Just when you think the craziness of the Church of God could not get any worse, along comes Philadelphia Church of God's Gerald Flurry and Ryan Malone to complete the picture.
Did you know that Abraham founded the city of Salzburg in Austria? He either stopped off there on his way to Ireland where he dropped off the Ark of the Covenant or when he was returning home to Palestine. Abraham was also a musical genius who designed the musical patterns used in Austria to this day. Abraham had the foresight to know that the Von Trapp Family singers would eventually make the city famous far more famous than he ever would.
From the Bethel Church of God is found this note:
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"The lordship of Abraham is attested to in Genesis 23:5-6. “And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.”
An ancient document called the Austrian Chronicle addresses 95 generations of lordship. How authentic this document is has not yet been determined. The last entries in this document were made around AD 1400. The Chronicle makes reference to the noble country of Austria. One coat of arms in ancient Austria was that of Judeisapta-the land of the Jews. The reason is that large numbers of Jews resided there, dating back to ancient times. The Chronicle tells us that Abraham was born in a country known as the “Admirable Land,” headed by a Count Sattan. War broke out between Abraham and the Count, and Abraham was forced to flee in poverty. He fled to an area around the Danube basin, known as Tanau. Portions of Europe were settled through the Danube basin, as it was one of the main entry routes into Europe. The Chronicle tells us that Abraham went back to the Admirable Land after ruling 30 years in Judeispata.
This leads us here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Chronicle_of_the_95_Rulers
Which states:
"Since its edition, it has played a certain role in pseudohistory, in particular in US American Biblical literalism, in publications such as those of Herman L. Hoeh[1] and Herbert W. Armstrong [2] of the Worldwide Church of God, who took the chronicle's genealogies at face value to postulate that, e.g.,
"European civilization — and its history — is as old as Egypt's. But it has been suppressed. Not since the close of the seventeenth century has it been allowed to be taught publicly." (Hoeh (1963), vol. 2 ch. 3[2])"
And the armstrongites wonder why their movement is turning to shit!
ReplyDeleteAnd what does that have to do with anything?
ReplyDeleteSpeculation or nonsense dressed as spiritual manna from heaven. The ACOGs do it all the time.
ReplyDeleteIf all this is true, why aren't cities in Austria named after Abraham?
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to all those cities supposedly named after Dan?
You never heard of Abrahamville?Actually, it was Dan who came up with the phrase "something's rotten in Denmark"
ReplyDeleteBegs the question: How did you come to know about the truth? Ha Ha Ha.
ReplyDeleteThe Higher Criticism of Theology would tell us, as does Israel Finkelstein of "The Bible Unearthed" would say that this would be tale weaving as there is no evidence that either a Moses nor Abraham ever existed in time and space. So the question would be moot.
ReplyDeleteOf course.
ReplyDeleteThe human condition is tale weaving. Religion is tale weaving. The definition of life is "that what can pro create' and all succesful tales assist in that proces.
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ReplyDeleteRidiculous, we all know that Abraham started OSHKOSH WISCONSIN, and not Salzburg Austria!
ReplyDeleteGeography fail. Theyve got no maps in the PCG I guess.
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