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American evangelist (1892-1986)
Herbert W. Armstrong’s ministry drew controversy on multiple fronts: doctrinal heterodoxy (notably British Israelism, Mosaic-law observance, and prophetic timelines), allegations of financial impropri...
Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God promoted a tightly woven set of doctrines centered on . These teachings also included distinctive beliefs about prophecy, the afterlife, church exclusivi...
The Worldwide Church of God’s (WCG) doctrinal reforms in the 1990s transformed it from a sect widely described as cult-like into a body that mainstream evangelical organizations could accept, culminat...
Herbert W. Armstrong’s core doctrines labeled heretical by mainstream Christianity and many scholars were a cluster of interrelated teachings: a non‑Trinitarian “God‑Family” theology and denial of the...
Three major post‑WCG splinters—the United Church of God (UCG), the Philadelphia Church of God (PCG), and the Restored Church of God (RCG)—sought to preserve Herbert W. Armstrong’s doctrines by breakin...
Mainstream Christian theologians most frequently singled out Herbert W. Armstrong’s rejection of the Trinity, his British‑Israelism (Anglo‑Israel teaching), and his legalistic Sabbath/Old Testament ob...
Herbert W. Armstrong’s ministry generated persistent controversy: critics document hundreds of failed predictions and doctrinal revisions that they say mark him as a , while defenders argue his statem...
The Worldwide Church of God (WCG), rebranded Grace Communion International (GCI) after doctrinal reforms, fractured into dozens—if not hundreds—of offshoots; the most prominent include the United Chur...
Herbert W. Armstrong placed British Israelism at the theological center of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), using the claim that Anglo‑Saxon peoples were the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Is...
The Worldwide Church of God (WCG), founded by Herbert W. Armstrong in the 1930s, promoted a distinct blend of teachings—commonly called Armstrongism—that emphasized observance of the seventh‑day Sabba...
Herbert W. Armstrong was widely criticized by many mainstream Christian commentators and organizations for doctrines that diverged sharply from orthodox Christianity—especially his non‑Trinitarian Chr...
After Herbert W. Armstrong’s death in 1986 the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) experienced a swift and comprehensive transformation: leadership under Joseph W. Tkach initiated doctrinal revisions that m...
Herbert W. Armstrong promoted a cluster of doctrines—denial of the Trinity, a “God Family” that includes humans, Anglo‑Israelism, strict Sabbatarianism and feast observance, works‑oriented soteriology...
The United Church of God (UCG) explicitly traces its "Fundamentals of Belief" back to the fundamentals drafted by Herbert W. Armstrong for the Radio/Worldwide Church of God, and UCG leaders have said ...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught a nontrinitarian “God‑family” theology that pictured God as a family presently consisting of the Father and the Son, denied the Holy Spirit as a distinct Person, and taught...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught seventh-day Sabbath observance plus biblical “holy days” (Passover, Pentecost, Feast of Tabernacles, etc.) and rejected Christmas and Easter as pagan-derived; critics objec...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught Saturday Sabbath observance, Levitical dietary rules and the seven Mosaic “Festivals of God,” and the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) institutionalized those practices . Afte...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught that New Testament Christians must keep Mosaic laws—Sabbath, dietary rules, tithing, and the annual Levitical festivals like Passover and Tabernacles—and he rejected mainst...
Trinitarian scholars commonly cite New Testament passages that portray Father, Son and Spirit acting distinctly together (Matthew 28:19; the baptism narratives; John 14–16; 2 Corinthians 13:14) and pa...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught that the Holy Spirit is not a distinct divine Person but the impersonal power or essence of God — a position summarized repeatedly in reporting and analyses of Armstrongism...