Apostle Malm wants you to know what a whore is. Apparently the Churches of God are filled to the brim with whores and whore mongers who are out cavorting under the groves of trees.
What is a whore?
What is a Whore? Let us look beyond the sexual and we shall see that a whore is a mercenary who has NO loyalties and will sell herself to whoever will pay her price. A whore is a woman who’s loyalty of for sale!
While whoredoms is the act of selling that loyalty.
We espoused ourselves to a Husband at our baptism; we committed ourselves to be ONE with him! To be of the same mind and spirit, to live by the same principles and laws, to internalize the very mind of our Lord and to become completely ONE mind and spirit with HIM!
If we then follow any other, we have betrayed the loyalty we vowed to our Husband! In the emotional and spiritual sense we have become Adulterers and have committed whoredom!
If we idolize anyone or anything above the law of our God and above his will; we are apostates and rebellious adulterous wives UNFIT for entering the marriage of the lamb as his bride!
In ancient Israel it was common to sacrifice to strange gods at high places [hill tops], and in the shadows of trees; this is because like today these false religions were covertly if not overtly sexual; and the trees had their sexual meaning, while the idea of a high place was to be closer to the gods [stars] of the heavens.
And, here we go again. The first part about the whores, and individuals committing themselves to allow Jesus Christ to live His life through them is understood and practiced by many, many, mainstream Christians. The problem with James Malm is that he believes that anyone who does not understand (and practice) the differences between the Old and New Covenants as were taught by Herbert W. Armstrong would be some sort of religious whore, even though their loyalty is unshakeable and complete. He allows HWA to define precisely who is Christian, and who is a whore. It's ridiculous, because there is no possible way some third party can evaluate another's personal relationship with God.
ReplyDeleteAs for sex, and trees, there is nothing wrong with either. As with anything else, there is plenty wrong with making an idol of either. Once again, that has to do with a person's mental/spiritual condition, not the pronouncements of a judgmental Pharisee. Many ACOG members allow their leaders to define and structure these for them. That is robotic, and there is often duress-related behavior associated with it, a pathology which is not New Covenant, and is not pleasing to God.
BB
BB
We espoused ourselves to a Husband at our baptism; we committed ourselves to be ONE with him! ...and to become completely ONE mind and spirit with HIM!"
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a more creepy concept. I a he becomes the husband to a he , espoused and one with him as a bride but a guy and daughters or wives get to be sons and marry him when married to someone else? I'm confused.
Sex with trees? Hmmm, don't know if I wood or knot... What if you bark up the wrong tree and then the tree leafs you all alone. I'd feel so cheap. Would I get the rings back??? I'm confused again...
M.T.Trunks
The mind control inherent in this theology is complete and total.
ReplyDeleteIn real life, just because you're not betrothed doesn't mean you're sleeping with everything that has a pulse. In real life there is a middle ground of being betrothed to no one and yet still celebate. It is possible to be betrothed to no one and sleeping with no one. No one thinks that if you're not engaged you must be sleeping with someone new every night.
But in christianity there is NO middle ground. The only way to not be a total slut, having loads of spiritual sex at the drop of every possible hat is to be betrothed to Jesus. There is no other way not to be whoring it up with the Devil. It's all or nothing, black or white, betrothed or else promiscuous. And that's the theology accepted by mainstream christianity because it's in the bible.
Whatever else this might or might not be, it's also world-class propaganda. If you're not saving yourself for the Fuhrer, you're in bed with the Jew, the black, the Roma, the homosexual, etc.
In the hands of Rabbi Malm, if you're not, oh, I don't know--let's just pick something at random--observing the passover WITHOUT making your own homemade matzoh special for the occasion? You guessed it, it's sexy time! Bang, bang, bang.
If you have doubts that the christian god is the Creator of the universe, and you'd rather save yourself for the real deal, whoever that should turn out to be, you're a %&#@$*# whore.
Whatever.
It's the recognition of s#!t like this that is right there in the bible itself that makes me doubt that christianity or Judaism is legit from the get-go.
Guess I'm a %&#@$*# whore. Might as well embrace it since there's no other option left for me.
"If we idolize anyone or anything above the law of our God...we are apostates..."
ReplyDeleteDoes that apply, say, to incest?
I'm SEXY and I know it !!!!
ReplyDeletelmfao
All I can say is false religion is one freakin lousy lay. I don't even remember the last time it gave me an orgasm.
ReplyDeleteA whore who is someone who sells out their honor for money, sex or both.
ReplyDeleteTry this for an example of a "whore"
http://tinyurl.com/incestuous-whores
Oh man! You guys have me in stitches!!! I'm too sexy for my tree, too sexy for my tree, too sexy!
ReplyDeleteYeah BB you're right. That seems to be the main problem with the Armstrongist churches today. There's nothing wrong with the idea of committing to follow Christ or be one in Him for that's essentially the meaning of "Christian" i.e. "One in Christ" or "Follower of Christ." But, the focus of these Armstrongist churches is Armstrong himself whose teachings they follow to the point of idolatry. Thus, they look upon themselves as "chaste" and the "bride of Christ" while everyone else as "whores" and "adulterers." Then again didn't Jerusalem think the same while looking down on Samaria and Sodom for example? And yet God thought otherwise (Ezek 16). Of course Armstrong was guilty of the same by "adulterating" this teaching with that teaching to form his own eclectic theology!
ReplyDeleteSex and trees huh? Ya gotta love those arbosexual-minded Israelites! Mind you it puts a whole new spin to "morning wood" now doesn't it :-p
ReplyDeleteyocish lonsteThank you, O Great Apostle.
ReplyDeleteNow I have finally learned "The Plain Truth about Sexy Trees"
I will now shun the arborists I was once friends with.
Norm
While I do agree that Mr. Malm does have a knack for stretching a concept into something completely unrecognizable, and that some of his theology is just plain baseless, and that he seems to be deluded about who he is, he is not a fan of Herbert Armstrong. Some months back I started reading his blog daily in order to get some background (from his view) of some of the things he espoused as 'truth'; just before I stopped in order to save myself one more session of beating my head against the wall, I read his description of some of the dealings he had with WWCG in the early 80's before he was asked to leave, and I realized he had a personal ax to grind as well. He is not a fan of HWA; he considers him a hypocrite, and a man who knowingly used the 'sheep' for financial gain; he considers him a vain, corrupt figure, and regularly pronounces a pox on all his offspring.
ReplyDeleteI did not realize that he got kicked out of WCG. While WCG was filled with corruption and abuse, and frequently people were kicked out as merely part of that regimen of corruption and abuse, on rare occasions, people were kicked out for good reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if Malm's boot to the rear was one of those rare occasions. I can see him having had an axe to grind even then, and having been given the old heave ho for being such a genuine and legitimate pain in the ass!
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