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Thursday, March 21, 2019

The King of Self Deception Warns ACOG Member To Not Allow Themselves To Be Deceived




It is time for another doozy from the Self-appointed, almost arrested but not arrested, Elijah, Elisha, Joshua, Second Witless Witness, Chief Overseer and eternally Bitter Bob Thiel.  Has the church ever had a man so preoccupied with self-deception as we have witnessed in Bawana Bob?

For many years he thought his prophetic powers so significant that he could tell Rod Meredith just how things should be. That deception clouded his brain so much that he actually thought Meredith and the rest of the boys in Charlotte would actually heed his words. After his spiritual wanna-be father publicly rebuked and humiliated him in front of the entire Living Church of God, the Chosen One had a dream.

In that dream, his brain revealed to him that HE and HE ALONE was the Chosen One of God to lead the remnant group of true believers into the Place of Safety and ultimately into the Kingdom of God where HE and HE ALONE would sit on the right hand of Jesus Christ as they ruled the universe together.  His brain told him that no human leader of ANY other Armstrong Churches of God was as qualified as he was.

His brain also told him that this was NOT self-deception but direct channelling from his god as to how things WILL BE in the end times and that HE and HE ALONE had the ONLY truth.

Nope, no self-deception there, no-sirree Bob!

The Undeceived One has these words of wisdom for ACOG members:

Researchers have concluded that there are costs associated with self-deception:

The invisible downside of cheating in life

People who take shortcuts can trick themselves into believing they are smarter than they are, says Tom Stafford, and it comes back to bite them.
The researchers ran another experiment to check that the effect was really due to the cheaters’ inflated belief in their own abilities. In this experiment, students were offered a cash reward for accurately predicting their scores on the second test. Sure enough, those who had been given the opportunity to cheat overestimated their ability and lost out – earning 20% less than the other students.
The implication is that people in Chance’s experiment – people very much like you and me – had tricked themselves into believing they were smarter than they were. There may be benefits from doing this – confidence, satisfaction, or more easily gaining the trust of others – but there are also certainly disadvantages. Whenever circumstances change and you need to accurately predict how well you’ll do, it can cost to believe you’re better than you are.
That self-deception has its costs has some interesting implications. Morally, most of us would say that self-deception is wrong. But aside from whether self-deception is undesirable, we should expect it to be present in all of us to some degree (because of the benefits), but to be limited as well (because of the costs).
Self-deception isn’t something that is always better in larger doses – there must be an amount of it for which the benefits outweigh the costs, most of the time. We’re probably all self-deceiving to some degree. The irony being, because it is self-deception, we can’t know how often. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150225-unexpected-downside-for-cheaters
Jesus taught that Satan was a liar and the father of lies:
44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it (John 8:44)
Of course, Satan takes advantage of deception and encourages humans to deceive themselves. Recall what happened to Eve:
Also recall all we have witnessed with Bawana Bob over the last several years! Eve was not the only one deceived!
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. (1 Timothy 2:14)
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. (Genesis 3:6-7)
Satan was involved, but the woman allowed herself to be deceived. This type of deception happens every day.
It sure does Elijah Bob!  It sure does!
But what about Christians? Can Christians fall victim to self-deception?
Jesus warned that most Christians in the end times would be deceived:
14 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,
‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: 15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’ — and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked — 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. (Revelation 3:14-19)
Although most Laodiceans do not believe that they are deceiving themselves, Jesus said that they were. Jesus said that Laodicean Christians needed to repent–they need to change.
This is the same tired and worn out excuse that self-appointed and self-deceived ACOG leaders have been dishing out for 80 some years now.  Anyone who does not believe them is a Laodicean.  Bullshit, Bob.  Bullshit!
In addition to doctrine and how they lead their lives, there are serious prophetic deceptions that the Laodiceans have fallen for. A list of 38 prophetic deceptions that various Laodiceans (and those of Sardis) believe is in the article The Laodicean Church Era. Believing several of these will insure that Laodiceans will not realize that the Great Tribulation is here until it is to late for most to flee (cf. Revelation 12:14-17).
Self-deception is common. Try not to fall for it. The word of God is truth (John 17:17), hopefully you will believe it enough so that you will resist Satanically-encouraged self-deception (cf. James 4:7).
For once I agree with Elisha Bob!  Do not fall for the Satanically-encouraged self-deception of the self-appointed doubly blessed Bob Thiel! Of all the sick idiots leading various splinter groups right now, self-appointed Bob is the sickest of the lot.


11 comments:

  1. What's that on the bookcase?? Some kind of prophecy book at something big gonna happen in 2012? I sure hope he's right?

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  2. 2012...another lie of Boobie Bob. I would like to know what truth he has ever revealed from his god?

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  3. Isn’t it just too bad that self-proclaimed religious leaders don’t have the same system of checks and balances, managers, overseers, attorneys and each other holding them accountable as do the professional journalists in the major media? ;~)

    BB

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  4. I am fascinated by this "Armstrong Doomsday Cult" with all its iterations and schisms,
    - truly one of the more colorful of the indigenous American religions!

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  5. I remember an old advertisement in which one was told that at Speedy, one is a Somebody. Of course many fell for it and had their mufflers changed at Speedy. Today the cogs use almost the same method, telling people that they are chosen to become part of their church. They only explain later that the church is the body of Christ and not the building. They also don't mention that the organization is not the body of Christ, for this part they want you to believe.

    Every one of these groups fail to state that the other groups are also the body of Christ. Why? Is it because they want to be the only one receiving tithes? They all push Mal.3:10 at their members telling them that they rob God is they withhold their tithes, rather than explaining the truth, which is that it was the priests that were being condemned and not the people.

    All of these groups are guilty of lying. They reveal themselves as only being interested in robbing people of their money.

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  6. Cincinnati? Mixing up LCG and UCG?

    BTW - if Bernie Madoff had been smarter, he would have started a bogus church instead of a bogus investment company. He would still have been in the business and living high on the hog.

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  7. Muhammad Ali used to say ..."It Aint Bragging if Its True". In Bobs case, he brags , but it aint true. At least Ali backed up his bragging with magnificent boxing performances. Bob... his only victories are exaggerated hand gestures where he "boxes at the wind".

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  8. NO2HWA - glad to help! There are so many splits these days, it is hard to remember who is who.
    So much competition for the false prophet title. So many chief apostles.
    So many groups with more truth than the others and/or better works than the others.

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  9. Will Bob follow Dave Pack’s example and have his African ladies put on a banquet for him? OOOPPPS! Forgot. Dixon retired, so nowhere to publish the photos so other ACOGsters could see them.

    BB

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  10. Another example of how similar all the ACOGs are. They are McHerbs. Their articles and subject matter are so similar. They must read each others literature, and have a informal gentleman's agreement about what to write about, and what to religiously ignore. If a person reads widely, this is self evident. But if like most members, one is not a reader, they fall into the trap of believing that their intellectual closet is the whole world.
    The McHerb churches of God.

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