Herbert Armstrong gave many gifts to people for various reasons. It wasn’t because he was generous, he wasn’t, his gift giving was to “buy” a audience with some tyrant in a far off place of the world.
Pastor General Expenses: Gifts
Sex And The Bible
While in Herbie’s crackpot cult, he always yelled at us to, “Don’t believe me, believe the Bible,” or, “dust off your Bibles”. Plus drilling into our heads such biblical phrases as “every scripture being an inspiration of God” or “not one jot or one tittle shall be removed,” or such statements as the Bible was written by men inspired by God, etc. In essence, saying that the Bible was God’s Holy Word. Or being constantly threatened with hellfire if we returned to “Satan’s world”. This was the sword of Democles hanging over our heads. We were threatened with God’s terrible wrath, and only “God’s Apostle” could save us.
The Visiting Program, An Experience In Terror!
Blast from the past…
From Pasadena we received not only booklets, magazines, letters, and ministerial reproofs, as well as rebukes, but we also received, for better or worse, the end results of administrative decisions.
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