1 John 4 -5: Armstrongism Revised Version

                                

1 John 4/5: What Armstrongism REALLY is trying to get the scriptures to say they mean.
Actual scriptures crossed out. What Armstrongism actually says in their doctrines in pink.
Not official, my interpretation.

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Dear friends, let us love one another keep the Sabbath and Holy Days, for love Sabbath and Holy Day keeping comes from God. Everyone who loves keeps the Sabbath Day has will be been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love keep the Sabbath and the Holy Days does not know God, because God is love has given the Church the sign of the Sabbath. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. He gave his Church the Sabbath and the Holy Days as a sign to those He has called as His people. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. so that we may be begotten by God's Spirit and someday might have a chance at eternal life. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another by Showing God we love him by being obedient to God's commands of Sabbath and Holy Day keeping. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another keep the Sabbath and the Holy Days, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
¹³ This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: We keep ths Sabbath by He has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to someday be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone God calls acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. ¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love The sign of the Church is Sabbath keeping. Whoever lives in love keeps the Sabbath lives in God, and God in them. ¹⁷ This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus set ourselves apart by keeping the Sabbath and the Holy Days. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love Sabbath Keeping. But perfect love Sabbath Keeping drives out fear, because fear Sunday Keeping has to do with punishment. The one who keeps Sunday is not made perfect in love.
¹⁹ We love keep the Sabbath because he first loved us kept the Sabbath. ²⁰ Whoever claims to love God yet does not keep the Sabbath hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, Keep the Sabbath physically whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen, if they keep Sunday. ²¹ And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. keep the Sabbath, and the Holy Days, and Tithe, and go to Church, and obey the minister without question.


Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born begotten of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. ² This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands of Sabbath and Holy Day keeping and the Law. ³ In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands of Sabbath and Holy Day keeping. And his commands to observe the Sabbath are not burdensome, ⁴ for everyone born of God overcomes the worldly attempts to stop you from Sabbath keeping. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. ⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God keeps the Sabbath and the Holy Days and obeys the Law.
⁶ This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three two that testify: ⁸ the^[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three two are in agreement. ⁹ We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. obedience to the Law. ¹⁰ Whoever believes obeys the Sabbath in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God keep the Sabbath has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. kept the Sabbath.  ¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has may given us eternal life if we qualify, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Whoever keeps the Sabbath has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God keep the Sabbath does not have life.