By COGwriter The biblical Feast of Tabernacles begins tonight at sunset. This year, my family and I are planning on attending in Tobago. Tobago is a small island north of South America and is part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago. As they speak English, we expect that it will more like a Caribbean […]
Category: Doctrine
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21, KJV)
Pope Praises God’s Holy Days?
Pope Benedict XVI Zenit.org (a Roman Catholic supporting news service) reported: Benedict XVI Wishes Chief Rabbi a Happy New Year VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 19, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI sent the Chief Rabbi of Rome a message for the Jewish festivities celebrated this month. The Pope expressed in a message his “most cordial and sincere […]
Tonight Begins the Day of Atonement
By COGwriter The Day of Atonement, called Yom Kippur in Hebrew, begins tonight at sunset. The Day of Atonement is considered to be a time for fasting, on which no food or drink are be consumed: And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: “Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day […]
Feast of Trumpets Begins Tonight
The biblical Feast of Trumpets, now commonly called Rosh Hoshana by the Jews, begins tonight at sunset. In the Old Testament, there are various types of trumpets discussed, but the shofar is the one biblically associated with the Feast of Trumpets (the metal one mentioned is mainly instrumental and is called a chatsotserah in Hebrew). A […]
CGOM-UK: Mainstream Does Not Hold Early Christian Doctrines
In its September 2007 newsletter, James McBride of CGOM in the United Kingdom wrote: Unity of Belief The ecumenical movement, of course, strives to unite the different strands of Christianity. Given entrenched ideas and traditions – and human nature – that has been a struggle stretching back six decades or more. Unsurprisingly, the Roman Church […]
CGOM Against the Place of Safety
By COGwriter The latest edition of CGOM’s New Horizons magazine has an article by Ian Hufton against the concept of a “place of safety”, titled “Do You Want Safety?” Here are some lines from that article: Some earnestly desire and yearn for a place of safety which by itself may place them in great danger. […]
ICG Points Out A Basic Flaw in Evolution
The View From the Cave in Patmos: Did Plants Just Happen? In its update last night, ICG’s Mark Armstrong commented (bolding mine): One of the big news stories released today is about the scientific report released regarding a recent discovery of a “handful of teeth from the earliest direct ancestors of modern gorillas ever found.” […]
CG7 on Holy Days, Birthdays, & “Other Days”
The September 2007 Bible Advocate magazine by the Church of God (7th Day) Denver contained the below editorial by the editor, Calvin Burrell: Beyond Sabbath Fifty-seven delegates representing twenty-three member nations of the International Ministerial Congress sit with me in a crowded hotel conference room as I begin this writing in early July. Their fraternal discussion to advance […]
Pope Benedict Says the Dragon Uses Terror & Violence Against the Defenseless
Pope Benedict XVI The following news item was of doctrinal interest: Consumerism, hedonism will be defeated by God’s love, pope says Catholic News Service – August 15, 2007 CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — The seemingly invincible ideologies of consumerism and hedonism and the reign of violence and terror will all be defeated by God’s […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Jesus is Michael
COGwriter After posting about COG and Jehovah’s Witnesses Doctrinal Similarities, some wrote me to tell me that there were a lot of dissimilarities between the COGs and the JWs. And this I knew as many were documented then (and now) in the article Similarities and Differences Between the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Churches of […]