Worldwide Church of God Baptisms

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I was baptized in the Worldwide Church of God (Herbert Armstrong) in the late 1980s. I came into the Catholic Church 6 years ago. At the time, the parish priest said that my baptism was valid. I basically insisted that I be conditionally baptized because the WCG was non-Trinitarian and taught that we were destined to become God just like God is God.

Anyway, I don’t see the Worldwide Church of God mentioned in the USCCB guidelines but did find this from the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops: Worldwide Church of God (invalid before mid-1990’s).


I doubt there are many converts from the WCG here but wondered if others know of anyone who converted to Catholicism from the Worldwide Church of God.
 
MarkRome said:
At the time, the parish priest said that my baptism was valid.
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Maybe he confused the WCG with other Trinitarian churches. A number of Protestant denominations go by variations of the “Church of God” name.
 
And they did use the proper form and matter. The problem was with the intent.
 
I do know one lady who converted from WCG to Catholicism, but don’t know if her WCG baptism was held to be valid. This lady had a very eccentric, domineering and religously unstable father who started in the WCG, then became Catholic, had a spell as a protestant and ended life as a Shamam
 
In the mid-1990s, after the founder Herbert Armstrong, ied, the church leadership set aside many of its foundational beliefs (Sabbath keeping as the primary) and adopted a more evangelical Protestant belief system (including becoming Trinitarian). Of course this sent shock waves through the organization with several splinter groups breaking off to continue promulgating Armstrong’s teachings.

Unfortunately, they only went back 500 years to get their teachings in line with the majority of other Protestants. I just went back further to the Apostles which ultimately led me to the Catholic Church.
 
I stopped listening to false teachers like Ernest Martin and Herbert Armstrong a long time ago. I suggest you do the same. They have no authority from God.
 
No snap judgment. He denies the Trinity. I don’t listen to anyone who teaches pseudo-Christianity, a false, man-made gospel.
 
Peacemaking said:
That’s how you get fooled by counterfeits and false religion by failing to learn God’s standard and learning how to judge and live up to His standard.
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You have certainly been fooled by counterfeits and false religion.
 
BTW, the Bible is a Catholic book. It was written by Catholics, about Catholics, and for Catholics. Without the Catholic Church you wouldn’t even have the Bible.
 
Peacemaking said:
If the Catholics Church is so holy why did it kill millions of people trying to reform her down the centuries?
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The Catholic Church is holy because Jesus Christ is holy. The Catholic Church is the body of Christ. The Church is made up of sinners like you and me.
 
Peacemaking said:
Evangelists don’t have to argue. They just have to get up in the Spirit and tell the truth.
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1 John 4:1,-3 “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.”

Was Jesus fully God and fully man when he was on this earth? Or, do you believe that Jesus was only a man while on earth and not fully God?
 
pablope said:
Who decides what God’s standards are and what would be the basis?
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Not sure if your question is to me or Peacemaking as you have included both of us in your post.

Christ (God) established the Catholic Church and entrusted it with the Deposit of Faith and gave it authority to teach in matters of faith and morals.
 
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In the early 70’s I received magazines from this group. I saved them for about four years. Each year they would write the same article on Christmas. It was the exact same article with different authors. I never paid for the magazine and it eventually stopped coming but I always felt they were deceptive in their practice.
 
hope said:
In the early 70’s I received magazines from this group.
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That was called The Plain Truth and/or Good News magazine. Both were free subscriptions. And you are right, same types of articles each year. Kind of like an anti-liturgical calendar. There was an anti-Christmas article, and anti-Easter article, an anti-Halloween article. In fact, various splinter groups continue to run the same articles in their publications such as Beyond Today, The Philadelphia Trumpet, Key of David, and so forth.
 
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pablope:
Who decides what God’s standards are and what would be the basis?
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Not sure if your question is to me or Peacemaking as you have included both of us in your post.

Christ (God) established the Catholic Church and entrusted it with the Deposit of Faith and gave it authority to teach in matters of faith and morals.
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It was for Peacemaking.
 
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