Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ
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The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ (formerly the Israeli Church of Universal Practical Knowledge) is a Black Hebrew Israelite Christian group which accepts the Old
and New Testament
s as well as the Apocrypha, and which believes that specific people of African and West Indian descent are the lost 12 tribes of Israel and are the true racial and Biblical Jews. They are headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. And they have historically claimed racial superiority to Caucasians, and claim to have divine favor and inspiration.
The ICGJC and its various splinter groups can be loosely grouped together as sects which advocate a King-James-Version-only approach to the Bible (i.e. they only endorse the KJV as scripture), and the belief that Caucasians are Edomites. They also hold to strong apocalyptic views of the end of the world.
Old Testament
The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...
and New Testament
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
s as well as the Apocrypha, and which believes that specific people of African and West Indian descent are the lost 12 tribes of Israel and are the true racial and Biblical Jews. They are headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. And they have historically claimed racial superiority to Caucasians, and claim to have divine favor and inspiration.
The ICGJC and its various splinter groups can be loosely grouped together as sects which advocate a King-James-Version-only approach to the Bible (i.e. they only endorse the KJV as scripture), and the belief that Caucasians are Edomites. They also hold to strong apocalyptic views of the end of the world.