Tonight while at a restaurant discussing JW topics my Mom told me that Herbert Armstrong was on the WT Society board of directors years ago and that he ended up leaving over doctrinal issues, and was subsequently branded an Apostate by the WT Society, and after this he founded the Worldwide Church of God. Can anybody else verify this? It does seem believable since a majority of the WWCOG doctrines mirror those of the WT Society.
Herbert Armstrong/WWCOG ??
by Junction-Guy 19 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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blondie
Herbert was never officially associated in any way with the WTS. I was said by some JWs that he plagiarized the WT.
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Junction-Guy
I heard that explanation too Blondie, back in my JW days. I also heard that he studied with Fred Franz for a while too.
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blondie
I have researched the directors during Russell, Rutherford, Knorr, Franz, Henschel's time. No HWA. HWA was not above borrowing from the WTS and other religions.
I heard the rumor that the Pope studied too with Knorr. Just one of the "urban legends" that have no foundation in the facts.
Blondie
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AlanF
Armstrong was a nutjob on a par with the JW governing leaders but always completely separate from them.
One Anthony Buzzard, a Brit once among Armstrong's highest echelon, has written extensively about the excesses of Armstrong and his son.
AlanF
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FlyingHighNow
Welcome back, Alan.
The WWCoG apologized and reformed didn't they?
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TheOldHippie
He has written a brochure called "No! I was never a JW!" "Evidently" (sorry, couldn't resist that word .....) he split from an Adventist group in the late 20s to start out for himself.
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AlanF
FlyingHighNow said:
: The WWCoG apologized and reformed didn't they?
Well, sort of.
It turned out that the founder was a perverted sexual deviate who convinced a lot of his female followers that they needed to be impregnated by him. Eventually this deviation was realized by a number of followers, including his son. Unfortunately, his son decided that this was a "good thing" and figured out ways to continue impregnating as many female followers as he could. A number of WWCOG officials, including the "Anthony Buzzard" I mentioned, objected to these shenanigans and either resigned or otherwise made their objections known. I don't know the details, but eventually the church more or less disintegrated, but under the leadership of yet another man did apologize for a number of excesses and gradually converted the religion into something much more like modern Fundamentalist ones.
AlanF
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TheOldHippie
I thought it was all about the money - that the financial excesses of HA, his jet flights all over the world where he spoke with leaders and supposedly told them the Bible message, whereas what he did, was to give a 10 minutes talk on general items, giving and receiving gifts etc. Then after he died, away went the various points resembling those of the JWs, until they are more or less mainsteam and thus heading for nothingness.
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IT Support
Welcome back, Alan.
Some years ago, one of the Brooklyn steering groups examined how the WCG reformed themselves, to see what lessons could be applied to WT. I never learned the full conclusions of the study, but gathered that the implications for WT were thought to be just too horrendous: massive loss of membership, massive drop in literature sales, massive loss of funds, having to sell off of numerous properties that had become surplus to requirements.
So, I wonder why the WT didn't follow their example...?
This is a brief history of the WCG :