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Saturday, June 15, 2013
The Holy Microphone of Herbert W Armstrong
From the Church of God Holding Fast To All Things splinter group:
During the midst of the 2012 Feast of Tabernacles, someone who is not affiliated with our group, nor have I ever met, emailed me with what I thought at the time was an unusual question. He asked if I would be interested in having or acquiring a microphone that at one time belonged to Mr. Herbert W Armstrong.At first I thought this was some kind of prank or scam, but I noticed he had attached some pictures of the microphone in his email. The pictures looked legitimate and this person also gave some background about the microphone (he is a musician) and how he came into possession of it and his past association with the Worldwide Church of God and Ambassador College.It didn’t take me long to respond to this email and indeed affirm my interest in this microphone. It would be nice to have for historical purposes as well as sentimental value even though I didn’t know if the microphone even worked. This man then emailed me back to inquire as to “why” I wanted this microphone. He was apparently wanting to find a good home for it and wanted to make sure it was not destroyed and he stated that he knew there were people out there who love to destroy anything associated with Mr. Armstrong.I assured him that this would not happen and gave him some background about myself and our work here on the Church of God website. We made an agreement on the price for the microphone which was very fair, and I received the microphone in the mail shortly after the 2012 Feast of Tabernacles.I was surprised to find that not only does this microphone work, but it works very well! I have been using this microphone to record my sermons that are posted on this website since shortly after the 2012 Feast.I fully understand that this microphone is just a physical object. But to me it takes on a great symbolic meaning. This “physical object” was used by God’s end time apostle in helping to fulfill Matt. 24:14 (preaching the gospel to the world as a witness) which we know is a fulfilled prophecy.This microphone came to me “out of the blue” (or did it?) and was totally unexpected. And it came at the end of seven years since the beginning of this website. To me it is a great blessing and an honor to be able to use this powerful tool. I only hope I can live up to the example and standard that was set by its original owner.Daniel E. Cohran
Dave Pack: Do Real Men Wear Facial Hair?
From The Practicing Heretic Blog
Want to work for Pack? Grow those sideburns and ixnay the goateeay...
At one point during my short stint at RCG HQ, Dave caught me in passing at the office and chastised me for my facial hair, claiming that it might create a weird impression of HQ if multiple mugs showed up sporting the look. (A couple of other staff members at the time must have been equally short on time in the daily morning mirror.) So, being the dutiful employee that I was, I went in the next morning sans goatee, only to be later told by Dave that he'd thought about it and it really was no big deal. Imagine that. As if three guys at HQ were going to start some kind of razor revolution. (I'm sure there's an example of that somewhere in the great book. Probably right across the page from the Sideburns Statute...)
Is God In The "Serious" Business Of Constantly Testing Us?
The god of Armstrongism has always been a testy guy. Nothing you could ever do would be quit good enough and you were assured you were bound to fail. From the moment you are born to the moment you die, that god was pushing you to your limits to see if you would sin. This god has spent all of its time testing you over and over and over. Its no wonder so many have become weary of that kind of god and walk away.
God is training us, but He is also testing us. As merciful as He is towards us individually, He cannot afford to let someone into His kingdom who is not wholly committed to His way of life. He needs to find out if we really believe in His way of life, or if we only want the rewards of eternal life but only kid ourselves that we believe God's way of life is best. If we tell ourselves and God that we want to be in His kingdom, but our hearts are not really with God, then His mercy towards His whole family will override His mercy towards us individually, and He will not let a potential rebel into His kingdom.
This is serious business.
So God has to test us throughout our lives. He gives us a variety of circumstances, sometimes peacefulness, sometimes trials and turmoil, to see how we react.
How well we pass these tests depends on how well we prepare, and the preparation comes before the trial if we are to get through the trial the best possible way. It is during times of relative peacefulness that we need to be "redeeming the time" (Colossians 4:5) to draw close to God.
Ron Weinland's Created Creature He Calls Jesus Is Not An Original Idea
One of the greatest "truth's" Weinerdude has taught his dwindling flock is that his "jesus" is a created being and that God the father is the only God. When Weinerdude came up with this "new truth" he stupidly thought that this was an originally thought that God had out in his head. Armstrongism has always had a small group of adherents to the "one God" theory over the decades. Sir Anthony Buzzard from Armstrongism is the most famous.
Greatest Proof of God’s True Church:
During the Feast of Tabernacles in 2005, God mightily separated His Church from all other scattered groups who formed due to the Apostasy. God did this through the 21st Truth that is attributed as being revealed to the Church of God – Preparing for the Kingdom of God through me. No other scattered group believes this truth!
The 21st Truth states, “God the Father is Yahweh Elohim and He alone has eternally existed. The teaching that Jesus Christ had always existed is a holdover from the teaching of traditional Christianity of the Trinity. There is only one Almighty God who has eternal existence” (“The 57 Truths of God”).
The purpose for covering this truth in this post is to illuminate more fully that it is this truth above all others revealed after the Apostasy that proves where God’s true Church is and through whom God is working as His apostle to this end-time. It is this truth that fully established the identity of God’s Church! No other group or organization from the Apostasy believes or teaches this great truth. It was after God restored this most powerful truth yet, to His Church, that He began to inspire the writing of the book 2008 God’s Final Witness.
Do you grasp the magnitude and importance of this great truth being taught and believed by only one scattered group of people?
Actually Weinerdude does not know what he is talking about. His little cult is not the only COG group that believes Jesus was a created being. There is quit a few COG'ers tied in with Sir Anthony Buzzard and the "One God" movement that also believe this. Buzzard is one of the few with ties to Armstrongism that have went on to get theological degrees from a seminary. He was also a professor at Atlanta Bible College, an anti-trinitarian college of the Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith).
You can read more about Sir Anthony Buzzard here:
Restoration Fellowship
21st Century Reformation
Sir Anthony Buzzard, 3rd Baronet
The Unscholarly Scholarship of Anthony Buzzard
Anthony Buzzard's False Gospel
Dennis On: "Sometimes I Can Be A Little Judgmental"
"Sometimes I can be a little
judgmental"
" Do you often—or ever—meditate on whether God is truly
ruling you?"
Not really actually. I get more concerned that if I associate with
RCG
it would be YOU truly ruling me and my family.
You seem a tad
judgmental and maybe a bit to serious about yourself.
'The apostates formed a committee to examine all of the Worldwide
Church of God’s doctrines. UCG, with its endless committees and study groups,
is continually reviewing virtually every doctrine Mr. Armstrong taught.'
Now I'm just sayin', but I prefer humans who exam things once in
awhile instead of closing the doors, as you no doubt will, to introspection and
inquiry. Unfamiliar concepts to you I know. It is awesome that what
YOU currently understand is all there is to know unless, of course, more info
comes to you in the night.
"Nothing short of a declaration of war against your
condition, carried out with tremendous zeal, will restore
you."
Oh man, War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on
Stupid. Now this...War on Ministers That Aren't Dave.
Let me guess....And you are the General on the winning side?
Awesome, Amazing and completely over arching in scope!
Zeal? You mean like The Inquisition?
"This includes every minister, elder and leader who is
reading these announcements! Be careful you are not dismissive of these words,
which merely reflect what Christ declares about the vast majority of those with
His Spirit today. I am not exaggerating for effect! Neither is Christ."
You're threatening us aren't you...Don't threaten us. We'll
send the Karma Fairy
Pardon my skepticism, but that 'merely' thing sounds like you
and Jesus, I mean CHRIST, are pretty tight. Is it like "I and
the Christ are ONE"?
I hope not...
"I am not exaggerating for effect!"
Oh Zule you nut, yes you are!!!!!!!!
"Remembering Isaiah 55:6-9, be careful you do not assume you have obeyed this passage when
you may not have even read it for years."
First of all, don't tell us what we have read or not read much less
understand or do not understand.
I don't like you much. I'm going with Gospel Jesus instead of
you.
Oh Oh! I got one for ya!
Sorry , It's in the New Testament though.
1 Corinthians 13
New International Version
(NIV)
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. (Ahem)2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.(Ahem)3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing. (Ok, not much chance for this one from what I can tell by your writings and sermons)4 Love is patient, love is kind.(AHEM) It does not envy,(AGAIN AHEM) it does not boast, (BZZZZZZZZZ...THANKS FOR PLAYING) it is not proud.(AHEM) 5 It does not dishonor others (AHEM AGAIN), it is not self-seeking, (Oh Man AHEM!) it is not easily angered,(Nuther AHEM) it keeps no record of wrongs. (DITTO)) 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
"And it was this change in the make-up
doctrine that Satan began injecting liberalism into the Church in order to get
the Church off the track in the 1970's"
"
You talkin' to me?
I hope you're not talking to me...
Yep.....he's talking to you...He showed up at
my party and went bonkers. Closed us down. Disfellowshipped my parents and
called me a little Jezebel. Man...I bet the circus in the World Tomorrow will
be dumb.
Grow up Mr. Pack. The the
theological posturing gets old. Come out of your castle and down
from your throne and join the rest of humanity. The world of all
things God, Christ and Jesus (oops) does not center on you. Truth
does not reside in your opinions and perspectives. Accountability to others is
a good and safe thing in the real world. It's actually in the Bible.
The views and experiences of others are equally as informative to them as
yours are to you. It is wiser with your "brilliant mind" to
enroll yourself in a excellent theological program and actually get a true
overview of the all things actually Biblical including the history, background
and actual intent and origins of scripture.
DO NOT tell them you are Joshua the
High Priest for Today (You'll get an F right off the bat.) and please
keep any icebreaker's in class to just under a month and personal pronouns
to under 1000. Mention Jesus at least once and let others talk
too. Oh..and as difficult as it might be..listen.
contact Dennis at: denniscdiehl@AOL.com
Friday, June 14, 2013
Do You Want To Be Judged By Some Armstrongite Sitting Next To Jesus?
Dave wants to know if you sit around all day meditating on what it will be like to sit at
Can you imagine what it would be like when you walk in front of the throne of
How often do you actively, consciously, think about ruling with Christ—actually sitting on a throne reigning over nations? How much do you think about the process of qualifying for rulership? Are you connecting this to properly ruling all areas of your life now? Do you often—or ever—meditate on whether God is truly ruling you? Do you periodically remind yourself that you are in training to be a TEACHER?
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