Talk:Evangelists of the Worldwide Church of God
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Gerald Waterhouse
editI edited a section about his reasons for changing affiliations.
Originally it accused him of "..abandoning the Church to which he pledged loyalty no matter what". In reality this is not accurate. The belief is that "the Church" is NOT constituted by a legal organizational name in strictest terms. But that "the Church" is a group of people who share (basically) the same ideas and views as laid out in the Bible. "The Church" today is Spiritual Israel, and bound by the laws God gave to all Israel. This means obedience to God's laws, and Holy days, as laid out by Him, for all generations (Leviticus 23) are a shared belief.
When WCG made massive doctrinal changes turning away from these beliefs, it was no longer "the Church", as hundreds of thousands of people left to form other groups. The basic principles that WCG now taught were so drastically different that one would have to go completely against his own teaching to stay. As a result, Mr. Waterhouse left, not to show disloyalty, but to attempt to show loyalty to what he believed was the right teaching about God.
If I steer my car into oncoming traffic, and my passengers all jump out, can I count them disloyal for not hanging around for imminent wreck? Were they showing disloyalty, or were they trying to preserve themselves and do what was right? (Bad analogy perhaps, they all break down at some point, still, you get the point lol). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.90.241 (talk) 03:42, 23 July 2011 (UTC)