Discovering the Plain Truth

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Ior almost half a century The Plain Truth magaziné and The World Tomorrow radio and television broadcasts of the Worldwide Church of God promoted a number of inventive religious beliefs. Then, following the death of founder Herbert W. Armstrong in 1986, dramatic changes began to occur in the church. Armstrong's successor, Joseph Tkach Sr., and other church leaders began to see that their church's doctrines did not always match up with what the Bible actually teaches.
For decades the Worldwide Church of God had been known for its adherence to many Old Testament sabbath-keeping laws, speculation about the "Ten Lost" tribes of Israel, unorthodox views on the Trinity and strict lifestyle requirements. Now they have begun to encounter new covenant Christianity and its gospel of salvation by grace through faith.
How did this transformation take place? Who were the key movers and shapers of these changes? What obstacles did they face? How have these changes been received by the rest of... Tovább

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Ior almost half a century The Plain Truth magaziné and The World Tomorrow radio and television broadcasts of the Worldwide Church of God promoted a number of inventive religious beliefs. Then, following the death of founder Herbert W. Armstrong in 1986, dramatic changes began to occur in the church. Armstrong's successor, Joseph Tkach Sr., and other church leaders began to see that their church's doctrines did not always match up with what the Bible actually teaches.
For decades the Worldwide Church of God had been known for its adherence to many Old Testament sabbath-keeping laws, speculation about the "Ten Lost" tribes of Israel, unorthodox views on the Trinity and strict lifestyle requirements. Now they have begun to encounter new covenant Christianity and its gospel of salvation by grace through faith.
How did this transformation take place? Who were the key movers and shapers of these changes? What obstacles did they face? How have these changes been received by the rest of the Christian community? What challenges yet remain? And what lessons can all of us learn from this extraordinary episode in church history? Here is the nearly unprecedented story of a religious body turning away from its unorthodox beliefs and toward historic Christianity.
Larry Nichols is a church histórián with an M.Div. from Yale. He is pastor of Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church in Greenville, Rhode Island, serves as chaplain at Rhode Island College and teaches philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island.
George Mather worked for eleven years with the late founder of the Christian Research Institute, Walter Martin. Currently pastor of Sherman Oaks Lutheran Church in Califomia, he is a popular speaker and coauthor (with Larry Nichols) of two other books, the Dictionary ofCults, Sects, Religious and the Occult and Masonic Lodge (Zondervan). Vissza