The kind of cultic nonsense you will read below is not normal for the average Christian believer. No one's faith depends upon a Great White Bwana as a leader in the dreams and visions of deluded people or wild, fantastical prophecies and utter pseudo-Christian balderdash.
I am sure the follower in the below quote, from the improperly named "continuing" church of "god" blog, is a very sincere man, but placing one's trust in such a spiritually bankrupt man and that elevates him into an almost mythical persona, is NOT normal. It is appalling.
Dear pastor
Greetings pastor. I believe you are doing good though you are having great thrust of fulfilling Matthew 28:19 of which we must do before the return of Christ. …
I had two dreams
1. Before our family joined CCOG my father was then working with voice in the Wilderness Church of God. When I was sleeping I had a dream and in my dream I saw a light and the light was not normal, the one who was standing by the was You pastor Bob according to my dream. Then I had voice shouting, “Arise you who are sleeping, for the Lord is near.” I again I heard another voice shouting, “Come up Evans and let us do the work we are called to do.” I then saw a man dressed in white clothes join hands with my father walking together towards a very big lake then I woke up.
2: In my second dream some weeks after my first dream and in my second dream I saw almost the same dream and now this was in New Zealand. I did not know about the CCOG group in New Zealand before I had the dream.
Fred
2 comments:
The toubob get weird ideas about themselves.
Is it possible that a con man might not realize that he is in fact a con man? This is difficult for us to wrap our minds around, but I've come to believe, considering Armstrong history and recent political history, that it is entirely possible.
Hypothetically, it would indeed be possible if an individual has been conned himself, and fervently believes that it is his mission to spread the message of his con-man mentor. The possibility is amplified when religious sleight of hand has turned that mentor into a quasi-Biblical figure (God's Apostle). That this is even possible may seem odd to many of us who have been living for decades in post-Armstrong realities, but it is so easy to forget that when we ourselves were followers of HWA (oops, I mean God!), many of us did not know the difference between "bias confirmation" and "proving all things".
I most likely won't get to witness this, but I can see a time in the future when an Armstrongite leader will use his followers' tithes and offerings to secure a spot on one of Elon Musk's space ships, visit Mars, and upon his return, will claim that he is the first to establish "God's True Church" on another planet. He might even call his church the "Universal Church of God". Oops, the Catholics already claimed that in the early centuries of Christianity!
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