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Doctrinal Characteristics of the Church of God
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Doctrinal Characteristics of the Church of God
The quote below is from the WCG newspaper "The Worldwide News", dated
July 22, 1991, page 4.
" 'How are we any different from the Protestant churches?' one person
asked. 'What makes us unique anymore?' At the risk of sounding silly,
let me remind you of just a few ways in which we differ.
- We keep the Sabbath.
- We keep the Holy Days.
- We keep Passover on the 14th of Nisan, taking wine and unleavened bread as symbols of the body and blood of Jesus.
- We do not keep Easter, because it is a compromise with polytheism.
- We do not keep Christmas, again because it is a compromise with polytheism.
- We do not believe the wicked are tortured in an ever-burning hell.
- We do not believe in heaven as a place in the sky to which the saved go when they die.
- We do not believe in an immortal soul that separates from the body at death. We believe the dead are dead until the resurrection.
- We do not believe the doctrine of the Trinity.
- We do not believe the Holy Spirit is a third person in the Godhead.
- We do not believe the doctrine of original sin. In preaching the Gospel, we follow the biblical example by emphasizing the past, present and the future aspects
of the kingdom of God.
- We do not believe the spiritual law of God is done away.
- We believe Jesus will return to earth to rule the nations for 1,000 years. The believers will be resurrected and changed to spirit
and will rule with Christ during that Millennium.
- We believe there is a second resurrection in which those who never knew God will be given theirfirst opportunity for the destruction of the unregenerate.
This list is not exhaustive."