[Quix]

I’ve met the flawed man.

That’s not one of his flaws.

He’s not accepted a single penney from his ministry.

He’s a total volunteer.

He retired from being a Civil Engineer, IIRC.

[brytlea]

How are you feeling today?

[immadashell]

I’ve met the flawed man.That’s not one of his flaws. He’s not accepted a single penney from his ministry. He’s a total volunteer. He retired from being a Civil Engineer, IIRC.

I never met a con man I didn't like. I was on the Board of Directors of a local not-for-profit whose Executive Director didn't take a salary but embezzled the place for more than $500,000.

[daniel1212]

That aspect may be true, yet he is more than just flawed, but has

flagrantly taken the name of God in vain by claiming God revealed the rapture would occur on May 21,

and given occasion for the name of Christ to be blasphemed among the heathen,

and placed a stumbling block before the simple who heeded him,

and seduced them into loss of substantial amounts of time and money

and seriously impugned the integrity of the Bible and prophecy among the ignorant public by asserting it guaranteed his false prediction,

and has made a mockery of Biblical hermeneutics with his any-digit-will-do methodological madness,

while also teaching heresies such as that Jesus died twice,

and denying eternal torment,

and the nature of the church and its preservation,

and damning all who are in the visible church

while making those who agree with him to be the elite enlightened, etc.

Certainly we all have erred, but this man has willfully and boldly gone to extremes few have gone before, with his erroneous esoteric eschatology and egregious elitism, and effectively has become an instrument of the devil who is the author of deception.