Remember Herbert W. or Garner Ted Armstrong? (page 2)

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Some interesting things about the Plain Truth and the Armstrongs: it seems that they and the WT had a sort of ``mutual non-aggression treaty," i.e. much as they lambasted other religions, they never took direct aim at each other; while there have been testimonies to the effect that they were worse than the WT, it seemed that they had a more much sensitized social conscience; and they were courageous enough to publish an apology for having prophesied falsely.

TresHappy

I was flipping channels this morning on the satellite and saw Garner Ted Armstrong on - sort of soliciting money from the grave, I suppose.

sf

Hi wednesday,

Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong dies
Houston Chronicle, TX - Sep 15, 2003
TYLER -- Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong, known for his work on the religious television
program "World Tomorrow," died today of complications from pneumonia. ...
Controversial evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong dies - WKBN
Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong dies at 73 - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Garner Ted Armstrong - Telegraph.co.uk
New York Times

A few search hits for 'rainy day reading':

http://www.herbertwarmstrong.com/ar/SonOf.html

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Garner+Ted+Armstrong+Freemasons

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Garner+Ted+Armstrong+Watchtower+Bible :

Ankerberg Theological Research Institute - The John Ankerberg ...
... Dr. Ankerberg interviews Garner Ted Armstrong (founder of the ... Has The Watchtower Ever
Lied, Covered Up and ... Important Doctrines, Dates, and Bible Interpretations ...
www.ankerberg.com/catalog/jascat-apologetics.html - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

THE PLAIN TRUTH OF HERBERT W.
... Garner Ted then founded his own church, the Church of ... Armstrong's doctrine leaves
no place for the personage of ... So, as in Watchtower theology, the Holy Spirit ...
www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/armst-1.txt - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

sKally

Leolaia

I remember the WCG program....I watched it to be amazed how similar they were to JWs. We thought he was trying to rip the Society off. I actually wrote away to get their Easter broshure since it seemed to do a better job in explaining why Easter is pagan than the Witnesses did. Then, after I left the borg, when I was attending college, I worked in a library and one of my fellow student co-workers was a member of the WCG. She was very nice, but she was quite annoyed but their restrictions. For instance, I went with her one night to stand in line all night for tickets to see Depeche Mode in concert. She was really excited and stoked and looking forward to the concert. Then, a few days before the concert, she told us she couldn't go after all because it was a holy day....maybe it was a sabbath or maybe some other observance or thing, but she was very, very disappointed.... Leolaia

SixofNine

If I remember correctly (and in the unlikely event that I remember anything at all, I usually do it correctly, lol), Ray Franz printed the text of a letter that the leadership of this church produced for it's membership. The letter was an apology for going beyond the bible, I believe, and Franz was using it as a comparison to the way the WT could have, but never does, apologize for anything.

Navigator

I remember that my Father used to get the magazine "Plain Truth" and often listened to Garner Ted Armstrong on the radio. He thought highly of him. Of course, Dad was pretty conservative. I worked with one of the followers of Herbert Armstrong. He was a psycho basket case and was disciplined for sexual harrassment and racism. He filed suit against our employer for "religious persecution". Of course he got nothing except a large legal bill.

AlanF

Herbert Armstrong was a notorious sexual abuser of some of his female followers. If I remember right, around 1970 there was a major flap in his organization when several top officials got disgusted at his womanizing and left the Church. Garner Ted was a lot worse in this regard. This information came to me several years ago from a former top official named Anthony Buzzard, who has published several books on his ideas of Christianity.

AlanF

RR

Herbert Armstrong, was affiliated with an Adventist offshoot, before founding the Worldwide Church of God.

They have a history simoliar to that of the Watchtower in the sense that after Armstrong died, there was a great schism in the group. The new leadership within a ten year period after Armstrong's death reorganized and became completely orthodox, rejecting EVERYTHING Armstrong taught, they became trinitarian, hellfire, immortal soul advocates. To the dismay of many in the group.

As a result of this chnage, they lost the majority of their following, some 75%. The Church, because of lack of support and funds, since they no longer tithed, had to close down universities, television and radio stations and publishing houses.

Those who left during the ten years of reorganization, went on to form various "Church of God" groups. They still exist and expouse the teachings of Armstrong.

Last month, Garner Ted Armstrong of Tyler, Texas the son of Herbert Armstrong passed away, he was disfellowshipped by is father in the 1970s and went off and formed his own group.

RR

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