first one thing and later another went by the wayside. The fundamental requirement had always been loyalty to HWA so they were just loosening the degree of doctrinal understanding that they required.
That is to say, if they agreed with whatever HWA said than they were acceptable. Herbert himself watered down doctrine greatly after the late 60 including such things as buying food and drink on Sabbath, traveling on Sabbath, attending pagan religious activities like christmas was allowed by him, he changed from one extreme to the other on D & R allowed birthdays etc etc.
In fact the Tkach changes were only the natural end result of HWAs process of becoming personally lukewarm for doctrine and zealous for numbers and money; into what the COG Groups now teach.
Today all the major groups pay lip service to the Sabbath as they routinely pollute it, by buying in restaurants, going on extensive travel and fudging on the Sabbath and Holy Days
Disgusting sinners! Vile reprobates! You deserve to be thrown in the lake of fire! Filthy commandment breakers!
So how does the Apostle plan on stopping this grievous abuse of the sabbath? He wants members to stop sending in money to these organizations.
These people are about M O N E Y and are lax on doctrine. As long as people pay or contribute in other ways they will tolerate a great deal. Stop contributing, or make waves so that others may be influenced and watch how quickly they act.
While he doesn't say it, you can bet he wants that money sent to him so he can perform his mighty work of warning to the church!
All of this is enough to make me go out and buy a McRib on Saturday. Might as well kill two birds with one stone......maybe that's three considering that money is going to a pagan business when it should have been sent to a True Church.
Well, this is interesting. Some of the statements from this "apostle" are actually factual, and it is interesting the admissions he's made perhaps without actually realizing it.
ReplyDeleteHow do you judge or discern the point at which a spotty or unfaithful witness (HWA) has actually gone off track? How does one know whether the witness of God was ever behind him? The basic motivations behind all of the splinters are tied to eras, some going back to the 1950s and '60s, while others hearken to the "back on track" era. The fact that one even need make such evaluations invalidates the very idea that HWA ever was or could have been an apostle.
I think Malm feels as if the 1950s to '60s version was the correct one, yet I can assure everyone that there is no way the Holy Spirit was present in my home growing up during that era, ordinations notwithstanding. All we endured was cruel, unrelenting punishment, horrid constant irrational anger, mostly as a reaction to our normal responses to anal retentive legalism. That was Philadelphian??? Yet, as I learned later, it was simply a mirror of what HWA expected of adult members of his false church during that time period. That's why I do not hold my parents accountable. They were influenced by a false teacher whom they felt they had proven was God's endtime messenger.
I hope these motormouths keep on posting. They may not realize it, but they do much to point out the many unChristlike inconsistencies in a man they revere even more than they do Jesus Christ.
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These people are about M O N E Y and are lax on doctrine. As long as people pay or contribute in other ways they will tolerate a great deal. Stop contributing, or make waves so that others may be influenced and watch how quickly they act.
ReplyDeleteWe all agree here that people should stop giving money to the ACoGs, so, for once (actually, the second time in one week), I can certainly support what "The Apostle" has posted.
When did it all go wrong?
Try some time in the 1930s.
Actually, Douglas, it all went wrong the night HWA's daddy decided it was a safe time of the month to skip the condom.
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Malm says, "Stop contributing, or make waves so that others may be influenced and watch how quickly they act."
ReplyDeleteFor months he has been saying that UCG's true agenda would be clear by the Feast and that COGWA's agenda would also start becoming apparent at that time. He has been telling people to stay in whatever organization they are in until they can see their organization's agenda.
Now that the Feast is over, it seems that little new has been revealed and the Apostle, in a fit of impatience, is recinding his order to sit tight.
Perhaps his expected increase in income has not materialized.
Stephen