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WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

World is used to refer to the men who live on the earth. is a deep anomaly. But our name indicates also that we
This is the meaning of the term “world” in Jn. 3:16 are aware of that situation, that we do not accept it
which says God so loved the world and gave His only passively, THAT WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD
begotten Son to die for it. It is not man’s wicked TOWARDS THE MANIFESTATION OF THE ONE HOLY
societies and inventions that God loves, but man CHURCH” (The Genesis and Formation of the World
himself. (4) World is used to refer to the wicked things Council of Churches, p. 66). This supposed “one holy
men do (1 Jn. 2:15-17). church”, this longed for world church, is a figment of a
In speaking of the world, the Bible emphasizes its heretical imagination. The Bible does not tell us that
wickedness. Men are evil by nature, and the societies there should be a world church. Quite the opposite. The
they have made are also evil. Adam’s firstborn son, Bible repeatedly warns that Christendom will become
Cain, murdered his brother Abel. When rebuked by God, increasingly apostate as the coming of Christ draws
Cain went out from His presence and built a city and near, and the true churches are commanded to remain
had sons, who became cattlemen, musicians, and separate from this wickedness. God is not fulfilling the
workers in brass and iron (Ge. 4:16-22). This is the Great Commission through a church, singular, but
origin of the world civilizations. Adam, after he had through churchES, plural.
rebelled against God, conceived Cain, who inherited Though the Roman Catholic Church is not officially a
Adam’s wicked nature and became a murderer. This member of the WCC, it has worked closely with the
Cain went out from the presence of God and, together WCC since the 1960s. Many Catholics serve today in
with his self-willed sons, tried to build a comfortable leadership positions within the WCC. Edward Panosian
world without God. This earth is still populated with notes, “Rome’s conception of the ecumenical movement
sons of Adam, all going about their self-willed ways to is the joining of all churches—eventually all religions—
build their own comfortable societies apart from the to Rome. Rome does not join the WCC; she invites the
true and living God. Adam’s children are religious, but it WCC to join her. The whole ecumenical program has
is self-willed religion based on human invention. Cain been called ‘the reversal of the Reformation’” (The World
was religious. He brought an offering to God, but his Council of Churches, p. 40).
offering was rejected because he refused to come as a We could describe the error of the WCC under a wide
condemned sinner trusting God’s Sacrifice. number of categories. We could speak of its Doctrinal
The Bible warns God’s people not to love this world Heresy, its Modernism, its Marxism, its Humanism, its
system and the evil things in it (1 Jn. 2:15-17). To love Feminism, its Sacramentalism, its Syncretism, its
this world is to be the enemy of God (Ja. 4:4). Satan is Universalism. The simple fact is that the WCC fails every
the ruler of this world in that he controls the lives of all biblical test which could be applied. It is patently and
unsaved men (2 Co. 4:4; Ep. 2:1-3; Re. 12:9). The grossly unscriptural. The following look at recent events
whole world lies in wickedness (1 Jn. 5:19), and the sponsored by the World Council gives irrefutable
Christian must be careful not to imitate the evil ways of evidence that the WCC is a part of the apostasy
the world (Ro. 12:1-2; Ja. 1:27). Jesus Christ warned prophesied in N.T. Scripture.
that a man cannot serve both God and the world (Mt. WCC Conference Honors Sophia Goddess, Gives
6:24). Christ died to deliver the believer from this Ovation to Lesbians
present evil world (Ga. 1:4). The Christian is not of this In November 1993, the World Council of Churches
world (Jn. 15:19; 17:16); he is crucified unto the world sponsored a Re-imaging conference in Minneapolis,
(Ga. 6:14). [See Satan, Sin.] Minnesota. Some 2,000 women “seeking to change
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. The World Christianity” attended, and the most radical women in
Council of Churches (WCC) is an international apostate Christendom pontificated on every sort of
ecumenical union of more than 300 denominations weird and unscriptural subject imaginable.
representing more than 400 million professing Speakers included Chung Hyung Kyung, Korean
Christians. It was officially formed in Amsterdam, “theologian” who equates the Holy Spirit with ancient
Holland, in 1948 with 147 denominations. Today there Asian deities; Virginia Mollenkott, an avowed pro-
are 307. abortion lesbian; Elizabeth Bettenhausen, professor at
The goal of the World Council was plainly stated at Harvard Divinity School; Lois Wilson, a United Church
its convening Assembly in August 1948. Former General of Canada “minister”; Jose Hobday, a Roman Catholic
Secretary of the WCC, W.A. Visser ‘t Hooft, verbalized nun.
the sentiments of the ecumenists gathered for that Liberal denominations supported the conference. The
historic occasion: “Our name indicates our weakness United Methodist Women’s Division sent 56
and our shame before God, for there can be and there is representatives and paid their expenses. Altogether
finally only one Church of Christ on earth. Our plurality

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