Friday, May 4, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Does the Bible Contain All Answers To Human Living?
On one of my Facebook groups I subscribe to there was this comment the other day:
Too many times have I heard in Armstrongism that every thing we need an answer to can be found in the Bible. All matters concerning daily living, morals, and spirituality are to be found within those pages. But is it ALL there?
For some it might be, but for the vast majority of people it is not. What the Bible has become is a weapon to destroy those of unlike minds or beliefs. When it is used like that it naturally turns people off. That is part of the reason that fundamentalist Christianity is looked upon so unfavorably by so many. Scripture seems to always be quoted to silence people, disenfranchise people, or condemn people. Where is there hope in that? What kind of example is that to people that might genuinely profit from some of it's teachings?
The Epic Failure of Dale Schurter and Crew
I had an interesting conversation today with a person that is part of Dave Pack's cult. It seems that Dave was looking at the defection of Dale Schurter and other UCG ministers as the start of a great exodus of members from UCG into the RCG. It hasn't happened. There has been no exodus and only a couple of members actually jumped over.
Instead what has happened is consistent mocking and ridicule of Dave's new boy toys which have in turn cast a bad light on Dave himself because of all the gloating.
Income is down in RCG and Dave is struggling to come up with financing for his new mini-me concert hall and campus. With the banks refusing funding, Dave has had to turn to intimidation and threats against members to make them give more money. Threatening to strip away one's salvation makes some people do foolish things.
Yet, in typical COG fashion, the sheeple sit there and let themselves be treated as dirt by Dave because they feel they are under authority and would be rebelling against God if they dared contradict Dave. To rebel against God's "anointed" is the same as turning their backs on God.
Lives continue to be destroyed in RCG all in the name of Dave.
Apostle Malm: Tribulation To Begin November 30
In less than 24 days Jesus is supposed to be retuning to earth to wreck havoc and destroy humanity, at least according to Armstrongite false prophet Ron Weinland, aka, Weinerdude. Weinleand's blabberings are in addition to the nonsense coming from Gerald Flurry and Dave Pack. Many other Armstrongite followers are feeling left out and are also coming up with useless blabber.
Today, Apostle Malm made the following prediction:
The Sep 4 Israeli elections are destined to produce a peace making coalition free of the far right extremism that has prevented peace talks until now. At the same time the conditions in the region are being reset, allowing for a genuine peace deal and a declaration that peace and safety have been achieved.
There is a high probability that the final false prophet will be set up in Rome around Sep 16 and go to the Holy Place around 75 days later, triggering the tribulation of God’s correction upon his people, Mat 24:15-21.
If you dare mock Apostle Malm in his most perfect prediction you can expect to be spewed out! Or is that "vomited out?" Those seem to be the two favorite catch phrases for Armstrongite prophets of doom.
This Gospel of warning and repentance to God’s children is not some light thing. The handwriting is on the wall for the people of God and latter day physical Israel. The time of our spewing out of the body of Christ is near at hand unless we repent and turn to our Husband and our Father with the passionate love we had at the first.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
New Book: Roger Galstead: Man's Ignorance And God's Grace: A Case For Conditional Immortality
MAN'S IGNORANCE AND GOD'S GRACE: A CASE FOR CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY
Revulsion at the prospect of eternal agony in hell has
caused me to see the Bible in a whole new light. This book is an attempt
to document the discoveries from Scripture and the writings of a few
theologians pertaining to the matter of the eternal destiny of man.
Certainly this document is contrary to popular teaching and it will be
troubling to those who are unfamiliar with the minority position in
Christianity called Conditional Immortality.[2] Nevertheless, the
position needs to be stated. Clarity will be brought to the matter of
salvation and its depth of acceptance. This work will take issue with
traditional Christian teaching with a resolve to make a significant
contribution to the theological-doctrinal positions that touch upon the
matter of Conditional Immortality.
Roger Galstad, PhD
Roger Galstad pastors the Eau Claire, WI congregation of Grace Communion
International and the affiliated Valley Bible Church of Whitehall and
La Crosse, WI.
He holds a PhD in Religious Studies.
Turn 100 In The Kingdom and Presto-Chango!
The Apostle knows exactly when you (well, maybe not YOU, since you are a backslidding law breaker) will be changed to a spirit being in the kingdom of God. The minute you turn 100 you will be changed to spirit and will marry
The breach between Israel and her God shall also be healed; and a New Covenant shall be made with Israel Jer 31 and she shall be betrothed into the Bride. As they reach the age of 100 during the millennial kingdom, the chosen shall be changed to spirit and grafted into the bride.
So how does the apostle arrive at that date?
Hosea says that humanity wil be betrothed to Christ during the millennial kingdom and Isa 65:20 says that they shall be changed at 100 years old. We are told very specifically that satan shall be loosed AFTER the 1000 years and not during it; and we are also told very specifically that he shall decieve the nations of the far east and NOT Israel. James
Van Robison on "The Plague of Churches"
The Plague of Churches
Search the yellow pages of your local telephone book and you will find that the different churches wanting your presence are many. They come in all different flavors and sizes, with as many different beliefs, teachings and doctrines as there are churches. Some church groups are small, very small, local or are much larger. Some church groups are national or international in scope. Some may be in association with a particular creed or set of beliefs. Had you not gone to a splinter group of the Worldwide Church of God, but instead had gone to lets say a Baptist church or perhaps a Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Methodist or any one of countless others, such as the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) or the Jehovah Witnesses, then your beliefs, doctrines, practices and customs would have been totally different from the WCG splinter group you are glued to. And lets not forget the Roman Catholic Church or anyone of thousands of other groups, to numerous to mention.
Every church group on earth thinks they have "truth", while all others are the poor deceived humans who are so blind they cannot see. I wonder how many different church groups there will be in another two thousand years and beyond? Will the different church groups keep dividing and splintering until there may be a billion different groups and each with their own human church Pope standing before the people, proclaiming himself as the "pastor king" of his group? How many Herbert W. Armstrong's, Garner Ted Armstrong's, Rod Merideth's, David Pack's, Gerald Flurry's and so forth are yet to arise in the future, that will deceive many into worshiping at their feet as if they are God in the flesh? To any outsider not associated with this comedy, it is ludicrous beyond comprehension that people are sucked into man-made religion as if God Almighty is the author.
The world of churches is not really "Christianity", but rather "Churchianity" (man-made). Religion is as old as dirt and has long been a major means to control people, have power over people and the endless flow of free $money. All human governments on earth and all religions on earth are the twin means by which the whole human population is seduced by those who assume the posture of power over all others. Control and power over the common people is both psychological (as in religions), and physical (as in governments, which exists by brute force). The source book for deception is the "sacred" text, which has magically hypnotized the masses for thousands of years and as privately interpreted by the gods in the pulpits.
Like the mythical plagues of ancient Egypt, the modern day plague of fake churches is appalling and the simple minded are forever overtaken as church slaves.
Van Robison
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