I have written before about church divisions and why I believe God allowed, or perhaps caused, the splits around 1995. Just to recap, the old WCG often had all the answers, or so we thought. We were often arrogant towards “the world’s churches” and sometimes even others within the Church…
Dr Robert Thiel, aka “COGWriter”, wrote a truism on his blog, Church of God News recently wrote in relation to false prophet Ronald Weinland: Because of false prophets, people seem less willing to believe the true predictions of God’s word as explained by His servants. But whether people believe the…
During a recent discussion on this blog, we were talking about how some thought HWA’s writings may one day be part of the Bible. Frankly, I don’t believe that for various reasons that I won’t go into right now. However, right around the time of that discussion, I had come…
David Ben-Ariel seems to get his articles plastered everywhere. At least they give him the proper attribution, but it is kind of strange to be reading something and think “That’s familiar sounding,” then find out it is an article by him. He has an article, apparently the original, on Ezine…
It seems that items of interest come in waves of sorts. Last week, I posted the first article in a series on Tithing. Meanwhile, wouldn’t you know it but that I came across a couple of related blog articles. First, David Ben-Ariel posted the below video “Religious Truth (Herbert W….
Well, the UCG GCE meeting has completed. As usual, there are the comments about “church government” that seems to accompany every UCG GCE meeting. Many like to quote HWA’s doctrine on church government from his book Mystery of the Ages: Old Testament Israel, the Church of the Old Testament, was…
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything…
Last year, one of my favorite blogs LifeHacker asked the question “Can Social Tools Really Replace Email?” That question has been somewhat on my mind lately. Their question is based upon the New York Times article by IBM Social Computing Evangelist (how do I get that job?) Luis Suarez titled…
The wave sheaf was waved by the priest on the 1st day of the week during the DUB. During the Days of Unleavened Bread, a special ceremony occurred on the “morrow after the Sabbath” (Lev 23:9-11). A sheaf of the firstfruits was cut, and then it was waved by the…
I had to make sure that this got posted before I laid off for the Sabbath. COG Writer reports that it is now official that the “WCG Changes Name to GCI!” I wouldn’t have known of this any earlier, as I just don’t subscribe to anything WCG does. The only…