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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Worldwide Church of God
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 12:04:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 12:04:49 1986
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In article <209@copper.UUCP> johnr@copper.UUCP (John Rutis) writes:
> The Church certainly was NOT an off-shoot of SDA.  We can trace the Church
> from the original Apostles.  Following is a very brief history of the Church
> in the U.S.  In 1664, Stephen Mumford was sent from the "Bell Lane" Church
> of God in London to Newport R.I.  After associating with the members of a
> Sunday Baptist Church for seven years, a Sabbath keeping church of seven
> members was founded.  [blah blah blah....]

My beliefs are certainly not an offshoot of agnosticism.  I can trace them
back from the original apostles.  Following is a brief history...
After associating with the members of a Catholic parish for years, I
developed my own beliefs.

Sheesh.  "Rediscovering" the practices of the apostles isn't good enough,
this sect has to misrepresent it's schismatic beliefs as constants
throughout the millennia.

> ...  Mrs. Armstrong told him that if he could prove to her
> from the Bible that Sunday was the proper day, she would accept it.  Since
> he was out of work at the time, he spent months in the Multnomah County
> Library in Portland Oregon trying to prove the doctrine of Sunday worship.
> Instead he found that Sabbath worship is required by God.  At the same time
> he proved the existance of God, the truth of the Bible, and the falsity of
> the theory of evolution....

Golly, he proved in months what others have spent lifetimes at!  Wow!  He's
gotta have a direct line to gawd!

I've read his "proofs".  They're pathetically fallacious.  If need be, I'll
cite from the notorious "A Theory for the Birds".  (Does anybody have a copy
of his "Some Fishy Stories" that I could have, or that I could photocopy?)
-- 

Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh