The way you are 'dreaming' , emotionally, without truth on your side, apart from Jesus, is close to heresy, if not heresy.
Frankly..... I am quoting the Bible and I am not willing to teach that my old church the Worldwide Church of God was one hundred percent incorrect in all that they taught me as a teenager.
I would not trade them for any other church because Mr. Garner Ted Armstrong in spite of his many, many, many, many flaws........
was an exceptionally good mentor to me and he got me reading The Bible and even historical fiction such as that by author Leon Uris that fitted with what I was learning about Biblical and modern history.......
One of the problems that I admit that Garner Ted left me with is that I tend to be somewhat more sarcastic than
I probably should be because he was more of a Christian Comedian in
many ways than a traditional preacher or evangelist.
His sarcasm though really helped to lure me up out of Atheism... .and for that I am eternally grateful.. and I am so glad that he introduced me to many aspects of Judaism that I would be unlikely to have learned in any other denomination.
Yes... they had serious problems... and yes... it seems like Messiah Yeshua - Jesus scattered my old church in a thousand different directions.... (my theory is due to our pride and tendency to unjustly accuse other Christians of being wrong about essentially everything that they taught)...... but I can learn something positive even from this and try my best to apply this idea more regularly:
Mat 5:25
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Was it PRIDE and mocking the enemy that made Elijah vulnerable to fear?
Yes........
the reason why the poll question and the video clip in the opening post looks different to me is because I am thinking back on why my old church the Worldwide Church of God probably was divided in many, many directions by God.
I am thinking that bragging set up my old church for severe correction by God......
I know that we were guilty of pride.... and it was like the pride opened the door to a bunch of other problems... that soon led to the church being scattered.....
Did the pride of denominationalism make the leadership of the WWCG open to fear.... Yes.... I think that it did.....
So maybe I am comparing the situation in the life of Elijah too much with my own life experience in the church that I was a part of from 1973 to 1991?????