Comments on Ambassador Watch: The Journal - 181st Issue

To Douglas: I guess I came down firmly on both sid...

2016-03-07T10:47:31.092+13:00

To Douglas: I guess I came down firmly on both sides of the VB idea. But I really am neutral on this and quite a few other doctrines. I don't care, and I don't think God cares, whether we believe in the VB or not or in sundry other doctrines or not. Is the VB true? Is it false? Maybe it's neither, rather just a matter of opinion. So my neutral approach is insanity?

Speaking of Robert Coulter, we did publish extensive comments from him fairly recently. After I listened to his original discourse in Big Sandy years ago, I followed up with a phone call to ask him what happens to babies who don't hear the name Jesus before they die. Did he believe in something like the HWA 2nd-resurrection doctrine? Mr. Coulter told me such babies would be resurrected, judged and "annihilated":

http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue132/former-cg7-president-discusses-church-history-and-herbert-armstrong-2.html

--Dixon Cartwright

It's encouraging that Dixon has published the ...

2016-03-06T19:35:53.018+13:00

It's encouraging that Dixon has published the John Kiesz interview. This has been used mostly on so-called "dissident" sites in the past for obvious reasons.

BB

I knew Noel Rude when he was a young man in the Ra...

2016-03-06T05:57:41.255+13:00

I knew Noel Rude when he was a young man in the Radio Church of God and his stories about how he visited Castro's Cuba and the adventures he had there -- something of a maverick who spent days on the Cuban beaches. As for his opinion that the Virgin Birth is the mother of all heresies, it should be noted that the illustrious editor came firmly down absolutely standing on both sides of the idea. Is it true? Maybe. Maybe not. Could be either way. It's a window into the insanity of Armstrongism. Well, when you're pretty sure the Bible isn't really God's Word, how could it be any other way?

As for John Kiesz being representative of CoG7D opinion (especially about Herbert Armstrong), forget it. I suspect that Robert Coulter in "The Journey" portrays a more objective view. It is doubtful that Herbert Armstrong was a humble man and Mr. Kiesz was probably blinded to Armstrong's narcissism. As for alcohol for the Lord's Supper, Herb was an alcoholic, so what would you expect. He certainly made the WCG quite the comfortable place for boozing alcoholics. "I well remember the time when Herbert apparently was as much against worldly pleasures as I was: such as attendance at the movies, dancing, drinking, card-playing, and the wearing of excessive jewelry." apparently is the operative word here.

Once again, "The Journal" seems to have far more crazy advertising than articles. It was a nice touch, though, that it mentioned this blog.

"It's about time to make plans for Feast 2016"

Unthinkable.