tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post155735400686790784..comments2024-03-19T04:58:13.877-07:00Comments on Banned by HWA! News and Observations About Armstrongism and the Church of God Movement: Last Issue of The Journal: News of the Churches of GodNO2HWAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02018654662518613623noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-75890395413645289212018-02-27T00:47:54.622-08:002018-02-27T00:47:54.622-08:00I avidly read J. Phillip Arnold's article abou...I avidly read J. Phillip Arnold's article about "Who Taught Herbert Armstrong?" I have long suspected that there was a connection with Charles Taze Russell's original Watchtower Society and the God Family doctrine. <br /><br />Back in 2009 I was reading about the Jehovah's Witnesses to learn more about what HWA taught. I learned that the first leader of the Watchtower Cult, Charles Taze Russell, actually taught the God Family doctrine. (Though, of course, that is no longer the case in that particular organization today.) Reading that I could not help but wonder if Russell was the source for the God Family doctrine, instead of Mormonism as some have proposed. I posted this thought at the time in the following posts.<br /><br />http://livingarmstrongism.blogspot.com/2009/05/jehovahs-witnesses-and-god-family.html<br /><br />http://livingarmstrongism.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-source-of-god-family-doctrine.html<br /><br />Reading Arnold's article in <i>The Journal</i> I am now convinced more than ever that Russell, not Mormonism, must have been the source for the God Family doctrine.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Arnold also mentions that Ambassador College features copies of Zion's Watch Tower magazine in its library. Back in 2009 I had a comment posted on my blog that mentioned that very same fact.<br /><br />http://livingarmstrongism.blogspot.com/2009/06/hwa-and-pyramidology.html?showComment=1246460780895#c681191508565146072 <br /><br />***<br /><br />Also Arnold's assertion that HWA adopted the God Family doctrine around 1943 discredits one claim Roderick C. Meredith made in a sermon he once gave which I watched once. He claimed he was there in Ambassador College when the God Family doctrine was "discovered" by HWA's organization. He said this teaching began after they read in Genesis 1:26 that God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," and from that they eventually concluded that humans are supposed to be God beings as fully God as God is God though of a lower rank.<br /><br />If Arnold's claim is right then Meredith was wrong. He was not there when they "discovered" this idea. HWA adopted the idea about four years before Ambassador College started. If Arnold is correct then Meredith was completely wrong to claim that he was there when they began to teach the God Family doctrine.<br /><br />Also LCG publishes a booklet by the late John Ogwyn entitled God's Church Through the Ages which claims that the God Family doctrine began to be taught only after Ambassador College was founded. If Arnold is right then Ogwyn was also wrong to make that claim.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Also I never suspected that the doctrine of the Great White Throne Judgment actually came from the early Watchtower Society.Redfox712https://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-75039771255052242292018-02-26T22:53:51.874-08:002018-02-26T22:53:51.874-08:00I skimmed it, skillfully dodging the kookaboos’ ad...I skimmed it, skillfully dodging the kookaboos’ advertisements. <br /><br />With the cessation of the Journal, the only cross-splinter news coverage will now come from either dissident sites, or the small, rarely read sites that are maintained by elitists to blow their own horns about being prophets, apostles, and such.<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-63198303774028800782018-02-26T16:15:34.821-08:002018-02-26T16:15:34.821-08:00Talking of movies, there's a good movie coming...Talking of movies, there's a good movie coming out on video called Novitiate. It's about young women becoming nuns in the 1950s and 1960s. It gets very good reviews at the Rotten Tomatoes movie review site. Watching the trailers, it's technically high quality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-91891476042237237942018-02-26T08:49:12.206-08:002018-02-26T08:49:12.206-08:00I was moved by Molly's account of all the dedi...I was moved by Molly's account of all the dedication and sacrifice her family gave to Herb and his carefully contrived cult. It was at the same basic time as my own involvement. We were in school together. The only real difference in our experiences was that I was able to shake it and completely walk away not only from it but, eventually, from the mental drug of religion itself. I and some others became free of all such enslavements and it was a long and painful process. The process is not yet over completely. If it were, I probably wouldn't even be here commenting. Nor, would I have spent any time on that Journal issue. Like similar farces of the past, it will die with us, but the phenomenon will go on in new carefully contrived deceptions well-omeaning, sincere people will be sucked into.Allen Dexternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-10397572376566205352018-02-26T06:45:18.569-08:002018-02-26T06:45:18.569-08:00I read the Journal article 'who taught HWA. It...I read the Journal article 'who taught HWA. It was soooo long and rambling, that I developed the patience and character to rule one more city in the kingdom. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com