by AK - Jeff 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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since 01-Sep-02He got coronated as the Messiah in a ceremony hosted by the United States Senate:
Is this really true Leolaia?
If it is.........then we have a big problem in Washington. ( like we don't have already)
HappyDad
Here's the Moonie propaganda video of the event. It's pretty hilarious!
I do believe there is one WWCOG group that keeps all of HW Armstrong's teachings, headed up by Rod Meredith.
Here is an article from that site that shows that they still don't consider Christmas Christian.
http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/magazine/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine33&item=1104261794
So, instead of seeking to put Christ back into Christmas, we must acknowledge that He was never there in the first place! Christmas never was Christian! True Christians will give it back to the pagans, to whom it has belonged all along! Instead of borrowing from the world around us, we ought to take our religious customs and practices directly from the Bible. Then we will be worshiping our Creator in spirit and truth, just as He teaches us to do (John 4:24).
Blondie
One of the Worldwide Church of God offshoots, the United Church of God, keeps the Sabbath and other Hebrew holy days and practices tithing.
They claim to "trace their origins to the Church that Jesus founded" YET they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter either.
Talk about a confused family! I was involved with a woman who became a JW two years after we got together. She and her family were WCoG members, although she wasn't a very good or practicing member as she got older.
After that big split years before, her mother and father stayed in (I guess) the "original" WWCoG. Her sister and her family went into one of the new offshoots that held the customs very (suspiciously?) much like Jews did. They kept the sabbath from Friday dusk to Saturday dusk, etc. (The parents went to one long service on Saturday.)
Then this kooky woman I latched onto (who was very non-moral, if you know what I mean..) decided that, after her previous 10 years or so of immoral behavior, to join the JW! She was going to all their meetings during the week and on Sunday.
What a crazy time these folks had at times when they were together. 1) Basically fundamentalist-type daughter, 1) set of more quiet WWCoG parents and 1) daughter who was a newly-converted JW. It made one's head spin...
One of the Worldwide Church of God offshoots, the United Church of God, keeps the Sabbath and other Hebrew holy days and practices tithing.
They claim to "trace their origins to the Church that Jesus founded" YET they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter either.
This group I am familiar with to some extent. I suscribe to their mag 'Good News'. The first issue I got woke me up to the fact that it is not just Jw's who practice 'kooky' religion. That first magazine could have been a Watchtower/Awake - with elements of both. And the doctrines were so similar to Jw's that I believe, if repackaged, most witnesses would not have identified it as any different in most respects as they believe.
They believe in death-sleep, no holidays other than some contorted application of the Hebrew Holy Days. I believe they are non-trinitarian.
Jeff
I've many jws say "the WWCOG was the closest other domination to the truth" . Many said they didn't want to join it because of the tithing, food restrictions and Saturday sabbath.
WBT$ denies holidays for the JW`s..Jw`s do as thier told...OUTLAW
