{"id":544,"date":"2008-07-24T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-07-25T05:25:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T13:25:46","slug":"cg7-calls-old-wcg-an-exclusive-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/cog-news\/cg7-calls-old-wcg-an-exclusive-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"CG7 Calls Old WCG an “Exclusive Cult”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rebuilt Gymnasium in Sardis. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is one of the most impressive buildings in the area of any of the seven churches of Revelation 2 & 3. However, it has been recently and massively rebuilt as its original condition was in ruin. And while it and its size are impressive, it no longer functions as it once did.
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COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

In a departure from its normally tamer reporting of its version of its history, in a 2-page spread entitled “Division and Reunion: 1933-1963<\/strong>“, <\/span><\/span>the July-August 2008 edition of the CG7’s <\/a>BIble Advocate<\/em> contains the following:<\/p>\n

Around 1930 Herbert W. Armstrong, an advertiser by trade, began to preach for the Church and was granted a ministerial license… These were revoked in 1937 when he insisted on promoting Hebrew festival observance<\/strong> and Anglo-Israelism, teachings the Church never embraced. Mr. Armstrong later moved his work to Pasadena, California, where it became a prosperous and exclusive cult:<\/strong> the Worldwide Church of God.”<\/p>\n

It is sad that CG7 wishes to pejoratively label the old WCG a cult, but as it has moved closer towards Protestantism, I suppose this is to be expected.<\/p>\n

I would also like to add that the true Church did keep the Holy Days throughout history (and CG7 itself still keeps Passover). I am working on something related to the Anglo-biblical connection and expect to post something on that at a later date (and yes, I believe that the New Testament shows that the apostles did understand that there were also Israelites that were not of the tribe of Judah).<\/p>\n

Several articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n

Church of God, Seventh Day: History and Teachings<\/a> Nearly all COG’s I am aware of trace their history through this group. Whaid Rose is the president of the largest CG7 group (Denver). Do you know much about them?
\nThe Sardis Church Era<\/a> was predominant circa 1600 A.D. to circa 1933 A.D. Discusses early history of the Seventh Day Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists, and COG-7th Day.
\nIs There “An Annual Worship Calendar” In the Bible?<\/a> This paper provides a biblical and historical critique of several articles, including one by WCG which states that this should be a local decision. What do the Holy Days mean? Also you can click here for the calendar of Holy Days<\/a>.
\nPassover and the Early Church<\/a> Did the early Christians observe Passover? What did Jesus and Paul teach? Why did Jesus die for our sins?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebuilt Gymnasium in Sardis. This is one of the most impressive buildings in the area of any of the seven churches of Revelation 2 & 3. However, it has been recently and massively rebuilt as its original condition was in ruin. And while it and its size are impressive, it no longer functions as it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}