These assumptions begin with the concept that one has been drawn into the only true church and that all other churches are therefore false. In Part One I want to give an overview of how his church's doctrines were all built upon the axiom of it being God's only true church . This claim is essential in understanding how the church functioned independently from orthodox Christianity and how church members viewed themselves as uniquely chosen to do a job. In fact, the adjective true in its various forms has been meticulously labeled on every possession of the church. In the latter case, Worldwide Church of God indoctrinators utilized the self-contradictory label of new truth to justify both their old faulty belief and their adoption of the newer convenient belief.
Humans have a very strong desire to identify with heroic images.
This is what psychologist Carl Jung called archetypal activation. It would be difficult to believe that people would participate in any cause if they did not identify with it, but there are levels of identification from mild association to blind fanaticism. Fanaticism would lead one to become anti-social, condemn outsiders, refuse to listen to reason from members outside the group, ruin one's own relationship with one's family, ruin one's finances, or even commit atrocities in the name of their cause. It is in the shadow of fanaticism that the Worldwide Church of God has been cast by the media and other critics for several decades, and with good reason. The church members simply allowed their ministers to redefine the word truth for them.