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--- Quote from: indianabob on May 15, 2015, 02:47:27 AM ---PT stands for
Worldwide Church of God.
Plain Truth Magazine.
World Tomorrow magazine

7th day Sabbath observance.
Seven annual holy days.
three tithes
1. 10% for "church"
2. 10% for attending holy day observance. Living well as it would be in World Tomorrow.
3. 10% widows and orphans, on the 3rd & 6th years of a 7 year cycle. About 22.8% average per year.
Plus the Pasadena Temple building fund.
Plus Federal income tax, State income tax, State sales tax. Local property tax.

Many heads of households tried to comply, some more successfully than others.
Very few really complied 100%. We had kids to feed. And a lot of concealed guilt.

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It was all about works of the law. Really works of the flesh also. This ideology hurt many people, stress, finger pointing, divorce issue, kids confused (they are perceptive) ,  etc. Meanwhile the leadership partook of the rich and famous life style. Sad story, but it is all part of the process of "come out of her my people".

HoneyLamb56:
guess I wasn't one of the called; was lurking incognito

my parents still subscribe to PT or World Tomorrow mag; whatever it's now called; even after I told them about WCG they still believe in what is published; they are 80 so no changing their minds lol

Joel:
I remember thumbing through Plain Truth Magazine at the barber shop when I was a kid back in the sixties.
It was in a small stack of magazines on the couch with Field and Stream and other manly type of reading material where you sat to wait your turn to get a hair cut.
I also listened to G.T.A. a few times on the radio.
Since I can remember those occasions it must have made some impression.

Joel

indianabob:
Hi Honeylamb,
With God ALL things are possible.  ;D

Even 80 year old people may be called and changed. There is always hope. However, with the knowledge we have been given we don't need to be concerned. We know that God shall do His own will and surely shall change those folks, when the time is right....

Hey look what he did with me after 30 years in worldwide.  ::)
Just remember as I do, that God is NOT afraid of a serious challenge. I was certainly that!
Indiana bob



--- Quote from: HoneyLamb56 on May 16, 2015, 10:47:31 AM ---guess I wasn't one of the called; was lurking incognito

my parents still subscribe to PT or World Tomorrow mag; whatever it's now called; even after I told them about WCG they still believe in what is published; they are 80 so no changing their minds lol

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--- Quote from: HoneyLamb56 on May 16, 2015, 10:47:31 AM ---guess I wasn't one of the called; was lurking incognito

my parents still subscribe to PT or World Tomorrow mag; whatever it's now called; even after I told them about WCG they still believe in what is published; they are 80 so no changing their minds lol

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Hello dear Canadian,

I do not really like the word Canuck  :)

Some few go back many years being in the WWCG. We all thought we were the only ones called and chosen of all Christians. very pompous and arrogant. Exclusivist for sure. Some still cling to that doctrine espoused by the WWCG and it seems like your parents still do. They probably follow this group (link below) which claims to be the off shoot of HWA.

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Sad to see some still cling to that. I remember Ray saying that to eventually come to a true understanding of God's work in us we had to go through a system like that or something similar. i.e. come out of her my people!

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