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He was very much influenced by young Dr. Robert Kuhn and
a few others. A year ago, he clashed openly with me in a meeting
of the Church's Board of Trustees. He resigned in this emotional
outburst, but I calmed him, restored order, and did not accept
his resignation.
The annual ministers' conference, with hundreds of our
ministers from all over the world, began the next day. Because
some wrong doctrinal issues had been brought up in the conference
the year before, I told him that if any doctrines were to be
discussed or presented in any way, I proposed to remain for the
entire meeting. He assured me doctrines would not in any way
be touched on. I opened the meeting in the morning, but in the
afternoon flew on to Tucson.
But my son had lied to me. Actually the biggest doctrinal
teaching of the Church's history was handed out to the ministers
in a leather-bound cover, which I had never seen--of which I
KNEW NOTHING--I did not know such a thing was being produced,
primarily by Dr. Kuhn (to put it in "scholarly" language and
style). It was a complete revamp of all the Church's doctrines--
and WATERING DOWN GOD'S TRUTH AND SCRIPTURAL TEACHINGS!
Meanwhile, combining the Big Sandy campus students with
Pasadena, at Pasadena, many additional professors had been added
to the faculty, who had none of the teachings of God's Church.
They were secular--of the evolutionary approach.
The leather-bound doctrinal teaching had been titled
"Worldwide Church of God SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY PROJECT," known
to the ministers as the STP. It contained a very considerable
"watering down" and alterings of the biblical truths as Christ
had put His truths into His Church through His chosen Apostle.
By April, other events had brought matters to a head, and
I put my son on a compulsory leave of absence for at least the
remainder of the calendar year, until I could set God's Church
under Christ's direction back on the track doctrinally and
spiritually. My son refused to go, but went to the public
press with statements harmful to God's Church and Work.
Thereupon, Garner Ted was put out of the Church--
disfellowshipped, and marked before the Church membership
worldwide.
Since, my son has been doing everything in his power to
destroy God's Church, and to draw away its members to follow him.
As a result of things he falsely claimed, a few members
or ex-members, including one from the State of New Jersey, and
others in Pasadena, launched a legal, civil suit against the
Church, and naming myself and Mr. Rader also as defendants.
They managed to have this suit backed by the acting Attorney-
General's Office (whose acting authority ends in a few days).
Giant banner headlines burst out in the newspapers, saying Mr.
Rader and I were accused of "syphoning off" millions of dollars
to our own private accounts, from God's Work. This was a monstrous