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The question was about Jesus's divinity and monotheism. Was He and are you?

I answered the question in post 62. Yes and yes.

More specifically: Does your group hold Armstrongs anti-trinitarianism - the family of Gods doctrine/theology?

You'll have to define what you mean, or be more specific. I'm not going to answer a question based on your supposition of the thoughts of a man who died twenty years ago.

No you didn't answer it there. You said you believed they both existed from the beginning. My question is about Jesus's divinity and your church's monotheism. Your last reply said, yes and yes. However..

Your churh's statement of beliefs says Jesus and God are two. Further on in the quote from your church which I posted earlier:

The Bible reveals God as the "Father" and Jesus Christ as His "Son." The distinction between the two is implicit from the very beginning of God's revelation (Genesis 1:1), where the Hebrew word Elohim is used (Elohim is the plural form of the Hebrew word for God, Eloah). There has been communication between these two from the beginning, as seen in the example of Genesis 1:26, where the pronouns us and our refer to Elohim.

If you disagree with the above, let me know. If not, then how can Jesus be divine, Jesus and God the Father be "distict," "plural" and "two" - and your religion still remain monotheistic?

I'm not going to answer a question based on your supposition of the thoughts of a man who died twenty years ago.

Good grief, he's your founder. I would think some of his writings, other than the Anglo-Israel ones, are still around your church.

From Christianity Today:

Armstrong vehemently opposed the doctrine of the Trinity. "There is not one God, but two," he wrote. "God the Father, the Possessor of heaven and earth, the Father of Jesus Christ; and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the active Creator of heaven and earth—the One who became Jesus Christ."
The WCG belief in a "God Family" has been likened to the Mormon belief that the faithful will one day attain godhood. "Our potential," wrote Armstrong, "is to be born into the God Family, receiving total power! We are to be given jurisdiction over the entire universe!. … We shall impart life to billions and billions of dead planets."
A WCG publication offered further clarification: "At the time of the resurrection we shall be instantaneously changed from mortal into immortal—we shall then be born of God—we shall then be God!"

Does any of this sound familar to you?