{"id":178,"date":"2007-11-02T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T14:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wcg-news\/wcg-actively-promoting-the-trinity\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T19:14:11","slug":"wcg-actively-promoting-the-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wcg-news\/wcg-actively-promoting-the-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"WCG: Actively Promoting the Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRANSFORMED FROM TRUTH<\/strong>\"Worldwide\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the latest issue of WCG’s Together (News of the Worldwide Church of God)\u00a0had the\u00a0following as part of two articles:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 GenMin seminars have equipped hundreds of children\u2019s and teen ministry leaders and workers. Many new congregational ministries have been birthed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GenMin Servants Passage is training and coaching over 500 congregational leaders and workers as they participate in an extended journey of growth in ministry by means of church-based “mentoring communities.” ……….<\/p>\n

GenMin <\/strong><\/font>Connection seminar<\/strong> <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Ted Johnston, Generations Ministries director, held a Connection seminar in Harrisburg, PA, on August 18. Twenty-five pastors, youth ministry workers, parents and grandparents spent the day exploring the ministry environments and strategies that celebrate and develop the connection that young people have with the triune God in Jesus.\u00a0 <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Connection<\/font> <\/span>discusses WCG Trinitarian theology and its application to ministries with and through children, teens and young adults. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Comments by COGwriter<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>My questions is, when WCG teaches the trinity, does it explain where it came from and that it was not taught by faithful Christians in Antioch, and Asia Minor?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>Does it teach that essentially it\u00a0appeared to be specifically taught against by\u00a0even by the less faithful like Irenaeus in Lyon<\/a>?<\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0Does it explain that before and even after the Council of Nicea in AD 325 that the majority in Asia Minor were binitarian?<\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0Does it explain that neither Jesus, nor anywhere in the Bible, is there a discussion of any “triune God”?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>No, I do not think so.<\/em><\/p>\n

The plain truth is that WCG only teaches and accepts the trinity because they want to fit in with the world’s churches.\u00a0\u00a0The Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox adopted the trinity as now understood towards the end of the fourth century and the Protestants simply accepted that doctrine.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0But instead of protesting this unscriptural and historically not accepted doctrine (historically, because there is no evidence of it being accepted by any other than two heretics–people who the Roman Catholics consider to be heretics–prior to the third century–though not a majority doctrine even among the Roman and Greek Catholics until the end of the fourth century)–the so-called Protestants (which is supposed to mean protesters) accepted this false doctrine.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is another instance where I believe that WCG has allowed itself to be transformed from the truth.\u00a0 The trinity is a tradition of men<\/a>\u00a0that Christians in the apostolic and post-apostolic\u00a0periods did not hold.<\/em><\/p>\n

Several updated articles on the Godhead include:<\/em><\/p>\n

Binitarian View: One God, Two Beings Before the Beginning<\/a> Is binitarianism the correct position? What about unitarianism or trinitarianism?
\nIs The Father God?<\/a> What is the view of the Bible? What was the view of the early church?
\nJesus is God, But Was Made Man<\/a> Was Jesus fully human and fully God or what?
\nVirgin Birth: Does the Bible Teach It?<\/a> What does the Bible teach? What is claimed in The Da Vinci Code?<\/a>
\nDid Early Christians Think the Holy Spirit Was A Separate Person in a Trinity?<\/a> Or did they have a different view?
\nDid the True Church Ever Teach a Trinity?<\/a> Most act like this is so, but is it?
\nWas Unitarianism the Teaching of the Bible or Early Church?<\/a> Many, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, claim it was, but was it?
\nBinitarianism: One God, Two Beings Before the Beginning<\/a> This is a shorter article than the Binitarian View<\/a> article, but has a little more information on binitarianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TRANSFORMED FROM TRUTH\u00a0 In the latest issue of WCG’s Together (News of the Worldwide Church of God)\u00a0had the\u00a0following as part of two articles: \u2022 GenMin seminars have equipped hundreds of children\u2019s and teen ministry leaders and workers. Many new congregational ministries have been birthed. \u2022 GenMin Servants Passage is training and coaching over 500 congregational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-wcg-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t