For some insane reason, the Philadelphia Church of God is going into overdrive lately to promote the most useless book the church has ever published, Mystery of the Ages.
Gerald Flurry makes this absurd claim:
Mr. Armstrong said, “I feel I myself did not write it. Rather, I believe God used me in writing it.” Those are inspiring and frightening words. If they are true, then those words flowed right out of the mind of the living, all-powerful God! Anybody who reads and studies Mystery of the Ages would surely have to agree.
Mystery of the Ages sums up God’s Work through Mr. Armstrong. Surely Christ must have personally directed and inspired such a critical, end-time message.
This kind of nonsense is reminiscent of the Mormons, who claim their Book of Mormon is a "new" testament that sits alongside the Bible. Both are needed to understand the Bible. Without either of these books being used, believers are too dumb to understand the Bible. Enlightenment and truth only come from Herbert Armstrong or Joseph Smith.
Both cults also make the same claim that Gerald Flurry makes:
I believe our greatest shame today would be rejecting that book!
Flurry goes on to claim that the most important thing the PCG can do today is to get MOA in the hands of as many as possible. Forget that inconvenient dude called Jesus and anything taught and accomplished with his death and resurrection! He is just some wimpy Israelite that stands in the way of the greatest truth teller to live, even greater than Bob Thiel, Herbert W Armstrong.
Mr. Armstrong wanted it to reach “the largest audience possible.” If you comprehend the message of that book, this has to be God’s desire also.We must let God use us to get this book to “the largest audience possible.”
I believe “the largest audience possible” should become our battle cry today! Now is the great moment for God’s Philadelphians. This is our most critical hour. We must pick up the dropped baton and finish the gun lap! We must stretch and strain to win the greatest race we will ever run!
This must be God’s supreme goal for His Philadelphian elect today. He inspired those words, “the largest audience possible.” That expression came from God’s own mind! You can see that clearly if you truly understand Mystery of the Ages. We must not fail God. So much hangs in the balance—even reaching into the universe and living for all eternity.
Then, Gerald Flurry, not to be outdone by Herbert Armstrong and Bob Thiel, has to promote his own writings as equally important to understand the Bible with:
My book Malachi’s Message was mainly revealed for Church members and those familiar with what Mr. Armstrong taught. So you can see how, suddenly, we now have a message for billions of people, not just a few hundred thousand!
Our work now is to get a final warning trumpet blast to every person on this planet, which is plunging headlong to its death! It will take a supreme effort from each member of the very elect to achieve God’s goal for us.
If God’s message is to be thundered around the world during the Laodicean era, the Philadelphia Church of God must do it! Nobody else will!
If we do, exciting and majestic miracles will accompany this work and your individual life. Remember, God says, “I am with you always.” The harder we work, the more powerful are God’s miracles.
If Christ personally dictated to Herbert Armstrong, Joseph Smith, and Gerald Flurry everything they have all written, why have each of them or their church edited words out and added their own words to these sacred texts, completely changing the meaning of the original texts?
No one, and I mean absolutely NO ONE, needs to read any of these three books. None of them contains anything necessary for salvation. None of them can save you or create a relationship with Jesus that normal Christians understand.
Flurry ends with this complete nonsense:
In the midst of the Earth’s greatest suffering, we get to announce the return of Jesus Christ. If we properly do our job, our reward will dazzle God’s Family for all eternity!
The greatest single gift we can give to the world is Mystery of the Ages. Let’s think and work like God and give it to “the largest audience possible”!
8 comments:
If someone asked PCG for a Bible, would it be able to provide one?
Didn't that book come first?
Eccl 12:12 ESV
........... Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Gerry, stick to Irish dancing.
Much more entertaining and most likely your biggest audience. Let’s face it MOTA and MM or Malachis Mess……age have bombed. Reading the death notices in the local paper is more interesting.
But that Celtic dancing is a blast. Enjoy watching your dancers whirling and tapping and having a right gay old time, oppps a right old time as they struck their stuff. Here’s to thee Irish, mad as they are, and I’ll have a wee dram on the side now. They might be a heathen people but they know how to have a good time.
And I hear thou likes a wee drink on the side too, does ye not Gerry.
Oh, there's definitely something bizarre going on, but it's eluding the ACOGs. Armstrongites are all branches of the COGMTP, (Church of God Missing the Point). Doesn't matter whether they get their message out in power if the message misses the mark, or is inappropriate to what people actually see unfolding.
Are these Furry words bordering on blasphemy?. Saying the book MOA was inspired directly from God, via Armstrong, yet even a cursory reading shows it to be riddled with errors?
“I feel I myself did not write it."
He wasn't lying. Aaron Dean wrote it.
I have little interest in the ideology (as opposed to theology) found in Splinterdom. Once in a great while, something will catch my attention. So, here goes. There is something paradoxical about Irish Dance as viewed by some Armstrongists. Google AI said this about Irish Dance:
"Ancient roots (over 2,000 years ago): Early Irish dance is thought to have originated with the Celts from ritualistic dances performed by druids to celebrate nature."
My Celtic ancestors 2,000 years ago, were thorough-going pagans. I have no illusions about that. And if they danced, it was in a pagan context. So, it is illogical that Christmas would be rejected by these Armstrongists because of its pagan association and Irish Dance is not. They both stand or fall together.
Of course, I believe that neither are tainted and any belief that they are falls into the logical category of the Genetic Fallacy that I have written about before.
Scout
Armstrongists have never obeyed Ex 23:14, but substituted the word "times" with "seasons", and never acknowledging "feasts" is a mistranslation in Lev 23:2, should be "fixed, or appointed, or set times" which are not all feasts.
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