Salvation Army Church Allowing

Garner Ted Armstrong’s Former Group the Church of God International Use Its Church

 Sunday, July 2, 2006

Dear Dr. Sumner:

I was discouraged by the way Major Brian Venables of the Salvation Army in Canada, brian_venables©can.salvationarmy.org treated me when I called him on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 to inform him of my concern that the Salvation Army church in Kensington, are allowing Garner Ted Armstrong’s former group the Church of God International to use its church. He began attacking me saying, “Look James, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Your research is tainted. You’re reading their material all wrong.”

I was offended by his actions and his lack of concern that the CCI is unorthodox.

It didn’t faze him one bit that the CCI denies and attacks in print Christian ministers and our precious doctrines, including the Salvation Army doctrines.
I asked Major Venables if he himself checked out the CGI website www.cgi.org to see what I was saying was accurate. He said he didn’t and would not check. I asked why. His answer was because a Dr. James Read ethics_centre©can.salvationarmy.org did the checking on the CCI and its doctrines and said everything was fine. I was flabbergasted. I tried to encourage Major Venables to please take one look at the CGI website, scroll down to the right and read “Just What Do You Mean ... Born Again?’ and “Satan’s Greatest Deception.” There you will read some of the CGI’s denials and attacks on our Christian doctrines. He refused. I asked him if he or the Salvation Army churches would let the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and other groups that attack Christianity in to use their churches. He responded no. I then asked, “Why do you let the CGl’~”

My last questions, before he ended the conversation, were how can you, Dr. Read, and others in good conscience claim that the CGI is orthodox, that I am wrong on their teachings, when they have numerous unorthodox teachings, attack Christian ministers, Christian symbols i.e. the fish, stating as one minister did that the fish symbol is pagan, it implies fertility. They (Christians) think it’s a symbol of Christianity. All they’re doing is perpetrating the SEX SYMBOL OF VENUS (Our Holidays! All Bad? All Good tape 0261).
I continued, “How can all be well with the CCI when in their literature and tapes they say our precious doctrines are nothing more than “Satan’s greatest deception, pagan, false, damnable, lies, heresy, blasphemy, fables, insidious, a joke, and doctrines the church adopted from paganism and heathenism?” How can all be well with the CGI when they state “Satan has the whole world believing in a Trinity, and other Christian doctrines” (Satan’s Greatest Deception” p. 8). How can all be well with the CCI when their headquarters sends out a tape that states “The Trinity is a damnable lie. It doesn’t exist. It’s a heresy. It’s blasphemy. It’s a pagan concept. There’s perhaps no other doctrine that’s more insidious” (tape “Who Are You, Jesus?” 0323).

I asked Major Venables what about the other doctrines the CGI attacks and denies? He did not answer, he simply said, “I must do the Lord’s work” and that was it.

Many other Christian doctrines as you know are attacked and denied.

sent enough information to the Salvation Army to show that the CGI and the UCG do not represent orthodox Christianity.

Shame on Major Venables for his remarks and his unwillingness to look at the evidence. Shame on Dr. James Read to say all is well with the CCI unorthodoxy.

Very respectfully in Christ,

James Kieferdorf
3231 Rosedale #3
Dallas, TX 75205

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