What You Should Know About United Church of God-AIA

http://www.exitsupportnetwork.com/artcls/ucg.htm ^ | 2009 | Cult watch

[Oztrich Boy]

America: the Land of Opportunity, where any rube who feels like it can incorporate his’n own Church.

[Cronos]

though the way that they deny the Holy Spirit is God is a pretty big non-Truth, right?

[Cronos]

Not a very strong article about UCG, doesnt even mention that they are not trinitarian. Which would be the largest heretical doctrine of theirs that needs to be talked about.

Correct...

[Cronos]

wow, they really took bits and pieces for all — how did they do this?

[Iscool]

One need only read the attempts of non-Catholics to "prove" the doctrine of the Trinity from a literal interpretation of scripture to see how that comes up short.

Your logic falls a bit short...

How do you explain that those of us (and there are/were hundreds of millions) who don't believe a thing put out by your religion actually believe in the Trinity???

And since your religion couldn't find the Trinity (and tons of other doctrines) in the scriptures, how did your thinkers come up with the idea??? When??? From whom???

[Iscool]

Also, it strikes me as amazing that we are assured all the time that non-Catholic Christians belong to an “invisible church” that allegedly enjoys as much if not more unity in doctrine as the Catholic.

And what strikes me as even more amazing is there are people who call themselves Christians and reject the idea of the invisible church...

As a Catholic, is your body and soul a part of the body of Christ or do you just attend the body of Christ???

[FourtySeven]

As a Catholic, is your body and soul a part of the body of Christ or do you just attend the body of Christ???

I honestly don't know how to answer your question, but I can say this with assurance: if I am excommunicated, say by cooperating with an act of abortion, for example, then I am no longer part of the body, obviously. What I'm not sure of is, if I'm in a state of mortal sin, if I'm still considered part of the body or not, theologically speaking.

That's as much as I can answer, because that's as much as I know. Sorry. Maybe another will be more helpful.

[D-fendr]

Catholics don’t reject the invisible Church; but we include the visible one which others reject.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

How do you explain that those of us (and there are/were hundreds of millions) who don't believe a thing put out by your religion actually believe in the Trinity???

You got it from us. Period.

And since your religion couldn't find the Trinity (and tons of other doctrines) in the scriptures, how did your thinkers come up with the idea??? When??? From whom???

It came down to the Catholic Church directly from her first bishops and priests, the apostles and disciples, silly.

[Lee N. Field]

When I was growing up, we used to refer to him as The Turtle, and pranked each other by sending each other's name and address in to receive WWCOG literature. But only if we were really angry at the guy whose address we sent in...

Reminds me of when I was younger, signing an obnoxious guy on the dorm floor up to 1)join the communist party, and 2)get calls from the Army recruiter.

[MarkBsnr]

It came down to the Catholic Church directly from her first bishops and priests, the apostles and disciples, silly.

I would not call Iscool silly. There are other adjectives.