With the current pandemic of COVID circling the earth, research is quickly working to find a cure or at least an immunization shot that can stop the virus from causing so much damage.
Kubik has stepped forward to let his followers know that he and the church will not discourage those who want to get the shots. This is sure to set off many of the self-righteous leaders and ministers in various splinter groups.
As government authorities at all levels struggle to cope with health remedies for the pandemic, opinions and alternative solutions grow. In the Church of God community, many hold to a focus of looking for natural treatments. On the other hand, many accept and seek traditional medical treatment. All seek healing from God (James 5:14-15) but may choose different paths to support that healing.
Regarding this, it is important to note here that as a Church, we are not experts in the practice of medicine. For instance, the Bible does not teach that immunization is a sin. Also, while the United Church of God positively teaches that being immunized is a medical matter and is not sin, the Church also does not judge those who, because of conscience, choose not to be immunized.
We emphasize respect for the personal decision made by the individual. The issue may grow more complicated, especially if local governments require vaccinations for participation in public schools and the like, but we still recognize respect for personal decisions.
We emphasize respect for the personal decision made by the individual. The issue may grow more complicated, especially if local governments require vaccinations for participation in public schools and the like, but we still recognize respect for personal decisions.
Some splinters might allow it in this case, but "respect for personal decisions" is a foreign concept to COG ministers. It's the proverbial pearls before swine thingy.
ReplyDeleteCreeping Tkachism, watering down a very clear Armstrong doctrine! There are more conservative alternatives: PCG, RCG....
ReplyDeleteMy body! My choice! :-)
ReplyDeleteMay I add and pontificate...
ReplyDeleteIt is NOT A SIN to read BANNED!
UCG APPROVES OF THE MONKEY PUS?
ReplyDeleteWhat about the medicines,the drugs,and. the dope?
DeleteWhat about them Ocelot ? Are you implying their doped up in UCG ?
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 4:08 AM said...“Creeping Tkachism, watering down a very clear Armstrong doctrine! There are more conservative alternatives: PCG, RCG....”
Victor Kubik is a former Tkach goon who is now running the UCG. You can expect some “watering down.”
However, Gerald Flurry's PCG and David Pack's RCG are definitely NOT “more conservative alternatives.” They both used HWA's name to attract his followers and their wallets. They both claimed to be holding onto HWA's teachings more faithfully than anyone else. Then they both went on to edit, change, warp, mangle, and totally pervert HWA's teachings far more than the people that they had criticized for departing from his teachings. They are NOT “more conservative alternatives.” They are more satanic alternatives.
Tonto
ReplyDeleteThis is 4.08 AM again. Mr Armstrong clearly stated that reading dissident material is the equivalent of watching pornography. Mr Armstrong would therefore use his authority as The Chosen Apostle to have reading Banned declared a sin.
Mr Armstrong clearly stated that reading dissident material is the equivalent of watching pornography.
ReplyDeleteSo, Banned is the moral equivalent of HWA's flog-log and his "dates" with Dorothy?
HWA's flog-log and his "dates" with Dorothy?
ReplyDeleteAnd Dave Pack told a woman that her wearing makeup was like worse than shacking up with a stranger.
But then Shammaite Pharisees taught eating bread with unwashed hands was like prostitution.
It was never the business of the Church, the Ministry or the Armstrongs what decisions a parent made concerning vaccinations. Like many topics, somewhere along the line the Administration and Administrators, mostly ministers and Evangelists felt the compulsion to mind the business of the membership for them. The entire topic of Doctors, surgery and the help the medical profession had to offer humans was non of the churches business. Divine healing was neither divine nor healing.
ReplyDeleteI agree Dennis C Diehl it's still none of the business of the Church, the Ministry or the Armstrong's what members decide on many issues.
ReplyDeleteIt was all power and control always power and control.
Anon May 27 at 9:22 AM asserts that PCG and RCG 'are NOT “more conservative alternatives.” They are more satanic alternatives.'
ReplyDeleteThere's a difference?
Talking of power and control, from Wikipedia:
ReplyDelete"Totalitarian movements are fundamentally different from autocratic regimes in so far as autocratic regimes seek only to gain absolute political power and to outlaw opposition, while totalitarian regimes seek to dominate every aspect of everyone's life as a prelude to world domination.
..intellectual, spiritual, and artistic initiative is as dangerous to totalitarianism as the gangster initiative of the mob, and both are more dangerous than mere political opposition. The consistent persecution of every higher form of intellectual activity by the new mass leaders springs from more than their natural resentment against everything they cannot understand. Total domination does not allow for free initiative in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
Retired Prof.
ReplyDeleteIts a common mistake that so called "religious fundamentalist (terrorists) " do not make use of high tech solutions to their cause while hearkin for a set point in ancient history as the "golden age" .
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Retard Prof. Yes there is a difference!
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