It is always fun to see our resident fake prophet from Arroyo Grande continually whine about constantly being dissed by COG members and groups. Bwana Bob Thiel feels he is the most significantly important man the church has had in this turbulent end times. He even goes as far as to use Norm Edwards as proof of his prophethood. One self-appointed group leader telling another self-appointed group leader how important they are. Seriously? While Norm may have done some good works in the years he has run his own personality cult, he is still in the same category as Bwana Bob, Pack, Flurry, Weston, Kubik and the rest of the heretical COG splinter leaders.
...that many who are in or claim to be in the Church of God (COG) wrongly do not accept that God has any prophets today. We also agree that most have severe difficulty to identify one who really is a prophet because of various unscriptural biases and improper criteria that they have.
Because of false prophets in a couple of COG-related groups and a disbelief in prophets by most of the COG groups, the non-Philadelphian COGs have a lot of severe prophetic misunderstandings.
As Norman Edward’s article points out, it is scriptural to now have prophets according to the New Testament. But many who truly believe that they live by the word of God have discounted or overlooked what the Bible actually teaches and/or have been influenced by others who have done the same or worse. The COG has at least one demonstrably true prophet today, yet most in the greater COG world seem to be able to ignore the truth about that, like most ignored John the Baptist and others in their day.Bwana Bob also makes this idiotic statement as further proof he is is a prophet:
Norman Edwards runs Nashville Christian Media and has been the editor for Shepherd’s Voice magazine. He is not part of the Continuing Church of God, where, I function as its human leader (and am an ordained prophet; the only known such prophet in any legitimate Church of God group).
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Norman Edwards left Roderick C. Meredith's first splinter group called the Global Church of God (GCG), with a copy of its mailing list, to start his Servants' News newsletter that strung people along and wasted their time for a while before it fizzled out. Norman sent letters to people that might still believe in such basic doctrines as the Sabbath and the laws of clean and unclean animals, hoping to find followers from among the wreckage of what Herbert W. Armstrong had built up and what Joseph W. Tkach, Sr. had torn down.
Besides his newsletter, about the only other thing that Norman Edwards produced was a lengthy paper early on called How Does the Eternal Govern Through Humans? that attempted to refute Herbert W. Armstrong's teachings on hierarchical government in the church. Though he thought he had everything figured out, Norman Edwards wanted other people to write articles too about the topic of church government and send them to him for his consideration and for possible publication in his Servants' News newsletter. He claimed to be willing to consider just about anything and everything under the sun. This would have sounded very open-minded and reasonable except that Norman Edwards went on to say that the only thing that he would not publish, and would not even consider, and did not even want to receive, were articles that supported the hierarchical government ideas that Herbert W. Armstrong had taught in the Worldwide Church of God.
Far from honestly searching for the truth, Norman Edwards was clearly a rebel with an agenda. In a fitting case of getting what he deserved for teaching people not to follow anyone or submit to anyone, nobody wanted to follow or submit to Norman Edwards. Bob Thiel had once described Norman Edwards as the "leader" of the "leaderless independents,” but Norman Edwards' attempt to lead and herd stray cats rather than sheep turned out to be a dismal failure.
1) I am a prophet.
2) If you require proof that I am indeed a prophet, see 1).
Now all of you can see why those of us in LCG thought Bob to be a mentally disturbed fool. Meredith may have been dupped at the beginning, but finally woke up to see how warped this man truly is.
Norman S. Edwards
Serpent's News
Satan's Voice
Interesting pattern here.
The veil in the holy of holies splitting in two on Christ's death, ended the need for prophets. God now communicates directly with people. No middlemen like Bwana Bob or HWA splinter ministers are required. Bob must know this.
The COG has at least one demonstrably true prophet today, yet most in the greater COG world seem to be able to ignore the truth about that, like most ignored John the Baptist and others in their day.
Drs Venkman, Stantz and Spengler: We're ready to believe you!
John the B: So you think you're better than me?
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