In Reply to: That's another tactic... their own doctrine posted by Freeatlast! on October 05, 2003 at 16:43:56:
Well, you get brain & heartpolluted, if you read these letters...on the other hand, like in the
Garden of Eden, the enemy of our souls, the devil made some false promises & in the temptation of Jesus in the desert he also used the Word of God,
also offering as much as he thought he can to Jesus; and Peter after he said something coming straight from God, the Father, he mumbled something coming straight from the devil...I like to say, if there hadn`t been good thoughts, a
righteous, evangelical cause (let`s say without
FFing & pressing for funds, donations (deceivers
yet -un -true...it`s for missions & blah, blah)to
begin with, some biblical fundaments, I guess
many would have left earlier...Didn`t it appeal to
our pride, to be the christian elite, the avantgarde, the know it alls, the ones who can run circles even around theology techers (although there are really lots of unbelievers amongst them),cause we`d know so much Bible, have it super
& exclusively explained by a Mr.Berg, being the
endtime prophet etc etc...By the way in India I bought myself a very good King James Bible...Jesus`s words in red and with the cyclopedic concordance...I think it must be the one Berg said , he`d really liked (remember how he said, he had read enough in the Bible...men of God
like famous George Muller who ran by faith many orphanage homes in London century & decades ago,
are said to have read the Bible through 100 times...how can you stop reading it?..I think Berg gave away some info, a hint, which should have been very clear to us...but it wasn`t yet clear enough then for me) In that concordance it gives a detailed alphabetical list of the names & prophecies attributed to Jesus...when you reach D
for David it lists all the David-prophecies, claimed by Berg for himself, as being fulfilled in Jesus...for me that´s at least one key in understanding, why I stayed 16 years in & with the family, until I had enough 1992...In the beginning
I thought, oh my, if the prophet truly thinks so,
well, then...I didn`t have a christian background,
only little teaching here & there, no sound foundation, I got into asian religions mainly
Buddhism & esoteric stuff (pendulum e.g.)...
Thank God He saved me from that, that`s why I don`t need to look for other ways than Jesus, only
that the family got very early off the track, some
people realized it ealier (the Abrahim-stuff),
Kohoutek false-prophecy etc...well, they tried hard to explain it away & we gave him the benefit of the doubt...when doubts were many times the Lord speaking, telling us what didn`t match ...
I can still remember vividly, when we came last back (disappointed from the white-bookrevolution)
from India & stayed mainly on our own in Italy...
We had a very close fried, who fellowshipped also
with some baptists in our town...We asked her,
whether she would like to be part of our family team & later responded no, although she really loved us as people.One time bringing her back home,
she told me, that she had fasted & prayed over the David prophecies in the Bible & the answer she felt from the Lord was, that it isn`t a prophecy
about Berg...I was really startled at her conviction...
A year after joining I had read the Declaration of Independence & thought, those critics are wrong, we have the choice to leave & during the RNR there
was quite a bit of "liberty" for a litnesser like
me...So why didn`t I leave?...I thought it would
be also egoistical, doing my own thing, while the world needed to hear about Jesus...true, I could have been on my own (which sometimes I was in the family)...using my own lit, but then in those days I was also fond of the people I was with...they were special to me!!
I remember one quote, where Berg said, the family doesn´t check
the Bible, to see whether he is right, it would
rather be the other way around...that`s the first time I heavily thought, that`s quite a bit uplifted...Do you remember how one time K.Zerby
announced - or WS - that they would publish a booklet, listing all the prophecies of David &
their fulfillment..I really anticipated that one,
cause I figured, let`s see how good he could foresee things, that Kohoutek thing was an exception & youn know from Jonah...blah blah...
Well, out came the Mop & I couldn`t figure out, whether that was the book promised, when I had expected something else...may be they didn`t find
any things he foretold...it would shock me ; )
if he actually succeeded at a time (even a blind chicken finds sometimes a corn)
Anyway it wasn`t what others said here on the board, that financial things mattered...but on the
other hand may be a little was part of it...I didn`t want to loose my crown, didn`t want to be
selfrighteous, knowing it better than somebody
older & more experienced than I, I liked many people I was with & where I was, the people really loved their kids (even if it also meant to educate
the kids on their own, which even non-family-people have done, not speaking of circuses & alike) & I learned a lot through those
children...I think there were plenty of disobediences along the road with the family, compromises with the false teachings...yes, I had
read the epistles of Paul, time & again, they were
some of my favourites, yes, FFing didn`t jive with
His or Jesus` teachings...well, what man can look on a beautiful woman - even being married - & not
desire her...well Job apparently succeeded, that`s
what he said...anyway Berg explained it away...Jesus didn`t mean that...Remember the cartoon, where he sits in supposed New Jerusalem
on a bench with the Apostle Paul & Paul admits to
him, that he got some things wrong...oh, he was
only the chosen apostle for Asia Minor & Europe...
the heathen...Berg of course ranks higher...and we
believed it...we shut our eyes from the truth in
the Bible, hence got send very strong delusions...
I like your name, freeatlast...you asked why were
we so blind...well, I thought, we shouldn`t look
back so much in regrets over the blindness, we should rejoice, that we see better than ever before...once Jesus healed a man & at first he saw men as if they were trees, then in the "redoing"
of the miracle, he saw clearly...also the blind in John 9 had to be blind, so that Jesus could come & heal him, not because of deep sin...I am happy that I can see better now the ways of Jesus...My
family name used to be Siloam (Siloah in German),
cause I saw biblical truth, which I had never before (then not realizing, it got distorted by Berg & Co)...having left the family is like getting the second dose of Jesus` healing power
to see better!! : )
Cordial greeting Jürgen