Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts

July 29, 2012

WCC presents blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

*Source: News That Matters

World Council of Churches (WCC) have been corrupted beyond hope. WCC evaluation paper claim the Holy Spirit can be found in every religion.

Theology is often the science of how to best nullify the Word of God. Emmanuel Clapsis is one of the deceivers of the flock.

The One World religion is emerging from the ecumenical talks between the WCC and Islam.

This month, the WCC published a report with the theology that shall bring all religions inn under the same umbrella. The new key to unity, is the claim that The Holy Spirit is “in the World”. Not only in the Church.

Here are some highlights from a keynote address given by the Greek Orthodox priest Emmanuel Clapsis in a ecumenical forum arranged by the WCC.

It is named “The Tension of the Particular with the Universal”

” Professor Karmires states that we must have an unshakeable hope and conviction, that God in his boundless mercy and wisdom knows and possesses other ways, other unknown to us “incomprehensible ways” by which he grants salvation to those that live beyond the distinctive boundaries of the Church but possess the natural knowledge of God and faith as well as ethical consciousness.”

Their salvation originates in God’s providence and is achieved through the – incomprehensible to us – working of the Holy Spirit in the world that brings all into unity with the risen Christ and consequently in the Church in its wider sense.

The Church does not reject whatever is holy and true existing either in history or in other religious communities because it considers them as rays of the divine truth that enlightens and leads their people to God.

Emmanuel Clapsis is a tenured professor of systematic theology at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Source: WCC

Download a PDF-file of the document:WCC

My comment:

I have earlier been occupied with the blunt antisemitism that has been promoted by the WCC. When Church leaders refuse to obey the scriptures, they will obviously also mock the Holy Spirit.

Mark 3:29
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.”

It is simply not possible to find an ecumenical compromise between the Worlds religions, without becoming a God mocker. The final antichrist can easily emerge on the new ecumenical ideology, presented by the WCC in the name of “Christ”

Many religious people, even claimed to be “Christians” wish that there were salvation, without confessing faith in Jesus as Messiah and God.

To believe in salvation in “other ways”, other unknown to us “incomprehensible ways” is a bid to make the Word of God null and void.

God has made known to all men, His salvation. Every man who refused to tell his neighbor about how to get saved, never loved his neighbor. He placed him self under a fair and just judgment. All men are sinners. In his sin he will die and perish.

The WCC presents the Bible as either not understandable, or a fabrication. The WCC rejects that Jesus alone can save men from their sins. The truth is that only by faith in Jesus, it is possible for men to please God.

It is sad that a claimed to be “Global Church forum” take this stand against God. Simply because tens of thousands of fellowships who take this position, will deceive tens of millions of people.

Jesus the Messiah warned us against massive deception in the last days. To claim that the Holy Spirit can be separated from Jesus, is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. This view is idolatry, heretic teaching about the tribune Creator. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit can never appear in disunity.

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. It is a mortal sin, that leads its promoters through the gates of Hell. Without any hope of being led into repentance. Such people have cursed them selves, and have been totally abandoned by God of the Bible.

Have absolutely nothing to do with such evil people.

1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

Written by Ivar

March 23, 2012

Daphne Spurlock: Slits 5-Year-Old Son's Throat, Stomps on His Chest to "Release Demons"

*Source: Houston Press

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Daphne Spurlock said she heard voices.

Daphne Spurlock's Facebook page is filled with religious imagery and Bible quotes; last February she wrote, "The best thing that ever happen to me is when I gave my life to Jesus and He filled me with His precious Holy Ghost."

Early Saturday morning, what her husband has called an increasingly strange belief that she was hearing voices became too much, and she slit the throat of her five-year-old son and then stomped on his chest in order to release the demons supposedly inside him.

"She was reading from the Bible with him (the child) and realized he was infested with demons and had to release these demons from him," a spokesman for the Magnolia police department told reporters.

The child, Michael, is in serious condition at Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital.

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Michael Spurlock is fighting for his life.
​Spurlock's husband, David, told the Houston Chronicle, "I can't put it together yet...She started cussing a week ago. That was not like her at all."

She said the voices in her head were Jesus, said the husband, who was not home at the time of the attack in their Magnolia home.

KHOU said Michael "had multiple lacerations to his throat, which had been slit from side to side. He also had a severe head injury and his chest was possibly crushed."

Spurlock remains in the Montgomery County Jail.

February 14, 2012

Bibles that Translate “The Father” as “Allah”

*Source: National Review

The most astonishing example of the global inroads being made by Muslim blasphemy codes may well be found in a deepening controversy over the Bible translations for many Muslim cultures by Wycliffe, the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), and some other Bible translators.

Ostensibly to placate Muslim sensibilities, they removed the words “Father,” “Son,” and “Son of God” to describe the Trinitarian nature of God in the New Testament, using instead, at least for the Arabic and Turkish copies, the terms “Allah,” and “Messiah.” The Christian Post provides an example from Matthew 28:19: “Instead of ‘baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,’ [the text] becomes ‘Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit.’”

This is not a new controversy among scholars of Christian missionary work (Christianity Today wrote a cover story, “The Son and the Crescent,” about it a year ago) but, over the past few weeks, it has inspired mounting protests on Christian websites and a petition to the translators is now posted for signatures by a consortium of Christian missionaries and leaders.

Wycliffe, an interdenominational Protestant organization dedicated to translating the Bible into all living languages, posted a response on its website on February 7 that is less than reassuring. An excerpt of which states:

Wycliffe USA is grateful to all those who have expressed their questions and concerns regarding reports that we have been removing “Father” and “Son” from certain Bible translations, particularly in Muslim cultures. . . . While we have never intentionally sponsored a translation that neglects to properly communicate the divine familial terms, some observers have raised concerns about whether our methodology has consistently met our goal. We are listening to those concerns and are seeking God’s guidance as we re-evaluate our methodology and investigate to ensure that our commitment to accurate and clear translation is being reflected in every project. We are engaged in meaningful conversations with partner organizations, constituents, and church leaders to evaluate our standards, and expect to be prepared to issue a more complete statement soon.

Hopefully, some of those who have commented from the Muslim world itself will be among those Wycliffe and the others listen to.

A former Muslim writes: “Such terms were equally offensive and problematic for Jews in the 1st Century were they not? And yet Jesus used them anyway and God inspired His apostles to do so. And still there was explosive church growth amidst the Jews in the 1st Century. Why should Muslims of today be any different? Indeed, the very fact that God is Jesus’ Father, Jesus is God the Son, and God can be called our Father is what is so attractive about the Gospel.”

A Turkish pastor argues: “Already Muslims in my country believe that the Bible is changed by men and these mission agencies are making it harder for us!”

Another pastor in Turkey makes a common-sense proposal: “Rather than changing the meaning of the Biblical terms and give reason to those Muslims who accuse Christians of adulterating the Scriptures, why not simply put a footnote to clarify that ‘Father’ does not refer to a biological father and ‘Son’ does not refer to a biological son?”

He then goes on to reveal another very disturbing fact about some translations: “But for me the worst thing in this translation is that this ‘Matthew’ started with a quote of the Koran and that the translation is full of footnotes with quotes of the Koran, as if it was the highest authority to decide what is true and what false.”

Since it was founded in the 1940s, Wycliffe has done extraordinary work in making the Bibles and New Testament accessible in hundreds of the world’s tongues, in many places bringing for the first time the Good News of the Gospels, and in the process promoting literacy. Translating sacred texts is often an art as much as a science and scholars have continuously debated the fine points of theology inherent in the translating process throughout Christian history. But, with these Arabic, Turkish, and other Bible translations tailored for Muslim cultures, one wonders, who is converting whom?

— Nina Shea is director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom and co-author, with Paul Marshall, of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedoms Worldwide (Oxford University Press, November 2011).