Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Bob Thiel tells another whopper of a lie!


 

Ever since Bob Thiel had that plate of bad oysters and had those horrific nightmares about starting a new church, he has been trying to prove his legitimacy ever since.

He claimed he and others had dreams about how great he was to be. Never had the church had a man as great he is. He had been planned into being as the foundations of the earth were being set forth.

Ever since God and Jesus were sitting around the heavenly kitchen table pondering what the next part of the plan of salvation was to be, the subject of Bwana Bob came up. 

They laughed and laughed and laughed. 

Then the Holy Spirit walked into the kitchen and she asked, "What are you laughing at"? They told her and she said, "Let's do it! The church could use a laugh in the perilous end times that he will appear in". She even said, "Let's stir this pot up a little and create Gerald Flurry and Dave Pack to make life more interesting and keep him a little humble". "Let's also make the true church so that they never ordain him". All three of them sat there chuckling about the soon-coming Great Bwana Bob to Africa and 100 Caucasians.

Lo and behold in the 2,000's the soon-to-be Great Bwana to Africa and 100 Caucasians had his nightmare to apostatize from Rod Meredith's authority and ever since there has been the sticky subject of his ordination. Who would ever believe him if he was not ordained by a minister of the one true church? After all, no one in the Worldwide Church of God did. His friends in the Global Church of God didn't, and no one, including Roderick C Meredith, ever did when Bob was a Living Church of God member. That created a sticky problem.

Never fear though, he took a prayer of Gaylyn Bonjour as proof God was going to work through him, then had some nightmares before he traipsed off to Africa to have one of his African con artist evangelists lay hands on him.

At no point in any of this apostolic succession malarkey was he ever ordained by anyone who had their ordination through a direct lineage back to the Apostle Peter. It is an impossibility. Bwana Bob no more has legitimate apostolic succession than does any priest in the Catholic church. It is nothing more than a human construct to legitimize leaders in their follower's eyes. In fact, it is not even a New Covenant expectation, or command. It was dreamed up in the first century to combat heresies that were entering the church by men such as Bob Thiel. Little did those men know that centuries later in America a crazy crackpot would try and use this to prove his legitimacy.

The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu to Africa and 100 Caucasians seriously believes he has apostolic succession going a the way back to when Jesus laid hands on Peter's head. The Great Bwana and so-called "Chief" Overseer of the improperly named "continuing" Church of "god" claims to be the one true church carrying on original 1st century Christianity. Nothing could be further from the truth than that.

Nevertheless, Bob persists:

The true Christian Church of God, and all of its true ministers, have laying on of hands succession from the original apostles to present. 
 
And yes, we believe all who held succession did keep the seventh-day Sabbath, including Peter Waldo.

6 comments:

  1. Thiel , Pack, Weinland, Cox, Flurry ... successive idiocy!

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  2. As many of these "prophets" and "apostles" and "evangelists" love to extol Peter Waldo, no one seems interested in his example of voluntary poverty. Telling, isnt it?

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  3. As more and more information on Peter Waldo and the Waldensians emerges, the COG myth that they were Sabbath keepers gets relegated to the trash bin along with HWA's writings.

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  4. There is excellent information on the Waldensians here by a former COG member:

    https://www.caswellvisuals.com/bible-studies/waldenses-sabbath-keepers

    https://www.caswellvisuals.com/bible-studies/waldo-in-context

    He effectively makes mincemeat of Bob Thiel's erroneous premise.

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  5. Bob Thiel is now the Barney Fife of Armstrongism

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  6. I heard that Waldo put his daugher in a convent. Like a good Catholic would.

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