Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) founded the Worldwide Church of God, Ambassador College and the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation. For over 50 years he was the editor in chief of The Plain Truth magazine, which was provided free of charge to the public. Mr. Armstrong visited more than 70 countries and was highly honored by heads of state in Japan, China, South Africa, Israel and Egypt. He was the author of The Missing Dimension in Sex, The Incredible Human Potential, The Wonderful World TomorrowWhat It Will Be Like, The United States and Britain in Prophecy, The Seven Laws of Success, and his Autobiography. At age 93, he released his final book, The Mystery of the Ages, which he considered to be his crowning achievement in life. Part I is a summary of his teachings about mankind's true destiny and the Kingdom of God. Part II reveals the identity of the lost ten tribes of Israel and their importance in end time prophecy. The Appendix gives a history of his church and explains why his teachings are suppressed by the very church he founded.
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Dr. Boston holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Religions and a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies. His undergraduate work was in Computer Science. For almost 20 years he worked as a strategic planner. He now devotes his efforts to researching and writing about religion and spirituality.
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Concise Summary of Mr. Armstrong's Teachings,
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This review is from: The Essential Teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong: His Teachings Focused on the Incredible Human Potential. Did He Solve the Mystery of the Ages? (Paperback)
This book provides an accurate summary of Herbert W. Armstrong's teachings with out commentary or editorial bias. The book is divided into two sections. Part I is about the purpose of mankind and the plan God has for bringing the majority of mankind into the Kingdom of God. Part I also covers Mr. Armstrong's teaching about the soul, heaven and hell, and life after death. Part II is about the United States and Britain in Prophecy. I recommend this book to either students of the Bible or those seeking an accurate summation of Mr. Armstrong's teaching.
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This review is from: The Essential Teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong: His Teachings Focused on the Incredible Human Potential. Did He Solve the Mystery of the Ages? (Paperback)
Herbert W Armstrong didn't seem to have a single doctrine that he didn't steal from another religion.
G. G. Rupert of the Church of God Seventh Day had a set of eclectic doctrines that were well suited to the purposes of Herbert Armstrong. Besides the Sabbath and the Holydays, there were doctrines of clean and unclean meats, and the Plan of God embedded in the pamphlets written by Rupert. It was upon these doctrines and teachings that Herbert Armstrong based the religion that he founded. Herbert wrote to the leadership of the Church of which he was a minister about the things he began to believe and was rebuffed. Not being able to take being ignored for his ideas, Herbert left and formally started his own Church. The British Israelism theory was a clear ripoff from J. H. Allen's book, although the original idea came from a English lunatic. The doctrine of soul-sleep, the idea that the soul dies with the physical body, and that both are resurrected simultaneously is based on the Adventists. Armstrong strongly taught the Gap theory, where he places a gap of indeterminate time between the first two verses of Genesis chapter 1. The rebellion and fall of Satan goes in here and God is forced to re-create the world, contradicting God's description of the completed creation on day six as being "very good". Now does that make sense? He could weave stories like that and the Two Trees for hours boring his audience into submission. The God family idea is vintage mormonism, telling those who believe the WCG's message, they will become gods themselves, and will then populate all the planets in the universe. Why is it that the earth today is so filled with wickedness, suffering, and sorrow? God permits them, because his purpose is to build another paradise on earth. Also the Holy Ghost is not a person but a force, rejecting the traditional symbol of Christianity the cross, and denying the existence of Hell - these are all ideas based on teachings of The Jehovah's Witnesses. A peculiar feature of Worldwide Church's Millennium is that Jewish festivals will be celebrated, but Armstrong had his own spin on when the Passover is observed, and he changed the date of Pentocost. He was known to flip-flop on other issues (makeup, divorce and remarriage) as well. I thought a truly inspired man of God would have had it right the first time. ...
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This review is from: The Essential Teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong: His Teachings Focused on the Incredible Human Potential. Did He Solve the Mystery of the Ages? (Paperback)
If this book is for people who want to know Armstrong's doctrines, they could just as easily read his final work, "Mystery of the Ages".(That was as good a summary of what he taught as any.) If it's not for people new to Armstrong, then who is it for? The author's website may provide a clue: among those who have been recipients of this book are the leaders and/or big names of the major groups that split off from Armstrong. So, could it be that Dr. Boston hopes to target the thousands of ex-members of Armstrong's church? (P.S. You can probably find a copy of "Mystery" at your local library or used book store.)
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