COGwriter Although the COGs rarely own church buildings and the Jehovah’s Witnesses normally do, there are many amazing doctrinal similarities between the two groups. Both the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the COG believe that there was an apostasy in the early church. Both the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the COG believe that what now passes for mainstream Christianity […]
Category: Doctrine
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21, KJV)
Barnabas Ministries: Where Did God Come From?
The following seems to be the latest post at Barnabas Ministries: Where did God come from? Who or what created God? (Submitted by: M.P.) A. There is nothing in the scriptures that states or infers that God the Father created Jesus the Son. The scriptures state that the “Word”, who was born as Jesus, was […]
LCG: Abortion Proponents Lied to Public
The July-August issue of LCG’s Tomorrow’s World has an article titled “The Deception of Abortion” by Gerald Weston that states: Abortion proponents who fight to preserve the Roe v. Wade decision rarely acknowledge that the Jane Roe of the lawsuit—Norma McCorvey—is today a fierce opponent of abortion, even to the point of filing a class […]
CBCG: OT Predicted New Testament
CBCG’s July newsletter is now out. In it, its Fred Coulter writes: While working on the Bible Project, it has become apparent there is a profound unity between the Old and New Testament Scriptures. This unity is demonstrated, for example, by the fact that over one third of the NT is made up of quotes […]
Protestant Realizes There Is No Eternal Torment
Minister Labeled a Heretic ABC News (20/20) – July 12, 2007 Virtually every religion throughout human history has some notion of a horrible life after death. And though the threat of fire and brimstone is not preached as fervently in this age of reason, one man in Tulsa, Okla., knows just how hard it is […]
Birthdays and the COG
COGwriter This month, I have noticed that my article titled Did Early Christians Celebrate Birthdays? has become relatively popular. Although I did update it sometime last month (mainly added some scriptures), since I did not announce it, I have been surprised that it is suddenly more popular. Regarding birthdays, Herbert Armstrong taught, “There is no command […]
CGOM: God is Father
In its July 2007 newsletter, CGOM (UK) writes: Fatherhood of God Unpopular as discipline may be in our day, the Bible is clear that the Father God takes seriously his responsibility to discipline His children: ‘For they [our human fathers] indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our […]
EU Wanted to Ban Teaching Evolution Opposition, but…
European rights body calls off Creationism vote Reuters – June 25, 2007 STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Europe’s main human rights body on Monday cancelled a scheduled vote on banning creationist and intelligent design views from school science classes, saying the proposed resolution was one-sided. http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2543885120070625 I have suspected for some time that the “intelligent design” […]
CG7 Still Against Unclean Meats
The lead article of the latest issue of CG7’s Bible Advocate begins with: Our bodies are better witnesses than our beliefs alone. I learned this truth over lunch with three co-workers at Pizza Hut. One was a long-time friend and committed Christian. The other two were fresh on the job and not believers. Loading our […]
TPM on the Calendar
In an ad in the Connection’s portion of The Journal, TPM’s W. Dankenbring claims: THINK about it! The sacred Calendar is the very FOUNDATION of “ALL” the Holy Days. Since the Hillel II Calendar is wrong, corrupted, and perverted, then the whole building—the whole superstructure—is also wrong, crooked, and unstable! Let us build wisely on […]