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In Reply to: Re: messianic etiquette posted by BC on September 22, 2008 at 13:11:53:
I like the wording messianic etiquette...it applies may be less to Berg itself..unless one just goes by the meaning of messiah...anointed & that was also very much the OT king; did they have any anointing ceremony in TF?...just out of curiosity.
Forgot about that aspect...of course the "anointing in the spirit" was always praised the most & put the greatest emphasis on.
With him/Berg it was probably prophetic etiquette...sure, a real prophet of God has to chatter in shakespearan English or otherwise mutter strange words/sounds to sound like having the gift of tongues...it's a highly debated subject...that about tongues:fake tongues...something also found in esoteric circles
Berg had enough churchy/biblical education to know
what he should do & also knew where he would offend the "old bottles"...if he thought by biblical standards, that he could get away with a new move, he just introduced that as revolution, as a revelation...in that he was "maximising the freedom" he wanted to have...free "love".
Yeah, and he was forced by God to minister to those ugly hippies, "prophetic etiquette" here, whom he didn't like in the beginning...oh, well, the pretty female hippies he got easily along with
(Plus he always lived a bit like a bump himself, I realised later this seeming contradiction/inconsequence)
Well, I could "halfway" smile at the account
D.Bramham gives about her experiences in that
dangerous sect...If it were a male student asking for permission to join, I wonder if the leader would have been so gracious...I doubt it...they are simple preying on any new potential "convert";
on the other hand it is "dangerous" for the leader, as they are always observed & news can leak out about events not so positive for their reputation...I guess he weighed that in the ballance...similarly also as TF with Prof Chancelor (forgot the spelling..pardon me)
