Elbert W. Harmthrong
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Herman Hooey
A showcase of ignorance: Elbert's "True History" of the "True Church"
Exposing the underbelly of Armstrongism in all of its wacky glory! Nothing you read here is made up. What you read here is the up to date face of Herbert W Armstrong's legacy. It's the gritty and dirty behind the scenes look at Armstrongism as you have never seen it before! With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
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Elbert W Harmthrong………..bet ya a bridge in San Francisco that he’s related in some way to Herbert W Armstrong. Small world folks. As for the Great British Identity Crisis………….the crisis is only within the Armstrong cog movement. Back in da day it, BI, sounded quite plausible. Today it is totally implausible lol, as it always was. We have more information at our fingertips now and can factcheck speedily, which simply wasn’t available in the past. No excuses to cling to BI anymore. Our future and hope are in Christ and adherence to BI is not a requirement for salvation. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Assyrians were a Semitic people. They looked like other Semitic people - olive skinned, dark hair, dark eyes, aquiline noses. They were closely related to the Jews. Both the Jew and The Assyrians were descended from Noah and were haplogroup J. The Assyrians, then, looked like the Mizrahi Jews. They did not look like the Ashkenazi Jews who are substantially European.
ReplyDeleteThe Jews, then, were taken captive by people who looked like them - other Middle Easterners. Those who did not return to Palestine most likely intermixed with the Assyrians and other haplogroup J people in the Assyrian Empire. Some captive Jews may have eventually fled to the Caucasus.
The important oversight in the Armstrongist view is that the ancient Assyrians and their Jewish captives looked like neither the modern-day Germans nor did the look like the modern-day Europeanized Ashkenazi.
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Correct Scout. I had the pleasure to meet some ‘real’ Assyrians, quite by accident. At a business close by. When I entered the business I spotted a couple of salesman and their name badges had names I couldn’t pronounce or assign an ethnicity too. Anyway as we chatted they said they were Assyrian and originally from Iraq. I lived a couple of years in Israel and these folks looked decidedly middle eastern but their names were not Hebrew. Or German lol. There is a thriving Assyrian diaspora globally and many are pro Israel and western. And Christian by faith. These guys were fair skinned but dark haired and eyed. They would easily look at home in Baghdad or Damascus or Haifa and Jerusalem. But not Germany. Cheers.
DeleteCorrect Scout. I had the pleasure to meet some ‘real’ Assyrians, quite by accident. At a business close by. When I entered the business I spotted a couple of salesman and their name badges had names I couldn’t pronounce or assign an ethnicity too. Anyway as we chatted they said they were Assyrian and originally from Iraq. I lived a couple of years in Israel and these folks looked decidedly middle eastern but their names were not Hebrew. Or German lol. There is a thriving Assyrian diaspora globally and many are pro Israel and western. And Christian by faith. These guys were fair skinned but dark haired and eyed. They would easily look at home in Baghdad or Damascus or Haifa and Jerusalem. But not Germany. Cheers.
DeleteI wrote , "Both the Jew and the Assyrians ..." Someone once took offense at the term "the Jew" to refer to the Jews. Apparently, this term was used in antisemitic propaganda. My writing of this was a typo. I have no hostility towards the Jews. I am part Sephardic myself.
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Interesting story Scout. Yes the term ‘the Jew’ can be taken as antisemitic, even if used simply as a pointer to a certain ethnicity, such are the times we live in. Offence can be taken even when non is intended. The worst anti semitic, Jew hating and baiting jokes I ever heard were in Israel lol.
DeleteMy two years there and living with Israelis opened up a world of quite insane anti Jewish jokes that I would never repeat here online. Some of them were appalling, but I was young as were my fellow Jewish friends and we laughed our heads off at them. Particularly holocaust jokes, such is youthful stupidity. Especially considering so many of us had family disappear at that time. I did hear a few ripe Jewish jokes in wwcog I admit and a few eye opening antisemitic comments. Cheers.