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On A Personal Note: Why We’re Here

You Were Right To Join

 

ARMSTRONGISM

o    Adventist Roots

§  Are We Living In the Last Days?

§  This Has All Happened Before

§  To Acquire A Following

§  True History of the True Church?

§  Herbert W Armstrong’s Doctrines and Fruit

§  Sunday, or Herbert Armstrong?

§  50 Truths part1

§  50 Truths part2

§  COG Theological Ancestry

§  HWA lvs EGW 4->

§  MORE COG Theological Ancestry

§  Review – Written By The Finger of God

o    British-Israelism

§  The US & Britain; In Prophecy? Part1

§  The US & Britain; In Prophecy? Part2

§  Ben-Ariel’s Religious Bull from Babylon

§  True History of the True Church?

§  Herbert W Armstrong’s Doctrines and Fruit

§  Happy Thanksgiving, From My Gentile Family To Yours

§  Flurry’s Follies

§  MORE COG Theological Ancestry

§  The Genesis Prophecies

§  DNA Refutes BI (Not our work, you will be redirected, but worth it.)

§  A Broken Key: The Case Against BI, part 1 (Not our work, you will be redirected, but worth it.)

§  A Broken Key: The Case Against BI, part 2 (Not our work, you will be redirected, but worth it.)

§  Dear COGWA: You’re Still Not Israelites

§  British-Israelism A Royal Mess

o    Disunity Among Armstrongists

§  Current State of Armstrongism

§  Great Post From “J”

§  Division, Citizens, and the Born Again

§  Constantine vs The Sabbath

§  Nailed To the Cross

§  50 Truths part3 

§  What Do You Mean, One True Church?

§  God Is Love

§  More Following a Man

§  Meats: Universal and Plain?

§  Why Pleas for UCG Unity Will Always Fail

§  Are You Ready For The Feast of Trumpets?

o    Doesn’t Teach the Whole Law

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  Law of God – Law of Moses part 2

§  New Moons – What Josephus Says They Were Really Doing

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  Penalty of the Law

§  Doers of the Law

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  Sunday, or Herbert Armstrong?

§  Do Post-Armstrongists Keep the Law?

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

§  Cherry Pickin’

§  An Encounter With A Legalist

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

§  Three Times in the Year part1

§  Three Times in the Year part2

§  Matthew 15 & Mark 7

§  We Are Not Levites

§  Happy Feast of Trumpets

§  The Day of Atonement

§  Old Covenant vs New Covenant

§  Feast of Tabernacles

§  I Corinthians 8 & 10

§  What Is A Biblical Tithe?           

§  On Following A Man

§  By What Measure You Use

§  Great Falling Away

§  Meats and I Timothy 4

§  All My Yesterdays

§  Meats: Universal and Plain?

§  Church Financing part1

§  Church Financing part2

§  Christians Tithe?

§  Moses Died on Mt. Nebo

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Willful Ignorance

o    False History

§  An Inconvenient Plain Truth

§  Pack’s Proofs on Peter’s Pontificate

§  COGWA Claims False Roots (long version)

§  COGWA Claims False Roots (short version)

§  Nimrod’s Birthday Was January 6?

§  Is Valentines Day the Lupercalia?

§  A Pattern of Dishonest Documentation

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part1

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part2

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part3

§  The Plain Truth About December 25

§  Easter FAQ

§  The Sabbath Rest of Hebrews 4

§  Sunday “Pagan” Worship

§  Common Legalist Arguments part5

§  All Systems Are Go!

§  Who is the Beast?

§  True History of the True Church?

§  Another True History?

§  Constantine vs The Sabbath

§  Easter History part1

§  Easter History part2

§  This Has All Happened Before

§  Rome’s Challenge

§  Happy Thanksgiving, From My Gentile Family To Yours

§  Armstrong The Merciful

§  Current State of Armstrongism

§  The Name “Worldwide Church of God”

§  50 Truths part1

§  50 Truths part2

§  The Ten Horns

§  The Two Babylons

§  Abraham Tithed?

§  The Babylon Connection

§  1979 Receivership and the Big 3           

§  Church Government – Image of the Beast?

§  By What Measure You Use

§  Great Falling Away

§  All My Yesterdays

§  Review of COGWA’s Origin of Easter

§  Refusing To Understand

§  Primer To The Quartodeciman Controversy

§  Quartodecimans - Were They Law-Keepers?

§  Were Quartodecimans and Traditionalists Enemies?

§  Quartodecimans – Were They Law-Keepers?

§  Samhain Was Not On October 31

§  Peddlers of Paganism

o    Fear and Pride

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  We Were Right By Default

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  Prophecy for Fear and Control

§  Not All That Glitters

§  By What Measure You Use

§  Who Advocates the Law?

§  A Wake-Up Call to Rod Meredith

§  COVID 19: No More Fear Mongering

§  Supersitions, Be Gone!

§  My Opinion Is God’s Truth

o    Following A Man

§  Rationalizing Armstrongism

§  By This All Will Know

§  What Do You Mean, One True Church?

§  What Do You Mean, One True Church? Part2

§  Herbert W Armstrong’s Doctrines and Fruit

§  Herbert W Armstrong and Today’s Churches of God

§  Not All That Glitters

§  The Didache

§  1979 Receivership and the Big 3

§  On Following A Man

§  More Following a Man

§  A Funny Little Story

§  Flurry’s Follies

§  All My Yesterdays

o    Governmental Abuses

§  Church Government – Image of the Beast?

§  Ron Weinland on Church Government

§  By What Measure You Use

§  All My Yesterdays

§  Church Financing part1

§  COGWA, LCG and the Laying On of Hands

§  UCG – The Law Is Our Key To Life

o    Help For Exiting

§  What To Expect When You’re Escaping Armstrongism

§  What Will It Take

o    How We Left

§  One Year Today

§  I Pushed the Jesus Button and Nothing Happened

§  You’ve Left… Now What?

§  Welcome To Escaping Armstrongism

§  Thankful for Grace

§  Escaping Armstrongism – part I

§  Escaping Armstrongism – part II

o    One True Church

§  COGWA Claims False Roots (long version)

§  COGWA Claims False Roots (short version)

§  A Pattern of Dishonest Documentation

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  Focus

§  True History of the True Church?

§  Sunday, or Herbert Armstrong?

§  The “Apostolic” Church

§  Church Government – Image of the Beast?

§  More Following a Man

§  Great Falling Away

§  Robbed of Tithes and Offerings

§  Herbert W Armstrong and Today’s Churches of God

§  What’s Written Between the Lines in LCG’s “Tomorrow’s World”?

o    Personal Experiences

§  Ours

·         We Were Right By Default

·         My Opinion Is God’s Truth

·         30 Years Later

·         Crazy or Not, Here I Come

·         The Mirror

·         Poison Doctrine: The Dichotomy of Armstrongism

·         Is There Love In Armstrongism?

·         Dealing With Indecision

·         Division, Citizens, and the Born Again

·         Cui Bono?

·         I Pushed the Jesus Button and Nothing Happened

·         Shoot Us Both Mr. Spock

·         Poem from Ex-Member

·         Error and Condemnation

·         First Anniversary

·         A Few Thoughts on Leaving A COG

·         Support for Leaving the WCG

·         An Encounter With A Legalist

·         Rationalizing Armstrongism

·         God Is Love

·         A Funny Little Story

·         Goodnight, Gracie

·         Farewell To A Friend – RIP Seeker of Truth

§  Our Readers’

·         Gracefully Free!

·         Reader Testimonials -- Ray

·         Reader Testimonials -- John of Ohio

·         Reader Testimonials -- Centurion

·         Were We Really This Bad – Child Survivor

o    Resurrection

§  Accepting Jesus on the Death Bed

BAPTISM

§  Physical Baptism Versus Spiritual

§  Is Baptism Required for Salvation?

§  COGWA, LCG and the Laying On of Hands

BORN AGAIN

§  Blowing In The Wind

§  Born Again and the Kingdom of God

§  Gennao: Just What Does It Mean?

§  Just What Do They Mean “Born Again”?

§  Looking At Born Again, Again

§  Loose Ends on Born Again

CHRISTIANITY 101

§  Section I

·         Chapter 1: The Basics

·         Chapter 2: In The Beginning

·         Chapter 3: The Spirit of the Law

·         Chapter 4: The Gospel in Detail

·         Chapter 5: Methodology of Truth

·         Chapter 6: Methods of Deception

·         Chapter 7: Dead to Sin; Dead to the Law; Living Under Grace

§  Section II

·         Chapter 1: The Witness of the Holy Spirit

·         Focus and Distractions - Sin

COMMON LEGALIST ARGUMENTS

§  Common Legalist Arguments part1

§  Common Legalist Arguments part2

§  Common Legalist Arguments part3

§  Common Legalist Arguments part4

§  Common Legalist Arguments part5

§  Common Legalist Arguments part6

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  Confusing the Covenants

§  Parties to the Covenants

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  Penalty of the Law

§  Law of Moses – Law of God part 1

§  Law of God – Law of Moses part 2

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  The 7000 Year Plan

§  New Moons – What Josephus Says They Were Doing

§  Does Colossians 2 Teach That You Should Keep The Holy Days?

§  Two Sabbaths of Matthew 28

§  Easter History part1

§  Easter History part2

§  The Plain Truth About December 25

§  December 25 (This is the FULL TEXT of the study into the origins of the December 25 dating of Christmas. This is an expansion of the “The Plain Truth About December 25” post.)

§  Rome’s Challenge

§  We Were Right By Default

§  My Opinion Is God’s Truth

§  Armstrong The Merciful

§  Trumpets and the New Testament Church

§  What Did Jesus Say In Relation To The Sabbath?

§  Should Christians Celebrate Thanksgiving?

§  Sin Is The Transgression of the Law! (?)

§  Paul and Pentecost

§  Moses Died on Mt. Nebo

§  Review – Written By The Finger of God

§  The Law (The Ten Commandments)

§  One Jot Or One Tittle

§  Are The Ten Commandments Removed?

COVENANTS

o    What Covenant Are We In

§  Review – Written By The Finger of God

§  Confusing the Covenants

§  Parties to the Covenants

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  The Covenant and the Testimony

§  How Do We Know What Covenant We Are Keeping?

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  Covenant Loyalty, Righteousness In Faith

§  Testaments vs Covenants

§  All covenant articles

CULTS

o    Identifying A Cult

§  Cultism Abounds

§  Focus

§  End Times Theology – A Topic of Cults

§  Cui Bono?

§  This Has All Happened Before

§  Supersitions, Be Gone!

GERALD FLURRY

o    Damaging People’s Lives

§  Suicide in the Philadelphia Church of God

§  Psychology of the Spirit

§  Prophecy for Fear and Control

§  Robbed of Tithes and Offerings

o    False Prophecies

§  Flurry’s Follies

o    Hypocrisy

§  On Following A Man

§  Flurry’s Follies

GOSPEL

o    Armstrongism Teaches a Different Gospel

§  A Different Gospel

§  COGWA Claims False Roots (long version)

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  Ron Weinland’s Imperfect Law

§  Ron Weinland: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

§  Ron Weinland Stands Between You and God

§  What Is the Gospel?

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  Support for Leaving the WCG

§  Professing Polytheism

§  Just What Do You Mean … Gospel?

o    What is the true Gospel?

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  What Is the Gospel?

§  Chapter 4: The Gospel in Detail

§  The Plan of God: My Thoughts

§  Some Difficult Scriptures

§  Support for Leaving the WCG

§  A Brief Encouragement

§  Once and Future Kingdom – part I

§  Once and Future Kingdom – part II

§  Just What Do You Mean … Gospel?

§  The Gospel and The Powers In Heavenly Places

GRACE

§  Thankful for Grace

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

 

HERBERT W ARMSTRONG

o    End-Time Elijah

§  Herbert W Armstrong: End-Time Elijah?

§  Elijah – Ron Weinland or Herbert W, Which?

§  The Plain Truth About the End-Time Elijah

§  Herbert W Armstrong – Why He Still Matters

§  Herbert W Armstrong and Today’s Churches of God

o    Failed Prophecies

§  An Inconvenient Plain Truth

§  Herbert W Armstrong – Why He Still Matters

§  The US & Britain; In Prophecy? Part1

§  The US & Britain; In Prophecy? Part2

§  A Thought On Prophets

§  All Systems Are Go!

§  Who is the Beast?

§  FULL TEXT of “Who is the Beast?” study (pdf)

§  True History of the True Church?

§  FULL TEXT of “True History of the True Church” study (pdf)

§  Another True History?

§  Babylon the Great

§  A Generation Since the “Last Generation”

§  Are We Living In the Last Days?

§  Elijah – Ron Weinland or Herbert W, Which?

§  The Plain Truth About the End-Time Elijah

§  The 7000 Year Plan

§  Two Sabbaths of Matthew 28

§  Sunday, or Herbert Armstrong?

§  Scattered vs Split

§  Prophecy for Fear and Control

§  The Plain Error

§  The Ten Horns

§  The Two Babylons

§  Rationalizing Armstrongism

§  A Few of My Favorite Quotes

§  The Babylon Connection

§  1979 Receivership and the Big 3

§  More Following a Man

§  Great Falling Away

§  Flurry’s Follies

§  Isaiah 66 and Meats

§  All My Yesterdays

§  Beyond Today Magazine United Church of God and Herbert Armstrong

o    How He Got Started

§  MORE COG Theological Ancestry

§  This Has All Happened Before

o    Plagiarism

§  All Systems Are Go!

§  This Has All Happened Before

§  By What Measure You Use

§  Herbert W Armstrong’s Doctrines and Fruit

§  An Encounter With A Legalist

§  Herbert W Armstrong: End-Time Elijah?

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part1

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part2

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part3

o    Unqualified

§  By What Measure You Use

§  Herbert W Armstrong – Why He Still Matters

§  Herbert W Armstrong’s Doctrines and Fruit

§  Herbert W Armstrong and Today’s Churches of God

HOLIDAYS

o    Christmas

§  Christmas FAQ

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part1

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part2

§  On Nimrod and Christmas Trees part3

§  Nimrod’s Birthday Was January 6?

§  Jeremiah 10 and Christmas Trees?

§  A Dialogue On Jeremiah 10 (By guest-author Dillon)

§  The Plain Truth About December 25

§  Falsely Accused? Christmas Trees and Germanic Paganism

§  Falsely Accused? Christmas Trees Were Christian Theater Props

§  Falsely Accused? Catholics Rejected Trees As Too Protestant?

§  Falsely Accused? Nazi Christmas Propaganda Lives On

§  Falsely Accused? You Decide

§  The Quotes Before Christmas

§  The Babylon Connection

§  Crazy About Christmas

§  Established and Imposed

§  COGWA’s Christmas On Trial – The Defense’s Closing Statement

§  Unto YOU A Child Is Born

§  Advent of Honesty

§  The Best Gift Ever

§  Three Reasons Why I Stopped Keeping Christmas – Part II

§  Jesus: He’s Kind of a Big Deal

§  Peddlers of Paganism

§  O Christmas Tree: The Origin and Meaning of the Christmas Tree (This is not our work. You will be redirected off-site. But the information is scholarly, and has references. That alone makes it a far-cry better than most articles I’ve read on this subject.)

o    Easter

§  Easter FAQ

§  Easter History part1

§  Easter History part2

§  Two Sabbaths of Matthew 28

§  Wednesday Crucifixion? Not Likely.

§  Three Days and Three Nights

§  Does John 11 Define A Biblical Day?

§  Were Gentiles In Corinth Observing the Feast of Unleavened Bread?

§  Resurrection Sundae

§  The Matzo Or The Egg?

§  Must Christians Observe the Old Covenant Passover?

§  Refusing To Understand

§  Primer To The Quartodeciman Controversy

§  Quartodecimans – Were They Law-Keepers?

§  Firstfruits and the Beauty of God’s Timing

§  The Babylon Connection

§  Trumpets and the New Testament Church

§  COGWA on the Resurrection: That’s Nice, Now What?

§  The History Channel Flubs Easter

§  Review of COGWA’s Origin of Easter

§  Wayne Carver’s Crucifixion Chronology – part I

§  Wayne Carver’s Crucifixion Chronology – part II

§  Peddlers of Paganism

o    Halloween

§  Samhain Was Not On October 31

§  Peddlers of Paganism

o    St. Valentine’s Day

§  Is Valentines Day the Lupercalia?

§  Peddlers of Paganism

o    New Year

§  Armstrongism And The New Year

§  Peddlers of Paganism

o    Thanksgiving

§  Should Christians Celebrate Thanksgiving?

§  Peddlers of Paganism

o    Holidays Are Pagan?

§  Peddlers of Paganism

§  Established and Imposed

§  Ben-Ariel’s Religious Bull from Babylon

§  The Babylon Connection

§  Easter History part1

§  Easter History part2

§  Easter FAQ

§  The Matzo Or The Egg?

§  Is Valentines Day the Lupercalia?

§  Jeremiah 10 and Christmas Trees?

§  The Plain Truth About December 25

§  Should Christians Celebrate Thanksgiving?

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

HOLY DAYS

o    Do the Holy Days Teach God’s Plan?

§  Seven Thousand Year Plan?

§  Do the Holy Days Reveal “God’s Plan for Mankind”?

§  What the “Holy Day Plan of Salvation” Means for You

o    Still Binding Today?

§  You SHOULD Keep the Feast of Tabernacles

§  Is the Last Great Day in the Bible?

§  Shadows Nails and the Fall Holy Days

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

§  God’s Law Controversy

§  Law of God – Law of Moses part 2

§  Galatians; Holy Days or Pagan Days?

§  Response To: Galatians; Holy Days or Pagan Days?

§  Confusing the Covenants

§  Parties to the Covenants

§  Truly Unleavened, Resting in Christ

§  Law of Moses – Law of God part 1

§  Ben-Ariel’s Religious Bull from Babylon

§  Common Legalist Arguments part2

§  Some Difficult Scriptures

§  Three Times in the Year part1

§  The Day of Atonement

§  Feast of Tabernacles

§  Must Christians Observe the Old Covenant Passover?

§  Were Gentiles In Corinth Observing the Feast of Unleavened Bread?

§  Should Christians Celebrate the “Night to be Much Observed”?

§  Trumpets and the New Testament Church

§  Does Colossians 2 Teach That You Should Keep The Holy Days?

§  Our Prayer For You This Feast of Tabernacles

§  Spiritual Traps from the Days of Unleavened Bread part I

§  Spiritual Traps from the Days of Unleavened Bread part II

§  Spiritual Traps from the Days of Unleavened Bread part III

§  Paul and Pentecost

§  When Your Feast Fever Breaks

§  Moses Died on Mt. Nebo

§  What the Days of Unleavened Bread Don’t Tell You

§  The Feast: Celebrating the Coming Kingdom of Law

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

o    Wrong Understanding

§  What Do You Mean ‘The Feast of Trumpets’?

§  You SHOULD Keep the Feast of Tabernacles

§  Is the Last Great Day in the Bible?

§  Two Sabbaths of Matthew 28

§  Shadows Nails and the Fall Holy Days

§  Shadows of the Fall Holy Days

§  Tabernacles – The Bittersweet Feast of Booths

§  The Trouble With Tabernacles

§  Seven Tips for Having the Best Feast Ever

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

§  Support for Leaving the WCG

§  Happy Feast of Trumpets

§  The Day of Atonement

§  Old Covenant vs New Covenant

§  Feast of Tabernacles

§  Bread and Wine

§  UCG – The Law Is Our Key To Life

§  Paul and Pentecost

§  Are You Ready For The Feast of Trumpets?

§  Just What Do You Mean … ATONEMENT?

§  You Will Never Be Worthy

§  Moses Died on Mt. Nebo

§  What the Days of Unleavened Bread Don’t Tell You

§  Overcoming and the Feast of Trumpets

§  More Than Just Hunger Pangs

§  The Feast: Celebrating the Coming Kingdom of Law

§  Boost Your Spiritual Credit Rating This Passover

§  Our Prayer for You This Feast of Tabernacles

§  Passover in the Age of Social Distancing

§  Refusing To Understand

§  Primer To The Quartodeciman Controversy

§  Quartodecimans – Were They Law-Keepers?

§  Once and Future Kingdom – part I

§  Once and Future Kingdom – part II

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

§  My Solution To Last Supper Timing In Synoptics vs John

o    Passover

§  All Passover articles

o    Unleavened Bread

§  All DOUB articles

o    Feast of Firstfruits

§  All Firstfruits articles

o    Pentecost

§  All Pentecost articles

o    Trumpets

§  All Trumpets articles

o    Atonement

§  All Atonement articles

o    Tabernacles

§  All Tabernacles articles

HOLY SPIRIT

§  The Witness of the Holy Spirit

§  Primer to The Trinity Doctrine

§  Jesus Death Under Trinitarianism

§  Rainbows and Earthworms, or Making Sense of God’s Nature

§  Bread and Wine

§  Professing Polytheism

HUMAN NATURE

§  God’s Perfect Solution

§  Psychology of the Spirit

§  Striving to Be Righteous

§  David Hulme’s Tips for Raising A Christian Moral Child

§  Supersitions, Be Gone!

JESUS

o    Can God Die?

§  Can God Die?

§  Jesus Death Under Trinitarianism

§  Is It A Sacrifice for God to Become Human and Die for Us?

o    Crucifixion & Resurrection

§  Two Sabbaths of Matthew 28

§  COGWA on the Resurrection: That’s Nice, Now What?

o    Had a beginning?

§  Did Jesus Have a Beginning

§  Did Jesus Have A Beginning (RePost)

§  Ron

§  Is It A Sacrifice for God to Become Human and Die for Us?

§  Jesus Is the Creator

§  The Word Was With God

o    Insufficient?

§  Honor Thy Father

§  Who Then Can Be Saved?

§  Moses Died on Mt. Nebo

§  Jesus: He’s Kind of a Big Deal

o    Is Yaweh?

§  Did Jesus Have a Beginning

§  Can God Die?

§  Who Is Yaweh?

§  Jesus is Yaweh Too

§  Supersitions, Be Gone!

§  Professing Polytheism

o    Preached About In The Old Testament

§  Bible Symbology

o    Qualify?

§  Jesus: Qualified to be Firstborn?

JUSTIFICATION / SANCTIFICATION

§  Doers of the Law

§  Get Me Off This Plane!

§  Faith and Parachutes – part I

§  Faith and Parachutes – Part II

§  Faith and Parachutes – Part III

§  Faith and Parachutes – Part IV

§  Truly Unleavened, Resting in Christ

§  Salvation Is Not A Sticker Chart

§  Scrubbing From the Wrong Side

§  Gardening With God – Growing Spiritual Fruit

§  Just What Do You Mean… JUSTIFIED?

§  Imputed Righteousness – God’s Exit Strategy

§  A Criminal A Cross and A Comma

§  Antinomianism and Motivation of Heart

§  Bread and Wine

§  Who Requires What For Salvation

§  Is Baptism Required for Salvation?

§  Get Me Off This Plane!

§  UCG – The Law Is Our Key To Life

§  Who Then Can Be Saved?

§  You Will Never Be Worthy

§  Overcoming and the Feast of Trumpets

§  Boost Your Spiritual Credit Rating This Passover

§  One Jot Or One Tittle

§  Are The Ten Commandments Removed?

LAYING ON OF HANDS

§  COGWA, LCG and the Laying On of Hands

LYING FOR GOD

§  Version 8 FULL STUDY PDF

MEATS LAWS

o    Required for Christians?

§  Clean/Unclean for Noah?

§  Matthew 15 & Mark 7

§  The Sheet Vision

§  4 Parts of the Old Covenant Remain?

§  Romans 14 and Meats

§  I Corinthians 8 & 10

§  Clean and Unclean Word Study

§  Meats and I Timothy 4

§  Isaiah 66 and Meats

§  Meats: Universal and Plain?

§  Meats Conclusion

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

NIMROD / ALEXANDER HISLOP

§  All Alexander Hislop Articles

§  All Nimrod articles

§  The Two Babylons

§  The Babylon Connection

OLD COVENANT / NEW COVENANT DIFFERENCES

o    Born Again

§  “Born Again” and the Kingdom of God

§  Division, Citizens, and the Born Again

§  Looking At Born Again

§  Just What Do They Mean “Born Again”

§  Loose Ends on “Born Again”

§  Blowing In The Wind

§  Truly Unleavened, Resting in Christ

o    Consequences of Old Covenant  Law Keeping

§  Psychology of the Spirit

§  Penalty of the Law

§  You Can’t Do It

§  What Is the Fate of Old Covenant Keepers?

§  The Covenant and the Testimony

§  A Look At Galatians 3-5

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  Happy Feast of Trumpets

§  Old Covenant vs New Covenant

§  Feast of Tabernacles

§  Galatians Quick Scan

§  Beyond Today Magazine United Church of God and Herbert Armstrong

§  COGWA, LCG and the Laying On of Hands

§  The Letter Kills: PCG Claims Another Life

§  UCG – The Law Is Our Key To Life

§  Who Then Can Be Saved?

§  Supersitions, Be Gone!

§  The Feast: Celebrating the Coming Kingdom of Law

§  Covenant Loyalty, Righteousness In Faith

o    Law of Love

§  God’s Law Controversy

§  The Sabbath Rest of Hebrews 4

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  Law of God – Law of Moses part 2

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  Does the Law Teach Us to Love?

§  Love: Emotion or Not?

§  Focus

§  What Can We Learn from the American Revolution?

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  God’s Perfect Solution

§  By This All Will Know

§  God’s Perfect Solution

§  God Is Love

§  Christians Tithe?

§  Meats Conclusion

§  Honor Thy Father

§  Are The Ten Commandments Removed?

o    Old Covenant Obsolete

§  Confusing the Covenants

§  Parties to the Covenants

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Trumpets and the New Testament Church

§  God’s Law Controversy

§  The Sabbath Rest of Hebrews 4

§  Nailed To the Cross

§  Word Games

§  Shadows Nails and the Fall Holy Days

§  Walk In the Light

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  Law of God – Law of Moses part 2

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  Jesus and the Sabbath

§  New Moons – What Josephus Says They Were Really Doing

§  Sunday “Pagan” Worship

§  The Hardness of Our Hearts

§  God’s Law… Some Points from jdposey

§  Granddad & the Old Testament Law

§  Ron Weinland’s Imperfect Law

§  Time-Line Adjustments

§  Let My People Go!

§  What Covenant Are We Bound To?

§  Ron Weinland: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

§  How Do We Know What Covenant We Are Keeping?

§  Response to SJS

§  Common Legalist Arguments part2

§  Common Legalist Arguments part3

§  Common Legalist Arguments part4

§  Common Legalist Arguments part5

§  Common Legalist Arguments part6

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  How Is the Sabbath Fulfilled?

§  Easter History part1

§  Easter History part2

§  Rome’s Challenge

§  Three Times in the Year part2

§  We Are Not Levites

§  Old Covenant vs New Covenant

§  4 Parts of the Old Covenant Remain?

§  Galatians Quick Scan

§  What Is A Biblical Tithe?           

§  Robbed of Tithes and Offerings

§  Meats and I Timothy 4

§  What Did Jesus Say In Relation To The Sabbath?

§  Spiritual Traps from the Days of Unleavened Bread part I

§  Spiritual Traps from the Days of Unleavened Bread part II

§  Spiritual Traps from the Days of Unleavened Bread part III

§  Are You Ready For The Feast of Trumpets?

§  Which Day?

§  What the Days of Unleavened Bread Don’t Tell You

§  The Feast: Celebrating the Coming Kingdom of Law

§  Quartodecimans – Were They Law-Keepers?

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Review – Written By The Finger of God

§  Covenant Loyalty, Righteousness In Faith

§  One Jot Or One Tittle

§  Why Not Keep Biblical Days?

§  Are The Ten Commandments Removed?

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

o    Purpose & Failings of the Old Covenant

§  Why Does God Allow Evil?

§  Who Advocates the Law?

§  What Covenant Are We Bound To?

§  Common Legalist Arguments part1

§  What Can We Learn from the American Revolution?

§  The Function of the Law

§  The Covenant and the Testimony

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

o    Saved By Faith not Law

§  It Is This Simple

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Scrubbing From the Wrong Side

§  Doers of the Law

§  Penalty of the Law

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  Works vs Faith

§  Common Legalist Arguments part1

§  Common Legalist Arguments part2

§  Common Legalist Arguments part3

§  Common Legalist Arguments part4

§  Common Legalist Arguments part5

§  Rest in Christ

§  You Can’t Do It

§  Truly Unleavened, Resting in Christ

§  Faith Versus Law – the Example of Naaman

§  A Criminal A Cross and A Comma

§  What Can We Learn from the American Revolution?

§  Case Dismissed

§  A Look At Galatians 3-5

§  Faith and the Spirit

§  Faith; What It Aint

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  Some Difficult Scriptures

§  How Is the Sabbath Fulfilled?

§  A Few Thoughts on Leaving A COG

§  God’s Perfect Solution

§  Three Times in the Year part2

§  On Following A Man

§  Isaiah 66 and Meats

§  Who Requires What For Salvation

§  Get Me Off This Plane!

§  COGWA on the Resurrection: That’s Nice, Now What?

§  Who Then Can Be Saved?

§  Overcoming and the Feast of Trumpets

§  The Feast: Celebrating the Coming Kingdom of Law

§  Boost Your Spiritual Credit Rating This Passover

§  Covenant Loyalty, Righteousness In Faith

o    The Two Trees

§  The Sabbath Rest of Hebrews 4

§  Faith; What It Aint

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

o    The Promises

§  Law of God – Law of Moses part 2

§  Does the Law Teach Us to Love?

§  Faith; What It Aint

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  Feast of Tabernacles

§  Robbed of Tithes and Offerings

o    What is the Old Covenant?

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  How Do We Know What Covenant We Are Keeping?

§  The Covenant and the Testimony

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  Testaments vs Covenants

o    Was the Law Changed?

§  Who Advocates the Law?

§  God’s Law Controversy

§  The Sabbath Rest of Hebrews 4

§  Nailed To the Cross

§  Word Games

§  If You Love Me Keep My Commandments

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  Penalty of the Law

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  Granddad & the Old Testament Law

§  Galatians; Holy Days or Pagan Days?

§  Response To: Galatians; Holy Days or Pagan Days?

§  How Do We Know What Covenant We Are Keeping?

§  Response to SJS

§  Common Legalist Arguments part3

§  Common Legalist Arguments part4

§  Common Legalist Arguments part5

§  A Look At Galatians 3-5

§  A New Questionnaire for Armstrongites

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  Some Difficult Scriptures

§  Easter History part1

§  Easter History part2

§  Rome’s Challenge

§  Three Times in the Year part2

§  Matthew 15 & Mark 7

§  We Are Not Levites

§  The Sheet Vision

§  Romans 14 and Meats

§  More Following a Man

§  Meats and I Timothy 4

§  Isaiah 66 and Meats

§  All My Yesterdays

§  Meats Conclusion

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Quartodecimans – Were They Law-Keepers?

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  God’s Law… Some Points from jdposey

§  Response to SJS

§  Common Legalist Arguments part3

§  The Function of the Law

§  The Covenant and the Testimony

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  We Are Not Levites

§  One Jot Or One Tittle

§  Are The Ten Commandments Removed?

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

PARENTING

o    David Hulme’s Tips for Raising A Christian Moral Child

PROPHECY

o    144,000

§  Who Are the 144,000?

o    Gravity of False Prophets

§  An Inconvenient Plain Truth

§  Sunday, or Herbert Armstrong?

§  The Plain Error

§  The Two Babylons

§  Rationalizing Armstrongism

§  The Didache

§  The Babylon Connection

§  Great Falling Away

§  Flurry’s Follies

§  Dave Pack Is A Fraud

§  COVID 19: No More Fear Mongering

§  Brexit – Were the COG Prophets Right?

o    Great Tribulation

§  The US & Britain; In Prophecy? Part2

§  Ron Weinland Stands Between You and God

§  End Times Theology – A Topic of Cults

§  Who is the Beast?

§  The Enemies of Israel are the Enemies of God

§  Babylon the Great

§  A Generation Since the “Last Generation”

§  Are We Living In the Last Days?

§  The Genesis Prophecies

§  The Ten Horns

§  What’s Written Between the Lines in LCG’s “Tomorrow’s World”?

§  Brexit – Were the COG Prophets Right?

o    Symbolism

§  Understanding End Time Prophecy part1

§  Understanding End Time Prophecy part2

§  Understanding End Time Prophecy part3

§  Understanding End Time Prophecy part4

§  Understanding End Time Prophecy part5

§  Bible Symbology

§  Prophecy In Reflections and Types

§  The Enemies of Israel are the Enemies of God

§  Babylon the Great

§  Elijah – Ron Weinland or Herbert W, Which?

§  The Plain Truth About the End-Time Elijah

§  The 7000 Year Plan

§  What Do You Mean ‘The Feast of Trumpets’?

§  The Genesis Prophecies           

§  Scattered vs Split

§  The Ten Horns

§  The Two Babylons

§  Happy Feast of Trumpets

§  The Babylon Connection

§  Church Government – Image of the Beast?

§  Great Falling Away

§  Isaiah 66 and Meats

§  Do the Holy Days Reveal “God’s Plan for Mankind”?

§  What the “Holy Day Plan of Salvation” Means for You

QUARTODECIMAN

o    Refusing To Understand

o    Primer to the Quartodeciman Controversy

o    Quartodecimans - Were They Law-Keepers?

o    Were Quartodecimans and Traditionalists Enemies?

RECOVERY

o    How to Move Forward

RON WEINLAND

o    Con Artist

§  If You Are New To Ron Weinland part2

§  Power/Money Hungry?

§  Setting Up House In Europe

§  This Has All Happened Before

§  50 Truths part1

§  50 Truths part2

§  50 Truths part3

o    Craves Power

§  Power/Money Hungry?

§  Cults and the Vulnerable

§  Ron

o    Damaging People’s Lives

§  Psychology of the Spirit

§  Sick, Sick Minds

o    Failed Prophecies

§  The “All Convincing” Earthquakes

§  If You Are New To Ron Weinland…

§  Time-Line Adjustments

§  When Was the Last Time You Picked Up 2008 GFW?

§  What Is the Time Table for Proof?

§  Ron Weinland Stands Between You and God

§  Ron

§  2008 GFW No Longer Pertinent

§  Ahem… Inauguration 2009

§  All Systems Are Go!

§  Elijah – Ron Weinland or Herbert W, Which?

§  The Plain Truth About the End-Time Elijah

§  Banished Or Saved From Eden?

o    Hypocrisy

§  If You Are New To Ron Weinland…

§  Ron Weinland In His Own Words

§  Quotations from the Hypocrypha

§  Slandering HWA? I think not! Part2

§  On Following A Man

o    Quotations from Ron

§  Weinland Berates Perverted Distorted Bloggers

§  Ron Said vs Jesus Said

§  Ron Weinland In His Own Words

§  Ron Weinland on Church Government

§  Quotations from the Hypocrypha

SABBATH

o    New Covenant Sabbath

§  Rest in Christ

§  Your Life Is Worth More Than The Sabbath

§  Jesus and the Sabbath

§  Christians and Working on the Sabbath

§  The Sabbath Rest of Hebrews 4

§  Granddad & the Old Testament Law

§  Hebrews 4: Sabbath or Kingdom?

§  Common Legalist Arguments part5

§  Two Trees - Two Covenants

§  Some Difficult Scriptures

§  How Is the Sabbath Fulfilled?

§  Constantine vs The Sabbath

§  God’s Perfect Solution

§  Rome’s Challenge

§  Sunday “Pagan” Worship

§  What Did Jesus Say In Relation To The Sabbath?

§  Which Day?cov

o    Old Covenant Sabbath

§  The Sabbath Rest of Hebrews 4

§  Jesus and the Sabbath

§  Ben-Ariel’s Religious Bull from Babylon

§  What Is the Fate of Old Covenant Keepers?

§  Common Legalist Arguments part2

§  Some Difficult Scriptures

§  50 Truths part1

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  Review – Written By The Finger of God

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

SIN

o    Breaking the Old Covenant Law Is Sin?

§  What Does The New Testament Teach About Law and Grace?

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  Focus and Distractions - Sin

§  We Are Not Saved By Law

§  Penalty of the Law

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

§  The Plain Truth about Peter’s Hypocrisy

§  Law of Moses – Law of God part 1

§  Granddad & the Old Testament Law

§  Common Legalist Arguments part2

§  Common Legalist Arguments part3

§  Antinomianism and Motivation of Heart

§  Does the Law Teach Us to Love?

§  Faith and the Spirit

§  Faith; What It Aint

§  A New Questionnaire for Armstrongites

§  A Few Thoughts on Leaving A COG

§  4 Parts of the Old Covenant Remain?

§  Not All That Glitters

§  Church Financing part1

§  Church Financing part2

§  Christians Tithe?

§  Sin Is The Transgression of the Law! (?)

§  Are The Ten Commandments Removed?

§  Is Ceremonial Law Removed?

o    Evil

§  Why Does God Allow Evil?

TITHING

o    Abuses Under Armstrongism

§  If You Are New To Ron Weinland part2

§  Tithing

§  A New Questionnaire for Armstrongites

§  The Didache

§  Who Pays Tithe Of A Tithe?

§  Tithing – You’re Doing It Wrong

o    Should Christians Tithe?

§  Law of Moses – Law of God part 1

§  Law of God – Law of Moses part 2

§  Without Law There Is No Sin

§  Do Post-Armstrongists Keep the Law?

§  50 Truths part3

§  Abraham Tithed?

§  We Are Not Levites

§  Not All That Glitters

§  What Is A Biblical Tithe?

§  Robbed of Tithes and Offerings

§  Church Financing part1

§  Church Financing part2

§  Christians Tithe?

§  Tithing – You’re Doing It Wrong

§  What Use Is The Old Law?

TRINITY DOCTRINE

§  Jesus Death Under Trinitarianism

§  Primer to The Trinity Doctrine

§  Rainbows and Earthworms, or Making Sense of God’s Nature

WOMEN

§  The Virtuous Woman

§  The Hardness of Our Hearts

§  There Is No Spoon

§  UCG – The Law Is Our Key To Life

MISC

§  On A Personal Note: Why We’re Here

§  Armstrong The Merciful

§  A Quick Primer on Evidence

§  A Warning!

§  Bible Dictionary part2

§  God Hates Religion

§  Handbook for the Recently Released

§  Racism, Airing an Explosive Issue

§  Slandering HWA? I think not!

§  Slandering HWA? I think not! Part2

§  Some Reassurance re Privacy

§  Stand Up and Be Heard

§  Warped Values, Convoluted Compassion

§  With Freedom Comes Responsibility

§  Key to Understanding Why Armstrongism is a False Gospel

§  Suicide in the Philadelphia Church of God

§  Gary Benjamin RIP

§  Tragedy Strikes LCG Summer Camp

§  Farewell To A Friend – RIP Seeker of Truth

§  Ron Dart Passes Away

§  World Vision to Host LCG Seminar; Believes Merideth Followed Tkach

§  World Vision “Cleaning” Schedule Washes Out LCG Seminar

§  LCG Back On Schedule at World Vision Canada Headquarters

§  The Letter Kills: PCG Claims Another Life

§  The Bible Reading Plan You REALLY Need

§  Thoughts on the Allwine Tragedy

§  Rod Meredith’s Race Is Finished

§  Gary Klar RIP

§  Billy Graham In His Own Words

§  Rock Valley & Oak Stone Christian churches: Trendier, Gentler COGs

§  My Solution to Last Supper Timing in Synoptics vs John

§  Where Do We Draw The Line?

§  Banished Or Saved From Eden?

§  Roman Legions

§  T Is For Yahweh, That’s Good Enough For Me

§  God Loves A Good Turnabout

 

 

Resources

o    Advice

§  I strongly suggest the use of an Interlinear (original language the scriptures were written in), and a Strong’s Dictionary for word definitions. Without one, Bible study is greatly diminished. You can get them for New and Old Testament, although Old Testament is difficult to find and costly. A New/Old Testament set costs approximately seventy some dollars.
For those who may not be familiar: (G2064) (H3068) This is a reference to the Greek (G) or Hebrew (H) word in the interlinear and the Strongs number assigned to it for easier locating in the Strongs Dictionary for the definition of the Greek or Hebrew word.”

o    Recommended Reading

§  FULL TEXT of “True History of the True Church” study (pdf)

§  FULL TEXT of “Who is the Beast?” study (pdf)

§   “Sabbath in Christ” by Dale Ratzlaff

§  The Babylon Connection” by Ralph Woodrow

§  Difficult Scriptures” by David Albert

§  Isaiah 66” study by Ron Wallace

§  Churches That Abuse” by Ronald Enroth

§  Taking Back Your Life – recovering from  cults..” by Janja Lalich

§  Lost Gospels or False Gospels” Ignatius.com

§  I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” by Geisler & Turek

§  The Case For Teaching the Bible” Time Magazine

§  The Case for the Real Jesus” by Lee Strobel

§  The Reason for God” by Timothy Keller

§  The Gospel and the Greeks” by Ronald Nash

§  Lying for God” by Kerry Wynne and William Hohmann

§  Handbook of New Testament Exegesis” by Craig Blomberg

§  Bible Prophecy: God’s Agenda and Your Part In It” by Glen Erickson

§  Apologetics 315 recommended reading list

o    Inspiring Reading

§  In the Grip of Grace” by Max Lucado

§  Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis

§  The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis

§   “Can Man Live Without God” by Ravi Zacharias

o    Recommended Websites

§  Apologetics315

§  From Damascus To Emmaus

§  Growing Through Grace

§  Institute for Creation Research

§  It’s Okay NOT To Be A Seventh-day Adventist

§  Philisophia Christi

§  Ravi Zacharias International Ministries

§  The Free Believers Network

§  Word Of His Grace

§  The Interactive Bible

§  Truth or Fables: Exposing Seventh-day Adventist Fables

o    On-line Bible Study

§  Bible Gateway

§  eSword –high-quality, free Bible software

§  Greek Interlinear

§  Hebrew Interlinear

§  Interlinear Study Bible

§  Old and New Covenants Compared

§  Strong’s Concordance

§  The Bible Pages

o    Help With Exiting Armstrongism

§  Exit & Support Network

§  Counter Cult Search

§  Knapp Family Counseling

§  Spiritual Research Network

§  Personal Freedom Outreach

§  Suicide Hotlines

 

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