Bob Thiel: Birthdays Are Satan's Third Most Important Worship Day

Bob Thiel still is struggling to find everything in life one pagan festival after another.  Thiel is hyperventilating over the connection he sees with birthdays  and Anton Lavey's Satanic Bible.  Because Lavey mentions birthdays Thiel assumes that the rest of humanity is sitting there worshiping Satan as they light the birthday candles.

Back in 1969 Anton Lavey wrote The Satanic Bible. On page 96 (in the 1976 version) it mentions birthdays:

THE highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birth. This is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions, which deify a particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of their own image, thereby showing that the ego is not really buried.

The Satanist feels: “Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a god in your image, why not create that god as yourself.” Every man is a god if he chooses to recognize himself as one. So, the Satanist celebrates his own birthday as the most important holiday of the year. After all, aren’t you happier about the fact that you were born than you are about the birth of someone you have never even met? Or for that matter, aside from religious holidays, why pay higher tribute to the birthday of a president or to a date in history than we do to the day we were brought into this greatest of all worlds?

After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht and Halloween (or All Hallows’ Eve). (Lavey A, Gilmore P. The Satanic Bible. Avon, September 1, 1976, p. 96–note it is on page 53 of an online version I found also).

Bob then has to drag his perception of what he thinks the Bible says about it:

The Bible never encourages the celebration of birthdays. Instead, it tends to speak in a negative manner concerning them (cf. Matthew 14:6-11; Jeremiah 20:14-18).
Of course, early Christians did not celebrate birthdays nor did the early Jews. Nor have real Christians ever celebrated Halloween. As far as the Jews, notice what the first century Jewish historian Josephus noted that Jewish families did not celebrate birthdays:

Nay, indeed, the law does not permit us to make festivals at the birth of our children, and thereby afford occasion of drinking to excess (Josephus. Translated by W. Whiston. Against Apion, Book II, Chapter 26. Extracted from Josephus Complete Works, Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids (MI), 14th printing, 1977, p. 632).

Then Bob has to admit that there is NO prohibition in the Bible against birthdays.  In spite of that, he dances around and says that birthdays should not be observed.  Just because he can find no reference to an early Christian observing one, does not mean that they didn't.  There are a lot of things the Bible does not record about the early Christians.  Just because it is not there does not mean they never did it.  The Bible is NOT a history book, when will Bob ever realize that?

Journalist Covering Dave Pack's Grand Opening Fails To Report The Facts In Akron Beacon Journal

In yesterday's missive from Dave Pack he waxed eloquent about his new building and the things he plans on doing with the campus.  His posting was in actuality one big press release.  That press release was bought hook, line and sinker by Colette Jenkins with the Akron Beacon Journal.  It was like reading Dave Pack's bullshit all over again.

She quotes this from Davey about his coming "explosion."  Is it me or is much of Dave's hyperbole almost borderline sexual?  Dave's "expanding" church is ready to "explode."  I get the feeling as Dave writes this stuff his eyes are glazing over as he.......well....................you get the picture.

The 4,000-square-foot media center will include three studios, where many of the Church’s video and audio productions and The World to Come with David C. Pack program will be filmed and edited. The program, which is designed to explain Bible prophecy by analyzing current world events, is broadcast locally at 6:30 a.m. Sundays on ION Television (WVPX) and at 3:30 a.m. Thursdays on The Word Network.

“These next buildings allow us to expand, in fact explode, in size in taking the gospel of the soon coming kingdom of God to a world in desperate need of this good news,” said Pack, who does not use the title reverend. “We hope in the fall to announce construction dates for the beautiful Ambassador Center, a training facility for our ministers and leaders, and also the crown jewel centerpiece — the magnificent Imperial Auditorium.”

In her original report early this morning, she said the church meets on Sunday.  Davey obviously corrected this heresy.  This edition has the correct day but still shows how secretive Davey is:

The multipurpose room is also being used for Saturday worship services, which are by invitation only and typically scheduled during the afternoon. Plans are for worship services to move to a three-story building with a 450-seat auditorium, once it is constructed. 

Did you also notice how many seats Davey's new Imperial Auditorium will seat......450.  These copycat mini-me church leaders like Flurry and Pack have to settle for second and third best.  The Ambassador seated 1,262 people.  Six Pack Flurry's auditorium seats 850 and poor Davey's will only seat 450!  For the worlds biggest and best Church of God ever this certainly is a HUMILIATING circumstance to be in!  Third best. Imagine that.  THIRD BEST!

  Perhaps we should start calling Davey - Third Place Dave.

Jenkins writes three paragraphs about Davey's connection with WCG.  She fails to mention Dave was terminated by the WCG years ago and that he did NOT train at the feet of Herbert Armstrong.  HWA had little contact with the guy during the time he was around Pasadena.  Also notice that RCG LIES about how much their members give.  They claim only 12.5 percent.  First tithe, second tithe, third tithe, tithe of the tithe, special offerings, building fund.....etc, etc, etc. does not come out to 12.5%.

The Restored Church of God is rooted in the tradition of the Worldwide Church of God, founded in 1934 by Herbert Armstrong as a religious broadcasting radio ministry (Radio Church of God). The broadcast evangelist is often referred to as "God's End-Times Apostle," who prepared his followers for a utopia to be ruled by Jesus.

Although Armstrong’s ministry has been criticized by some cult-watching organizations, followers report that when Armstrong died in 1986, his church was attracting 120,000 people to weekly services, with an annual income of about $200 million. Circulation of its the Plain Truth magazine was more than 8 million, and The World Tomorrow attracted one of the largest religious television audiences in America.

Published reports indicated that Worldwide Church of God members paid as much as 20 to 30 percent in tithes. Leaders of the Restored Church of God dispute that, saying members have always paid an average of 12.5 percent of their annual income.

You can read the reporters slobber fest over Dave Pack here:  Restored Church of God's new world headquarters is open in Wadsworth

Instead of reporting the truth about the abusive behavior of Dave, the lies he tells and the lives he has ruined, the reporter whitewashes Dave and his cult.

Apostle Malm Declares: Coffee Pots and Kettles OK To Use On My Sabbath

Which one is more appropriate for Sabbath Coffee?

The Chief Pharisee has spoken!  So let it be said, so let it be done!

When we are commanded not to bake or boil on the Sabbath, does that mean we should not be using our kettles or coffee makers?

To bake or seethe [simmer] refers to the preparation and cooking of food over a period of time; not to simply warming some water. It is a matter of giving the homemaker a day off, and the Sabbath should not become a burden. Heating water in a coffeemaker requires no supervision and no work, just the flicking of a switch. James