The Counterfeit Church
Mike has done it again! His excellent post on the current Counterfeit Church - Walking the Walk by Faith: The Counterfeit Church - caused me to want to comment. And of course, being that I'm so long-winded I couldn't let it stand as a comment... actually, I got off of his topic of the current Counterfeit Church and onto my opinion of the coming Counterfeit Church.
The Counterfeit Church Mike Ratliff writes about, with it's heretical doctrines is in large part made possible here in America by our Scriptural ignorance. The Roman Catholic Church finds the Scriptures incompatible with their doctrines and the "Emergent" Church finds the Scriptures to be outmoded and irrelevant to "modern life". Very few of today's Churches find it convenient or useful to teach the "Whole Council of God". Sure, they use a verse here and a verse there to teach their moral lesson, but they don't really teach what is in the Bible; mainly because the teachings of the Bible are incompatible with their doctrines and morals.
But instead of a second Great Awakening that Mike sees, I see the emergence of the One World Church! The roots of the One World Church are apparent today. I believe we may well see it in our lifetimes. The Dali Lama accepts Jesus as a way to reach heaven. Islam has no real beef with "Christianity" as long as you down-play the "Jesus Christ dieing on the cross" thing. Hey, Mohammad said Jesus was a Great Prophet, that should be good enough! (Great Prophets do not die a dishonorable and shameful death on a cross. Instead, he fools the Jews and the Romans into crucifying someone else. Therefore, Muslims "honor" Jesus Christ more than do Christians!) Islam even teaches a literal second coming of Jesus Christ. (A doctrine that a large part of the christian church no longer holds.) Interestingly, their Jesus Christ is coming to destroy the Jews and the Infidels. Sadly, anti-semitism is so rife, that much of the church wouldn't take issue with the "Christ" coming to destroy the Jews, as long as they (the false church) aren't included as an infidel.
And it's not like the RCC doesn't have Mary, the Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, and Co-Redemptrix (three blasphemous titles) to fall back on. They aren't really very far from the Islamic view of Jesus, doctrinally. ("After all, the Ten Commandments say that Jesus has to listen to his Mother!", an RCC youth leader said to me at the Catholic World Youth Day last year.) And even many "Evangelicals" aren't willing to split on such a minor issue as demoting the Savior for the sake of Ecumenism. We're all god's children, right? As long as we strongly believe we are going to heaven, god will honor that! Sure, jesus said he was the only way; but he meant that he was representative of the many ways. Don't you see, if all ways lead to the same destination, then they are all the same "the one" way just like he taught! After all, it takes great faith and strongly held religious convictions to blow yourself up along with a bus load of Infidel (children) as a martyr for god.
Alright, so there are still some issues, but you wait and see. There will be an Ecumenical Council where the RCC and Islam come to terms! Probably joined by the Orthodox Church, and acclaimed and accepted by nearly all of the main-line protestant churches (including many well known evangelical leaders), as well as a large contingent of the so-called Emergent Church. It may take a catastrophic event of some sort to provided the initial impetus... or it may not.
Or, in our lifetime there may yet be another Great Awakening, or even both! All of this is exciting to me because we win either way! Either way, the Lord is still coming back and the victory is already His!
Lord, I pray that you bring your promised Peace to Jerusalem! Maranatha!
Tag(s): One World Church
The Counterfeit Church Mike Ratliff writes about, with it's heretical doctrines is in large part made possible here in America by our Scriptural ignorance. The Roman Catholic Church finds the Scriptures incompatible with their doctrines and the "Emergent" Church finds the Scriptures to be outmoded and irrelevant to "modern life". Very few of today's Churches find it convenient or useful to teach the "Whole Council of God". Sure, they use a verse here and a verse there to teach their moral lesson, but they don't really teach what is in the Bible; mainly because the teachings of the Bible are incompatible with their doctrines and morals.
But instead of a second Great Awakening that Mike sees, I see the emergence of the One World Church! The roots of the One World Church are apparent today. I believe we may well see it in our lifetimes. The Dali Lama accepts Jesus as a way to reach heaven. Islam has no real beef with "Christianity" as long as you down-play the "Jesus Christ dieing on the cross" thing. Hey, Mohammad said Jesus was a Great Prophet, that should be good enough! (Great Prophets do not die a dishonorable and shameful death on a cross. Instead, he fools the Jews and the Romans into crucifying someone else. Therefore, Muslims "honor" Jesus Christ more than do Christians!) Islam even teaches a literal second coming of Jesus Christ. (A doctrine that a large part of the christian church no longer holds.) Interestingly, their Jesus Christ is coming to destroy the Jews and the Infidels. Sadly, anti-semitism is so rife, that much of the church wouldn't take issue with the "Christ" coming to destroy the Jews, as long as they (the false church) aren't included as an infidel.
And it's not like the RCC doesn't have Mary, the Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, and Co-Redemptrix (three blasphemous titles) to fall back on. They aren't really very far from the Islamic view of Jesus, doctrinally. ("After all, the Ten Commandments say that Jesus has to listen to his Mother!", an RCC youth leader said to me at the Catholic World Youth Day last year.) And even many "Evangelicals" aren't willing to split on such a minor issue as demoting the Savior for the sake of Ecumenism. We're all god's children, right? As long as we strongly believe we are going to heaven, god will honor that! Sure, jesus said he was the only way; but he meant that he was representative of the many ways. Don't you see, if all ways lead to the same destination, then they are all the same "the one" way just like he taught! After all, it takes great faith and strongly held religious convictions to blow yourself up along with a bus load of Infidel (children) as a martyr for god.
Alright, so there are still some issues, but you wait and see. There will be an Ecumenical Council where the RCC and Islam come to terms! Probably joined by the Orthodox Church, and acclaimed and accepted by nearly all of the main-line protestant churches (including many well known evangelical leaders), as well as a large contingent of the so-called Emergent Church. It may take a catastrophic event of some sort to provided the initial impetus... or it may not.
Or, in our lifetime there may yet be another Great Awakening, or even both! All of this is exciting to me because we win either way! Either way, the Lord is still coming back and the victory is already His!
Lord, I pray that you bring your promised Peace to Jerusalem! Maranatha!
Tag(s): One World Church
posted by Bryan at 7:54 AM
3 Comments:
The One World Church is coming. Yep. However, in the mean time let's pray that God will cleanse His people from all thse false doctrines. Just prior to the darkness of the One World Church, I believe God is going to wake up and clean up the real Church. It needs to be cleansed of Sentimentlism, Humanism and anything else that is not focused on God and His Glory!
Great Post Bryan!
In Christ
Mike Ratliff
I enjoyed your post. It is typical of Satan to take a whole truth and insert one little lie that changes the message of that truth. What we call the church today is not The Church. The Church is not a building, denomination or a set of beliefs. The Church is a group of people who have a personal relationship with God through his son, Jesus.
We have taken God's church and ritualized every aspect and we now worship the rituals rather than God. This is pure idolatry.
Let us use the relationship between a husband and wife as an example. What kind of marriage would they have if rote speeches were the only communication between them. How about if every encounter were at a prescribed time? What if they could only approach each other through the presence of another person, and what would happen if every letter or card received was interpreted by a committe before release? Would the marriage survive?
God meant for us to have a simply personal relationship with him - just as Abraham did. No ceremony, no rituals, no human intercessor except his Son. I thank God that for the past thirty years, He and I have had a personal - every day relationship without the benefit of man, church or priest. Just him and me together forever.
I'm glad if you have gotten some good from my post, but I'm not saying don't go to church! As the author of Hebrews wrote;
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
(Hebrews 10:23-25 KJV)
We need to gather together with other believers in order to be the best followers of Christ that we can be, as well as to help our fellows grow. Even more so now than ever before!
Not only are we individually wedded to Christ, we are corporately a body wedded to Christ. If a part of the body seperates itself, then the seperate part dies and the whole body suffers!
It is true that we need a deeply personal relationship with God, but it is also true that we need to share with our brothers and sisters.
1 John 2:7-11 KJV Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. (8) Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. (9) He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. (10) He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. (11) But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
How can we love our brothers if we never meet with them?
We do need to avoid bad churches and find good ones. How do you tell good from bad? Well, for one if no one bothers to bring their Bible to the main service it is a bad church... flee it! If, however, the pastor teaches directly from the Word of God and encourages members to study for themselves, then it is almost certainly a good church.
We should avoid and seperate ourselves from the Counterfiet Church (the bad ones) and cling to the True Church (the good ones).
Thanks for your comment!
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