Spoke with a woman over the weekend who is a friend of a friend of my wife's and she mentioned that she attended the local "Church of God International". I had personally never heard of the group but was wondering if anyone here at the PB had any notion about them. From what I could dig out of her they seem like an Adventist group (her church meets on Saturday).

Here is their website.

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They don't seem very happy or full of joy.

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Looking some more at their site they also deny the Trinity and are Trichotomists.

It's another Armstrongist offshoot. Keep the sabbath and OT laws, salvation by keeping the law, Americans are really Israelites, and God is a family and not just a trinity.

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Armstrongism, The Worldwide Church of God, The Church of God International

Here is a CRI Bible Answer Man brief on the WWCoGI.

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I heard the group underwent an upheaval during the 1990s and the majority of them turned to evangelical Christianity. It's documented on a dvd which has been sitting on my shelf for ages.

I'll break it out tomorrow and give it a look

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Yeah, I thought that was what Hanagraff said years ago also. The son took the group into to trinitarian theology and better soteriology. That is why I went to the Bible Answer Man's site to reexamine. But it didn't lead me to what I remembered. Hank and Ted Armstrong were communicating at one time if I remember correctly.

Church Of God International - Statement Of Beliefs

Some interesting stuff.

Finding more stuff still. Some major changes did come.
http://www.equip.org/articles/the-wo...into-orthodoxy

http://www.equip.org/articles/the-price-of-change

The WWCG is the original, and is the one which embraced orthodoxy in the 90s. A quote from "religioustolerance.org" -

After Herbert Armstrong's death, about 30,000 members of the Worldwide Church of God left to join splinter groups: Church of God International, Global Church of God, Living Church of God, Philadelphia Church of God, and United Church of God.

"Church of God International" sounds like the UN of churches...

Question: Didn't some of the followers of Armstrong actually become Trinitarians (after he died)?

EDIT: I see Randy's post already references that...

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