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and Garner Ted's present accusers, God would not have spared His
son. If you say it would have been IMPOSSIBLE for Jesus to have
sinned, I remind you that He was TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS even as you
and I. He was even TEMPTED by Satan in a far sterner way than you
or I. But, of course, because Jesus NEVER sinned -- because He was
STRONG, where we are WEAK -- there is FORGIVENESS upon real
repentance for YOU, and for ME, and for even these deceived
ministers allowing Satan to use them to try to DESTROY GOD'S CHURCH
AND GOD'S WORK!
So first, let me say, difficult though it was, I did not
treat my son ANY DIFFERENTLY than I would have any other minister
in the same circumstances. Perhaps you can appreciate it was not
easy. I didn't fly into a rage of accusation and denunciation when
I heard it. I was just hurt -- crushed in spirit. But I had to ACT
-- I knew that, and I DID!
But I had to think, first of all, not of my son, but of
THOUSANDS OF YOU brethren who had been brought to conversion, and
on the way to ETERNAL LIFE in God's KINGDOM as a result of having
HEARD HIS VOICE!
I've not been able to tell you before, but now I tell you
truthfully, it was YOU to whom I gave FIRST consideration. I knew
I had to put my own son completely out of God's Church. And I DID!
But FIRST consideration had to go to YOU, Brethren. IF I
came out and exposed his sin that just about broke more than one
heart, HOW MANY OF YOU, NOW ON THE WAY INTO GOD'S KINGDOM, would
become discouraged, lose faith, and just GIVE UP! HOW MANY, I asked
myself and others, would I send from God's Kingdom and eternal life
into A LAKE OF FIRE! I said, "The number of lives I might destroy
forever, if I expose to the public the details might be as many as
ten thousand!"
I had to banish my son whom I love, possibly above any
living now. That was not the big question. The BIG question was,
how could I do it, AND NOT SEND THOUSANDS OF BABES IN CHRIST TO A
LAKE OF FIRE? HOW?
I believe the living HEAD of this Church, Jesus Christ,
inspired what I DID say -- that he was gone because of personal,
emotional problems. THAT STATEMENT WAS 100% THE TRUTH. For the sake
of thousands of you Brethren, I did not state the specific details
of the personal, emotional problems.
Now a bitter, disfellowshipped former minister has failed
to think of any of you, and blasted to the whole world even details
I myself did not know at that time. And some shout "COVER-UP!!"
Your Bible says "LOVE COVERS"! WHY do some want to shout FAR AND
WIDE accusations of OTHER person's sins or evils, EVEN THOUGH THEY
HAVE BEEN TOTALLY REPENTED OF, FORGIVEN AND FORGOTTEN BY THE
ETERNAL GOD? Do those who EXPOSE other person's sins, often with
exaggeration, live wholly WITHOUT SIN themselves? I say you who
throw stones live in glass houses yourselves!
Garner Ted Armstrong was not allowed back into God's Church