I have a request from a person who is asking if anyone knows of ex-COG7 member sites like Banned, The Painful Truth, and other exmembers sites. There are hundreds of exJW and exSDA sites but no one seems to know of any for COG7.
I am asking a favor - because CoG7 is making an inroad into Sydney, I would like to know the other side of this Organization.
Many old WCG/splinters members had been so ps-off with Organised Churches
Is there something like Banned somewhere for CoG7?
Great to be forewarned so that others don't jump into the fire?
Thanks a lot and appreciate your thoughts
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Dumb fundamentalist American religions do well in Australia amongst a naive working class.
And of American religion founders, they don't come much dumber than High-School-Dropout HWA.
Organizationally/psychologically, COG7 is a lot healthier than the ACOGs, except for the handful of ex-WCG ministers who've joined and brought their pathologies along with them. On the other hand, if you're asking about doctrinal differences with mainstream Christianity, that depends on which branch of COG7 you're talking about. One of the main groups has done its own transformation a lot like WCG/GCI, while others are still binitarian and a lot like what HWA left nearly 100 years ago.
I have found the COG 7 to be a delightful group of people in general, and a far cry for Armstrong based Sabbatarians. John Klassek a leading minister for the COG 7 group in Australia is a great teacher and a kind man as well.
“Ex-Church of God 7th Day Info Needed”
Someone once said that the COG(7D) never did a work of its own. COG(7D) people just hung out at SDA camp meetings and put their little COG(7D) tracts under the windshield wipers of the cars at the SDA camp meetings.
While the COG(7D) sometimes tries to claim that it is still alive, it is actually quite dead. Its teachings are not complete. The COG(7D) never amounted to much. When the people in a small COG(7D) congregation do not get along with each other and the congregation closes down, some of the people go and hang out at an SDA church congregation and pursue their own selfish interests there. They make up weird excuses, like saying that everyone in the COG(7D) wanted to serve but that their own little COG(7D) congregation was too small for them to do so. So they go to the SDA church to do their own selfish things there. The COG(7D) has all the usual spiritual fluff talk to try to bluff others, but also has all the usual interpersonal problems and sins that people have.
About the only people who ever really knew about the existence of the COG(7D) were the 150,000 people in the WCG under HWA because HWA had taught them that the COG(7D) was the Sardis era of the true church that did the work of God for a while but was already rather wiped out by the time HWA arrived on the scene.
In the rare cases where a former SDA or WCG member goes to the COG(7D), the relationship never seems to last.
Since the COG(7D) still has little over 5,000 people in the USA, it likes to make up stories about how there are supposedly hundreds of thousands of other people in loosely affiliated groups all around the world. The made-up guesses can range anywhere from around 200,000 to 400,000 imaginary members around the world somewhere.
Of course you have Tonto. Why would we never believe a word you write. No never.
It seems nobody could find a banned equivalent. Perhaps they're lillywhite!
I have an impression many of their US members speak Spanish and a lot in the unsophisticated third world.
Or perhaps they know how to hide better than others.
Regardless, they seem dead, about the only thing HWA got right. They couldn’t get members on their own; their attendees are mostly UCG fallouts, a revolving door experience.
From my experience with Phil Kordahi, their leader in Australia, outwardly he appears friendly, but inwardly he seems to have a seething hatred for the Jews and other sabbath-keepers.
Anyone can verify whether this is true by casually asking him what he thinks about other sabbath-keepers.
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