Q. Are you part of Herbert Armstrong’s old Worldwide Church of God? You seem to teach many of the same truths of Scripture.
A. No, but our origins are parallel. Clarence O. Dodd is considered by many as the founder of today’s Sacred Name movement.
According to historian Richard Nickels, “Both Armstrong and Dodd were ministers of the Church of God, Seventh Day (Salem, W. Va.) group, one of the factions of the Church of God, Seventh Day. They began their respective movements at about the same time (1934-1937).
“At the outset both Armstrong and Dodd became independent mainly over the issue of the Feast Days of Leviticus 23. They both believed these days should be kept today, while the majority of Church of God, Seventh Day disagreed. Dodd later came to believe in the ‘Sacred Name’ doctrine, which means a belief in the exclusive use of the Hebrew names for the Supreme Being (Yahweh and Yahshua the Messiah).
“Dodd did not originate the Sacred Name doctrine. Its exact origin appears to be long before his time. However, Dodd crystalized the movement, making it a major force among Sabbath (Saturday) keeping organizations. His Faith magazine began in 1937, and continues to use the name Assembly of Yahweh…”
In 1968 Dodd and A.N. Dugger wrote the book, A History of The True Religion. They recount that a meeting to reorganize the Church of God, Seventh Day, was set for November 4, 1933, and some ten thousand were invited to Salem, W.Virginia. Names were drawn by lot for the Twelve, and then for drawing of the Seventy. Included among the Seventy were Dodd and Herbert W. Armstrong.
The Faith magazine began as an organ to promote the keeping of the Feast Days, but when learning the truth of the Sacred Name, Elder Dodd immediately restored the names Yahweh and Yahshua to all writings in his magazine.
An October 1939 issue included a report of the Feast of Tabernacles in Eugene, Oregon, held by “Elder H.W. Armstrong, a pioneer in this great truth.” Elder Angelo B. Traina restored the Sacred Names to the King James Bible. Both Elders Dodd and Traina are remembered for their efforts in restoring the correct Names and teaching Bible truth.
Herbert Armstrong and his Worldwide Church of God chose to keep the generic titles for Yahweh’s Name as well as the Latinized-Greek form for the Savior’s true Hebrew Name Yahshua.
My question is coming to the knowledge of the “Truth” of Yahweh’s Word. Do I need to be re baptized. I was Baptized by a Sunday keep organization. Do you have a church in SanAntonio Texas where I can attend?
Just got done watching a documentary on the world wide church of god and I tell you what! I’m severely offended. They sent boys to a camp to beat, torture, and rape. No way in Hell would I condone this type of behavior.
Obviously WWCG has some issues. But then again we aren’t WWCG and obviously we don’t condone the awful things you described. Which leads me to ask, what did you comment for?
The so-called “documentary” makes claims that make no sense. Since when would a church run by Herbert Armstrong, a man strongly against protestantism, send someone to what’s essentially an asylum run by fundamentalist Baptists (which the WCG and its offshoots say is essentially a protestant church), giving opportunity for the young lad to be converted away from the WCG? If anyone had sent him away to such a place, it most likely would’ve been his mother, not WCG ministers. Secondly, the abuse supposedly endured at the asylum would’ve been meted out by fundamentalist Baptists, not members of the WCG (if… Read more »
My question is I started going to 7 day Adventist church , They teach investigative judgement I’ve never heard this teaching,Do you teach too
While I am no expert in SDA theology. I believe that investigative judgement is the belief that the Judgement is currently happening right now. This is from the SDA Wikipedia: While no specific date is given in official belief statements, many Adventists hold October 22, 1844 as the starting date for the investigative judgment. Originally Miller set the end of the 2300 days between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. In mid-1844, Miller stated “I confess my error, and acknowledge my disappointment: Yet I still believe that the day of the Lord is near.” In February, 1844, Samuel S.… Read more »
The doctrine of “investigative judgement” is a thinly veiled cover for the fact that the SDAs tried to predict the end of the world and they got it spectacularly wrong.
Hello, I would like to know, why the authors of the New Testament did not use the Hebrew names for God The Father and Jesus Christ, if it is a “biblicle doctrine” according to your church?
They did. The New Testament was written, more than likely, in Aramaic which is similar to Hebrew. From there,it was translated to Greek, then Latin and then English. Somewhere along the way, the real translation was lost. You more than likely have a King James version. If you want a Bible translated from Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek, look at the Restoration Study Bible here at YRM. It has the correct translations.