The Great Bwana has this little tidbit up today, trying to legitimize himself and his church as following in the line of apostolic succession, which is supposed to make his "ordination" legitimate. Mind you, this is a man whom the Worldwide Church of God, Global Church of God, and Living Church of God REFUSED to ordain due to his lack of humility, narcissism, and prideful boasting. This then led him to fictionalize in his head that the "supposed" double blessing by Gaylyn Bonjour was actually an ordination. It wasn't, and Gaylyn Bonjour said he never intended that when he laid hands on Bwana Bob. The Great Bwana then had to have one of his African followers, who was ordained by another Sabbatarian group, ordain him. If Herbert Armstrong were alive, he would have kicked Bob to the curb swiftly and without mercy. No man in the history of the COG movement has ever been refused by so many COG groups for ordination!
The time is coming when the Beast power will rise up and, at first, I expect that he and his supporters will give lip service to the idea of the Greco-Roman apostolic sees as partial proof why they, and not groups like the Continuing Church of God, have ties to apostolic Christianity. They will be wrong, of course. But we of the faithful flock need to be able to explain why they are wrong and that is part of why I posted this about the claimed ‘see’ of Venice.
Only those who have the same teachings and practices of the apostles can possibly have true apostolic succession.
Which brings to the third point: we in the Church of God do have apostolic succession.
In the Continuing Church of God we trace our succession through what has been called the “Apostolic See of Ephesus,” but also sometimes called the “See of Smyrna.”
A reminder for Bob from: Bob Thiel's Ordination Conundrum and His False Claim of Legitimacy
LOFCOG asked:
Does the witch doctor's ordination and alleged succession also extend to his animated Cartoon Bob character as well?
I'm convinced that it was Evans' idea, not Bob's, to have Evans lay hands on Bob. When you lay hands on someone, you are showing yourself to be their superior. Evans needed to lay hands on Bob to show his African flock that Bob was subordinate to him. But doing this screwed up Bob's claim to legitimacy. Deep down, despite all his mincing and flailing about it, Bob didn't trust his accidental "ordination" from Gaylon Bonjour, so he was willing to accept a real and intentional one from Evans. But you can't ordain someone to an office higher than you hold, unless it's some special one-off miracle like Bob used to say happened when Gaylon laid hands on him. Once Bob decided to supplement Gaylon's ordination with Evans', he lost all claim of being anything more than another evangelist. He can't be a prophet anymore.
