Second Open Letter to Herbert W. Armstrong

An Unborn "Germ-Life" Must Live a Full-Grown Life

Herbert, I want to commend you most highly for "out-evolving Darwin and that 100,000,000 [or trillion] year old "uni-cell," amoeba or great-grand-daddy-tadpole. According to "all scholars" it has taken that parent slime all of these millions of years to develop mice and lice, men, monkeys, and tadpoles. But, according to your "begotten-GODS" doctrine, you and your wife, your sons, and your co-workers may become very GODS ["just as much God as is Jesus Christ now"] by the short span of a 10 commandment "keeping" life you or any one of YOUR "co-workers" may live. By the way, "Embryo-God-Herbert," have you ever told us exactly what happened to the "cell," that "spiritual germ" [that constituted ALL of the "new creation in Christ"], that the Apostle Paul had when he died? Since you teach that no believer in the Lord Jesus Christ ever was or ever could be "born of the Spirit" until the resurrection of his body from the grave, and since you teach that all any believer--truly converted person-- can now have is a "begotten life" precisely parallel to the germ-life of a begotten human; and since you teach that "DEATH" is the opposite of life" [making "life" mean mere existence], some of us would like to know exactly what has become of all the CHRISTIAN part of "children of God" who have died physically.

At "the resurrection of the just" all of the "begotten-children of God" are raised from the dead to be born again" [according to you]. Will they not all be "still born?" If not, your doctrine about man's soul and spirit and "death" is utterly false. Tell us, Armstrong, exactly what happened to Paul's "begotten life" when he died physically? [By the grace of God, I will deal with that subject in a future letter.]

Why don't you call your co-workers GERM-Christians? Why do you teach that weird and "damnable heresy" about you and they having ONLY an embryonic Christian life and then proceed to use Bible expressions that mean nothing if they do not refer to those who ARE SAVED, saved--"not by works of righteousness which we have done, but by the washing of REGENERATION [new BIRTH] and the renewing [re-creating] of the Holy Spirit." Titus 3:5-7; Eph. 2:8-10; 2 Cor. 5:17.

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; {6} Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; {7} That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Eph. 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: {9} Not of works, lest any man should boast. {10} For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

2 Cor. 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Just imagine a child of Adam with nothing but a "germ-spiritual-life" being demanded by the God of all grace to keep perfectly the 10 commandments during all of his mere "germ" life and then die [all of him die!!] but be raised to really receive the BORN-again life that he has been forced to live perfectly all the time he didn't have it!

Anglo-Saxon or "Hephzibah" Herbert?

Lest I forget later, I want to touch one of your parrot arguments about the SAXONS [English & U.S. people] being the "new name" referred to in the prophecy, Isa. 62:2. in the 4th verse we are told PRECISELY what "new name" was to be, namely, HEPHZIBAH. Shall I call you HEPHZIBAH HERB from now on?

Isa. 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

Now I want to talk to you about your "Mortal Emmanuel"--your putrid "Jesus"--as contrasted [not compared] with the Christ of the Bible-- "the Lamb of God," "without spot and without blemish." See John 1:29, 36; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19.

John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. {36} And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

1 Pet. 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; {19} But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Your wicked teaching about the Babe of Bethlehem, "Emmanuel,"--"God with us"--[Matt. 1;23] is identical with that of Mrs. White and her Seventh Day Adventist followers, "Pastor" Russell's and all the so-called "Jehovah's Witnesses" and [only God knows how many] other false cults. I do not know whether or not your wife's lady teacher [from the "Seventh Day Church of God"] taught her your damnable doctrine about Jesus Christ being MADE mortal by the Heavenly Father.

Matt. 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Woman Teacher "Starts" Armstrong's Sect

Just here let me say a word about your disclaiming and indignantly denying that your wife taught YOU about SABBATH "Keeping," etc. Your spluttering denials sound petty and are proven to be false by many other things you and your college boys write on the same subject. For instance [Page 24, Plain Truth , July 1956], Herman Hoeh wrote, "God brought him [Armstrong] to the study of His Word b causing him to try to refute the truth which God had revealed to Mrs. Armstrong through one who was already in the church." Note that last clause, ". . . through one who was already in the church." You have often said and written that it was a lady who first persuaded your wife , etc. Incidentally, that gives us one more proof that you lie when you say your work--"This greatest work of God on earth"--started with only your wife and you. What happened to your wife's teacher who was "already in the church?" In the same article [p. 23] we read another statement that smashes your claims about your work being God's only true work where "the true gospel is preached for the first time in 1800 years. "Hoeh also wrote---"Jesus said He would be with His Church and 'the gates of hell' would not prevail against it, His Church--the true church of God . . ."

Hephzibah Herb, I wish to repeat a question asked in my first letter. WHERE WAS THAT TRUE CHURCH OF GOD during those 1800 years when [according to your demi-god claims] there was no true gospel preached. When you squarely face that question, your mouth should be stopped as it would have been long ago had you lawfully dealt with God's 10-commandment law. See Rom. 3:19 and 1 Tim. 1:5-11.

Rom. 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

1 Tim. 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: {6} From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; {7} Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. {8} But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; {9} Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, {10} For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; {11} According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

"God Causes Armstrong to Fight the Truth?"

What did Hephzibah Hoeh mean when he wrote "God caused" you "to try and refute the truth which had been revealed" to your wife? Such irresponsible and blasphemous attacks upon God's character are, of course, but dutiful ECHOES of your pontifical pronouncements. Meridith's article in your "Good News," [?] 7/52, is even more brazenly blasphemous, if possible. Read again, Herbert, as one of your "wandering STARS" throws his deadly dust in his reader's eyes, I quote:

"God has made man's natural mind so that it wants to do things that are contrary to His laws: 'The carnal mind [with which we are ALL born] is enmity against God.' . . . God has made it natural for man to reject truth and to do what is right in his own eyes, to want to sin--to want to break God's laws . . . But what of the vast blinded majority of all times who never had an opportunity? Are they damned because God created them with a carnal mind which blinded them to the ways of salvation? [Italicizing is mine.--M.J.] Now, if God is just and it is he who has blinded most of the people that ever lived, from understanding His laws and the grace which they must accept to be saved, then He will have to remove the blindness to give them a chance--their first chance--will He not? Yes!--and He had promised to do it! 'And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the COVERING CAST OVER ALL PEOPLE and the VAIL THAT IS SPREAD OVER ALL NATIONS.' Isa. 25:7. It is no stigma or disgrace to your loved ones or others tat are among those that are blinded now. God's PLAN called for the removal of blindness of only a few NOW. It is His responsibility."

God Created Man "Good"

Armstrong, you are going to have to answer to God for poisoning the minds of young men and women and others who, for some strange reason, think you are a man of God. Isa. 25:7 refers only to Israel's glorious restoration to the Promised Land under the returning King of the Jews. This will be a revelation to all of the nations but it will not be the gospel preaching. See the remainder of the chapter and all of the very next, ch. 26. Your teaching about God's having "created man with a carnal mind which blinded them to the ways of salvation" is as damnable a lie as the "father of lies" ever uttered. God created only Adam and Eve and He created them in His own "image" and after His own "likeness." That creation was "very good." See Gen. 1:26, 31. Man's carnality and mortality came only because of and AFTER His disobedience. You and your slavish young mouth-pieces make God Himself the author of confusion, but we who are not infidels know that "God is not he author of confusion." 1 Cor. 14:33.

Isa. 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. {31} And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

1 Cor. 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

"Light Is Come Into the World"

And what a serpentine lie it is to say that "Christ in His day did not try to disturb the blindness that was over men's minds!" Of course He did not try to disturb the blindness that resulted from His gracious LIGHT being rejected; but it was gloriously true then, and still is, that "Christ IS the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world."--John 1:9. You contemptible coward, you don't dare to face squarely such precious truths as this and John 3:14-21. I quote the last two verses only in that reference: "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." How different that Christ-honoring passage is from the wicked distortion given by you and your poor deceived mouth-pieces to give false hope to your followers whose loved ones reject your Babylonish mixture, and to others who believe their loved ones died without Christ and without hope.

John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: {15} That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. {16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. {17} For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. {18} He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. {19} And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. {20} For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. {21} But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

How different, when you are building yourself up as God's ONE-AND-ONLY, God's modern edition of Elijah [have you yet "revealed" that you "are" Elijah?]. I say, when you are assuming the bold and courageous role of God's glorious-little-champion-of-the-truth, you forget all about the rest of us poor mortals who [you say] were deliberately "blinded by God Himself so that we cannot see and know the truth." As "God's one and only true prophet" you fuss at us, bark at us, and boisterously blame us for not having blown the dust off our Bibles, then assure us that we are going to be blasted off the face of the earth by hydrogen bombs ALL BECAUSE we stubbornly refuse to hear, see, believe, and obey the truth that we cannot possibly obey in our "God-blinded condition." Talk about dust! Talk about Babylon!

I'm personally sending this to Herman Hoeh and Dr. Meredith with the faint hope that they may banish their prejudice and read this honestly. Unless kept so furiously busy in listening to your broadcasts, trying to read all of your papers and those passages of scripture that you point out [usually out of their context], they may see your hopeless confusion and absurd contradictions. I urge all Christians who read this to join me in fervent prayer that many more bewildered slaves of your doctrinal narcotics may be made free by "the truth"--the Word of God rightly divided.

$1 Takes Gospel to 2000 Souls "Blinded By God So They Can't Believe It"

In connection with your wanton and reckless attack upon God's character--those horrible assertions about God's having deliberately "created man with a carnal mind" so that he would be, and would have to be, at "enmity with" his Creator [???]--I should like to call to your attention another of your claims. I have several marked copies of your irresponsible assertions like this one [p. 12, Plain Truth, Nov. 1949]--"every dollar carries Christ's gospel to TWO THOUSAND PRECIOUS SOULS! Is the money well spent?" Do these figures include the thousands of dollars spent by you and your wife and boys in your world-wide travels to look for "A BEAUTIFUL site for the European seat of AMBASSADOR College," and your very, very necessary [??] trip to Petra [in connection with sight-seeing all over Europe, etc., etc.]? It took a good many of those "Dollars" for all of this, didn't it, Globe-trotter-Herbert? Do you and your wife ever laugh up your sleeves at your success in getting money--for instance, the "veritable downpour" of widow's mites for which you so often plead, beg, and threatening your letters? How many of those "widows" who send you their hard earned "mites" have ever hoped that they might be providentially-inspired to take a trip to Switzerland where they could step "into the most elegant, beautiful interior we had ever seen in our lives?" But the Armstrongs have many such "providentially-inspired "evidences of their following the Man of Sorrows. Speaking of a castle-like mansion in Lugano, Switzerland, Herbert, you use language that reminds me so much [?] of John the Baptist in the wilderness or Paul who said he counted "but dung" those things that would have been gain to him [personally]. Do you recall these words I none of you "Private Letters" published by you in an expensive booklet [pp. 39, 40]?--'But we are somewhat in favor, now, of Geneva as the seat of the European unit of AMBASSADOR. We spent Sunday afternoon at Geneva, and it is beautiful . . .For mingling with people speaking several languages, Lugano leads, and probably leads the world. We will never find another place elsewhere as modern and elegant as 'Heleneum' [name of the Lugano Castle]. But, for extra-curricular advantages, exchanges with the other large university, great libraries, and international atmosphere, and the center of world affairs, Geneva would be preferable . . . I would like to have such a fine property for our students for its refining influence and cultural advantages . . . It might ultimately work out that we would have TWO European units -- one in London, and one in Switzerland. We are the FIRST to have the vision of such a college. It is something entirely new in the world of education. It is BIG! It will be accomplished . . . I know we are led by the hand of God into things never before done."

Armstrong Wallow$ in Poverty

Pardon me, Herbert, aren't you the one who said God has already taken all the pride and worldly ambition out of you? What did Christ mean when He said, "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God?" Your glaring admiration of luxury and popularity when you are out of your "pulpit" deceives no one but your blind admirers. James 4:4 brands you as an adulterer as well as Rom. 7:1-5.

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Rom. 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? {2} For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. {3} So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. {4} Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. {5} For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Just imagine a man who claims he is "following Jesus Christ" talking about wanting his student-following to be in that European resort so that they can have its "refining influence and advantages!" I don't believe you meant that for a minute. Were you not hypocritically seeking your own expensive SIGHT-SEEING tour and your own [and your wife's too] thrill at being numbered with the "elegant" on those extravagant, "providentially inspired" escapades? Your "depression-born" boom enables you and your family to say with the partisan politicians, "We never had it so good before."

In the remainder of this letter, I want to return to your antichrist doctrine about Jesus Christ's having been "made mortal" by His Heavenly Father. your astute salesmanship and your subtle methods for using your "co-workers" ' money in cavorting all over the world on planes, "the world's biggest luxury liners" [unselfishly], looking for "other college sites" while you and your family "see the sights" and your peacock humility as you "endure the self-imposed honor of being the RESTORER of the defunct "kingdom of God" and the FOUNDER of the "incorporated Radio Church of God"--all of this does indeed afford indubitable proof that you are a smooth worker, but your doctrinal concoctions are ridiculously stupid as well as utterly false.

A Spotted, Fallen, Mortal "Jesus"

How could Emmanuel [God with us] have been nothing but flesh, MORTAL [dying] flesh? Would anyone but a vicious butcher of God's holy word jerk the first half of John 1:14 out of its immediate context so as to hide the second half of the same verse? Read it all. All of you religious materialists do exactly that with Eccl. 9:5, jerking the middle clause out while not daring to read honestly the clause which shows the writer is speaking only of the physical, temporal aspects of death. I urge you honest readers of this letter to read 8 Kinds of Death in the Bible

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Eccl. 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

How could "the second man" be "the Lord from heaven" if He were an entirely different being from that which He was while in heaven? See 1 Cor. 15:47. With all the help "the god of this world" gives you, you and the 7th Day Adventists and the Watch Tower-ites cannot successfully distort Eph. 4:8-10. Though Christ "took the form of a servant and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross" [Phil. 2:7, 8], He was then and still is "the same Jesus"--"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever."--Heb.13:8. Bow your proud head before Him, Armstrong, and receive Him as your personal Savior from the guilt and penalty of your sins--all the sins of your Adamic nature ["the old man"] could ever commit. Believe the gospel of Christ--the good news that "Christ [not a "mortal man Jesus"] died for your sins "according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures." 1 Cor. 15:3-5. By divine inspiration Paul says THAT is the gospel by which true believers are saved. go like a simple-hearted child to John 5:24 and believe it. BELIEVE it! Hide now in the "Smitten Rock" or be eternally crushed by the "Smiting Rock!"

1 Cor. 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Eph. 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. {9} (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? {10} He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Phil. 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: {8} And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

1 Cor. 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; {4} And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: {5} And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

How much longer will you continue to willfully force " the gospel of the kingdom" into the same mould as this "gospel of Christ" which is of course, OBVIOUSLY the gospel ABOUT Christ and FOR poor, guilty, enslaved members of Adam's fallen race, "DEAD in trespasses and sins?" See Eph. 2:1. Armstrong, haven't you ever wondered why there are so many passages that reveal it was CHRIST who died for our sins? "Jesus," the name given Him during His humiliation is never used by the Holy Spirit to tell us who it was that died for us. Will you continue, as long as your flesh holds out, to pretend that you believe the Babe of Bethlehem [and the man Christ Jesus] was only a "begotten" Son of God until the resurrection and that it was only the mortal [ALREADY dying] flesh-man that actually died? For Christ's sake and your soul's sake, quit trying to harmonize such hopelessly irreconcilable teachings. Ask God to blot out of your mind your devil-inspired conceptions of death so that you can believe the gospel of Christ. Will you read Eph. 4:8-10 before you forget about it?

Eph. 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Exactly Who Died and Rose?

Armstrong, did "the Son of man" rise from the dead or was it actually a different Being as the Tower-ites teach? See Matt. 17;9. Was it "the Lord" who had lain in that sepulchre? See Matt. 28:6. Is "the Son of Man" now in heaven?--John 3:13. Why don't you come out with beastly courage and blurt out your lies in their NAKED ugliness, like this for instance:

Matt. 17:9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

Matt. 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

"God made man carnal and mortal. He is dust. Therefore, since Jesus took upon himself a form like unto his brethren [Heb. 2:14-17] he was DUST--yes, EMMANUEL was nothing but DUST. therefore, when he died it was merely dust going back to dust. But since I, Herb. W.A. teach that this dusty fleshling was also a 'begotten' son of God and since I don't dare face the unsolved problem of what became of the 'begotten' part [???] of Jesus of Nazareth when he died, I'll just continue to throw all the dust I can into people's eyes so they can't see my increasingly confused and contradictory dust-storm of assertions and denials. Maybe I can bark and howl and snarl so frequently and furiously that my co-workers will never think to strip my lies of their gaudy covering of stolen bible verses. How can I ever get out of this ugly, ever-rising cesspool of religious materialism and bewildering involvements? Since I teach that Jesus was merely mortal flesh, how can I escape the filthy blasphemy that he, as 'the bread from heaven' [John 6:51] was LEAVENED bread?"

Heb. 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; {15} And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. {16} For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. {17} Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

That, Herbert, is a fair statement of your doctrinal Tower of Babel.

Mortal Way, Mortal Truth, Mortal Life, Mortal Church?

Armstrong, how could Christ have been "the second man" if He were not inherently and essentially different from all men since "the first man's" fall? He declared, "Ye are from beneath; I am from above"--John 8:23. Was "mortal flesh" from above? He said, "I am not of this world." Was He "mortal flesh" that came from another "mortal flesh" world? He said, "I am the way the truth and the life." John 14:6. Was He the "mortal" way, the "mortal" truth, and the "mortal" [dying] life? He said, I am the true vine."--John 15:1. Did He mean He was the "mortal" [dying] vine? It was prophesied [and later quoted by both Peter and Paul] that the Father would not "suffer His HOLY ONE to see corruption."--Psa. 16:10; Acts 2:25-27, 13:35. Did all that the Father's HOLY ONE was really nothing but "MORTAL FLESH" and from His very conception and birth?? And now you say, the church which is His body is mortal!

John 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Psa. 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 2:25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: {26} Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: {27} Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 13:35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Face that, Herbert! You will humbly and shame-facedly face it and repudiate it now or you will cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on your blasphemous head to hide you from the "wrath of the Lamb"--Rev. 6:1. Note well, Armstrong, that He will then be "the LAMB" that you say was "mortal!" He laid down His life that He might take it--yes, "it" the very same life [not mortality] that He miraculously "gave for a ransom. See John 10:15-18; 1 Tim. 2:6; John 2:19; Eph. 4:8-10.

Rev. 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

John 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. {16} And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. {17} Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. {18} No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

1 Tim. 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

In my next letter I expect to deal with your assertions that Jesus Christ did not "become" a "member of the God-family" until His resurrection from the dead and that 10 commandment keepers will also thus "become" members of the "god-family," as much God as is Jesus Christ. In my third Open Letter to you, Mr. Armstrong, I expect to deal also with your new sect, your lawless legalism and your "hallelujah-high-jacking" [money getting].