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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
November 19, 1976
Dear Co-Workers with Christ,
It seems very possible God has once again revealed something
NEW to us, and important.
Actually the TRUTH--which has become the accepted and official
teaching of this Church--started under most unusual conditions.
This is GOD'S Church, and it, in this present era, rose up in this
world whose God is (though the world is deceived into ignorance of
it) Satan the Devil. It is like a sprout of GOOD wheat sprouting
up among thorns, thistles, and briers.
We are not "just another Protestant church." It is true that
Baptists, fundamental Methodists, and other Protestant
denominations,
do teach some things as we do--but they have the branches and twigs
of the tree--NOT ONE OF THEM has the real TRUNK of the tree--with
its MAIN BRANCHES.
In other words, not one of them knows what spiritual salvation
really is, what the KINGDOM OF GOD (Christ's whole Gospel) really
is, WHY God put humanity here on earth: WHAT is our real ultimate
human POTENTIAL, or HOW we shall reach it. They know not God's
PURPOSE, nor His MASTER PLAN for working it out. They do not know
why we are here, where we are going, or THE WAY. Those are the
BIG, MAIN branches of the tree of knowledge. They are the MISSING
DIMENSION in knowledge.
So we are utterly UNLIKE any other church!
I personally was DUMBFOUNDED when I discovered, late in 1926,
that my Protestant Sunday School teaching had been the VERY
OPPOSITE
of what the Bible SAYS. I have been shocked beyond measure to find
that humanity, including those in Christianity, or all religions in
general--and with VERY infinitesimal FEW exceptions--really do NOT
BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAYS.
Adam and Eve listened as God first instructed them--revealed
knowledge and truth to them in the GARDEN OF EDEN. But THEY DID
NOT BELIEVE WHAT HE SAID. Instead, they believed what Satan said.
Shocking? You don't believe that statement? Open your Bible and
read it for yourself! Or, are YOU willing to believe what Christ
SAYS there? For He is the personal WORD OF GOD, and the Bible is
His Word in writing--the written WORD OF GOD. I BELIEVE what it
says, for it is what CHRIST says!