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more unscriptural than the things we have quoted from Mary.’ IN MY VIEW, THE FACT OF HER VIRGINITY HAS
this strange WCC book. N O T H I N G T O D O W I T H H E R S E X U A L
We Must Give up the Idea that Other Religions Living BEHAVIOUR” (EPS, Dec. 21-31, 1986).
in Darkness Wilson is an ordained minister of the United Church
The director of the World Council of Churches of Canada and was also its former moderator. She is
dialogue program, Wesley Ariarajah, a Methodist director of the Ecumenical Forum of Canada. She also
preacher from Sri Lanka, was in Norway in 1987 and has a vile, unregenerate mind! If Mary was not a virgin
said, “It is necessary to leave the idea that all other when Jesus Christ was born, He could not have been
religions are living in darkness without any experience sinless, as the sin nature is inherited from the father,
of God.” In an article entitled “Is Jesus the Only Way?” through Adam (Ro. 5:12). Maybe Ms. Wilson doesn’t
in the May 1987 issue of International Christian Digest, understand the facts of life, but virginity DOES have
Ariarajah said, “I know many Buddhists for whom the something to do with sexual behavior! The modernist
conviction about the divinity of the Lord Buddha is so and neo-orthodox delights in double-speak, in
central that they will give their lives to defend it. CAN A redefining Bible terms, but Bible words mean exactly
CHRISTIAN TURN AROUND AND SAY TO THE what they appear to mean. Virgin means virgin. Our
BUDDHIST THAT HE OR SHE IS MISGUIDED TO blessed Lord Jesus Christ was born of a woman who had
THINK THIS ABOUT THE LORD BUDDHA? WE HAVE never known a man sexually. His Father was Almighty
NO GROUNDS TO DO SO. ... Exclusive claims, presents God and He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. For this
as absolute truths, only result in alienation.” we can rejoice, because He was sinless and could
At the WCC General Assembly in Australia in 1992, therefore pay the sacrificial penalty the law demanded
Ariarajah said, “As a Sri Lankan Christian who has read for our sin.
the Hindu writings and the scriptures of the Hindu Statements such as the one made by Lois Wilson
saints I simply cannot believe that there have not been reveal just how terribly apostate the World Council and
other people [than Christians] who are familiar with its more than 300 member bodies have become. If the
God. It is beyond belief that other people have no access biblical command of separation does not apply to
to god or that God has no access to other people. Who is coming apart from this apostasy, it has no application
listening to the prayers of the Hindu? ... MY whatsoever! God commands that His people come out
UNDERSTANDING OF GOD’S LOVE IS TOO BROAD from among this awful apostasy. Are you obeying?
FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT ONLY THIS NARROW WCC Evangelism Means Everyone Already Saved
SEGMENT CALLED THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WILL BE We warn our readers not to be deceived by the use of
SAVED” (The Australian, Feb. 11, 1991, cited in the terms such as “evangelism” and “spirituality” by liberal
Reformation Banner, Apr.-Jun. 1991). ecumenists. They use these familiar terms, but they do
Ariarajah is absolutely wrong. We have every reason not mean what Bible-believing Christians mean. A case
to tell the Buddhist that his lord is false and that his in point is seen in a speech by Raymond Fung, who is
religion will lead him to hell. Why? Because the Bible evangelism secretary of the World Council of Churches.
says so! Who is hearing the Hindu’s prayer? Nobody! Evangelism secretary! One would think that this man is
God says of the idolater, “He feedeth on ashes: a deeply concerned to see the lost men and women of the
deceived heart hath turned him aside... “ (Is. 44:20). Of nations saved through personal faith in Jesus Christ. Not
the idolater’s prayers, God says, “...one shall cry unto so. He believes all men are already Christians even if
him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his they do not know Jesus Christ, and even if they do not
trouble” (Is. 46:7). Paul said, “But I say, that the things go to church, even if they claim to be atheists, even if
which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and they worship idols!
not to God...” (1 Co. 10:20). Will only a narrow His speech was delivered to a meeting sponsored by
segment be saved? Yes, and it is a much more narrow the Ecumenical Council of Denmark, the Danish
segment than Mr. Ariarajah might think, because even Missionary Council, and Council on Inter-Church
most professing Christians will not be saved in that they Relations of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in
have rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the Denmark. The subject was “Church Without Limits.”
traditions of men. Consider a quote from this World Council “evangelist”:
WCC President Says Mary Not Virgin “BUT, HOW DO WE SEE THE 90 PERCENT [THE
In a 1986 report in the Ecumenical News Service of PERCENTAGE OF DENMARK’S CITIZENS THAT DO
the World Council of Churches, Lois Wilson, then one of ARE NOT PRACTICING CHRISTIANS]
the seven presidents of the World Council of Churches, THEOLOGICALLY? I would suggest that it is proper
made this statement: “And then there is the ‘Virgin and useful to relate to the inactive and indifferent as if
they are indeed Christian ... HOWEVER SECULAR AND

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