Leave it to James Malm to make life ridiculously legalistic as he searches for the faintest glimpse of the New Moon in order for him to officially declare the Feast of Trumpets is happening. Imagine parking your sore butt on some rock on the hillside with your binoculars out as you continually scan the horizon for the faintest glimpse of the new moon. This is what happens when you bastardize the law into something it was never meant to do. Just like he waits for people to crawl over the Judean hillsides looking for the first grains of barley he places all of his energy in prostituting himself to the letter of the law instead of understanding what Jesus did and accomplished. Just like Bawana Bob Thiel, James Malm has placed his faith in something he can never completely accomplish. They each search for the unattainable.
The New Moon was NOT seen from Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel this evening, therefore the first day of the Biblical Seventh Month will begin at sunset ending 11 September and the Feast of Trumpets will be all day until sunset Sep 12.
Early on Sep 11 there will be a post on the New Moon as it applies to the Feast of Trumpets. Tomorrow afternoon at 19:00 EDT there will be a post on events during the period between Pentecost and the Feast of Trumpets. There will also be a post on the Feast of Trumpets, during the actual Feast on 12 Sep.
Better to do what you think is right than to do what you think is wrong. I don't know much about this man, but it sounds like that is what he is doing despite his faults.
ReplyDeleteJesus accomplished abstinence from murder. Does that mean we don't have to? No. We seek to emulate him. I suspect he also began the feast of trumpets with the sighting of the moon.
That guy is full of it...
ReplyDeletethe blind criticizing the blind...
ReplyDeleteJames does not seem to know that all the feasts are out by one month this year, if one goes by the observance of the new moon.
ReplyDeleteThe reason being is that Passover was kept even before spring began, as they failed to recognize that the new moon has to fall on the Vernal Equinox or after. This principal also applies in the fall.
The new moon that ought to be the deciding factor, has to be the one that falls on the Autumnal Equinox or the one that falls after.
This means that the feast days this year are all a month too early. There should have been a 13th month added to the 2017 cycle. As it is, they are adding it next year.
Im joining the FLAT MOON society!
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ReplyDelete"Better to do what you think is right than to do what you think is wrong. I don't know much about this man, but it sounds like that is what he is doing despite his faults.
Jesus accomplished abstinence from murder. Does that mean we don't have to? No. We seek to emulate him. I suspect he also began the feast of trumpets with the sighting of the moon."
1) Doing "what you think is right" tells you almost nothing. Adolf Eichmann was just doing what he thought was right.
2) Whether Jesus sighted the moon or not is irrelevant, as he was not the civil authority that established the calendar. And neither, it should be pointed out, is James Malm. As long as their are multiple people setting themselves up as authorities to establish calendars, there will be an absurd quantity of them, all of whom will claim that their calendar, supported by their pet scriptures, is the one troo™ calendar.
My point is that sincerity is better than insincerity, not that sincerity is evidence of truth.
DeleteBack when the earth was thought to be the center of the universe, when Jews considered Jerusalem the focal point of the earth, and when the only way to tell date and time was through observations of the sky, this kind of concern made a certain amount of sense to people who believed the spectacle was arranged by a god.
ReplyDeleteNow that we have learned that the universe consists mostly of imperceptible dark matter and dark energy, we realize that visible, tangible matter makes up only five percent of the inconceivably vast expanse of the entire universe, that our galaxy is only one of billions, and that the earth/moon system makes up a minority of the solar system, which itself amounts to an almost inconceivably small portion of the galaxy. In that context it is completely inconceivable that the creator of the universe, if there is one, would concern himself with the relative positions of our two granules as seen from a single location on one of them. He is undoubtedly far too busy trying to keep the vast quantity of dark matter in balance with the even vaster dark energy, so that everything that exists will neither plunge in and crash together into a single infinitely dense speck or race outward and dissipate into utter nothingness.
"Vanity of vanities," saith the Retired Professor, "all (including trying to determine visually the exact date of the new moon) is vanity."
"My point is that sincerity is better than insincerity, not that sincerity is evidence of truth."
ReplyDeleteIs it really logical that sincerity is "better" than insincerity? Let me ponder some philosophizing here for a second. Just random thoughts out loud on text. So, onward with the babble:
If one is friendly to someone, for instance, but actually hates that person, you could say that that person is insincere about it. He is putting on a pretense.
If one is hateful and rude to someone, in full sincerity, and that's the truth, you could say that person is being genuinely sincere. Is that a better action than the insincere action of putting on a front?
One action is insincere, and a lie. The other action is sincere, and the truth, but could be argued that the latter action is more harmful than the first action. How is it then, if one is sincerely wrong, that that could be better if one is insincerely less harmful than the former?
It can never be argued that sincerity is the evidence of truth. We all know it is not. Sincerity is the evidence of a self-proven opinion, which may, or may not, be conform to universal truth.
So the question, then, is not necessarily "sincerity vs. insincerity" as the root of the issue. The issue is, can universal truth - the "real, whole, unarguable truth" - be measured in what we perceive as our universe - of which the only thing we have to work with in our equation is what we call "matter"? Many generations before us have thought they had all the equations worked out, until another piece of the puzzle was discovered - and all that work went to file 13.
If one believes he is sincerely right, but is wrong, does that make it right, in that person's solitary universe of self - though it is wrong in the recognition of universal truth? A theologian would say no - that's the definition of the engagement of sin. A humanist might argue "it's right to him, so that's what's right", and maybe the rest of us are wrong. But a person who is rooted in love would simply say "What's right is how a decision positively impacts and helps self or another.", and "What's wrong is how a decision negatively impacts and harms self or another."
How then does this relate to Malm? Can't say it does. All this philosophizing I've done in the past few paragraphs can't fix him. Because insincere, sincere, right, or wrong does nothing if one's actions/nonsense that is/are intended to rule and dictate to another are simply just plain void of logic and simply stupid.
-SHT
What a complicated god these folks worship! All of the precise calculations necessary to get it right - makes one wonder why they are required to jump through so many hoops, doesn't it? I guess all of this is designed to keep the Kingdom of God from getting too crowded.
ReplyDeleteMalm is amazing. You can know beyond the shadow of doubt through science precisely when the new moon occurs. Much more accurate than the observations of the rabbis and priests from back when the calendars were not written in advance. Malm is the equivalent of a ship’s captain today who would use Christopher Columbus’s methods of navigation, eschewing GPS in travelling the high seas.
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ReplyDeleteJames Malm = calendar confusion
I take it Malm things his blog post can substitute for a proper Rosh Chodesh fire. I'm still waiting for my signal.
ReplyDeletehttp://asbereansdid.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-moons-what-josephus-says-they-were.html
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ReplyDeleteYours is the typical minister position. "Doing what you think is right" has two interpretations.
One, the criminal/schoolyard bully trait of doing evil and rationalizing it, ie reasoning around Gods laws. Do bullies and similar know that they are doing wrong? Yes, according to people who study them. So this is willful evil while telling oneself lies in order to feel good about oneself.
Two, 'prove all things' must translate into 'doing what one thinks is right.' This is a genuine attempt to discern the truth.
Herbs church has deliberately confused the two, by among other things, combining the two. If a person comes to a different conclusion to a minister, they are accused of number one above, ie of being a Adolf Eichmann.
Which amounts to the ministers lording it over members faith. It is not a right of ministers to dictate what constitutes right or wrong. Rather, it is a personal responsibility.
I've noticed that the recent Trumpet article on the legalisation of marijuana has introduced this false minister right.
The problem with Malm'slegalism is that if the area where the "watcher" was watching for the faintest glimpse of the new moon was cloudy then the day is postponed. However, go 10 or 15-miles up the same road and there may be no clouds and the person there saw the new moon. He is apparently too stupid to understand that is the issue with his nonsense. 7:37 is right that it is precisely calculated as to when it will happen. Malm's weak little god apparently thinks otherwise.
ReplyDeleteBy moving on the Day of Trumpets, Malm is also moving back both the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles by one day.
ReplyDeleteHope all his followers had two days booked off from work for Trumpets and Atonement, and an extra day for Tabernacles - 'just in case' this change happened.
Interestingly, it would mean that in Australia you wouldn't know that Trumpets had moved on a day until after the first date had already started.
So presumably he expects his followers in Australia to start keeping the first date, again 'just in case', and then switch to the second day some hours later.
Does Malm even have any followers now that he banned Constance and his cat quit coming into the room with him on the sabbath?
Deleteyes your right QuesterUK. Waiting incase is a lesson in sillydom, waiting on another's decision just incase, reminds me of a UCG deacon who turned to me on 1UB in 2011 and informed me and others that he hadn't deleavened that year because 'he just didn't know what UCG was doing that year'
ReplyDeletejust in case.