New Music: The Ballad of Dr. Bubba Thiel

 

Check it out here: The Ballad of Dr. Bubba Thiel

 The best thing on the internet today!!!!!!!

Lyrics:

Good old Dr. Bubba Thiel prophet THD, he thinks he’s fooling you and he thinks he’s fooling me, but in all reality, it’s his own delusion, Africa is conning him Big Evans and Radson. Their boss Satana is putting all the pins in place, spinning the wheel of fake dreams and gaslighting everyone’s face!

(Chorus)

Good old, Dr. Bubba, I am telling you, eat some humble pie before your through ohh! Listen to the advice Dr. Rod gave you and brother you repent true before the con of Africa destroys you! 

(2 verse)

Good old Dr. Bubba Thiel listen to what I tell you! You had an elder by the name of Sasha, who was true blue. He only tried to warn you, but you wouldn’t see it through! You chose to believe the witch doctor spiel of an old villagers tale! They blinded you to reality, that’s all I have to say. Good old, Dr. Bubba please get out of the way! Let the true Christians, do their duty true and have it Gods righteous way!

(3rd verse)

In conclusion, Dr. Bubba, Dr. Bubba Thiel, please stop sending tens of thousands to big Bana Africa because all it’s going for is Evans gold mining corruption and witch doctors spell. Listen to Sasha Veljic, he was so true blue, get rid of the African shim sham dance, that’s conning you!

Armstrongism: A Brief Case Study in Theodicy

 

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Armstrongism: A Brief Case Study in Theodicy

By Scout

Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent.  Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent.  Is he both able and willing: whence then is evil?  - David Hume, Eighteenth Century Philosopher

“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.” - Job

One of the most difficult areas of theology is theodicy.  Theodicy seeks to answer the question, “If God is all-powerful and perfectly righteous, why is there evil in the world?” I have come across many unsatisfactory answers to this question in my reading of theology.  I personally do not have a solution to offer.  In this short essay I would like to pose a much narrower question of theodicy: If Armstrongism is harmful to people, why does God permit it to exist?

Answering this question, as I have approached it, is essentially justifying God. This starts with the proposition that Armstrongism is harmful.  And this harmfulness is an assertion that I will not deal with in this context though the pages of this blog are rife with data in support of this proposition.  Then one must explain why God would permit something harmful to exist and have influence.  What follows are two reasons among many for why God might permit Armstrongism to exist:

·       God wants us to understand that a religion can be concocted using Biblical vocabulary that may sound like Christianity but it is not.

 

·      God wants us to understand that the nature of a church is not to be found in what it says about itself but in what it does. 

These are just two justifications that might emerge in answer to this question.  There are many others.  And reactions to these justifications will vary.  To some people this is evidence that God mercifully teaches people using real world issues.  Christians have been elected to train for the Priesthood and will reign with Christ and understanding the two principles above will be important.  To others, the idea that even only one person loses salvation because of the existence of Armstrongism places a mark on all of us and diminishes all of us throughout eternity.  The cost is much greater than any benefit. What we need is the clarification that would be granted to us by knowing God’s view on this yet when we independently try to construct the Godly view our limited understanding fails us. 

Why doesn’t God just pull the plug on Armstrongism, if it represents a serious harm to lives of some people? I admit that I do not know. 

 

Sasha Veljic Slams Bob Thiel From The Great Beyond

Karl Kolechek, reporting from Malawi 

 

Living Church of God: Always the Epitome Of Outgoing Love

 

For decades, we have had pounded into our heads that as the true church, we were the epitome of Philadelphian love. Anyone with even minimal contact with any of the Churches of God know this is not true.

Check out this comment on Exit and Support Network about a person's recent contact with an LCG minister:

As a Sabbatarian looking for an acceptable congregation, I contacted a pastor of the local Living Church of God.  He seemed protective of his congregation in a way that appeared unwelcoming. It was a very strange response. It did sound quite controlling.  What bothered me was that it is the opposite of a hospitable and loving God. –[name withheld]

LCG: Making Wise Decisions. Uh...

 

LCG's latest member update has two interesting and yet conflicting comments on it. First is a comment from Gerald Weston about Doug Winnail's travels to the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and the UK and how exhausting it is to older people's health. Then Winnail posts his weekly Profitable Sabbath note about how important it is to make wise decisions. There seems to be a breakdown in communication here.

Church Administration Director Dr. Douglas Winnail leaves this week for business and conferences in the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and the UK. International travel can be challenging, with frequent time zone changes, packing and unpacking as one moves from one hotel to another, climate changes, and long hours in airports and in the air. As I remind Dr. Winnail, he is not getting any younger, so your prayers for his health and for a profitable trip will be appreciated. —Gerald Weston

This is Winnail's posting: 

Seek God’s Guidance: How do you approach making big decisions? Worldly wisdom says, Don’t let anyone tell you what to do—just do your own thing! Yet the Bible strongly warns against this approach (see Judges 21:25; Jeremiah 9:12–16). Solomon wrote, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:12). The Scriptures reveal that there is a much better way to make decisions. When Solomon became king, he asked God for wisdom to guide his decisions (1 Kings 3:7–9). He was following the example of his father, David, who wrote, “Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes…. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:33, 105). When we have important decisions to make, we can ask God to show us the path that He wants us to follow—by opening doors where He wants us to go and closing doors where we do not need to go. If we seek God’s guidance and are teachable, as David was, God will guide us.
Have a profitable Sabbath,
Douglas S. Winnail

If you know these trips are not the healthiest for an older person to do, then why have him do it? Oh, wait, being a martyr for the truth tops common sense.

UCG: We are Malachis helping the church make straight the way!

 

I'll just leave this here for comment:

Malachi speaks of messengers to come who will prepare the way before the comings of Jesus Christ (Malachi 3:1-5). Verses 2-5 and 4:5 where God promised to send “Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” clearly refer to Jesus’ second coming. 

 

In Matthew 17:10-13, Jesus’ “disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’ Jesus answered . . . ‘Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already . . .’ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.” 

 

God’s Church has been an Elijah messenger before the second coming! As John the Baptist did, in all of our messages we must “make straight the way of the Lord” (John 1:23). We should always make the truth plain!

and this:

God will help us be His Malachis individually and as His Church and work. Let’s learn from what this minor prophet teaches, live it, teach and proclaim it!

Can your crown be taken away for not following Armstrongist church government?

 

Can you lose your crown if you do not follow a fraudulent church leader who claims he has the proper Philadelphia-style church government, whatever the hell that is? Of the many heresies of Armstrongism, the adherence to so-called "proper" church government has been the most destructive to the church. This is what has allowed abusive self-appointed frauds to set themselves up as "true" church leaders who are here to save everything Herbert taught. 

Church government created by Herbert is a tool to keep members in line and afraid to ask questions. If you dare to ask a question of the dear leader, you are being rebellious and, therefore, a sinner bound for the lake of fire. Church government is what has allowed spiritual abusers like Dave Pack, Ron Weinland, Gerald Flurry, and Bob Thiel to run amok, damaging people's lives and claiming that God has set them apart as an end time witness to the church and the world. This also allows them to say outrageous things that have no relevance to a Christians daily walk. No one needs the dreams, revelations or brain farts these guys dish out on an hourly basis.

Notice this appalling nonsense from the Great Bwana Bob. He is currently going through the book of Hebrews, verse by verse, and adding his two cents to its meanings. I can't think of anything more boring than to have Bwana Bob extrapolate on scripture that he knows nothing about. Sadly, if you are a bad little boy or girl and do not heed his Phialdphian teachings, then prepare to get nice and toasty in the lake of fire.

This sermon is the sixth part of a six-part sermon series covering each and every verse of the Book of Hebrews. This sermon covers the 13th chapter. Dr. Thiel begins by reading some comments from the late Herbert W. Armstrong. Dr. Thiel covers each verse of the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews in this sermon. He discusses that Philadelphia was to continue and that one man hierarchical governance is what true Philadelphians should Christians accept. He also warns about the trickery of men and that proper church governance helps prevent people from losing the Philadelphian crown. Dr. Thiel discusses what Jesus has been doing and how He looks. He exhorts people to do good and to endure to the end and explains about God’s plan of increasing love throughout eternity.