tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12714681.post8962514276941965431..comments2007-08-08T07:09:15.246-07:00Felix Taylor, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00327093213807879954noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12714681.post-34499670714828235652007-08-08T07:09:00.000-07:002007-08-08T07:09:00.000-07:00I've never felt comfortable with litmus test doctrines. They are so easily abused that I find myself questioning the motives of those who seek after them. What purpose is served by breaking down a belief system - ANY belief system - into a series of "ologies" in the first place?<BR/><BR/>There are COG groups who teach and practice many of the things on Koey's list who do NOT practice Armstrong's abusive government and who do NOT put Armstrong or any other man on a pedestal to be worshiped like a statue of Baal. I would not consider them Armstrongites, but based on Koey's list, they are. I find that very disturbing.<BR/><BR/>Such COG groups catch it from both sides. Devout Anti-Armstrongists condemn them as Armstrongites, and the Armstrong purist groups such as Gerald Flurry's PCG or David Pack's RCG consider them lukewarm Laodiceans at best, apostates at worst.<BR/><BR/>I don't attend any COG's at present, but I may yet at some point in the future. I don't consider a doctrine to be tainted just because Armstrong taught it. Truth does not cease being true just because the devil uses it as part of a lie.<BR/><BR/>I'd be very wary of broad brush definitions of who is and who is not an "Armstrongite".FYI Againhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772915831589396628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12714681.post-83527867897638880602007-08-07T04:36:00.000-07:002007-08-07T04:36:00.000-07:0011. A religion based on a high school dropout con man.Douglas Beckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05639275357879979640noreply@blogger.com