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The Cult’s Gaslighting Playbook: Blame Your Nature

Garner Turd Armstrong, the WCG’s golden boy, had a message for members in the 1965 GN Article: “So - You're Suspicious?” Simple, he says it’s because you’re broken. In a piece dripping with manipulation, he told the flock they were born with a “nature” that makes them doubtful, skeptical, and stubborn—a nature they must overcome to stop being suspicious of God. He grilled them on their reactions to Co-worker letters, tithing demands, festival attendance, the Visiting Program, and disciplinary actions. Hesitate to open your wallet for the Building Fund? Dread the Gestapo-style visits we exposed in “Gestapo in God’s Name”? Question why someone got disfellowshipped? Sorry, that’s not Christlike—you’re still “human,” not converted. Welcome to the WCG’s gaslighting playbook: your doubts aren’t valid; they’re a sin, and you’re the problem.

But here’s the kicker—members had every right to be suspicious, and their instincts were dead on. The cult was hiding a cesspool of corruption, from financial scams to personal scandals like GTA’s massive college harem at Ambassador College, where he preyed on young women while preaching purity to the flock. The WCG shamed members for their justified suspicions, turning legitimate concerns into proof of spiritual failure while the Armstrongs’ dirty secrets piled up. For everyone still caught up in these cults: It’s time to see through the con and stop letting them guilt you into silence.

Setting the Trap: A Suspicious World, a Suspicious You

The GTA article paints a grim picture of the world you were born into—one full of “hate, crime, jealousy, intrigue—suspicion.” Teddy says you’re the product of your environment, shaped by experiences that make you disillusioned: your best friend betrayed you, your first love cheated (with a celebrity country singer minister?), politicians lied, even governments deceive. By the time you’re an adult, you’ve accepted the lies—advertising scams, charity drives, all the “sham and mockery” of the world. Then, if you’re “really converted,” you turn that suspicion inward, realizing you’re a “liar, a cheat, a two-faced, selfish, conniving, grasping, vanity-filled collection of sensuality and lust” (Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 8:7). But wait—did you really? Or are you just suspicious of others, especially the WCG’s work? If so, Teddy says, you’re not converted. Boom—gotcha.

This is gaslighting 101. Ted takes a universal human experience—doubt born from a messy world—and weaponizes it against members. It’s not the WCG’s fault you’re suspicious; it’s yours, a flaw in your nature. But members weren’t wrong to doubt. Their suspicions were confirmed time and again, most infamously with GTA’s college harem at Ambassador College. While Garner Ted preached righteousness, he was using his position to target female students, building a notorious reputation for sexual misconduct that eventually led to his 1978 disfellowshipment from the WCG—by his own father, no less. Members who felt uneasy about the leadership’s behavior weren’t unspiritual; they were onto something. Yet GTA had the gall to shame them, ensuring they’d stay quiet while he and the cult kept up the charade.

The Laodicean Threat: Doubt and You’re Damned

GTA doubles down with a terrifying prophecy: the Laodicean Church, the final remnant of God’s people, is coming, and it’s “mighty serious.” He cites Revelation 3:14-15, describing the Laodicean as lukewarm, self-righteous, and complacent—neither hot with zeal nor cold with unbelief. This type, he says, has lost their “first love,” drifting into spiritual lethargy. They don’t pray much, don’t get “fired up,” don’t care about the world’s abominations or their brethren’s pain. Worse, they’re suspicious of the WCG’s motives, wondering where the money goes, doubting if things are “run right.” They’re especially skeptical of “physical things”—buildings, pledge cards, college expansions, property purchases, trips abroad. If you’ve ever questioned the cult’s endless demands, Teddy says you’re Laodicean, and you’re in big trouble.

Here’s where the gaslighting gets vile. Members had real reasons to question those “physical things.” The college expansions Teddy mentions? That’s Ambassador College, where he ran his harem, exploiting young women under the guise of spiritual leadership. The money they wondered about? It funded the Armstrongs’ lavish lifestyle—while members struggled to pay triple tithes. Their suspicions weren’t a spiritual failing; they were a gut check, and they were right. Teddy’s Laodicean label wasn’t a warning—it was a threat to silence legitimate concerns, making members feel guilty for seeing through the cult’s facade. The WCG didn’t want you to dig into their scandals; they wanted you to feel like a failure for noticing them, ensuring you’d keep the cash flowing while they hid their sins.

Fear as a Weapon: The Tribulation Stick

The article’s real gut punch comes with the Great Tribulation. Teddy warns that the Laodicean attitude—your suspicion—will leave you unprotected when disaster strikes. He cites Ezekiel 5:1-4, where God tells Ezekiel to take a few hairs (symbolizing the remnant of God’s people) and bind them in his skirts for protection, then cast some into the fire—the Tribulation. Revelation 12:17 backs this up: Satan will make war on the “remnant” who aren’t protected, those who’ve fallen into the Laodicean state. GTA’s blunt: if you’re suspicious, you’re part of the 50% of WCG members who’ll face “horrible tortures and ultimate death” in the Tribulation to realize your “lethargic spiritual condition.” He drags in the foolish virgins (Matthew 25), who didn’t “watch” and pray (Luke 21:36), missing their chance to escape.

This isn’t a warning—it’s a terror tactic, and it’s especially cruel given what members already suspected. They weren’t wrong to worry about the cult’s integrity—Teddy’s college harem was just one scandal among many, from financial mismanagement to failed prophecies like the 1972 Tribulation that never came. Yet instead of addressing these betrayals, Garner Turd weaponized fear to shut down dissent: doubt the cult, and you’ll suffer God’s wrath. It’s the same fear we exposed in “Fear Religion?” —the WCG preached against fear while wielding it like a club. Garner Turd’s gaslighting here is next-level: your justified suspicions aren’t just a sin; they’re a death sentence, and only blind faith in the cult can save you, even as their corruption festers.

The Watchman Con: Loyalty or Else

Teddy pivots to the WCG’s role as a “watchman,” citing Ezekiel 33 and Matthew 24:1-4 to claim the cult is Christ’s body, tasked with sounding the alarm about world conditions and impending disaster. He quotes his father: you’ll grow in grace “just to the degree your heart is in the work of God.” That “work” means supporting the WCG’s programs—buildings, magazines, broadcasts, colleges, baptizing tours. If you’re a true “Philadelphian,” you’ll be “enthusiastically responsive,” rejoicing at every new project, every ordination, every radio station. If you’re suspicious—wondering about money, doubting the need for another building—you’re a “foolish virgin,” not watching, not praying, and doomed to the Tribulation.

Here’s the gaslighting climax: your suspicion isn’t just unspiritual—it’s disloyalty to Christ Himself. GTA frames the WCG’s work as a “prophesied event,” led by Christ, so questioning it is questioning God. But members’ suspicions were confirmed by the very programs Ted defends. Ambassador College, which he calls a “need” of God’s work, was his personal hunting ground, where he abused his power over “foolish virgin” female students—a scandal that blew up in 1978 when he was disfellowshipped for his behavior. The money for buildings and broadcasts? It funded the Armstrongs’ luxuries while members went broke. Garner Turd Armstrong gaslights members into thinking their doubts—about tithing, buildings, or the Visiting Program—aren’t valid concerns but a betrayal of Christ. The WCG didn’t want you to uncover their scandals; they wanted you to feel like a traitor for suspecting them, ensuring you’d keep funding their empire while they hid their sins.

Splinterdom, Your Suspicions Were Right—Now Break Free

The WCG’s gaslighting in “So - You're Suspicious?” is a masterclass in control: your natural doubts are a sin, a sign you’re Laodicean, and a one-way ticket to the Tribulation—unless you blindly support the cult’s every demand. But members had every right to be suspicious, and their fears were confirmed by the Armstrongs’ corruption—like GTA’s college harem at Ambassador College, where he exploited young women while preaching holiness, a scandal that led to his 1978 ousting. Turd wasn’t helping members grow in faith; he was shaming them into silence, turning justified suspicions into proof of spiritual failure while the cult’s dirty secrets piled up. Stop letting the cult shame you. Your doubts weren’t a sin—they were your survival instinct, and they were right. Ditch the gaslighting, and walk away from the con for good.

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Crackpot Prophet, Exorcisms In Africa and Demonic Visitations In America

 

How is it that the greatest Church of God to ever exist in human history is being beset by demon problems? Oh, wait. It's because they are the one true church, and Satan is angry. How quickly we forget.

Demons are supposedly being cast out in Africa and have allegedly visited our favorite Crackpot Prophet at his place of work. Of course, since this is the one true Church of God, our crackpot prophet takes this as another sign that Satan is angry at his so-called truth.

God's greatest gift to the church has a post up today about how his church hopping right-hand man in Africa is busy casting out demons. Then, not to be upstaged by his African evangelist, he tells us about supposed demons visiting him in his office where he peddles overpriced herbs and homeopathic novelties.

Let's hop on a plane and head over to Africa and visit with the church hopping exorcist, Evans Ochieng 

The Great Bwana has this letter from Evans Ochieng, who is traipsing around Africa, reportedly baptizing people and claims to have baptized a demon, unawares.

Yesterday, I received the following email and photo from Continuing Church of God evangelist Evans Ochieng who is in Malawi on a baptizing tour: 

 

At 1pm we started our journey to the river where baptism was conducted. I baptized 25 people. Since most of them were not understanding English, Molozowa went with me in the water to translate for them the question which I was asking during baptism. The baptism went very well and out of 25 most of them were women. 

 

During the ceremony, I baptized one lady who had demons. We didn’t know this till I immersed her in water. When coming out she started saying foreign languages and start beating people and she wanted to run. It forced me to pray for just in the water till the demons left her and she became normal. After that she went out joined others who were already baptized. We show the power of GOD in the water. It was a miracle.

This supposedly is not the first time that Ochieng has battled with demons. Since he has been a church hopping member of the SDA's, WCG, GCG, LCG, COGIW, and now in the improperly named "continuing" Church of God, he is well-versed in demonism since these are the entities talked about in these groups more than Jesus himself.

I asked Evans Ochieng for more about the demon matter, and he sent the following today (April 25, 2025):

Pastor Dr Bob,

Greetings from Malawi.

Yes I commanded demons to leave and they left the lady and go. But this is not my first time to command demons to leave. When demons caught my daughter in school where they were learning in Kadika secondary school. I found when pastor of SDA was praying for them but demons didn’t go. And I reached and commanded them to leave, they went and the daughter remained safe. The other day when we went to preach in certain home I and Richard Opiyo from Kobwai. We found a man who was a witchcraft and was using demons to do miracles. When we reached in that home, that man rain away and told his brother that he can’t come where we are because the demons he was having are afraid of us because we are holy Men. And so many. That’s the reason why I noticed very first demons in her. Its good that they left her and the lady remained safe. …

Evans

Then, not to be upstaged by his African exorcist, let's hop back on our plane and fly to California, where the Great Bwana will tell us about his visitations with demons. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

Understand that demonic encounters are not limited to Africa or the Middle East. 

 

I have had several encounters with people with demons. 

 

Many years ago, a man came to my office who was a part-time minister of a Pentecostal sect I was unfamiliar with. He told me the Holy Spirit led him to call me. After his appointment, he told me that the Holy Spirit told him to follow my advice. If that is where it stopped I would have thought nothing of it. I had long been in a non-medical branch of the health profession, and many had commented that they believe that God led them to see me. But this man was different. 

 

One of the things he mentioned to me was that another minister in his sect once told all their members to throw all their medications into a pile, which was then burned (somewhat reminiscent of Acts 19:19). He told me that the medications let out various howls while they were burning. He also told me that those howls were demons which possessed those medications (he also stated that the medications themselves were named after demons). 

 

As there are no biblical examples of non-living materials being demon possessed, I was not doubting there were demons at the “ceremony” he mentioned, but I did doubt that the medications themselves were possessed. He also said, “The Holy Spirit told me that God is well pleased with you” and “You know more about the Bible than all the televangelists.” These two statements concerned me greatly as we had not discussed the Bible in any depth.

A little later, he says this:

Now, this is not the first time I believe demons were involved in sending someone to see me. On at least two other occasions I feel it happened before. In those two occasions, the individuals basically told me that some type of psychic (and they were different psychics) told them to see me by name. As I do not believe these psychics actually knew me, I believe they were influenced by demons or were perhaps demon possessed themselves.

The Great Bwana, the world's foremost peddler of homeopathic remedies, then claims a demon sent some possessed people to see him so that they could live longer lives by taking homeopathic snake oil than if they took evil medicine. 

The demons probably know who are Christians as Acts 19:13-16 suggests,

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 

 

I have wondered if perhaps demons send some to me so that those they wish to possess may live longer. 

 

The first time I suspected a possible demonic presence, was when in the military I attempted to attend a Church of God (COG) on a military base. I had read some old Worldwide Church of God literature and felt that since this particular COG service was on Saturday, that it was probably just fine. However, after several minutes the pastor, associate pastor, and most of the few attendees started to say, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,” etc. Since Jesus taught, “And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words” (Matthew 6:7), I left during that part of the service. I also decided right then that one should be careful about which “Church of God” one attends–as that one was obviously not truly one.

If that isn't bat-shit-crazy enough, he adds this next visitation:

Perhaps the last time I directly dealt with a demon was when a man telephoned the CCOG and said he had one. While I did believe he had one, when he claimed he did not know why, I did not believe him–eventually (after several phone calls) he admitted that he did have certain sins that brought this on–and he did not seem to want to repent. 

 

My several experiences showed me personally that demons are still around and influencing many.

Who said Armstrongism was ever boring!!!!!! 

Passover is Over, The Slate Is Clean And UCG Members Are Already Wallowing In The Sin Of Lawlessness

 

Work, work, work! 

Passover and Unleavened Bread are over, and sin has already entered their lives. Imagine that!

Why is it that COG members are ALWAYS doing something wrong? You never hear a sermon on "well done, thou good and faithful servants!" Members are always doing something wrong. Jesus' return keeps getting delayed because of the sinning COG members. After all, it is NEVER the leadership's fault because they are above reproach.

Overcoming lawlessness 

Before getting into that, let’s first focus on the Days of Unleavened Bread. We live in times that can be considered tumultuous and uncertain, exemplified by the U.S. economy and what is going on with the talks of tariffs and other issues that dominate our news. 

 

But, we remember, too, that we are living in a time of “lawlessness,” as has become more fully evident over the past four years. But, while there seems to be a trend (in the United States at least) toward an ideology of traditional law, order and “morality,” we know there are forces at work which strongly oppose that. 

 

If we are not careful and watchful, these attitudes of “lawlessness” can pervade even those in the Church. It is not that any of us think that we would intentionally disregard or speak against what the Bible says. But our words, supported by our actions, must always reflect commitment to the Bible and its principles.

As we rehearsed during the Feast days just passed, the clear message God gives to His people is to examine ourselves, repent and “overcome” our sins, pride, elevated views of self, wrong attitudes, and even the attitude that just because we have remained in the faith for decades, that we are now immune to the dangers of Satan’s and the world’s influence. “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall,” God reminds us in 1 Corinthians 10:12.

Christ's messages to the seven churches in Revelation are instructive. Every single one of the warnings applies to any one of us. We often speak of the “Laodicean” attitude where, in concert with favorable world and economic situations, we may feel spiritually “rich and increased with goods” and “have need of nothing.”

 

But there are warnings to the other churches we need to consider as well. For example, God warns Ephesus to return to their first love. He warns Pergamos and Thyatira of being lured by doctrines from the world and being guilty of sexual immorality. (Of course, God is speaking of spiritual harlotry, which we can be guilty of, as so many of His people down through the ages have been.)
Of note in Revelation 2:20, when speaking to Thyatira, Jesus cautions: “Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, because you [tolerate your wife (those words being the correct translation)] Jezebel…to teach and seduce My servants.” 

Passover was supposed to wipe the slate clean for UCG members, but apparently it did not. They are no better than lawless worms wallowing in the pits of sin!  Sin must have entered UCG members the second they walked out of the hall on Passover eve.

We might ask ourselves, in an age where lawlessness has invaded our societies, do we “tolerate” sinful actions, attitudes, behaviors and words of those who might have influence over us? Do we excuse those things—perhaps in the name of “love” in the sense that the world’s Christianity uses that word? 

 

Do we excuse and tolerate because it is easier to do that than to heed what the apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 5? There, he clearly wrote if we truly love (using God’s definition of agape) our brother, we will admonish him and correct him. We should not tolerate continuing, unrepentant sinful actions. 

 

We are the Church of God, and called to live by every word of God. Don’t forget the lessons of the Days of Unleavened Bread. Put the word of God in your minds daily, not the attitudes, tolerance of sin, and the world’s interpretation of why Christ gave His life.

LCG: "...poor and of a contrite heart, humble, willing to change"

 

Who could ever have imagined LCG being of a "poor and of contrite heart? A church willing to change? A church that is humble?

The Real Key to Success: Does success depend on who you know or what you are? The Bible offers some valuable advice. Jesus stressed the importance of humility and teachability when He said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit” and “Blessed are the meek,” because they will inherit the Kingdom of God and reign on this earth (Matthew 5:3–5). God was able to use Moses because he was humble and teachable (Numbers 12:3). Jesus was exalted because He humbled Himself and followed God’s instructions (Philippians 2:8–11). Solomon understood that “before honor is humility” (Proverbs 15:33), and the Apostle James recorded, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6–10). Isaiah summarizes what God is looking for in those He will reward: “But on this one will I look: on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word” (Isaiah 66:2). These scriptures describe someone who is humble, willing to change, and ready to be taught by God. These attributes are the real key to spiritual growth and ultimate success. Let’s use this key!
Have a profitable Sabbath,
Douglas S. Winnail

Crackpot Prophet: If LCG And PCG Would Heed My Words, They Would Be As Smart As Me!

God's most highly favored prophet to ever walk this earth is back once again slamming the Living Church of God and the Philadelphia Church of God for their understanding of the tribulation. He believes that both are too stupid to understand when the proper date of the tribulation is. Only he has the proper divination skills able to discern when the tribulation will hit. After all, God only speaks through the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel in this latter-day dispensation of the Churches of God. Everyone else is either too stupid to understand the signs or has deliberately chosen to ignore the proclamations of God's chosen mouthpiece. 

For 13 years now, the Great Bwana Bob continues to suffer major butthurt over LCG's refusal to follow his demands to change their teachings. If Rod Merdith were still alive, I can picture him he sould be sitting at the conference table laughing along with Doug Winnial at Bwana Bob's continual outbursts made in self-righteous anger.

The Great Tribulation starts no later than Daniel 11:39 

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PCG, just like LCG, has the Great Tribulation starting too late. 

 

Here is a statement from LCG’s Official Statement of Fundamental Beliefs: 

 

THE “GREAT TRIBULATION” 

 

The Bible speaks of a time of great catastrophe, called the “Great Tribulation” (Matthew 24:21–22; Daniel 11:40–45; 12:1; Luke 21:19–36)—also called “Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:3–7). Accessed 03/02/25 

 

That “Fundamental Belief” is scripturally in error. And when I was in LCG, its evangelists Dr. Roderick C. Meredith, Dr. Doug Winnail, and Richard Ames all agreed that it was in error. And Dr. Meredith promised in a meeting with them and myself in December 2011 that LCG’s Official Statement of Fundamental Beliefs would be changed before the end of January 2012 to correct it.
But, that did not happen. 

 

So, now, since PCG and LCG still officially teach that the Great Tribulation does not begin until Daniel 11:40 (which discusses the battle between the King of the North and the King of the South), they are looking for the wrong event, while overlooking the event in verse 39. 

 

Unless PCG and LCG change on this, and other significant prophetic errors they hold, they will NOT know when the Great Tribulation will begin until after it is too late for nearly all of their members to possibly flee to the place of protection that the true Philadelphian Christians will be protected at. 

 

Now, many of you know that one of the reasons I left LCG was not only its refusal to keep promises, but because of its position on the ‘Falling Away.’ In 2012, it declared officially that the falling away was not real Christians falling away from the truth, but non-COG professors of Christ falling further away from the truth. Its evangelist Dr. Douglas Winnail went so far as to declare 1) that doctrinal change would set LCG apart from others and 2) one was under Satan’s power if one did not accept the change. 

 

I did not accept the change and worked for the last several months I was in LCG to show the evangelists there why this change was wrong–yet they would not get rid of it, so I had to leave.
As it turns out, over 11 years later, LCG’s presiding evangelist Gerald Weston, published a new position on the falling away, one much closer to what I had told LCG. While I applauded that correction, I would state that this once again validates my position that LCG is primarily a Laodicean group. 

 

How so? 

 

LCG had claimed its heretical 2012 falling away change was how it defined itself and one had to be under Satanic deception not to accept it. Then 11 years later, LCG later admitted that it was wrong. That means that all who remained in LCG those 11 years either accepted the heresy or supported a group that defined itself by a heresy they did not accept. Since that heretical doctrine was how LCG officially defined itself, accepting that was not Philadelphian, but Laodicean. I refused to be in a church that defined itself by heresy. The fact that LCG no longer does as it did, does not change the fact that it did for over a decade. Plus, it still has other heresies, but at least it does not define its distinctiveness by them. 

 

There are serious theological and prophetic differences between various groups calling themselves Church of God. 

 

Jesus warned that most endtime Christians would be Laodicean and NOT take the proper spiritual steps to be protected from the coming “hour of trial” (Revelation 3:10).

The Legacy of Arianism, Part 3

 

Nicaea: The Brothers Met Here Long Ago 

 

The Legacy of Arianism, Part 3

Scout’s Anti-Arianist Manifesto

 

“I’m your huckleberry.” – Apostle Paul, paraphrase of Galatians 1:15

Here is another chapter on Arianism.  (What did you think was going to happen?)  I believe that God is Triune and is comprised of three co-equal God Persons who have a special existential unity with each other as a part of their nature. I may or may not conform in belief to the Nicene documents – I have never read them.  I am still reading about how the brothers arrived at their conclusion back around 400 AD.  For my part, I believe the God Persons are ontologically co-equal because I believe that the Beings who belong to the God category are absolute by virtue of Creatio ex Nihilo.  They can create reality.  Beings who can create reality from the outside are not bound by any of the real limits from the inside that we know.  And you can’t compare absolute beings with each other.  They are not measurable and relative as we are. Someone who is absolute can’t be more absolute than someone else who is absolute. There cannot be a greater God and lesser God.  If a being is lesser, that being is not God.  The Church of God Seventh Day, at the time HWA joined it, did not believe Jesus to be God.  HWA acknowledged that Jesus is God but relegated him to a secondary role as if Jesus were a relative being like us. So, while Armstrongism asserts that humans will become God-as-God-is-God, it does not accord that same status to Jesus.  I think that maybe Armstrongists believe, as I do, that God Persons are different in economy but not in ontology.  But it is hard to say.  You cannot find the words “ontology” and “economy” in Armstrongist writings about God. They never carried their Doctrine of God very far and now HWA is dead and his death pretty much fixed their theology at a certain point in history.  If one goes by what Armstrongist authors have written, one would have to conclude that the Son is smaller than the Father both in ontology and in economy since no distinction is made.  And to say that Jesus is smaller is another way of saying that Jesus does not really belong in the God category because being smaller makes him relative rather than absolute.  For Arianists of different sorts, Jesus might even be angelomorphic. And the aspect of Arianism called Subordinationism (a little god subordinate to a big god), then, is held as true by Armstrongism.  As for the Holy Spirit, Armstrongism makes him an impersonal attribute of God.  (Whether an attribute of the Father or the Son, I don’t know. They are separate God beings in Armstrongism. The only unity in the Godhead that Armstrongism admits is that of a family relationship. And a human family is a biological collection of separate, non-consubstantial beings.) If the Holy Spirit is simply an inherent attribute of God, then when the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the OT and NT, he is just a redundancy.  Like saying, “Ralph and his nose visited us.”  You can just assume that if Ralph is there, his nose will be, too.   And the redundancy converts the Bible into an example of really bad writing.  In the last analysis, I reject Arianism and agree with what the brothers decided, as far as I know it, at the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople.   I do believe that some of what the brothers concluded is conjectural.  But, one day, Paul promises us, this will all be settled and we will no longer see through a glass darkly.  And for this present shootout, Paul is our huckleberry.