Things You'll Need:
- An ear to hear
- Discernment unenamoured with today's political correctness
- A desire for truth over unity, as truth does have a way of causing dissension
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Step 1
Call to remembrance, if you are of age, the 1950's. In that day, if you were a Baptist, you were not a Pentecostal. If you were a Jew, you were not a Catholic.
On the Sabbath you attended the place of worship of your choice, driving past the numerous other faiths also meeting to expound on what they believed to be the truth about God.
And in your daily life, perhaps in the workplace, a grocery, or a kiddie league game, one of another faith might venture to persuade you of their leaning, or, indeed, you them...a practice known as proselytizing, but this was also an exercise of freedom and was either brushed off by the receiver, or mused upon. But in either case, their freedom left intact, each going their own way in a nation built on diversity. -
Step 2
Now see what a bizarre strangle has been laid upon this nation since the more innocent days of the 1950's. And how seemingly contrived has that clutching strangle squeezed and twisted that naivete into a perspective that views diversity as intolerance!
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Step 3
But to say, as Ecumenism does, and most snidely, that we can make all persuasions into one truth and call it a milestone towards "global" tolerance is to vehemently mock the very existance of truth.
For instance, to say a Pentecostal, who believes salvation can be lost, cannot sit at the same table of Truth with a Baptist, who believes salvation is eternal and secure. This one point divides them into two camps where never the twain shall meet. -
Step 4
A Catholic, who believes without the seven sacraments one cannot enter the Kingdom of God can by no means sit at the same table of Truth with a Protestant who finds these seven sacraments a form of idolatry.
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Step 5
By the same token, a Jew, who still looks for their Messiah and fully rejects Jesus as the Christ, and as this is an integral point of their faith, as it is also for a Christian, how might they share the table of Truth together without being soon defensive of one's own freedom to choose?
And these are only a few of the religions of the world, but do they not drive the point home? -
Step 6
Ecumenism is trying to force a delusion upon us that our regard for what we believe is Truth is inconsequential. Its aim is to deprive us of our diversity and our freedom to search for Truth amidst that diversity.
And so few are left, be it shepherd or sheep, that still understand that Ecumenism and the search for Truth cannot co-exist...they are at enmity against each other. The one mocks the other. -
Step 7
Ecumenism parades itself like the Mother of Tolerance, making strange bedfellows of evangelicals, priests, rabbis, etc.
It is draped in purple robes and boasts a diadem of "TRUE Enlightenment" that says "Let us not haggle over ancient disagreements but let us learn from each other what we agree upon in spiritual matters. Yes, let us be one...not different. Let there be eventually no dissent whatsoever. I mean, after all...isn't truth merely relative?"
And the pimp's laughter can be heard from one end of the Earth to the other. -
Step 8
In the 1950's each person respected another's right to proclaim one's faith as THE faith. You might totally disagree, you might even get into a heated debate over the difference...but no one ever said it was all the same, as if all roads lead to Rome in this case, thereby being deprived of the sanctified possibility that somewhere, in the midst of these many paths, somewhere was the One path...the One Truth.
And we as free individuals were afforded the human right, a right many died for to preserve, to pursue and reason with that ethereal possibility. -
Step 9
Understand that while we are being forced towards a global community that will one day coronate a despot on its throne must, to survive, make us subservient to one government, one culture, one religion.
Our individualism and diversity is a hazard to such grandiose. And the sentiments stated above are clearly on borrowed time since such dissension can not be allowed to be tolerated. It will be said to you at some point, that these kind of statements cannot be tolerated so that we might preserve "tolerance".
And sadly, that maniacal reasoning will make sense to many of you...as it does to some of you even now. -
Step 10
Ecumenism is not the soothing catalyst to our sharing the truth about God. Ecumenism is the death of our freedom to discover for ourselves, each according to his own conscience and experience, who God is... and what is the unique path He has prescribed in coming to know the Truth about Him.
A directive that should not be toyed with.
Comments
trisha22 said
on 1/12/2008 Thanks for your comments grouch. Appreciate it.
grouch said
on 1/11/2008 Thanks for the information. It is nice to see a fresh look out there and you did a wonderful job stating the facts and expressing your personal thoughts without pushing them on others. I think that if anyone took a step back to look at this they could not argue your points.
trisha22 said
on 12/15/2007 Thanks again Ron. It's sobering to know that musings as these will be eventually tracked down to the source...and those sources executed. All the times Jesus spoke of the last days, He began "See that ye be not deceived." The deception is at hand. And of all the horrific things we see coming to pass in the world today, the deception is what leaves me most completely in awe. Black for white, white for black. Good for evil, evil for good. Hitler hypnotized a nation. The next man will mesmerize the world.
kjv4thee said
on 12/15/2007 YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD AGAIN TRISHA
Only the enemies of truth would argue with this article. Actually they wouldn't argue with it, they would just smear it. Truth can't really be argued against, ONLY HATED. It was true hate that nailed Christ ( The way, The truth, and The life ) to the cross. Love from Christ that laid down His life, but hate from his enemies. Ron