The Failures of Armstrongism: It ALL Boils Down to This...
The Principal Heresies of Armstrongism:
The notion that Christians are obligated to observe the Sabbath, Holy Days,
and Dietary commandments of Torah
The mixing of the Old and New Covenants
The notion that Christians must earn their place in God's Kingdom
Rejection of the Trinity
Anglo-Israelism
The notion that traditional Christianity has been corrupted by paganism
The notion that spiritual understanding identifies someone as Christian
It ALL Boils Down to This...
Their failure to understand that the Hebrew Scriptures MUST be understood/interpreted in the light of the Christ event. In other words, their inability to understand that the Law, Prophets, and Writings point to Jesus of Nazareth, and that they were ALL fulfilled by HIM is at the root of most (if not all) of their theological failures! Think about it a minute and prove me wrong, if you can!
Lonnie Hendrix/Miller Jones
4 comments:
You should have included "The notion that we will become God exactly like Christ"
NO2HWA,
Absolutely right! Same line of thinking that led to the rejection of the Trinity.
That was me just a minute ago. Didn't realize I wasn't signed in yet!
I use slightly different verbiage on one of your points, Lonnie, but both our versions ultimately take us to the same place. Armstrongism filters the New Testament (Covenant) through the Old Testament (Covenant) instead of vice versa. Jesus brought to humanity the latest and greatest information, but Herbert W. Armstrong yanked everything Jesus taught right back into the Sinai Covenant. Made him into "that inconvenient dude."
BB
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