On Sunday, May 24 it was the traditional day for the Christian celebration of Pentecost. The day the Holy Spirit descended and was made available to all believers. It is a day widely celebrated throughout much of Christendom. It is even one of the few Christian holy days that the Churches of Armstrong celebrate on the same day. However, there is one big difference, the Churches of Armstrong all feel that they and they alone are the only ones keeping it correctly.
Like Bob Thiel, most in the Churches of Armstrong look down upon and mock Christians around the world. Thiel, in all of his self-righteous glory, calls all Christians "so-called" except for those of his minuscule sect. For the rest of the Churches of Armstrong. there are no Christians on the entire face of the planet who are more enlightened than those of the Church of Armstrong. They and they alone posses all true spiritual knowledge. Therefore, the TRUE Pentecost could only have been celebrated in a Church of Armstrong service last Sunday (May 24).
Unless of course, you are of the Church of Malm.
If you are a Church of Malm member or follower you would have celebrated Pentecost TODAY (May 31, 2015). The Church of Malm believes it and it alone are the only ones on the planet who are in possession of revealed truth through its modern day mouthpiece, James Malm. He and he alone is the only true reveler of hidden knowledge that even Herbert Armstrong did not know. He even says that Herbert Armstrong was sorely misguided on many things and his acolytes clap like happy seals. They are looking down upon all those in the various COG's today as ignorant fools who did not know that TODAY was the real Pentecost.
So who kept the better Pentecost?
It probably doesn't matter. If you consider the Holy Spirit to be reduced to the level of impersonal force, you are only seeing the tip of the iceberg anyway. None of these people have been able to explain how gravity or electricity could be grieved, or experience other human emotions. They are quick to arbitrarily invoke "personification" (as with wisdom in Proverbs) but reject this same sort of literary device when others from outside of their little toxic groups attempt to do the same for other, "unapproved", cases in point. They let ol' incest face call all of the shots, in concept, if not for the actual date.
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They do realize the calendar we use today, did not even exist in biblical times don't they???
ReplyDeletehttp://www.history.com/news/6-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-gregorian-calendar
"If you were living in England or one of the American colonies 260 years ago, this date—September 13, 1752—didn’t exist. Neither did the 10 days preceding it. Instead, you would have gone to bed on the evening of September 2 and woken up on the morning of September 14. Eleven days had been effectively skipped over as part of the parliamentary measure that implemented the Gregorian calendar, aligning Britain and its overseas possessions with the rest of Western Europe."
I played the best Pente game last Sunday, better than all the other so-called Pente players.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there are the Monday Pentecost groups...I know of 3 COG's that still keep it on a Monday.
ReplyDeleteSome even kept it 50 days after Passover, as Yeshua and the scribes and Pharisees did, viz.
ReplyDeleteMat 23:2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
Mat 23:3 All therefore whatsoever (he, Moses) bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their -the Pharisees- works: for they say, and do not.
Bracket insert from George Howard's translation of Shem-Tob's 'Even-Bohan' Hebrew Matthew
"...how gravity or electricity could be grieved, or experience other human emotions."
ReplyDeleteor how a "person" can be poured out.....
Add to this that none of it actually occurred and there ya go.
ReplyDeleteYou mean like Isaiah 53:12 there, Anonymous 11:02?
ReplyDeleteAnd who the f**k knows when the 6th of Sivan is. Totes depends on your assumptions about the bronze age calendar (like we can't do better). There's those folks too.
ReplyDeleteIS 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
ReplyDeleteand your point is?
clearly a figure of speech used for emphesis.
surely you are aware of Greek rules of grammar, such as "comforter" being masculine, thereby requiring a masculine pronoun, hence the word "he"...but that in no way makes it a person.
there are other places where "spirit" is used, which is neuter, therefore the pronoun "it" is used....so "he" is also referred to as "it" in scripture....hmmmm
and then there is 1John 2:22-24 which clearly condemns the idea of the trinity...along with the opening verses of many of the NT books...
then add to that the fact that it took some 400+ years for the idea of a trinity to develop and there you have it....
I know your minds are made up so I'm in no way trying to convince you of anything..believe what you will....but others do read this blog and this might help them.