John Chrysostom (photo by Joyce Thiel) COGwriter Eastern Orthodox Bishop John Chrysostom died on September 14, 407. The Catholic Encyclopedia teaches the following about him: St. John Chrysostom (Chrysostomos, “golden-mouthed” so called on account of his eloquence). Doctor of the Church, born at Antioch, c. 347; died at Commana in Pontus, 14 September, 407. John […]
Category: Church History
“I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
Cross Exaltation Feast was not part of ‘the faith once for all delivered to the saints’
Decorated Cross used by the Orthodox in their observation of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross ( ΙΣΧΣΝΙΚΑ-888 via Wikipedia) COGwriter Wikipedia has the following: Feast of the Cross The Feast of the Holy Cross, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, or Feast of the Cross, commemorates the True Cross. On 13 September, 335, the […]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò correctly asserts bishops and popes do not hold to the true faith, and that a pope could be involved with the Antichrist
COGwriter Lifesite News posted the following: September 2, 2026 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released a new essay, The Capital Schism, presenting his analysis of the crisis of authority in the Catholic Church. Viganò argues that generations of deficient post-conciliar formation have produced bishops, and even popes, who no longer adequately understand or transmit the Catholic faith. […]
The first Christians kept the Fall Holy Days: Do you plan to follow the example of Jesus and the Apostle Paul?
(Wikipedia public domain photo) COGwriter What are commonly referred to as the ‘Fall’ Holy Days will start soon for 2026. The biblical month of Ethanim (1 Kings 8:2), also known as Tishri, begins at sunset September 11th this year. Last year, the Continuing Church of God put of the following sermon on its ContinuingCOG channel. […]
Would you like to see what the original Church of God building looked 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–but one was from the first century? The late fourth century historian Epiphanius recorded that in Jerusalem […]
The Parting from the Way is Accepted by Protestant Scholars, But …
COGwriter Partially to explain church history, many Protestant scholars teach that there was a parting of the ways. The Protestant scholar Dr. James D.G. Dunn wrote: In the first edition of Partings I made bold to draw the conclusion that a final ‘parting’ can be discerned in the second century-with the second Jewish revolt against Rome, and […]
BAS on Jesus and the ‘Cross’?
Jesus and the cross: Jesus’s crucifixion is displayed on the fifth-century C.E. wooden doors of the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome. (Wikipedia) COGwriter The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) had this in one of its weekly newsletters: Jesus and the Cross Throughout the world, images of the cross adorn the walls and steeples of churches. […]
Those the Roman Catholics called ‘Paulicians’ called themselves Catholic Christians–were any Church of God?
Ancient Pergamos (photo by Joyce Thiel} COGwriter Who were the people history has tended to call Paulicians? Were they part of the Church of God? Do you know much about them? History shows that God had people during the Pergamos era of the Church of God in various hidden areas, with many of them referred […]
Most scholars are unaware that the Church of God had the ‘chain of custody’ of the New Testament
COGwriter The Catholic Encyclopedia article on the New Testament asserts the following: The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. (Reid G. Canon of the New Testament. The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3., 1908) The above is only […]
Tomorrow’s ‘Assumption of Mary’ holiday is the same day as the ascent of the goddess Diana–a coincidence or?
The ‘Mary’ in the Basilica of Mary Major That Pope Francis is Buried In (Photo by Joyce Thiel, June 2013) COGWriter August 15th is a holiday known as the Assumption of Mary. It is not a day that the original Christian church observed–and officially only became one for the Roman Catholic Church 76 years ago […]