© CCOG COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce the following sermon from its ContinuingCOG channel: 1:15:27 Fourth Commandment: Saturday or Sunday? Are Christians supposed to keep the Sabbath? If so, when: Saturday or Sunday? What do the Hebrew scriptures teach? What does the New Testament teach? What day was Jesus ‘Lord […]
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).
Pergamos era Paulicians
Ancient Pergamos COGwriter Who were the 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 to as ‘descendants of the Nazarenes’, ‘Paulicians’, ‘Bogomils’, ‘Cathars’, ‘Patarenes’, […]
Original Christians were much more ‘Jewish’ than most realize
COGwriter Was the Christian church originally Greco-Roman-Gentile like the Greco-Roman-Protestant churches or did it more resemble what has been called Jewish-Christianity as is practiced in the Continuing Church of God? Was it more ‘Jewish’ than many think or was the early Christian church led by a pontiff from Rome? If the Apostle Peter was the […]
CG7-D’s claimed predecessor Gilbert Cranmer and CGG’s John Ritenbaugh on ‘born again’
COGwriter Church of God (Seventh Day)-Denver (CG7-D) no longer believes in church eras or continuity. Officially, it essentially considers Gilbert Cranmer its founder. CG7 (prior to its move to Denver) used to hold to church eras, but lost that teaching. The Denver group later decided to start its leadership history with Gilbert Cranmer–we in the […]
The Church of Rome and CCOG on Confession
Roman Catholic confessional (Didier Descouens) COGwriter The Bible does say to confess sins, but has the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) taken this beyond the practices recorded in the Bible or any found in early Christian documents? What do the Bible and the Continuing Church of God (CCOG) teach? Let’s start by reading a passage from […]
Should you point to 1 John 5:7-8 as proof of the Trinity?
COGwriter Some claim that 1 John 5:7-8 is proof of the Greco-Roman trinity (and that the above diagram ‘explains’ the trinity). But should that verse be used as proof? Furthermore, is what some think 1 John 5:7-8 states really even supposed to be in the Bible? The above drawing is also used by some trinitarians […]
BibleNewsProphecy: Pope Francis condemns preachers of truth as inflexible and rigid, but …
At General Audience Pope Francis berates “preachers, especially through the new means of communication” who present themselves “as true ‘guardians of the truth’; strongly affirm that the true Christianity is the one they adhere to, often identified with certain forms of the past” pic.twitter.com/caPmssi7Kz — Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) June 23, 2021 COGwriter The Continuing Church […]
Gendron: Catholics Should Believe Their First Pope
Artist portrayal of the Apostle Peter preaching COGwriter Former Roman Catholic Mike Gendron had the following in his newsletter: Catholics Should Believe Their First Pope Roman Catholics believe Peter was their first pope, but to their peril, they do not believe what he taught. Peter did play a prominent role in the early church, but […]
The purgatory gospel?
Anne Catherine Emmerich Claimed to See Purgatory COGwriter The following article from Aletia (an online Roman Catholic news and information website) claims that ‘Purgatory’ is part of the Gospel!: The great good news of Purgatory Far from a “cheap grace,” Purgatory is the sensible and just means of becoming fit for the mercy we receive. […]
Which church has continued to each the apostolic doctrines of the original Christian church?
COGwriter Last decade, Christianity Today was promoting an article that stated: We are now in a period when it is not enough to know only about the Bible. The apologetics of the past is no longer adequate. Today’s questions involve not only how the Bible came to be, but even if there was originally such […]