A reader asks:
Gentlemen --Today Thiel points out several times when Flurry was wrong in his Trump Predictions. This presents us with an interesting situation and the question "If one Lying Prophet accuses another Lying Prophet of lying, is the first Lying Prophet telling the truth?"Best wishes,J____
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It can be the modern prophet motto — "I'm not always wrong."
When Bob was in LCG he was known to tell some pretty tall tales when it came to prophecy and how God was supposedly using him. We all knew he was a liar and that's why LCG members never defected to his "cause".
We live in modern times, not the bronze era. Today, a prophet is able to make all manner of wrong declarations while claiming to be a prophet, or not to be a prophet. And instead of holding him accountable, his fellows join in and make excuses on his behalf. He's not a false prophet just because he was wrong, ergot (creative misspelling intentional) our belief system is still the truth! I mean, he was only attempting to boldly proclaim our version of the gospel, right???
Dear J:
If I (hypothetically) call a COG "prophet" wrong, it automatically means I'm right.
After all, I am in the True Church and he therefore MUST be in the False Church. Thus, I'm always right.
However, if you accuse ME of being wrong, you are clearly guilty of judgmentalism. Thus, I still win by disqualification while you must go repent.
Looking forward to seeing you this coming Sabbath, to learn more about how my True Church is right and everybody else is wrong.
Because, after all, isn't that what a "worship service" is all about?
In law-filled love...
Maybe they can both offer their expertise to the translation committee for this new Bible version:
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Say goodbye to rigid doctrines and hello to the liberating embrace of ambiguity.
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Jeremiah 25:8-14
8. Therefore, it’s like the Lord might be saying, “Because you folks haven’t really paid attention to what I’ve been saying,
9. I reckon something might happen. Like, maybe the Lord will send some folks from up north, and even Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, might get involved somehow. They could end up coming against this land and all the nations around it, causing quite a bit of destruction, you know, making everyone shake their heads in disbelief and making this place look like a ghost town for a long while.
10. I suppose there might be a time when there’s no more laughter or wedding celebrations, no more sounds of grinding at the mill or even the light from a candle.
11. And I guess this whole land could become deserted and bewildering, and these nations might end up serving Babylon for about seventy years.
12. But who knows? Maybe after those seventy years, something might change. The Lord might decide to hold Babylon accountable for what they’ve done, and this land might still be in ruins for a while.
13. And it’s possible that everything I’ve been saying, all these prophecies against different nations, might just come true. You know, everything written down in this book of mine.
14. Because, well, it’s anybody’s guess, really. Many nations and their mighty kings might take advantage of them, and the Lord might just repay them based on what they’ve done.”
As I read this, the lyrics of Donovan's "To Catch the Wind" came flooding back into my mind.
Haven't we proven over the last 50-60 years that we're much better off if we don't attempt to co-opt prophecy to make it
the hook of someone's religious agenda? The best sophomoric minds have picked at the bones of the Armstrong prophecy mold for decades in an effort to prove that it has not failed, and will surely kick in, vindicating themselves and their "apostle".
They've grasped at every apparent radical departure of an event that appears to be an existential threat in attempt to shoehorn it into HWA's predictive model, and have not felt the least little twinge of embarrassment over their own disingenuousness. I'm embarrassed for them!
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