Philadelphia Worldwide Church of God -- shudder!!!!

Fatfreek

Wife and I spent two days over the 4th with my cousin. I'd always knew he was with the Worldwide Church of God, he told us of the split back in the 90's. His wife stayed with the original, which introduced a bunch of changes, and he went off with the fundamentalists who now name themselves the Philadelphia bla bla.

It's scary when he talks as it sounds so Witney-like. "The end is so near", or words like that. "How near", I ask? "Oh, we can't put a date to it -- we won't do that". Then, I said, near may be 2020, 2050, 2200, etc.

"Oh, no, it may be 2012 at the latest. But we're not saying". Ha!!! He did say, didn't he?

The Philadelphia sect, I learned, has some 6,000 members. They'll be going to their feast (Feast of Tabernacles) this Fall. They celebrate the Sabbath from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. (yes, I provided him with sunrise to sundown schedules for his location from some Naval observatory site) He wants to be very accurate with these times.

What do you know?

luna2

I got some literature from the Worldwide Church of God just a few months before the JW's showed up at my door. I read through it, but didn't understand a lot of it. It sounded like there was only 144,000 that were going to survive through Armageddon, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes. Maybe it was too much weird stuff for my brain to take in all at once, so I didn't pursue it. I really wonder wtf I was thinking back then...guess my marriage failing really knocked me for a loop. Seemed like I was really attracted to these sects that predicted the end of the world and had a sure fire way to live through it. Ugh.

Honesty

I was raised in the WWCoG cult and became a witnoid after they split. I have several brothers who are in the PWWCoG. It is as demonic as the JW cult. They are just as hard to reason with as the JW's because they have the troof.

Wasanelder Once

All I remember is one day passing thier magazine on a newstand outside a grocery store and asking my friend, "How do you like your Truth? Plain or Peanut?"

(Some of you will get it.)

W.Once

Justin

What has become known as "Armstrongism" has survived in the splinter groups. I'm afraid the same type of thing will happen if the WT goes mainstream - JWism will survive in splinter groups.