I love reading the comments on other COGlet bb's and seeing the comments people make. So many of them seem to be such angry, bitter, grumpy people, who never utter the name of Jesus but can quote every single law of the OT. They have the perfect answers to everything and crow about it. UCG is wrong, COGaWA is wrong, WCG is wrong, LCG is wrong, PCG is wrong but they aren't. It's all about end time prophecy, the 70 weeks and other irrelevant nonsense.
In the midst of this silliness was this comment about Herman Hoeh:
I did not know Herman personally, I did have a very close mutual friend who talked to him at length just about weekly. Herman was a closet Buddhist who talked HWA into giving tens of thousands of God’s money to Buddhist Monasteries; which is why the Buddhist presence at HWAs funeral. Herman would be told by HWA to prove something was true and he would come up with some “proof”. HH was a great politician and yes man, who had simple tastes and knew how to flatter. His idea of tithing was to buy books for himself and at the end of the year donate some of them to the college. He was just one of many tares/weeds that surrounded HWA and held influence through flatteries. I would never rely on HH for either doctrine or prophecy, but he was a good source of info on what was going on in Pasadena. We are warned about tares; remember that their also outright weeds, thorns and thistles in a field. Be careful not to tolerate the outright weeds, because of instructions on dealing with tares. The key is not whether they are nice guys [that is just flatterers and politicking], the key io how zealous they are for God and his law. James
I remember sitting in the Temple above called Wat Thai here in Los Angeles. It is the largest Thai Temple in the West. We were sitting in front of this very same altar overflowing with offerings and flowers for Queen Sirikit when she was a guest of HWA. Buddhist priest were chanting and offering up prayers for the Queen. Several of the Ambassador College students present were freaked out and thought they were prostrating themselves at the feet of dagon. Hoeh explained everything that was going on. By the time he was through it made sense. But then, I have always been a heretic when it came to trying things outside the box. It did not bother me at all to be sitting in the front of this Buddha:
Herman Hoeh did not care what WCG members thought of him in his relationship with the Thai Temple. He spent countless hours there.
Malm is right that the Buddhist priest came out for HWA's funeral. They were there for Tkach's and for Hoeh's funeral. They knew Hoeh as man of compassion and truthfulness, despite his 'Christian' stance.
The die hard legalists in the Church were shitting bricks over Hoeh. Meredith and others legaltard's thought he was bringing in abominations to the church.
Hoeh was a wise, quirky man. You never quit knew what he was thinking. If you asked him a question you came away thinking he had answered when in actuality he had not. He instead had asked you questions and you ended up answering him.
He always wore second hand suits, drove a car that was at least 25 years old, dug through campus trash cans to collect cans and bottles, yet would give you the shirt off your back if you were in need. No other COG minister would do that, especially Meredith and the other high and mighty Evangelists.
Unfortunately, Hoeh was the one who came up with HWA's apostle status and other quirkiness associated with the church. His Compendium of World History was one of the most poorly research doctrinal thesis the College had ever reproduced. Even Hoeh said it was not accurate, but the various splinter cults use a lot of it to this day to support their racist British Israelism doctrines to this very day.
