Category: Herbert Armstrong’s Tangled Web

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Cats, Guns, and National Security

REFERENCE: (Edited 09 JUNE 2025) To followers of the Herbert Armstrong faith tradition.

This is off topic for this blog, but it is put here for referencing. It is adapted and heavily edited from correspondence with a current Armstrongist, and continues to be edited. Thus it is likely at times to appear disjointed and repetitious. I am less concerned about the smoothness of my prose than I am the reality which people of my former religiosity need to face.

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Classic “Armstrongism,” for want of a better term, teaches that the “True Church” is defined in its visible/physical identity and authority by a lineage of ministerial ordinations (sometimes termed “apostolic succession”). Christ ordained the original apostles, who ordained people, who ordained people, yada-yada-yada, who ordained people, and at least one of those people personally ordained by the laying on of hands Herbert Armstrong. All of these people will have followed “true” Christianity, which means they were seventh-day Sabbatarian. They will not have descended from the supposed Simon Magus counterfeit religion, as Armstrong would elaborate, and at no point will there be a non-Sabbatarian in this lineage. 

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HWA’S MARRIAGE AND ILLNESS

Herbert Armstrong’s TANGLED WEB
An Insider’s View Of The Worldwide Church of God

From Herbert Armstrong’s Tangled Web…

The whole church had looked on Loma Armstrong with deep respect
and great fondness. She had conducted herself with dignity and
love toward members of all levels. She was kindly and had the manner
of a noblewoman. She certainly had the common touch as well. Her
eyes exuded real warmth and concern for whomever she talked to.
She stood straight, dressing with both modesty and real taste at the
same time. She was a genuine lady.

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