Can Dave Pack be trusted to tell the truth
about himself or anyone else?
Dave Pack has made many false and disparaging remarks about those that
have left his employ or have left his church. How can you be sure whether
he is telling the truth or telling lies? Unless you have firsthand knowledge
of
him and his behavior, it may be difficult to determine with absolute
certainty.
What if it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has lied
about himself, in order to make himself look good to others? And what if
those lies can be exposed for the lies that they truly are? Then you could
know
with certainty that he is the type of man who will lie about others
who are exposing him in order to make them look as bad as possible and
him as good as possible.
Let’s examine some claims Dave Pack has made about himself!
"I am certainly ready and willing to do the work of spreading the message
of the Kingdom of God to the world. I have a whole host of ideas about
HOW to do it should Christ make the funds and staff available. For instance,
The Plain Truth newsstand program was largely a project that I developed,
almost from its inception."David C. Pack, Why The Restored Church of God? Page 19 second Paragraph
Edition 1.2 June 1999
Surely, Dave Pack would not mislead anyone or "misspeak himself" about
himself. He of all people would know whether the above statement is truthful
or not! He of all people would know what events have happened in his life!
To put the above statement in print in a foundational booklet about
his church must be proof that he is telling the truth about himself. Right?
Let’s see what official Worldwide Church of God documents and publications
from the time period in question reveal.
In Volume 1, Number 2 of The Worldwide News dated April 30, 1973 on
page 3 it says:
Plain Truth Newsstand
Distribution Rapidly Accelerating Worldwide
Bricket Wood – A dramatic
idea fired our imagination almost two years ago here in England. The idea
– newsstand distribution – came from Mr. Ronald Dart, then director of
the foreign educational service.
The door of radio broadcasting
in Britain had already closed very firmly in 1967, and the Work had one
less medium by which to advertise and educate. A new method of promoting
The Plain Truth had to be found.
In 1971 Mr. Dart said he
believed that newspaper and magazine shops and outlets in rail, bus and
air terminals would prove effective distribution points for The Plain Truth.
Experience has shown he was
absolutely right. Now, the program of newsstand distribution is gathering
momentum in other countries.
From humble beginnings in
July, 1971, when 399 magazines were placed on newsstands in Britain, the
operation has accelerated rapidly.
Now, a total of 170,000 copies
are dispatched each month to the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland,
Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, the Falkland Islands,
French Canada, South Africa and Japan.
By including subscription
cards in the newsstand issues, many thousands have been encouraged to request
regular mailed copies. A full five percent of each month’s readership request
a subscription.
It is clear and beyond any shadow of a doubt that Dave Pack has lied
to us in the pages of his booklet entitled "Why the RCG?" Official Worldwide
Church of God literature informs us the idea was Mr. Ron Dart’s, not Dave Pack’s. Nowhere in the article does the name of Dave Pack even appear.
Interesting indeed if the statement "The Plain Truth newsstand program
was largely a project that I developed, almost from its inception" was
actually true. What is even more interesting about Dave Pack’s claim to fame
regarding the newsstand program being his idea and not Mr. Dart’s is the
fact that Dave Pack was still a novice in the truth at AC at the time Mr.
Dart created the newsstand program. His claim has a similar ring to his
stealing the credit from Karen Ray and her compilations of doctrinal changes
and calling it all his own ("Except There Come A Falling Away" and "Except
The Lord Build The House").
This is just one of many provable examples of how Dave Pack makes
boastful claims about himself, in order to glorify himself, all the while
telling a pack of lies.
From the Way Back Machine: Can Dave Pack be trusted to tell the truth about himself or anyone else?