GIVING & SHARING
NEWSLETTER February, 1993
No. 21
Passover: 14th or 15th?
Keeping the
New Testament Passover on the correct day is vitally important to your
spiritual life, John 6:48-58.
Some in the Church of God have polluted the faith by teaching that the
Old Testament Passover was originally on the 15th day of the first month of the
Hebrew Calendar. However, the Bible
is clear that Passover, Old and New Testament, is on Abib (Nisan) 14.
Fred Coulter
of the Christian Biblical Church of God has recently published his book, The
Christian Passover: What Does It
Mean? When Should It Be Observed, 14th
or 15th? available from Giving & Sharing. This 303-page, attractively bound book is probably the most
comprehensive study ever done on the Passover Question. Mr. Coulter has attempted to answer every
conceivable question on this important topic.
If you have any doubt in your mind about when to keep the Christian
Passover, you should by all means study Mr. Coulter’s book.
The
NEW Dare to Discipline
Dr. James
Dobson, the world’s foremost proponent of the family, has updated his famous
book, Dare to Discipline (first published in 1970, it has sold over
2,000,000 copies). Dobson’s new,
completely revised and updated version of the parenting classic is called, The
New Dare to Discipline. Whether
you’re raising toddlers or teens (or know someone who is), this book helps you
apply time-honored childrearing principles that are relevant today. Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio
program, is heard on more stations than probably any other religious
broadcast. Families raising children
today need help based on Bible principles. This book does that very well.
Where
Did the Trinity Doctrine Come From?
Once again, in
an attempt to soft pedal former spiritual understanding, the Worldwide Church
of God (WCG) now tells us that the doctrine of the Trinity did not come from
paganism. In the August 25, 1992, Worldwide
News article, Joseph Tkach said, “the doctrine of the Trinity did not
originate in paganism, as we have traditionally taught.” The new WCG booklet, God Is..., says
that “the Holy Spirit is also God,” and, “the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit are God,” and, “The Bible does reveal three entities within one Godhead
— the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (page 41).” Finally, they conclude that “the Trinity
doctrine has been accepted as a mystery — part of the mystery of
godliness.” On page 49, the booklet
says that “upon conversion, the Christian is ‘born again’ into the kingdom of
God as one of the ‘children of God’ . . . . It is biblically inaccurate, however, to say
that God is a family.”
The WCG has
now accepted three major false Protestant doctrines: Trinity, born again now (not at the resurrection), and God
is not a family. It is sad to report this doctrinal departure from the Truth.
Just where did
the doctrine of the Trinity come from?
Alexander Hislop, in his famous book, The Two Babylons,
clearly traces the trinity doctrine back to ancient Babylon. In chapter two, “Objects of Worship,” after
90 pages of historical evidence, Hislop concludes (page 90):
Will
anyone after this say that the Roman Catholic Church must still be called
Christian, because it holds the doctrine of the Trinity? So did the Pagan Babylonians, so did the
Egyptians, so do the Hindoos at this hour, in the very same sense in which Rome
[the Catholic Church] does.
The Worldwide
Church maligns Hislop’s scholarship.
Yet other noted scholars, such as Frazer, confirm Hislop’s
accuracy. If you would like to study the
facts for yourself, read Hislop’s The Two Babylons, available
from Giving & Sharing. Don’t let
other people do your thinking for you.
Alexander
Scourby Bible Tapes
For many
years, Giving & Sharing has distributed copies of the King James Bible on
cassette tape, narrated by Alexander Scourby.
These Bible tapes are excellent for listening while traveling, or for
those who have trouble reading. We will
send a FREE copy of the New Testament portion, to anyone 65 years of age or
older, who requests them and promises not to resell the tapes. See the latest Giving & Sharing Order
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Cassette Tape.
Why
Don’t YOU Keep Christmas?
I don’t keep Christmas because: (1) the Messiah was not born on December
25; (2) Christmas was established by
the Catholic Church, and I am not a Catholic;
(3) celebrations and customs associated with Christmas were observed by
pagans long before Christ, and the Bible commands us not to follow pagan customs; (4) the Bible does not instruct us to
observe Christ’s birth, nor does it tell us when He was born. Ω