UCG Finally Lets A Local Church Area Buy Its Own Building Sendng James Malm Into A Royal Snitfest

For decades the Church of God has rented halls to meet in.  From schools, movie theaters, pron theaters, Elks Lodges and Masonic Temples, are the gamete of meeting places.  It was also the cowardly way to meet.  Instead of being a light in the midst of the cities they met in, they hid away in places a normal person looking for a church would never venture into.  On top of that, most COG halls were run like mini concentration camps.  Guards were at the doors to keep the truly blessed inside untainted from the world with attendance taken weekly to see who was being a slackard.

When Herbert Armstrong attached his wagon to the religion circus in the mid 1930's, itinerant tent meetings were all the rage.  The traveling preachers were without regular church homes and spread out across the country waging their battles against Satan.

Armstrong never liked the church halls because he wanted the money for himself to use to get his "gospel" out to the world.  Money regularly flowing into a local church building for mortgages, upkeep and other expenses was money out of his pocket.  He demanded that all members send in money to HQ where they "lovingly" returned a small portion to "feed the flock."  The majority of the money stayed in Pasadena where grandiose buildings were built to impress the heathen world and to pump up Armstrong's purpose driven ego.

United recently allowed a local church area to buy their own building.  This is not their first foray into local church ownership.  UCG had one previously in Bluefield, West Virginia, bought and paid for by a local member.  The UCG members thought they had it made, until they learned that the building had been bought by stolen bank money that a UCG parishioner had embezzled from the bank she managed.  The government stepped in and confiscated the building from UCG.

UCG writes about the new building:

This church building was being sold by a pastor whose congregation had diminished in size for various reasons. With almost no interest on the market, our pastor, Ed Dowd, contacted the owner and he offered us an interest-free purchase at a very good price. Mr. Dowd worked with Ministerial and Member Services, our legal department and the treasurer to obtain Council of Elders authorization for the purchase. After negotiations, building inspections and due diligence, the offer was accepted and a contract written. The building is located at 901 West 63rd St South, Haysville, Kansas, and sits on about three standard size lots on the edge of a housing development and has a paved parking lot.
The purchases includes all fixtures and personal property on the premises free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, including:

* Everything needed to maintain the lawn, including mowers and tools 

* High quality padded chairs 

* Refrigerator and stove 

* Speakers and projection screen 

* Other miscellaneous folding tables, metal chairs and storage racks 

* Stage decor including a wooden service table and lectern 

* Baptistery

The sales price was $70,000–of which $65,000 is financed interest-free over 8 years–resulting in a monthly payment less than our former rent, leaving funds for utilities and maintenance. This is one of the main considerations when purchasing a local church building–the monthly payment for rent, utilities and maintenance must compare favorably to the cost of renting a hall. Records show taxes at less than $20 per year because of former and current church use.

This new building has sent James Malm into one of his regular snitfests.

An excellent deal along with a false prophetic view has enticed UCG into a long term view and they are now in the market to purchase properties.  

When Islamic extremism is largely defeated and a peace deal is proclaimed, these COG groups will likely simply claim that they are right and more time is needed, so lulling their brethren to sleep as the urgency of the times.

While Flurry and Pack use God’s money to build memorials to their idols; UCG is now in the business of buying properties.  

This deal is very good and is a strong temptation for them to think that they are being blessed for their righteousness, as they turn further and further AWAY from any zeal for the righteousness of God as defined by God’s whole word.  

This deal is being judged by them as God’s blessing for their righteousness; when the precise opposite is true and Satan is encouraging them to continue in their sins, so that Christ will finally reject them and spue them out of his mouth [body] . 

So what is one of the things that has apostle Malm so upset?

They might use their kitchen stoves and refrigerators on Saturdays!  Oh noes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or even worse, they might prepared food for a potluck between services on a high "holy" day.   God forbid if the smell of cooking food wafted into the church hall during a sermon!

A Malmite acolyte writes:

It’s not only united but I have witnessed congregations using the stoves in their hall kitchen equipment. Ministry even comment gladly on the smells whilst preaching.

Apparently true Christians bring and eat cold food.   No wonder they are all so constipated all the time.  Law vs grace.....

Bob Thiel: Satanists Use Toilet Paper, Should You?

Ok, Bob did not make the statement above BUT he did say that because Satanists keep birthdays you should not.  Satanists use toilet paper and eat red meat, should a REAL Christian do the same?  That is the logic behind Thiel's simplistic thinking.

Do you realize where the practice of birthday celebrations came from or how they are viewed by certain Satanists?

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.

It is interesting that birthdays are considered one of the three the most important holiday to these Satan worshipers (the two others called Walpurgisnacht, and Halloween also have pagan ties and are observed by millions who claim to be Christian).

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.

Thiel is forced to admit that there is NO prohibition on keeping birthdays.  It was all a figment of Herbert's imagination that brought about the hatred of birthdays in the church.  Delusional men like Thiel, Flurry and Pack continue the absurdity.

Now although there is no specific command against the celebration of birthdays in the Bible, the Jewish custom in those days was apparently based on the negative occurrences in the Bible surrounding birthdays, as well as the astrological implications of the celebration of birthdays (pagan practices, like astrology, were specifically prohibited in the law).

All I can say to Bob is to keep it up.  Between you, Dave Pack and Gerald Flurry, you all are bringing about the rapid demise of Armstrongism.  Your absurdities make all of you and the church look like fools.  I thank you,  Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg thanks you, and Anton Lavey thanks you too. 

Snap Judgment: The Missing Dimension in Sex

Philadelphia Church of God Cult Sells Home, Personal Belongings and Car Of Member Who Was Hospitalized

Elder Abuse

The Philadelphia Church of God continues to sink lower and lower into the pig slop they are so comfortable living in.  What is described below is elder abuse and is prosecutable.  Its only a matter of time to till some PCG member has enough of Flurry's degenerate teaching and they sues the pants off him and his cult.

The following excerpt is from a letter on the Exit and Support site:

I became a member of this destructive group in August of 2003, but started attending in January of 2003. I, like many others, thought I had found the "true" church. I had known of Herbert Armstrong since the 1960s. But shortly after becoming a member, things started to bother me.

I had not been a member long when the no-contact rule1 started to emerge. This ruling states that anyone in a splinter group is Laodicean. Then they had some members cut off their own grown children if they were raised in the PCG and didn't come into the PCG [become a member]. From what I can gather from what I have experienced and seen and heard, it has nothing to do with "Laodiceans," only control. They are afraid of what can be found out from others that have exited and how cruel and deceitful the ministers can be.

Members in PCG are not above lying to get information. They try to turn one member against another. I was very dissatisfied with the PCG for years but stayed for the most part to help an elderly person that had been treated like a dog by the "church" and some of the members at the direction of the ministry. This person became very ill and was hospitalized for about 3 months. During that time they made a member their power of attorney. When this person came out of the hospital, they had no home, no car, and all of their personal possessions were gone. They did have some money from the sale of the home but certainly not enough to purchase another and ended up in senior housing. Things were given away or sold for far less than what they were worth. I could not believe how uncaring these people were. When this person talked to the ministry about it, they were told to "let it go."

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This cult has no love in it except for the love of money and power! The ministry knows they are losing control and will stop at nothing to retain it. Keeping these people from contact of others that have exited by telling them that "the devil has gotten to these people that exit" is keeping them from the truth so the ministry can continue to lie to them. Deceit in the PCG is doctrine to them as far as I'm concerned. Like I have told others in the PCG, if God was as slow to forgive as the ministry, we would all be in trouble.