Here is prophet Bob Thiel's latest superfantabulistic video on The BEAST! Woo! Scary! Those pesky Catholics in Europe! What are we gonna do with them!
The prophet is delusional if he thinks this video is are going to attract a huge audience and gather in all the lost souls of Armstrongism who have no place to go. Instead of improving, prophet Thiel's videos just get worse and worse!
Between the flailing hand gestures, stiff posture and wandering eyes down to a lap top and then back up high to the camera it is easily to become distracted. What's with the sound quality? Is he in a tin can or what? Work on the sound quality bud! And PLEAAAAAAAAASE don't SHOUT into your microphone! Also, learn to pronounce the names of the biblical characters before you speak. That was rather pathetic as you bumbled around trying to think how to pronounce them!
Whats with the map? That was sooooooooooooooooooo bad! Soooooooooooooo bad!
Holding it in front of your face while you are trying to read the laptop as you look down was really bad!
Rod Meredith and the Living Church of God certainly have NOTHING to fear from you. You are now the laughing stock of Armstrongism.
I think I identified the Beast! He's holding a picture of it!
ReplyDeleteIt's a flying cow with an elephant head!!!!!
Seriously, this is the most badly presented, boring, awful video I have seen since the boring and awful sermonettes I used to sit through at WCG all those years ago.
I totally agree, LCG has absolutely NOTHING to fear from this wanna-be, this video is absolute trash.
PRODUCTION: F
CONTENT: F
SPEAKING ABILITY: F
SCRIPTURE READING ABILITY: D
And when correcting scripture, make what you say at least slow enough we can hear it!!!
1:35 His mouth like the mouth of a LION, not a dragon. Mouthofalionscuseme.
This man is not a prophet, he is human, and a very deluded human so tangled in Armstrongism it's just ridiculous. I feel sorry for him. He thinks he is soo important and knows everything but knows so very little indeed. It's like watching someone who's a garbage collector say he's an astronaut and has been to the moon. Maybe someday he'll look back and see the absurdity of the delusion.
Another creep who wishes, dreams, and fantasizes about being Herbert Armstrong, and speak with power and authority to the whole world! And get to be Mr. Bigshot! Somebody important! LOL
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Hey guys, now it's my turn to play The World Tomorrow game. Won't you play along with me? Here's how it works: I make a video, and and and and, you guys watch it, okay? And you have to pretend that I'm Herbert Armstrong, okay? Cause that's how you're supposed to play it.
Now, is that any kind of a video for one of the Two Witness to make?
ReplyDeleteHeck, I think even the Silent Witness could do better than that.
This may even break up Bob's bromance with the Baron, since so many other Witnesses can fly "loop-de-loops" around that beastly video.
Norm
I still cant figure it out...
ReplyDeleteIs it Thiel that is leaning, or is the room built on a hill?
Joe Moeller
Cody, WY
"Ok..so now let's go over here and then take your Bibles and lets go over there. Now, lets go back and see over here that over there and over here are speaking of the same thing. Next...turn over there which is just another over here but over there. Skip ahead of over here and see another over here as we saw back over there.
ReplyDeleteNow...let's break into the middle of over here and compare it with a chunk of over there and viola...they here and there are proof that here is correct.
Gnome sayin'?
Thanks for watching and I'll be over here and over there next time again all over again...so be here.
Joe said "
ReplyDeleteIs it Thiel that is leaning, or is the room built on a hill?"
I think it's Thiel trying to do the "HWA Lean and back" like he did in the World Tomorrow.
Next, it will be the "Throwing the baseball". You know! The one where he would take his right arm over his left shoulder, and then ZOOOM it as fast and powerful as he can to the right, nearly throwing himself off the chair at 20 MPH while yelling something at the audience.
More likely he'll start the both hands in the sky like he's cursing the sky Armstrong Maneuver.
Way too much hand gesturing. He's gotta watch more Herbert, but he is getting the jowels so those could use some-a-flappin!!! ;)
I find it highly unlikely (nearly certain) that he will gain very few followers. Even Garner Ted Armstrong only managed to attract relatively few followers and he was far more prominent than this pathetic parody.
ReplyDeleteRunning a fairly prominent blog in a quite small and specific blogosphere does not mean he has what it takes to create a prominent or large COG.
Those who wished to remain within the legalistic embrace of Armstrongism have mostly already left WCG and settled within their own COG. Why would they make the effort to move into another splinter group with resultant loss of ties with other COG group members? Bob Thiel is competing for space in an immensely crowded marketplace, with the main COGs led by persons far more prominent than him and who started for earlier than him.
Most likely his COG group will simply be a small group that he little ability to spread its message and be quite insignificant compared to the larger COGs. Which happens to be a major reason why this false prophet had bad mouthed all the other COGs compared to LCG when he was a member of it. It is highly ironic that now he is one of them who scatter the work by competing with other COG groups instead of combining scare resources together.
Thiel using that map was pretty pathetic. Who is he talking to at that moment? People who don't know where the Roman Empire was located? Does he think his followers are so ignorant they need to be shown where the Mediterranean Sea is? Is he trying to attract people that ignorant? That's what I thought when I saw that.
On another related topic I also read his latest member letter. Loved this part:
"As many of you have commented, it is disappointing and amazing to see the amount of misinformation about me and the Continuing Church of God on the internet."
What misinformation? Anyone who says (I paraphrase), "The leaders of God's work said I could be a Prophet, and an minister prayed for a double portion of God's spirit to descend on me so I must be a Prophet, you must follow me and pay tithes to me", sounds incredibly arrogant and filled with delusions of grandeur and obvious self interest. But he refuses to take responsibility for the absurdity of his words and just call those of us who tell it like it is misinformers. Hardly anyone will be fooled.
If this is what a "double portion" looks, sounds and teaches like, I'd say go for a ten fold portion minimum
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ReplyDeleteYou are right. He claimed his critics were spouting "misinformation" but did nothing to defuse it. In most cases, if a person feels that he has been a victim of "misinformation" by "misinformed" people, most normal people would issue a statement of correction, stating the exact reasons why the information presented was incorrect. There was none, nor was there an attempt to correct it. This reminds me in the 70s and 80s when the Ambassador Report was highly criticized by Worldwide people on the 4th floor of the Hall of Administration, but never did a thing to make any corrections or refute the information.
This is why I laughed when I read that member letter. It's the equivalent of saying something like (he didn't say this of course) "I think they're wrong, but I'm not going to say why because in the end they're actually right".
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ReplyDeleteIf this is what a "double portion" looks, sounds and teaches like, I'd say go for a ten fold portion minimum"
A double portion is relative.
If you have one pea on a plate, a double portion of that one pea is two peas. Two peas do little to fill a hungry stomach. Regardless of the analogy, the "double portion" analogy was used only in the Old Testament and is not in New Testament theology. Ol' Bob hasn't even got Christianity 101 where it is clear that Pentecost and being "filled" with the Holy Spirit is available for all believers near and far, to the ends of the earth, but to me it seems to Theil, in my opinion, that THAT isn't really a big deal, but a "double portion" is, because that makes him SPECIAL. Again, the thing about a double portion is the original first portion is always variable, and you can't FILL with a "double portion" unless the first portion was exactly half. Boy this sounds ridiculous!!!! I'm sorry Bob apparently wasn't FILLED and was just granted a lil' bit in the first place so it would seem!!!
Talk about arrogance and self-importance in my opinion!!!!
LCG is playing Bob,s presentation in church. That should sove any defection problems...lol
ReplyDeleteyou're alleging LCG is playing Bob's presentation? Can you explain why they would do that and if that is just local or more widespread?? Can you give more info on that???
ReplyDeleteMeredith,
ReplyDeleteJust make Bob a prophet and hide him away in a closet somewhere.
Please!
Do you think Bob is having a little doubt creep in now? Perhaps that he should have thought this whole thing through before jumping in? I wonder how his poor wife is feeling. Of course it is entirely possible that Bob's large ego will let him think that he can do wrong, as he is a prophet.
ReplyDeleteBob, is a "joker."
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/GxGijsAfeik
LCG is playing Bob,s presentation in church. That should sove any defection problems...lol
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that create a defecation problem?
Anonymous Anonymous panicked and said...
ReplyDeleteyou're alleging LCG is playing Bob's presentation? Can you explain why they would do that and if that is just local or more widespread?? Can you give more info on that???
Ummmm, it was subtle humor and another way of saying that "if they showed this in LCG church services, it is so bad and so shallow, they won't lose anyone to Dr. Thiel's mighty church."
You lost and missed the subtlty on that one....
Anonymous Anonymous panicked and said...
ReplyDeleteyou're alleging LCG is playing Bob's presentation? Can you explain why they would do that and if that is just local or more widespread?? Can you give more info on that???
Ummmm, it was subtle humor and another way of saying that "if they showed this in LCG church services, it is so bad and so shallow, they won't lose anyone to Dr. Thiel's mighty church."
You lost and missed the subtlty on that one....they aren't really showing it in LCG services...
Lots of Meredith fans on here.
ReplyDeleteI'm a television director by trade. I wonder if Bob would pay me more than my current employer to, I don't know, make these things remotely watchable... oh wait, he's got like 3 members who aren't related to him, they can't cut a check of any decent size.
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