James Malm: Head Coverings For Women Required and Tassels For Men...Maybe...But I Highly Recommend It If You Really Love God

James Malm, the offical legalistic bullshitter of Armstrongsim is back today telling men in his cult that while it is not required they perhaps should be wearing blue and white tassels on their garments as they pray.

A modern example of a Karaite Tzitzit

God commanded only a ribbon of blue on the corners of the garments; this intricate braid is conceived by men.

Because people in the west no longer wear the same kind of clothes as were worn in the ancient Middle East; this is a kind of belt worn around the trousers instead of a blue ribbon at each of the four corners of a square mantle.

To our great sorrow and the great sorrow of Israel; they still continually turned and rebelled against God and did not look to tis reminder of the law of their God.  All the history of their many rebellions and overspreading if iniquities has been recorded for our instruction, that we might learn from their example to seek out and learn the whole word of God to keep it in enthusiastic zeal.

Yet we, in spite of having this record for our enlightenment and in spite of having the holy spirit of God; have also rebelled and turned away form zeal to learn and keep the commandments of God.  We shall therefore be corrected in bitter tribulation that we might learn to follow the Lamb withersoever he goeth and not to follow our idols of men away from zeal to learn and keep the word of God.

After the man forgot the Sabbath and gathered firewood polluting the Sabbath that he must be killed; God then gave the people a reminder that if they looked upon it they would be reminded of the commandments of God and if they do them they should live in them.

Today the Called Out  have been given a different reminder, which is the holy spirit of Christ; and the completed whole word of God.

This is commanded of all Israel, which includes BOTH men and women.  It is a commandment to be observed throughout their generations [as long as the Mosaic Covenant lasted].  The Mosaic Covenant ended with the death of the Husband of Israel, Jesus Christ.

Yes, Jesus wore the Tzitzit  even though he was filled with the holy spirit, in order to keep the Mosaic Covenant  perfectly; because he had not yet died ending the Mosaic Covenant, and had not yet been resurrected to become the High Priest of a New and better Covenant.

The fringe represents the gift of the holy spirit, and  I would not insist that the blue fringe is essential today, if we are already in the New Covenant and already have God’s spirit. 

However the fringe is certainly lawful and desirable.  It is highly likely that this will be required like circumcision, in the coming Kingdom of God and  I would never object to anyone who choses to wear one.

James Malm: My 'god' Might Love You If You Do Not Sin After You Are Baptized

James Malm is acting just like Rod Meredith and Dave Pack.  Both of these fools believe they have committed no major sin since they were baptized. 

Malm assumes that once a person is baptized and IF they do not sin then his god will be pleased with them.  There is no IF in the factor.  If you are a Christian you will sin, there is no way around it.  The difference between a person tied to the Old Testament laws and a new covenant Christan is that righteousness is already imputed upon us.  That is the entire point of justification by faith. 

We are told in the scriptures that those who the Father calls to the Son, may enter a New Covenant through wholehearted repentance form sin [rebelling against the word of God] and a baptismal washing away of past sin and a commitment to sin no more. 

If we have been Called Out by the Father and have responded positively to that call with sincere repentance of breaking the word of God and if we commit to sin no more in baptism; then the Eternal will write his law on our hearts and in our minds.

The Father has indeed been Calling Out many over the past six thousand years, and will yet extend this New Covenant to all Israel and to all flesh by grafting all flesh into a spiritual Israel.

Secretary of State John Kerry and Church of God Leaders Say: "this little thing called the Internet ... makes it much harder to govern."

I had to laugh at the comment made by Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday while in Brazil.  He claims that "...the Internet has made it difficult to govern."

(CNSNews.com) - Speaking to State Department personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that "this little thing called the Internet ... makes it much harder to govern." He also said that "ever since the end of the Cold War, forces have been unleashed that were tamped down for centuries by dictators."

 "Well, folks," he said, "ever since the end of the Cold War, forces have been unleashed that were tamped down for centuries by dictators, and that was complicated further by this little thing called the internet and the ability of people everywhere to communicate instantaneously and to have more information coming at them in one day than most people can process in months or a year." John Kerry: 'This Little Thing Called the Internet ... Makes It Much Harder to Govern'

This is the exact same thing that we have been saying for years here.  The Internet is what helped bring down the Church of God.  The Church of God has never recovered and never will.  Now  being held accountable, it struggles to survive.  Hundreds of COG members are leaving COG's every year.  The membership drain cannot be stopped.

It wasn't long after HWA's death that various newsgroups and chats started discussing the changes creeping into the Worldwide Church of God.  As computers began to proliferated by the early 1990's the stream of information could not be stopped.

Church leaders no longer had a strangle hold on its members.  The WCG effectively used the Internet to get the word out about the changes coming down the line.  The Good News Grapevine was filled with those who appreciated the changes. Other Internet sites and private mailings helped the Global Church of God and UCG form.

For several years the WCG AOL chat room was a great disseminator of change and accountability, until one snarky woman who worships HWA and all things Armstrong kept complaining to AOL that everyone posting there were liars.  AOL finally shut it down and eventually AOL shut down the other COG as well.  But even she was not able to stop the juggernaut steam rolling ahead.

Other groups and message boards quickly popped up.  The Ambassador Report went online.  The Painful Truth started to tear down the facade of a perfect Church of God.  Gavin Rumney's Ambassador Watch made mincemeat of the Church of God's.  The list of Internet sites now critical of the COG's continues to grow daily.

This is not something unique to Armstrongite groups.  The Jehovah's Witnesses are also facing huge problems in controlling the information stream against them. Why the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses FEARS the Internet!  The Mormons too, Mormon Church Admitting the Internet is Hurting Retention of Members

Yes, the Internet has made it more difficult for oppressive governments to govern and the Internet has made it hard for oppressive Church of God's to function.  And the people said, "AMEN!"