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FOUNDER Jesus Christ

FOUNDER Jesus Christ. DATE Founded about AD 30-33 LOCATION Judean province of Palestine (Israel today), under the Roman Empire. The Bible, written originally in…. KEY WRITINGS. Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament). Greek (New Testament).

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FOUNDER Jesus Christ

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  1. FOUNDER • Jesus Christ DATE • Founded about AD 30-33 LOCATION • Judean province of Palestine (Israel today), under the Roman Empire

  2. The Bible, written originally in… KEY WRITINGS • Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) • Greek (New Testament)

  3. LOCATION Headquarters now in Salt Lake City, Utah MORMONISM Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • FOUNDER • Joseph Smith, Jr.(1805-1844) DATE • Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in 1830(Palmyra, New York)

  4. The Book of Mormon MORMONISM Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints KEY WRITINGS • Doctrine and Covenants • Pearl of Great Price • The Bible (King James Version only or Smith’s “Inspired Version”) • Authoritative teachings of Mormonism’s prophets and other “general authorities”

  5. Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Watchtower Bible and Tract Society • FOUNDERS DATE • Began 1879 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania LOCATION • Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York • later Joseph F. Rutherford (1869-1942)

  6. Include… Bible (New World Translation only) JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Watchtower Bible and Tract Society KEY WRITINGS • You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth • Reasoning from the Scriptures • Watchtower magazine • Awake! magazine

  7. JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Watchtower Bible and Tract Society • One-person God called “Jehovah.” • No Trinity. • Jesus is the first thing Jehovah created. WHO IS GOD? Bible

  8. ARMSTRONGISM • FOUNDER • Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) DATE • Founded the “Radio Church of God” in 1934; later became “Worldwide Church of God” (WCG) LOCATION • Eugene, Oregon (later Pasadena, California)

  9. ARMSTRONGISM • The Philadelphia Trumpet magazine KEY WRITINGS New groups – often former WCG members who still follow Armstrong’s traditional teachings – produce:

  10. UNIFICATION CHURCH Family Federation for World Peace and Unification • FOUNDER DATE • Founded 1954 in Seoul, South Korea • Previous name: “Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity” LOCATION • Current headquarters in New York City • Sun Myung Moon (b. 1920)

  11. UNIFICATION CHURCH Family Federation for World Peace and Unification KEY WRITINGS Include… • Divine Principle by Sun Myung Moon • Considered the “Completed Testament” • Outline of the Principle Level 4 • The Bible • “…not the truth itself, but a textbook teaching the truth.”

  12. UNIFICATION CHURCH Family Federation for World Peace and Unification WHO IS GOD? • According to Moon, God is both positive and negative. • He created the universe out of himself; the universe is God’s “body.” • He does not know the future. • He is suffering. • He needs man (Sun Myung Moon) to make Him happy. • No Trinity. Bible

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