COGwriter Yesterday, Shadows of WCG, an anti-COG site, started a series that the anonymous webmaster (who calls himself “J”) titled “The Key To Understanding Why Armstrongism is a False Gospel” (http://shadowsofwcg.com/?p=661). And it is full of distortions. Shadows of WCG makes many mistakes, and since the webmaster acts like he knows what he is talking […]
Month: October 2010
LCG: The Sleeping Giant Awakens
Berlin Reichstag COGwriter In his latest commentary, LCG’s Adam West had the following: The sleeping giant awakens… Don’t speak of the past because “we’ve gotten past it.” That was the sentiment of the daughter of film director Volker Schlondorff according to an article published by The New York Times September 10, 2010… The financial crisis which enveloped […]
SDA, Calvin, Luther View on Papal and Islamic Antichrist in Slight Error
White Horseman Related to “Antichrist” COGwriter The late Seventh-day Adventist scholar Samuele Bacchiocchi reported the following not too long before he died: Luther and Calvin’s Understanding of Islam and the Papacy In the last newsletter we reviewed Luther and Calvin’s understanding of Islam and of the Papacy as being the two aspects of the power […]
PCG Still Focused on Iran for the Wrong Reasons
Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Iran COGwriter PCG published the following: Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has met with the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon for the first time in five years, with the aim of turning over a new leaf in relations with Iran…Jumblatt’s current pursuit of relations with Iran, therefore, is one more indication of Tehran’s […]
Ukraine Looking Away from the West
Viktor Yanukovich COGwriter Ukraine is taking more steps to move towards Russia and away from the West: Ukraine’s Constitutional Court essentially nullified the amendments that paved the way for greater democracy after the Orange Revolution, giving the pro-Russia president greater powers… Supporters say Ukraine needs a strong hand to guide it through economic and political […]
Art Gilmore Dies and Other Short COG News Items
COGwriter Art Gilmore, who for decades was the announcer for the telecast and many other audio-video projects for the old Worldwide Church of God, died on September 25, 2010 in Irvine, CA at age 98 . Though he had a sincere-sounding voice, he never was a member of the old WCG. J. Tkach of GCI (the […]
Might Chinese Characters Provide Proof of the Bible’s Witness to the Chinese?
COGwriter Chinese characters are essentially the symbolic representation of words. It is my understanding that both the Chinese and Japanese languages share some of the same characters, and though they pronounce the words differently, thus a few of the characters have the same meaning in Japanese as they do in Chinese. There are over 600 […]