![]() ![]() What we didn’t previously understand was how to put our belief down on paper in such a way it didn’t lead to biblical and theological problems.” At the same time, Mr. Tkach says, “In our practice and experience nothing changes…. After all the articles on this “new” teaching, Mr. Webster’s ninth edition says, “ distinct indicates that something is distinguished by the mind or eye as being apart or different from others.” After that it gets really confusing because one of the very definitions for distinct is separate. Tkach said are distinct, yet not separate. In the AugWorldwide News, Joseph Tkach, Pastor General of the wcg, wrote this on the subject of the Holy Spirit: “The Bible reveals that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are distinct, that is, they are not the same-but neither are they separate Beings.” So the wcg teaches that God is one, and that there are three in one-the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let’s look at a few quotes from recent wcg literature to try to see how a Church could make such a massive change in beliefs. Armstrong, the wcg has changed numerous doctrines, including the doctrines on the God-Family and the Holy Spirit. Since the death of its founder, Herbert W. ![]() If we know God is a Family, where does the Holy Spirit fit into all of this? The Worldwide Church of God ( wcg) for many decades taught that God was a Family and the Holy Spirit was the power of God. Otherwise, we would not have been created in His image (God’s character) and in His likeness (God’s features). God revealed as early as Genesis 1:26 that it is His purpose to reproduce Himself. But that Family will ultimately expand into billions of God beings. Right now, that Family is made up of God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son. Last month we proved from the Bible that God is in fact a Family. The fact that the Holy Spirit is revealed in the Bible as the power of God irrefutably disproves any attempt to make God out to be a trinity or to show the Holy Spirit as being distinct from God and Jesus Christ. Could it be possible that many people believe a doctrine that they don’t understand? All trinitarians, regardless of their variations in beliefs, try to somehow lump the Holy Spirit in with God the Father and Jesus Christ. And yet, many of those churches would agree that the most difficult doctrine to explain is also the trinity. One of the main doctrines most churches have in common today is the trinity. ![]()
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