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As you are so apt to do, you have made a completely false “disclosure.”
I read the word and I understand the word because I have the guidance of the Holy Spirit, not the spirit of the adversary that causes the adversary’s sheep to falsely accuse the brethren.
Let the reader beware, the accusations against Michael Rood are completely from the adversary’s instruments.
The adversary never accuses his false teachers; this is key to understanding. When an accusation is made by name, it is always from the adversary.
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Let the reader beware, Michael Rood is a False Teacher and #fakerabbi
It appears that your posts about other believers on this forum are then from the adversary - accuser of the brethren...
CONFIRMATION.
CONTINUING A CULT Michael John Rood was a follower, evangelist, teacher and high level leader in the cult The Way International for over 15 years, beginning in 1972.. Many people who were involved in TWI at that time remember him because he was heavily involved and held highly visible leadership positions.Two articles from the Washington Post mention and quote Rood. One article describes a TWI meeting in which the leader introduces "'The Rev. Mr. Michael Rood,' The Way's Washington area director-- 'limb coordinator' in Way parlance-- and the honored guest at this twig. A nine-year veteran of the Way, Rood, 29, still displays vestiges of his years as a Marine Corps sergeant." ("Giving Thanks for Array of Blessings," Washington Post, Oct. 13, 1981, p.A11, by Sandra Boodman)
This indicates that Rood began his involvement in TWI when he was only 20, was ordained in TWI and was a high level leader. "Limb coordinators" were in charge of a state (half a state if TWI had many followers there, or more than one state if there were few). Only about 15 leaders at TWI headquarters were above the limb coordinator level. In order to be ordained and a limb leader in TWI, Rood would have had to serve one or more one-year terms as a TWI recruiter ("WOW Ambassador") and graduated from Way Corps training, which included two years working menial jobs at TWI campuses while taking unaccredited courses.
Rood also claims to have been involved in Capitol Hill Christian Fellowship, a TWI-related group. Rood claims he was a leader in Capitol Hill Christian Fellowship, but doesn't say that it was a TWI-related group.
Rood still maintains relationships with other ex-followers of TWI (almost everyone who was in TWI when Rood was has left to form or join splinter groups, which are substantially the same as TWI in teachings and practice).
They include Robert Wadsworth who worked with Rood to correct the Hebrew calendar, Bo Reahard, who maintains a Biblical Astronomy web site, Jamie Louis who books some of Rood's tours, and Richard Fike who works closely with Rood. Rood has spoken to gatherings of TWI splinter groups such as Christian Educational Services. He has also attended meetings of splinter groups such as those by Dale Sides of Liberating Ministries for Christ. Rood continues to maintain connections with them because they still have much in common.
Michael John Rood has continued many of the themes and practices which made TWI a cult.
Both TWI and Rood:a) disparage the Christian Church as full of deception and pagan practices;
b) consider themselves to be the one source of truth, the revealer of the unknown Mystery and the way out of "pagan" Christianity;
c) follow the teachings of one Man who can lead them out of deception,
d) warned that America would be attacked and destroyed by Communist powers,
e) promote highly speculative, unfounded and inaccurate theories,
f) devote attention to minute detail on areas of "research" that have essentially little significance,
g) criticize celebration of Christmas (TWI replaced it with "Happy Household Holidays),
h) use similar terminology, such as when Rood refers to believers receiving "the gift of holy spirit," (Mystery of Iniquity, p. 54) meaning that they receive the human spirit which Adam, lost at the fall, not "the Holy Spirit" as evangelical Christianity teaches,
i) promote the "Lamsa Bible" written by George Lamsa, which claims to the translated from the Aramaic and therefore more accurate than translations from the Greek. Lamsa actually rejects most central Christian beliefs (his doctrine is similar to the Unity School of Christianity where he worked for many years) and his translation is deeply flawed in many ways ("George M. Lamsa-- Christian Scholar or Cultic Torchbearer?" Christian Research Journal, by John Juedes onRood is different from TWI in his legalistic requirement that Christians keep the Torah and observe the Saturday Sabbath and Hebrew festivals. (Although TWI did emphasize obeying certain universal laws, such as believing and tithing.) On the surface, Rood seems to contradict TWI teaching by emphasizing Hebrew religion, while TWI showed some anti-Semitic characteristics such as denying the WWII holocaust.