Flurry, Pack, Weinland - Evil Incarnate
Packo-Flurro-Weino-Centricism
As a child, I sat through many a
Presbyterian church service. We went twice every Sunday, morning and
evening which also included Sunday School after morning church and our youth
group until about 8:30 PM after evening service. I was on churched
kid!
NEVER in all those sermons did I hear
our minister utter anything that he remotely thought was speaking of him, our
church or his place in it all from the Bible. He never said such a stupid
thing as , "And yes brethren, I am an Apostle." He never claimed to be a
prophet , priest or king of any kind. He never would have spoke of himself
as "that Prophet" or any other for that matter. He never bragged about how
big our church was because it wasn't. He never pushed to build a college
in the parking lot. I never heard him utter the words, "Send it in" and by
that he meant the proceeds from the sale of our home and my dad's Kodak
retirement. He never used the words "incredible", "awesome", "Overarching"
or "amazing" all that much. Actually I never recall hearing those
words. He never ever read anything from the Book of Revelation that I
recall which is one reason I got snookered by WCG. I wanted to know what was in
it and where it came from. Presbyterians must have learned long ago that
"John" had good drugs and that book should be avoided if you wish to stay sane
and have a normal life.
And this minister never ever ever saw
himself in the Book of Revelation as one of the Two Witnesses. We would
have starred in disbelief and then laughed our asses off. He would have been out
the door by next Sunday with a parade of new guys hoping to get selected by the
board as permanent minister in about a year from then. I'm pretty sure we
would not have even known what a Two Witness was but would have seen some
serious mental problems with the man.
Not so in the COG splits, splinters and
slivers huh?
I did not personally take HWA all that
seriously when he or others beat around the bush about his being this or
that. Whether Apostle or Elijah to come, I have to say (along with British
Israelism) it was all a rather ho hum topic to me. You all know how I felt
about Gerald Waterhouse's perspectives. (My kids called him Mr.
Watermelon) Pure bunk which I often prayed would not prove to be the least
bit true as I could see it tanking the church when it came not to pass. I
certainly knew I was not going to tell the church anyone had decided it was time
to "flee", whatever that meant. Sometimes such talk and tales made my
stomach hurt.
I never bought into GTA being the
Joshua with "filthy rags " either. Most of us, minister and member had
filthy rags to worry about so how could we know if we weren't the Joshua to
come? :)
This ego centric habit that the highly
untrained leaders of the Revelation based COG's is disturbing to say the
least. Who sits week after week listening to these guys repeat the same
stuff about me, my and I over an over? Where is their critical
thinking? Are they afraid to listen to that "still small voice" that I
know speaks to them during most sermons that notes, "this is stupid," "he
is nuts," "how does he know that," or "if I and my family keep
following this guy, I can see a train wreck in our future." Why do they
suppress it? Habit I guess. I thank the gods that I did not grow up
in my youth with this kind of mentality in my minister.
One can't help the church or life one
is born into, but one sure as hell can look at it and sense something is very
wrong and move on.
So, to be blunt. Gerald Flurry is
NOT "That Prophet." He simply is not. He's a God-Haunted man as are
the others in competition with each other for the title of the most or best or
truest. Neither Ron Weinland nor his silent wife in the matter are the Two
Witnesses of Revelation, and David C Pack is NOT a real Apostle who has restored
anything except the misunderstandings of others he worships.
These types don't have the theological
training and education to utter such things and if they did, they would not
utter them. While David C may mock Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Einstein
(because he had "wild hair" of all things), he'd have done well to actually read
them.
Ron Weinland makes fun of science
because he doesn't understand science or it goes against his form of
literalism. Nonetheless and unlike himself, when science makes a mistake
they admit it, add the facts found out to the existing body of information on
the topic and keep looking. Ron simply makes a new end game with no
admission of being wrong in any way at all. It's either "God is giving us
more time," or "God is not done revealing truth to us...incredible, amazing
brethren."
So, what's the point? For those
who attend those groups with those kinds of leaders who have those kinds of
visions dancing in their heads about themselves and how they fit into the Bible,
please at least think and listen when your stomach tells you what you mind is
dismissing. When you have a choice between how your stomach feels when
this or that is said and what your brain and head is telling you, your stomach
is always telling the truth. The mind is fooling you into staying a bit
longer than will prove to be to your benefit.
"Prove all things..."
Remember? "Trust me Brethren" is a formula for personal disaster and
disillusionment.
What word don't you
understand?
The COGs are excellent Bible readers
. The vast majority of the followers are sincere people or they would not
put up with that niggly feeling in their stomachs they get when their leadership
makes some other lame ass announcement about how it all is and where he fits
into their lives. They know what is in the Book but that's can be not much
different than knowing what is in the story of Hansel and Grettal or The
Emperor's New Clothes if you get my drift.
Dennis C. Diehl
DenniscDiehl@aol.com
DenniscDiehl@aol.com
