Recently I saw this intriguing Anonymous
comment from Banned by HWA. The commenter appears to continue to believe much of HWA's teachings, but this is quite insightful. The highlights are mine.
"Why didn’t all the ministers go with Flurry when he split, he holds HWA in high esteem."
Everyone
should THANK GOD that at least the WCG ministers DID NOT go with a
drunken false prophet like Gerald Flurry. Give them some credit. For all their faults, which were legion, at least they knew better than to do that.
Of course, Gerald then proceeded to set up various ignorant, wicked,
power-hungry, local perverts and abusers as PCG "ministers."
Also, it needs to be clearly pointed out that Gerald Flurry from the very start has falsely
claimed to hold HWA in high esteem even as he always does the EXACT
OPPOSITE of what HWA taught and did, even with what HWA thought were the
most important things.
For example, Gerald Flurry quickly did
away with the "great commission" to the church to preach the gospel of
the kingdom of God to the whole world by saying that HWA had already
done that and that with a new church era comes a new commission to the
church to warn the "evil Laodiceans." It was a HUGE change done
quickly.
The understanding in the WCG under HWA was that the
prophet mentioned in Deuteronomy was Jesus, but Gerald started to teach
that it was referring to himself. Even when forced to flip-flop a bit
on this, he still kept for himself the title of "That Prophet." Very
interesting considering that HWA had taught that there were no prophets
in the church today--EXCEPT FALSE PROPHETS!
In his later years,
HWA had emphasized the prophecy in Malachi that talked about turning the
hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to
the fathers. In direct contrast and opposition, Gerald Flurry came up
with a "no contact" rule to get grandparents, parents, children, and
grandchildren to totally cut off all contact with each other. How
satanic is that?
Any teachings about morality in the WCG under
HWA got totally turned around backwards in Gerald's PCG, ...
People who just carelessly repeat Gerald
Flurry's lies about how he is faithfully following HWA's example simply
do not know what they are talking about.
The PCG is a satanic fraud, and satanic frauds are not known for being nice.
I was particularly taken with the paragraph about changing the commission. Let me quote it again.
For example, Gerald Flurry quickly did away with the "great commission" to the church to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God to the whole world by saying that HWA had already done that and that with a new church era comes a new commission to the church to warn the "evil Laodiceans." It was a HUGE change done quickly.
This is true. This statement is supported by evidence, namely what Gerald Flurry wrote in page 78 of
the 1990 edition of Malachi's Message.
If the work to the world is basically finished - most of what remains to be done is separating the Laodiceans and the Philadelphians.... That should not taken very long - but it will be painful! Very painful - in some cases it will break up families.
I was shocked when I saw that passage. This is what I said about it when I read it. Highlights are added.
My word! This has to be one of the most disgusting, horrid and shocking statements Flurry ever says in this book. Here is the terrible no contact policy in embryo. Although (as far as I know) the no contact policy was not yet in force then, it seems clear that the seeds of self-righteous hatred against so-called Laodiceans (WCG members and members of other COGs) is already there in Flurry's heart.
He knows the hatred he is teaching towards those he defines as Laodiceans will tear up families. But it seems clear from these words he is determined to do it regardless, as early as February 1990.
It is a terrible tragedy that Flurry found himself in just the right time to gain enough converts from WCG to became one of the major Armstrongite COGs. (Source.)
Anonymous also said:
Everyone should THANK GOD that at least the WCG ministers DID NOT go with a drunken false prophet like Gerald Flurry. Give them some credit. For all their faults, which were legion, at least they knew better than to do that. Of course, Gerald then proceeded to set up various ignorant, wicked, power-hungry, local perverts and abusers as PCG "ministers.
When I looked at
Philadelphia Church of God while I was an Armstrongite I could not help but notice that the leaders of PCG were of no importance within old WCG, while other splinter groups had more prominent WCG personalities within their groups. That is a major reason why I decided to ignore PCG after investigating them for a little while.
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