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[https://www.gotquestions.org/Worldwide-Church-God-Armstrongism.html What is Armstrongism? Is the World Wide Church of God a Cult? (gotquestions.org)]</ref>. He opposed [[Trinity|Trinitarianism]] as an evil deception by Satan, asserting from [[Cafeteria Christianity#Proof texts|proof texts]] in the [[Bible]] that God the Father and God the Son (Jesus) are two separate beings, essentially two Gods. At its height, The World Wide Church of God boasted 150,000 members scattered throughout the world.  

[https://www.gotquestions.org/Worldwide-Church-God-Armstrongism.html What is Armstrongism? Is the World Wide Church of God a Cult? (gotquestions.org)]</ref>. He opposed [[Trinity|Trinitarianism]] as an evil deception by Satan, asserting from [[Cafeteria Christianity#Proof texts|proof texts]] in the [[Bible]] that God the Father and God the Son (Jesus) are two separate beings, essentially two Gods. At its height, The World Wide Church of God boasted 150,000 members scattered throughout the world.  

After his death in January 1986, Herbert W. Armstrong was succeeded by his appointed heir-apparent, his son, the charismatically handsome and well-spoken televangelist Garner Ted Armstrong, who soon became embroiled in controversial charges of having deviated from the original doctrine of his father's church by a form of [[Syncretism|syncretistic]] compromise with aspects of mainstream Christianity. The church split into factions, one of them the ''Restored Church of God'', led by David C. Pack (personally trained by Armstrong himself), which claims to have faithfully retained all of the doctrines preached by Herbert W. Armstrong. Garner Ted Armstrong together with his supporters reorganized the church into the [[Corporation|corporate]] ''World Wide Church of God, International''.

After his death in January 1986, Herbert W. Armstrong was succeeded by his appointed heir-apparent, his son, the charismatically handsome and well-spoken televangelist Garner Ted Armstrong, who soon became embroiled in controversial charges of having deviated from the original doctrine of his father's church by a form of [[Syncretism|syncretistic]] compromise with aspects of mainstream Christianity. The church split into factions, one of them the ''Restored Church of God'', led by David C. Pack (personally trained by Armstrong himself), which claims to have faithfully retained all of the doctrines preached by Herbert W. Armstrong. Garner Ted Armstrong together with his supporters reorganized the church into the [[Corporation|corporate]] ''World Wide Church of God, International'', incorporated in 1978.

==History==

==History==

Examples of Herbert W. Armstrong's preachings are available online.

Examples of Herbert W. Armstrong's preachings are available online.

*[https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=broadcast&byGraphicList=&page=&name=#1338725772 ''click on'' '''Herbert W. Armstrong - The World Tomorrow Radio Broadcast''' - Herbert W. Armstrong Library (hwalibrary.com)]

*[https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=broadcast&byGraphicList=&page=&name=#1338725772 ''click on'' '''Herbert W. Armstrong - The World Tomorrow Radio Broadcast''' - Herbert W. Armstrong Library (hwalibrary.com)]

==See also==

==See also==