Church of God News

Month: January 2022

Longtime PCG congregant brings out some false predictions by Gerald Flurry

(From thetrumpet.com) COGwriter In the past couple of days, I received two emails from a longtime PCG congregant. Here is the first one: Hi Dr Thiel, I’ve just finished reading your PCG teachings page. Well done on putting together such a comprehensive refutation of their heresies. I have a couple of interesting bits of information […]

VOA: China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Risk in Syria May Reap Big Rewards

Syria has joined the Belt and Road Initiative — the MOU signing did not specify any specific projects. https://t.co/Io7QdnS1er — Belt and Road Podcast (@beltandroadpod) January 13, 2022 COGwriter A couple of weeks ago, we reported here that Syria had decided to join China’s Silk Road project, also known as its Belt & Road Initiative […]

Roman Catholics are Right and Wrong About Church History

Colosseum of Rome (Photo by Joyce Thiel) COGwriter Ran across the following on a Roman Catholic website: Catholic Church Founded by Christ, propagated by His apostles, from Jerusalem through Asia Minor to Rome as its permanent world center, from which it spread throughout the world according to the mandate of its Divine Founder: Going therefore, […]

BBC: What is the quantum apocalypse and should we be scared?; EUO: EU Commission wants to set world’s first digital standards

Quantum Computer (Pixabay) COGwriter The British Broadcasting Corporation posted the following: What is the quantum apocalypse and should we be scared? 27 January 2022 Imagine a world where encrypted, secret files are suddenly cracked open – something known as “the quantum apocalypse”. Put very simply, quantum computers work completely differently from the computers developed over […]

BI: New Omicron offshoot BA.2 is over 1.5 times more contagious than the original, early data from Denmark suggests

SARS-CoV-2 Variants (Soupvector) COGwriter Business Insider reported the following: New Omicron offshoot BA.2 is over 1.5 times more contagious than the original, early data from Denmark suggests January 27, 2022 An offshoot of Omicron, BA.2, is spreading over 1.5 times more quickly than the original BA.1, Denmark’s leading public health institute said Wednesday. “Preliminary calculations […]

It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jews Who Barely Survived the Holocaust in WWII COGwriter Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day–a memorial to remind people of the terrible persecution of Jews and others during WWII. January 27, 2022 BRUSSELS (AP) — Holocaust survivors and politicians warned about the resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial as the world remembered Nazi atrocities and commemorated […]

CNN: The end of the world order as we know it

COGwriter Are we getting closer to end of the Anglo-American dominated world order? Yes. Even some at CNN are seeing some issues: The end of the world order as we know it It’s a confusing time for Americans when it comes to world affairs, with the government explaining on the one hand why it was […]

What did the first Christian church building look like?

Hagia Sion (left) and Church of God on Jerusalem’s Western Wall (right) Mosaic (4th century) in Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome COGwriter Do you know about the two early church buildings that were in Jerusalem in the fourth century? The late fourth century historian Epiphanius recorded that in Jerusalem in Judea a Christian building was […]