ARMSTRONGISM
GOD
God is a Family, a Kingdom, not a limited trinity (The
Plain Truth, Aug. 1958, p. 17).
The doctrine of the Trinity is false, pagan (The Missing
Dimension in Sex, p. 37).
God is a family: God is reproducing Himself and man was
created to literally become God (What It Means to Be Equal
with God, p. 43).
At the present time there are only two beings in the God
Family, 1) God the Father, Father of Jesus Christ, 2) God of
Abraham, Isaac, anad Jacob, the One who became Jesus Christ,
God the Son ("The God Family" in Tomorrow's World, May
1971).
You can become God ("God's Power" in Tomorrow's World,
Nov. 1971, p. 12).
But quantitatively, man will never equal God the Father,
just as surely as God the Creator (Jesus Christ) will
Himself never quantitatively equal God the Father (What It
Means to Be Equal with God, p. 44).
YAHWEH was the God of Israel. They (Israel) did not know
God the Father ("Is Jesus God?" in The Plain Truth, Sept.
1958).
JESUS CHRIST
BEFORE Jesus was conceived by Mary, He was not the Son of
God ("Just What Do You Mean - Born Again?" p. 43 in
Tomorrow's World, Oct. 1971, p. 43).
God the Creator (Jesus Christ) Himself will never
quantitatively equal God the Father (What It Means to Be
Equal with God, p. 45).
Jesus Christ was born a Son of God by a resurrection from
the dead...and as a born son of God, Christ is God! God
Almighty His Father is God. They are two separate and
individual persons (Why Were You Born? pp. 21-22).
God the Father did not cause Jesus Christ to get back
into the body which had died. Jesus Christ was dead... and
the resurrected body was no longer human. It was Christ
resurrected, immortal, once again changed (The Plain Truth,
April, 1963, pp. 10, 40).
Christ's body disappeared. Christ was raised as a divine
spirit being (If You Die, Will You Live Again? ,p. 6).
HOLY SPIRIT
The Father and the Son are in definite locations with
respect to each other...spirit proceeds from them and fills
the entire universe. Spirit is God's life (How You Can Be
Imbued with the Power of God, p. 5).
Theologians have blindly accepted the false doctrine that
the Holy Spirit is a third person - the heresy of the
trinity. This limits God to Three Persons! (Just What Do You
Mean - Born Again?, pp. 17, 19).
God's Spirit dwelling in you is God's own divine love
(What Do You Mean - Unpardonable Sin?, p. 9).
Whenever we become members of God's begotten family, we
receive a portion, a seed or germ, of the Father's Holy
Spirit (How You Can Be Imbued with the Power of God, p. 4).
Notice that the Holy Spirit, the germ by which we are
begotten, comes from the Father (How You Can Be Imbued with
the Power of God, p. 3).
SIN
In literally hundreds of places in your New Testament,
Jesus Christ and His inspired apostles teach absolute
obedience to all ten of the Ten Commandments (The Plain
Truth, Nov. 1959, p. 18).
We must repent of sin, repent of transgressing God's law,
which means turning from disobedience as a prior condition
to receiving God's free gift (The Inside Story of the World
Tomorrow, p. 48).
Sickness is only the penalty of physical transgression,
and whenever one is sick, he is paying that penalty. Healing
is nothing more or less than the forgiveness of sin. God is
the only real physician! Scripture labels other modes of
healing as idolatry. Medicine has a pagan origin (Does God
Heal Today?, p. 8).
SALVATION
Jesus alone, of all humans, has so far been saved (Why
Were You Born?, p. 11).
The blood of Jesus Christ does not finally save anyone.
It saves merely from the death penalty (of sin) (All About
Water Baptism, pp. 1-3).
Baptism is an essential ordinance for salvation. You must
be baptized to become a true Christian ("This is the
Worldwide Church of God," in Tomorrow's World, Feb. 1971,
pp. 16-17).
Along with the physical act of baptism is promised the
Holy Spirit, through the laying on of hands (Tomorrow's
World, April 1971, pp. 41-42).
One who is born of God is merely begotten spiritually. He
is not yet really born. Only those who develop spiritually
shall finally be given immortality...at the second coming of
Christ (All About Water Baptism, p. 2).
When Jesus Christ returns to this earth, He will, for the
first time, set His hand to save the world. He will offer
salvation (to all people) (There is a Real Hell Fire. p. 6).
A majority of those who die without Christ will be
resurrected and gain opportunity to believe during the
Millennium (Predestination-Does the Bible Teach It?).
REDEMPTION
The purpose of life in us is that God is really creating
His own kind, reproducing Himself. At the time of the
resurrection we shall be instantaneously changed from mortal
to immortal. We shall then be God! You will actually be God,
even as Jesus was and is God, and His Father, a different
Person, also is God. You are setting out on a training to
become Creator, to become God (Why Were You Born, pp.
21-22).
We....will generate eternal life intrinsically within
ourselves (What It Means to Be Equal with God, p. 44
Furthermore, we will counsel and advise our
Creator-Father (What It Means to Be Equal With God, p. 45).
Physical human beings in Tomorrow's World...will worship
before the feet of God's presentday human servants (Your
Destiny-The God Family, p. 37).
RETRIBUTION
When a human being dies, he is DEAD, which means that his
body, mind, and soul are all dead. He simply stops being (Do
You Have an Immortal Soul?, p. 41).
The wicked will be resurrected at the close of the
Millennium, but only to be annihilated (Lazarus and the Rich
Man).
Rebellion against the Law of God means eternal punishment
and everlasting death. God will save no person He does not
rule (Which Day Is the Christian Sabbath?, pp. 35,58,93,94).
"Everlasting" means "age-ending." The translation
"everlasting" is misleading, since the fire itself will not
burn forever.
The concept of "hell" is part and parcel of the folklore
and mythology of the whole world...as a place of punishment
and torture of the wicked (Tomorrow's World, pp. 14, 18).
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