Apostle Malm has been on a rampage lately ripping UCG up one side and down the other for their "apostate" leanings they are supposedly moving towards. Apostle Malm thinks that UCG is starting to focus too much on love and not enough on the extra law keeping they should be doing. The burden and heavy yoke of the law is more worthy than showing love to fellow humans.
This however was not necessarily all UCG's fault that they are falling into sin. It all started with HWA when he started getting a big head after Loma died and when he allowed the leaven of GTA to infect the organization.
We are commanded to “Cry Aloud and Spare Not” and when HWA did that up until the 60′s, he received a quality response from quality people who really had been “Called Out” and understood, When HWA began to water down the outreach by Ted and himself; a lower quality of response was received by many people who did NOT ruly understand and were not truly “Called” of God, cme along with those truly called out.
Consider what happens when you mix a hot with cold? What do you get? Lukewarm!
Yes there was growth in numbers and even in funds, but the quality of the whole system doctrinally began to unravel as the “unclean” were mixed with the spiritually “clean” in a big way and the leaders watered down doctrine further and further to bring in more people as they became addicted to numbers and wealth.
According to the Apostle in the early years of the church when Herb "cried aloud and spared not" the spiritually pure came in in droves along with their money. They were the "called out ones" who were the driving force behind spreading the gospel. Then Loma had to go and die which then lead to Herb getting big headed and arrogant. He started taking on all kinds of titles and revelled in the accolades of world leaders and dignitaries.
It was during that time that the "unclean" started coming into the church which eventually lead to the apostasy and the huge exodus of fake, worthless, and unclean believers. Because you are spiritually unclean you no longer believe in the teachings of HWA and are therefore reprobates.
All I can say, Thank God I am a REPROBATE!
The big mistake that Armstrongism folks make is in blaming the people instead of the mastermind.
ReplyDeleteHWA stroked everyone by telling them that they were special. But the truth is, we were never any more special, nor were we any purer than the average American population at large. For decades it has been said, "So goes the world, so goes the church." Truer words were never spoken, and they reflect the truth that we never were any different or any better than the people around us except in our own imagination.
Malm's theories are based on the above error, and are simply ridiculous. GTA didn't draw in and different caliber of people than his father did. Herb was happy to fleece even people who didn't want to go to his church, so he created the office of "co-worker", so that even the "reprobate" could help finance his pyramid scheme, even if they didn't want to attend his church.
No, the problem is not GTA, or the lukewarmness of the people, the problem is HWA and the seductive pyramid scheme he set up in order to enrich himself, which, continuing in his absence, has spiraled into a twilight zone of absurdity.
LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteSome Armstrongites love Herbie and hate GTA.
Some Armstrongites love GTA and think Herbie went off the track.
Some Armstrongites worship 'em both.
BTW, didn't Herbie eat what he commanded his sheeple not to eat?
The Armstrongist world is a crazy mixed up world.
Norm