Living Armstrongism: COG Reading List

Monday, September 21, 2009

COG Reading List

Here are some book from Amazon about WCG/Armstrongism. This list is by no means exhaustive.

Survivors' Testimonies:

Showdown at Big Sandy by Greg Doudna

On Angels Wings by Patricia Ann Laessig

The God that Prevailed by Dennis Gerard Embo

Flying Free by John Morgan

Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web by David Robinson

Critiques of Armstrongism

Herbert W. Armstrong & the Worldwide Church of God by Walter Martin

Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God: A Critical Examination by Roger T. Campbell

The Plain Truth-The Worldwide Church of God: What do they believe? by Val Waldeck

Other resources may be acquired through Exit and Support Network's Booklist.

Pro-WCG

Another Gospel by Ruth Tucker
I have included this book because I think that it was during the writing of this book that WCG first made contact with the author and so began her relationship as essentially a lobbyist for WCG.

Transformed by Truth by Joseph Tkach, Jr.
Tkach Jr.'s account of the transformation. Viewable at WCG's website here.

Discovering the Plain Truth by Larry A. Nichols and George Mather
Another Evangelical hagiography about the transformation.

The Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God by J. Mike Feazell
Mike Feazell's account of the transformation.

Pro-HWA

God's End Time Man by Joseph P. Waitz
As though HWA's unreliable Autobiography was not enough, here comes another hagiography of HWA.

The Essential Teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong by Stephen Boston
Ditto.

Pro-PCG

Raising the Ruins by Stephen Flurry
Please be aware there are many problems with this book, which are detailed elsewhere on this blog. This cannot be regarded as a reliable book. Please see the relevant blogs to see why.

Also:

Sects, 'Cults' and Alternative Religions by David V. Barrett (1996). This book has a section on WCG.

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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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