Tuesday, December 10, 2024

PCG: Hidden Dangers in Keeping Christmas. Gets investigated in a Deep Dive.

 

This podcast episode analyzes Gerald Flurry's controversial views on Christmas. Gerald is the leader of the Philadelphia Church of God. Flurry, rooted in Armstrongism, argues that Christmas is inherently pagan due to its traditions' origins, claiming they stem from the worship of Babylonian deities. He asserts that celebrating Christmas is unchristian and leads to spiritual harm, citing the secularization of the holiday and potential childhood disillusionment. However, the podcast counters these claims by presenting historical evidence showing that many Christmas traditions, like the Christmas tree, have Christian roots or were adapted from other biblical practices, and that the Bible doesn't explicitly forbid such celebrations. Ultimately, the podcast encourages critical thinking and independent evaluation of Flurry's extreme perspective. Ai-COG

Monday, December 9, 2024

Commercial Break: And Now a Word About Christmas from the Elijah to Come-David C Pack (Mr Passover to you)

  Stars are Evil 

 

Dave Pack: Preserver of Fringe Theology and the Age of Cosmological Ignorance. 

Note: Moloch, Remphan and Chemosh do not actually exist. Saturn and Venus, on the other hand....

 

"I'm gonna tell you some fascinating things no one has ever understood and I am sure of it!"

David C Pack

 

 “I know more about Christmas than anybody who’s ever lived. Period.”

 “I I maybe there’s somebody who knows more about [Christmas] than I do,

BONUS FOOLISHNESS

 “I’ve studied prophecy, I am sure, by far, more than anybody who ever lived.”

"I know prophecy better than any man alive."

“Look, maybe there’re people who know New Testament Church history better than I, but I but I I’ll bet there aren’t three in the last two thousand years,

but I doubt it.”

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Stars ain't all that bad Dave...



When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?


Saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”


In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.


As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.


And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.


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MY CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO DAVE

 

"I know astro-theology like no Dave Pack ever could"  :)





“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

 


NOTE: Lucifer, "the light bringer" also is given this title in scripture. It is the source of the idea that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers. Kinda like the good Horus (God of light) and the bad Set (God of Darkness) of Egyptian mythology. 

 

 Isaiah 14:12:

“How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! 

 

NOTE: The story of the fall of Lucifer, the light (Sun) bringer, is simply the phenomenon, not understood back in the day when stars were spirits and Venus, as an inner planet rose and then "fell back to earth." made a great story explaining their world. 

 

This rise and fall of Venus, especially in the morning prior to sunrise,  is due to it being an inner planet. This phenomenon was the source of many a rich tale in antiquity. 

 

 

Anyway...Merry Christmas from the world's greatest mind and expert on Christmas.

 

David C Pack

 

(And please don't forget that Jesus, for sure and it cannot be argued, returns next week on December 16th at 9:37 EST.

 

Unfortunately I have to work so I won't be available :)



Saturday, December 7, 2024

UCG Now Hiding Sermons From The World




The following was a comment today on another thread:

They just announced today in church that they're putting their sermons on their website under lock down. You now have to register and have a password to watch/listen to sermons! How is that making the gospel available to the world!? SMH....they're doing the exact same thing as LCG and PCG. Stop saying you want to preach the gospel to the world and then hide it away behind permissions and passwords. What you're really doing is exerting control. Can't any group do something different for a change without all following down the same controlling, cult-like path??? 

Why is it that most of the larger Church of God groups hide behind member walls? Do they now realize how embarrassing their sermons are and how little of what they say is of substance? They all claim coming intense persecution, but none of them have the balls to publicly say what they believe. Now they cower behind "paywalls". Ever since Herbert went around the world talking about a "strong hand from someplace" the ministry and splinter leaders have followed in that same pathway. Unable to really explain God, Jesus, grace, etc. they instead spout the same canned sermons you would have heard 40 years ago in the church.