Wise words from a comment in a previous post:
Listen, ye fools in the church, if God reconciled you to Himself by the blood of His Son, why then can't you get reconciled to one another? What? Is your will (It has to go my way), authority (I am a minister and no one tells me what to do) and money (I know how to manage it better than you) more important?
Stupid ministers, who don't know that if you want to contend with one another you have to please the General first (Christ; 2 Tim 2:4), play by the rules (the law; 2 Tim 2:5), and participate in the fruit production (the fruits; 2 Tim 2:6) if you want to get your rewards.
2 comments:
Can you imagine a COG group wanting to reconcile with Bob Thiel or David Pack? What a nightmare that would turn out to be.
Here is the basic problem: The people who are members of the Armstrong churches take HWA at his word that God was working through him in the first place, that there is one "true" church, and that his Radio Church of God, later Worlwide Church of God, was it! Further, there are assumptions that there must then be one true splinter. Each ACOG assumes or teaches that they are it.
Let's unpack that!
I believe that God inspired the verses regarding Gamaliel, found in the New Testament, for a reason. I believe that God inspired the example of the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament for a reason as well! I believe that God inspired the words about false prophets in Deuteronomy for the same reason. These are criteria God gave us so that we could properly discern, do our due diligence so to speak as we establish a pattern for our lives.
You also have to ask yourself, would God allow His truth to be largely lost for 1900 years, especially after the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Pentecost following Jesus resurrection? That conclusion is almost blasphemous! How could HWA even make such a contention?
HWA taught that God had gifted the COG with the proper understanding of end time identities and prophecy because the COG knew and kept the restored truths which God had revealed to him (HWA). That argument failed in 1972-75, possibly in the next 3-5 years has now failed for the last 50 years, and the science of dna has proven that the identities assigned by HWA are not even remotely possible! By HWA's own words, the failure of those prophecies means that the restored truths were also wrong! He formed a logical construct linking the two together, literally proving, over time, that he was wrong!!!
HWA enumerated a set of "proofs" by which one could allegedly establish where God's church was today, carefully syncing them with his own church, while eliminating all other Christian churches. Any good advertiser or salesmen must have his "exclusive", or at least make it appear that he's got it!
What if next Pentecost, all of the ACOGs suddenly reunited? What then? What if their "total eclipse of the heart" morphed into a sudden "change of heart"? There remains dna science, the litany of false prophecies, the bad fruits produced by the different ACOGs, the history of virtual worship of an individual who at best did not really understand end times prophecy, the corruption and graft in fiduciary matters, and the pattern of using "the law" in a karmically unbalanced way (to hurt others). Perhaps it would be good for such a reunion to take place. The leaders would really not know what to do with it all, and would once and for all prove that God did not have anything to do with the Armstrong movement in the first place. They'd fail again. Some call these leaders "wolves". I call them leopards. Still predators, but ones who cannot change their spots!
BB
Post a Comment