The Gospel of Jesus Christ says that salvation comes only by faith in Him as the son of God, by his unmerited grace, and not by anything that we do or rules that we keep. A religious system that distorts the nature of God as he is revealed in the Bible, and twists (or rejects) that plain and simple Gospel truth found in the Bible is a false religion. Pure and simple. Previous to its transformation, the Worldwide Church of God clearly distorted the nature of God as revealed in the Bible. Added to this was a heavy legalistic burden of do’s and don’t’s that were, at least in practice, taught as requirements for salvation. This is a clear distortion of the Gospel of Grace. Zeal and passion for God were not lacking among most members of the WCG; but a right understanding of who He is, and the Gospel He brought, was certainly lacking until the transformation began to work its way through the membership.