Ever since Herbert Armstrong got his sacred knickers in a twist with Church of God 7th Day, the Church of God Armstrongist movement has been ridiculing other religions and especially Christians as fake, so-called, pretend Christians, deceived, satan inspired, pagans, and more. However, for COG members labeling them as Sardis or Laodicean carries the most weight.
For every Church of God leader, from Bob Thiel, Ron Weinland, Dave Pack, Gerald Flurry or Gerald Weston, the epitaphs and accusations flow freely about other religions. Bob Thiel, the biggest fool the church has ever seen loves to label Christians not part of his cult as "so-called". We have all heard it for decades.
Now, Gerald Flurry of the Philadelphia Church of God claims they would NEVER lower themselves to THAT level!
Do We Attack Other Religions?A few of our critics have accused us of attacking other religions. But that is not true. Allow me to be a little more spiritual than usual and explain why.
We publish a thoroughly researched newsmagazine. Our writers are well educated and believe the Bible. They write biblically based news articles that occasionally will offend some religions. However, we don’t want to offend people any more than is absolutely necessary. We attack issues or false beliefs, but not people. As it has been said, we attack sin, not the sinner.
PCG employees of their rag are NOT well educated in the Bible. They are well educated in Armstrongism and its deviant branch of Flurryism. If Gerald Flurry has not said it then it is not the truth. Flurry has even rewritten Herbert Armstrong's writings to fit his current state of theological imbecility.
WE BELIEVE GOD IS GOING TO SAVE CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, BUDDHISTS, HINDUS, CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS AND JEWS—ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. BUT GOD IS GOING TO DO IT IN HIS WAY AND ACCORDING TO HIS TIME FRAME.
We proclaim a warning message in this magazine. God always warns the world before a great catastrophe. And we are facing the worst time of suffering ever on this Earth because of our wrong way of life. The need for changing human nature should be obvious to everybody. But it isn’t—yet. We must suffer until that lesson is learned. Much of our wrong way of living is religiously motivated. God gives mankind a choice. People can heed God’s message now and be protected from the coming holocaust. Or if they—collectively or individually—reject that warning, then they will suffer as never before.
The entire way of living in the PCG is religiously motivated in the wrong way! They have destroyed families and relationships due to their no-contact rules. Some of the most abusive ministers the church has ever seen are parked in the Philadelphia Church of God.
God uses that suffering to bring men to repentance—even if they die and must repent after they are resurrected from the dead.
If God uses that kind of suffering to bring people to repentance, why haven't the followers of Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, and Bob Thiel repented of following the agents of devilish deception?
God has an inspiring plan to save most of humanity—even if people rebel now. Of course, that means they are going to suffer a great deal more. God is also going to save nonbelievers when they repent, and most of them will. The Bible teaches that there will always be a certain percentage of people who will reject God’s way of life.
Armstrongist leaders have led their members down the dark tunnel of suffering because they have rejected the New Covenant and rejected the Christ they claim they follow. They would rather prostitute themselves to the law than ever have to deal with grace, justification, and sanctification which are all basic Christian principles that Christians have understood for millennia.
Speaking about His Second Coming, Christ refers to only a “little flock” that obeys Him before He returns. But surely we don’t think a loving God will be content to convert only a “little flock”! Christ died for the whole world—not a little flock.
Christ converted only 120 people when He came the first time. That was His little flock. He actually spoke in parables to keep the masses from understanding! (Matthew 13).
If the fields are white for harvest it sure as hell isn't talking about a tiny remnant parked in some Church of God somewhere.
Will the rest of humanity, not called at Christ’s first coming, be lost forever? Obviously, Christ knew that was not the best time to call most of those people. But how could a God of love ever say they are lost when He hasn’t even called them or opened their minds spiritually?
Generally, people in the Old Testament didn’t even receive God’s Holy Spirit! Are they lost? Of course not. God has a time frame—a master plan to save humanity. People will come to know God for the first time when they are resurrected and given God’s Holy Spirit (Ezekiel 37). No persons or religions are consigned to gehenna fire unless they have already known God and rejected Him.
This is where Flurry says ex-members and those who followed the Worldwide Church of God during the changes are headed.
God is love. He is filled with mercy. He is also a God of judgment. But only that little flock is being judged today (1 Peter 4:17). The whole world is deceived (Revelation 12:9). That means the people of this world don’t yet know God. They will be judged after Christ returns.
Our message may offend some people today. But soon the world will see that it was God’s message of love. It was a part of His plan to save mankind.
Nothing that Flurry has to say is God's message. That is a plain simple fact.
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