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through personal faith in Jesus Christ and in His blood spirituality.” Consider a quotation from this amazing
which was shed at Calvary. The Bible says salvation ecumenical document. In this quote, the WCC is giving
comes through one name only: Jesus Christ. Any other an example of the supposed “spirituality” of Aboriginal
name—whether it be Buddha, Mohammed, Sophia, the thought:
Great Thumb, or Krishna—is unable to bring eternal “The creation of the world began in Dreaming. Before
salvation. the Dreaming, there was a pre-existent formless
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the substance, in which spirit beings lived. In some of the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Jn. stories of the creation event, the Rainbow Serpent
14:6). emerged from her long sleep underground when she
“And [the jailer] brought them out, and said, Sirs, what realized her time to give birth had come. She set free
must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the in the spirit beings to create hills and valleys, light and
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy shade, water and trees, and flowers, and all living
house” (Ac. 16:30-31). things. ... The serpent also set free the spirit beings to
create the animals and the human beings in a
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is particular relationship with each other, forever related
none other name under heaven given among men, through story, song, and ceremony” (Wanderer, March
whereby we must be saved” (Ac. 4:12). 14, 1991).
The Gospel demands repentance. Ariarajah said The World Council publication in question called “for
being a good Christian did not include going around recasting the theological understanding of creation.
telling people of other faiths they are all wrong. He Much of Christianity, especially the major strains of
doesn’t know what he is talking about. Were the Western theology, has given support to human
Apostles “good Christians”? They certainly went about dominance over creation. The Assembly discussions
telling people of other faiths that they were wrong and want to challenge theology and Christian thinking that
that they must repent and turn to Christ! Consider this have seen humanity’s task as subduing the earth.”
sermon by the good Christian, Paul, to the religious
This is foolishness. The Bible plainly states that man
heathen at Athens: was made in the image of God and was given the
“Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye commandment: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the
superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your
devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Ge.
worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the 1:28). Man is not an animal. Man is not a product of
world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of evolution. It is not wrong for man to subjugate the
heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with forests and rivers of this world. It is not wrong for man
hands; neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as to subjugate animals.
though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all The fact is that the World Council is made up of a
life, and breath, and all things ... Forasmuch then as bunch of theological weirdoes! It is the home of every
we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that
the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, sort of radical: environmentalists, communists, New
graven by art and man’s device. And the times of this Agers, One Worlders, feminists, syncretists.
ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all We could proceed to give more details of the strange
men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed goings on at the WCC Seventh Assembly, but we see no
a day, in the which he will judge the world in reason to do so. God has commanded that His people
righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; separate from these things.
whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that
he hath raised him from the dead” (Ac. “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come
17:23-25,29-31). out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her
The Bible says God loves all men and is no respecter sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Re. 18:4).
of persons. But He offers only one way of salvation, and The Day of Prayer for World Peace
men must repent and come on God’s terms through the The following report on the 1986 Day of Prayer for
Lord Jesus Christ. The problem with the World Council World Peace first appeared in O Timothy magazine,
of Churches is simple: They have rejected the Word of Volume 4, Issue 2, 1987. Pope John Paul II and leaders
God. of the Protestant denominations joined hands with
The Rainbow Serpent That Created the World. WCC representatives of the world’s pagan religions to pray for
blasphemy reached equally perverse heights in an world peace. This is the same pope that has been called
advance publication which called for “a rediscovery of “one of the greatest moral and spiritual leaders of this
Aborigine spirituality and for a new creation century” by Billy Graham and a “defender of the faith”
by Jack Van Impe. James Robinson said John Paul II is

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