tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528158760608808912.post6415174809609564957..comments2024-03-28T16:55:57.201-04:00Comments on AS BEREANS DID: Armstrongism and the New YearMarthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438486498450616814noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528158760608808912.post-76312400543090522452015-01-16T09:21:40.958-05:002015-01-16T09:21:40.958-05:00Anonymous,
I'm so sorry that you live with t...Anonymous, <br /><br />I'm so sorry that you live with this struggle every day. The weight of our own decisions and the consequences that flow from them can truly be crushing, especially if we feel like God's approval and our salvation hinges upon them. But He knew this, too, which is why Jesus urged us to take up his yoke and to give our burdens to Him. <br /><br />Don't judge yourself too harshly. Paul said he saw through a glass darkly, too, and said he would only see clearly in the next life. God's thoughts are not ours, and His ways are not ours. Don't beat yourself up for not having the same wisdom and foresight. Pray for that wisdom and foresight. <br /><br />You are not beyond God's reach. He loves you, He died for you, and nothing will ever change that. Some consequences may remain, but He can use even those for His glory. I have seen it. It is such a blessing that our hope does not rest in the choices we make in this life, but in the shed blood of Jesus. There is nothing, no one so broken that God can't redeem it. Marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12438486498450616814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528158760608808912.post-17246442437453698352015-01-12T18:26:49.748-05:002015-01-12T18:26:49.748-05:00"Had I then only known…"
Not a day goes..."Had I then only known…"<br /><br />Not a day goes by when I don't pray to God above asking why upon reflection I'm filled with regret and disappointment over the choices I've made in my past and why I have to suffer the consequences without any seeming hope of redemption--I can't go back in time and change the direction I was heading at those pivotal crossroads of life ya' know--For if I only knew then what I know now oh how my life would be very different than what it is now! So what is the point I wonder when it's not until AFTER I've made a choice--and usually the wrong choice!--that I realize which choice I should've, could've, would've, made if I only knew the consequences of taking this or that route. I guess I'm still looking through a glass darkly…and hope for the Immortal God to one day make it all clear for me and everyone else who are thrust into this "evil age" to make do apart from Him making endless choices that seems right to us at the time, but ultimately leads nowhere except death...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528158760608808912.post-70638693985854959362015-01-01T22:23:45.030-05:002015-01-01T22:23:45.030-05:00"Had I then only known." Oh, how I feel ..."Had I then only known." Oh, how I feel that. Amen!xHWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01061716053302210598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528158760608808912.post-74924485147006634452015-01-01T20:57:24.093-05:002015-01-01T20:57:24.093-05:00As a new member of the Worldwide Church of God, wh...As a new member of the Worldwide Church of God, when I was trying to avoid being tossed alive into the Lake of Fire, I, too, pondered the church’s inattention to the proper, righteous names of the weekdays and months. I learned early on in the church that conventional holidays and birthdays were to be deliberately avoided, as they were claimed to be “pagan” in origin. Celebrate Christmas or one’s birthday and you weren’t really chosen nor a real member. You were destined to the Lake of Fire. You knew the Truth, but failed to diligently follow it. You were doomed. So, for 13 ominous years I struggled to put away the paganism the church so clearly drew my attention to. (And yes, it essentially destroyed my marriage, but that’s another story.)<br /><br />But I knew that “Saturday” was “Saturn’s Day.” Every Saturn’s Day (oops, Sabbath), I had to travel by myself 30 miles to a somewhat dowdy meeting hall for Worldwide Church of God services. As mentioned in this article, proper Hebrew names were never used for weekdays. The pagan names were entirely adequate and appropriate. It never made sense to me — but who was I to try to be more righteous than the clergy. <br /><br />In my mind, the same issues revolved around just which parts of the Law we were to “keep.” I read the clear instruction to wear a blue tassel, but never once heard even a sermon on this. <br /><br />From the beginning, it seemed apparent that the things the church decided to teach and require were inexplicably selected. <br /><br />But, paying tithes and offerings was never in question. One’s salvation absolutely depended on paying these. I had to buy my way to Petra. If my non-member wife needed a new clothes washer or some new school clothes for the kids, those would have to wait or be put aside.<br /><br />Despicable hypocrisy or abject falsehoods on virtually every doctrinal point. <br /><br />Thanks, here, for continuing to lay out all of these lies and mis-truths. <br /><br />Had I then only known....<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528158760608808912.post-23139375055128333102015-01-01T13:28:35.642-05:002015-01-01T13:28:35.642-05:00Nicely done.Nicely done.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18122238110750804356noreply@blogger.com