Ecumenicalism links arms with unbelievers....unequally yoked with unbelievers, which we are clearly instructed in scripture not to do. We are not to be unequally yoked with non-born again Catholicism and non-born again Judaism, much less any other religion of the world such as Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, etc. Linking arms with Catholicism or Judaism (like many in the Jewish roots movement do)..........is ecumenicalism. It is friendship with the world...Mystery Babylon in bed with the world. It is deceptive......... and is deceiving and leading souls to a stronger delusion.
While you are so occupied with those pesky non-believers...you don't realize that all those false believers have infiltrated into the church to put their muddy boot-prints everywhere...thus spoiling the place for anything holy. And you are just as guilty.
You saying that Catholics are our brothers and sisters
No more or less so than my Protestants brothers and sisters, and my Orthodox brothers and sisters. I have a gift of hospitality...giving kindness before any mention of doctrines even arises. I think you should read the gospels again...check out the "good" Samaritan.
and your belief that souls practicing other false religions of the world can be saved without the gospel and apart from knowing Christ just based on their own righteousness............is ecumenicalism.
False. Jesus told the story of the good Samaritan..the equivalent of a Muslim of today...a man of another faith.
Because you are an indoctrinated religious person...you read the bible without being able to understand it's daily implications.
If there were Muslims in His day...Jesus would have told the story of the good Muslim. Of course that puts religious people in a BIG SNIT. (go check your pulse and see how the Pharisees received Jesus' teachings) So the Pharisees...so the "FUNdamentalists" of today. Same religious spirit.
"Righteous" Catholics don't need the gospel and "righteous" Jews don't need the gospel....? nor righteous Muslim, Hindus, Buddhists etc.
I never said that. You have only a one dimensional understanding of the gospel. The higher call is to become the Bride of Christ. God selects (elects) people from every tribe, nation, and tongue INTO His kingdom to rule and reign with Him. Read Revelation. God chooses His holy ones from among the righteous...or ones who are disposed towards righteousness.
All my critics are at a big disadvantage. They don't understand the gospel.
People here will say I am too loving of others. Then others say I'm elitist. The Pharisees didn't understand Jesus either. All they knew was that they hated Him and His message.
And ecumenism is about institutions...not individuals. You are WAY off here (and many other places). Do you think God has mercy on institutions or people? So you condemn people...I condemn ONLY the institution. I don't condemn people. I'm here to help save them.
Hmmm...strange because Jesus came to Israel for that very reason, to bring the gospel.......and even the gospel was to the Jew FIRST, then the rest of the world. Those of Israel who rejected the gospel........sadly were subject to the wrath of God and were destroyed and scattered.......as a lesson and warning to the church and the world.
You are not getting this right. The people of Israel at THAT time were the Jews. They were complicit in putting Jesus on the cross...based on the holiness present in their religion...the law of Moses. As such the ONLY way out FOR THEM was to believe in Jesus.
God sent Jonah to Nineveh....why? To have them repent. And they did so.
Did God send Jonah to other cities? No. But you...thinking you "understand God" are trying to condemn other cities as if they were Nineveh. Jesus' ministry was NOT to the world...but to the lost sheep of Israel. Is this too high-fallutin for you? Can you reason it?
So then your artificial attempt to appease God (it's in the bible!) is without any wisdom, knowledge, or understanding. You are trying to make the world to be Israel. The world is NOT Israel. So while you condemn the world and claim all the warnings are for the world...you condemn yourself because you are not obeying God. The warnings are for you.
And your double-speak about Mystery Babylon would seem to divert away from the real warning that we need to take from it.
You mean double-edged sword. And you don't understand that because of that pesky one-dimensional approach of yours.
Nothing to see here folks...it's just about division within the church....that's how it came across to me..........when it's really about the church having unity/friendship with the world.
It's both. Institutions look for worldly recognition. But the lack of unity is from within.