Month: September 2007

By COGwriter While the COGs rarely own church buildings, Jehovah’s Witnesses normally do. Jehovah’s Witnesses Position of Its Modern History Here is what the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach about their modern history: THE modern history of Jehovah’s Witnesses began more than a hundred years ago. In the early 1870’s, a rather inconspicuous Bible study group began […]

By COGwriter The Churches of God normally have over one hundred  Feast of Tabernacles’ sites in various places around the world every year.  I began to attend the Feast of Tabernacles in 1977.   My first feast was at Squaw Valley, California, with an attendance of around 10,000 (all attendance figures will be from my memory of estimated attendance), […]

  By COGwriter The Apostle John is believed to have lived until around 100 A.D., the end of the first century.  Since he was the last of the original apostles to die, what were the beliefs of those faithful leaders shortly after he died? In other words, what were the beliefs of the true Christians […]

By COGwriter Although Roman Catholics claim a variety of early Church leaders as their own, the truth is that they have no real proof that most of the so-called “bishops of Rome” held that office. Furthermore, even though they and the Eastern Orthodox consider that Melito of Sardis (of the second century) is a Christian saint, […]