Notice that this is NOT the kind of fast that LCG thinks is profitable for edification
Gerald Weston explained the purpose of a fast to some of his inquiring members as follows:
"...a clear statement that fasting is for the purpose of drawing close to God...fasting is a means of humbling ourselves...we draw close to God in humility. This applies to us individually and as the collective Body of Christ. Let us spend extra time in prayer, study, and meditation this Sabbath as we draw close to God in humility and oneness of mind."
That Sabbath is over. Anyone feeling that oneness and humility, besides Weston and Winnail? Was it so wonderful that fasting will no longer be necessary?
At least, Weston didn't ask his members to make their voices to be: "...heard on high," Isaiah 58:4, because God isn't interested in prayers and fasting to get for self.
Might fasting actually have another purpose that the likes of Weston/Winnail, and other former hirelings of the former WCG, hadn't thought of?
Think about it. Moses and Christ fasted for weeks. David did it for days. Were they any humbler? Were they any closer to God?
Weston/Winnail, as are Kubik, Franks, Thiel, Pack, Weinland, Flurry, etc., other former WCG hirelings (not sure who these people really are today?), all believe in their Mickey Mouse Millennium, to one degree or another lord it over others, and want their members to fast. Why? What has fasting ever done during the days of HWA, and since 16 January 1986?
Aren't true Christians, something other than organizations, associations, groups of men striving to rule, lord, and control the lives of men and women....already humbled by God and are hence close to God?
Did Moses and Jesus fast for the reasons Weston gave? If yes, then prove it to us with scripture!
Jesus told us this:
John 17:21 "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."
:23 "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
Can a Christian get any closer to God than that: the Father in Christ, and Christ in every Christian? If these verses are true, that's pretty close to God and that Bridegroom (hint for Weston referencing the Bridegroom being taken away: well, He was away for 3 days and 3 nights), if you ask me.
Fasting is for some other reason(s), but not for what Weston said. Jesus fasted for 40 days and He wasn't going to get any closer to His Father, who was always with Him. And Christ is in them (John 17:23), those to be dragged by the Father and sealed by God's Spirit to be Firstfruits, part of a Bride to be built over time.
Will the likes of Weston, Winnail, other former WCG hirelings determine some other reasons for fasting other than the ones they burden their members with? Will they learn why Christ just may not be "in them:" if that is the actual situation?
Time will tell...
John
I'm an old hand at fasting and I can say with absolute certainty that it does NOTHING to one spiritually except starve ones ass off with zero benefits!
ReplyDeleteIt must be tough to be a member of an ACOG these days. Members are forced to listen to regurgitated HWAcaca from a pretty much dead splinter, or be faced with totally outrageous "new" knowledge trotted out by the weird ones. There just isn't a balanced option which offers smooth growth, logical progression of new knowledge, and even-handed church government,
ReplyDeleteI look forward to being in the soon to be "Mickey Mouse Millennium." You can mock it zillions of time John, but you won't change my mind and the minds of most readers.
ReplyDeleteBtw, the world's a dangerous place. God doesn't take kindly to those who attack what motivates Christians.
John's "Mickey Mouse Millennium"is exactly that. It's a fantasy land dreamed up be decades of erroneous Armstrongite teachings that COG members will become gods and rule nations and planets in some far out fantasy land where HWA will be seated a the right hand of Christ. Such heretical bullshit. And, all of that is after 3 1/2 years of hell in Petra as each COG fights over who is in charge. Can this church be any stupider?
ReplyDeleteI look forward to being in the soon to be "Mickey Mouse Millennium." You can mock it zillions of time John, but you won't change my mind and the minds of most readers.
ReplyDeleteGod and His kingdom will exist for infinite billions of years after the thousand-year "Mickey Mouse Millennium" Will eternity be a letdown after you've spent a thousand years as a divine superdeacon treating humanity the way WCG deacons and elders treated you during your lifetime?
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ReplyDeleteEternity means pursuing endless possibilities that our limited human lifespan doesn't allow. So I see no let down after the millennium.
I put out effort to build rights respecting habits, so I won't be like a HWA minion.