Posted on 06/23/2011 5:28:45 PM PDT by BigFinn
Its dangerous to try to justify, explain away, or overlook the abominable attitude of todays church leaders as regards the cooperation and so called interfaith dialogue between different religions.
Pope Benedict met leaders of non-Christian faiths in London on Friday (September 17, 2010) and stressed the need for dialogue among religions to foster peace. Britains Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Khaled Azzam, director of the Princes School of Traditional Arts, also spoke.
Here are some excerpts from the popes speech:
We can find article after article of not only the Catholics but every other denomination and religion promoting the same interfaith dialogue nonsense. If you justify, deny, or try to explain away the so called cooperation and acceptance of other religions you may want to try to explain how it relates to the following verse and other parts of scripture.
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
If you dont recognize the spiral religion is in today towards a one world religion in virtually every denomination you had better step back and think again.
Thank you for the ping, but I have decided to ignore any further comments from this thread. The issue is the rise of Chrislam, and there will be Catholic Priests whowill get involved with this demonic push. But the thread was heading in the direction of a Catholic dog fight and I’ve had my fill of Catholic bashing, so I didn’t want to pay any more attention to a thread headed in that direction, with a rabid defender going overboard.
Yeah right, and Catholics want us to believe that the Aarti is nothing more then like a handshake or other greeting. NONSENSE, its a pagan ritual.
Aarti, also spelled arathi, aarthi (from the Sanskrit term Aaraatrik) is a Hindu religious ritual of worship, a form of puja, in which light from wicks soaked in ghee (purified butter) or camphor is offered to one or more deities. Aartis also refer to the songs sung in praise of the deity, when offering of lamps is being offered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarti
The word aarti has been derived from the Rig Veda, one of the earliest Hindu scriptures,
http://festivals.iloveindia.com/aartis/
The Pope was accepting a Hindu pagan mark and you cant dance around and change that fact.
Secondly, this was a Christian Indian woman -- is she wrong because she was wearing an Indian dress (a sari)?
I checked out all the churches that sounded Catholic — there were NO Catholic Churches — only the Old Catholic Church of America that is not in step with the Vatican — so they really aren’t Catholic.
Go back to the 50s and check my research, please.
I will take your word for it, and be relieved. But priests like the one in chicoland where rev wrong spittles forth for satan’s agenda will doubtless embrace this demonic spectre.
In this case, the Aarti, the worship was to Jesus Christ, the Light of the World.
so, here an Indian Christian woman wearing an Indian dress (a sari) -- not some non-existent shiva priestess (a non-existent concept) -- she was worshipping Christ using an Indian ritual and after that she greets the pope.
Secondly, it says a "mark of Shiva", now a Shiva Tilak looks like
three horizontal bands and one single vertical. And no, that did not happen.
So there are quite a few inconsistencies...
The Kingdom of God is more than the Church, local or global. The work of God is bigger than the work of the Church. We Protestants lack a theology of the Kingdom as the broader context for our theology of salvation. ..The Key points are these:Why couldnt we have used bhajans instead of Western liturgy? Why couldnt we have built temples and mandapams (covered rest areas in front of a temple)? Why couldnt we cite great Hindu poets? To do so would be to acknowledge the greatness of God.
Why cant Christian men wear the veshti (skirtlike cloth) and Christian women the tilak (decorative dot on the forehead)? Why cant we be vegetarian, as God had ordained in the original creation (cf. Gen. 1:29)? Why do we have to have pastors and bishops and elections and committees for everything under the sun? There is no reason the Indian church cannot be Indian, or Hindu in the cultural sense.
But the Indian Church is a Westernized community, from dress to worship style to the way we organize ourselves. It is the burden of our past. We cannot escape it. Yet we do not have to drag others into it. We can rejoice that followers of Christ might yet be freed from the cultural entrapments of the missionary era. We ought not seek to replicate the Western church in India. It just doesnt fit the cultureand vast numbers will never join it.
The key point is the message of Christ, not making people non-vegetarian or making them wear Western clothes etc
I know that St. Thomas Aquinas and Bishop Fulton Sheen have said the same thing in their writings.
You have got to read “Hope of the Wicked” by Ted Flynn. It is the most thorough and reasonable account of the two hundred year plan for world government. It puts so many parts of world history and American history in perspective. I have read several books on the subject but this one is the best as it fills in all the blanks that some of the others missed.
Warren is beginning to take on the appearance of the religious version of a RINO — just as a RINO uses just a sprinkling of conservatism-lite to fool the conservative voters, so the worldly ministers who want to be popular and rich water down the Christian message to become powerful and wealthy.
Purpose Driven Life was published by Zondervan, publishers of the NIV Bible.
Enslavement is not my idea of a good life. If we do not teach the youth, the truth of the power and abuse of government in History and the downfall of the most prosperous and civilized nations, in the world.
From corruption, and seizing of power within and the following total oppression and suppression of the peoples.
First they destroy all good systems, belief in God, the family units, the ability to work and provide for their needs, marriage, adding deviate programs and abortion, Aids is essentially ignored today, and how it is passed from person to person, etc. It is a game ... a dangerous game, riding bareback!!!!!!!!! STUPID DELUXE!!! IGNORANCE!!!
Astounding! ... the situation we are in now. And mostly we sit passively and rather quietly. This is wholly inadequate.
BRAINWASHING! IN EVERY AREA OF LIFE.
God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
The young people are largely a product of progressive liberal socialist teachings, under our very noses.
We have the power of prayer. Nothing is impossible for God.
Are there any Christian groups that provide lists of good books and movies etc. This may be before your time, but there used to be an organization called the Legion of Decency that reviewed movies for content. Is there a similar organization today? I hope the churches get together and come up with some comprehensive plans to counter the subversion that is going on. Why is is that evil people are coming up with all sorts of far reaching ideas while we are just struggling to play catch up?
The music of the day is always different versions of being largely satanic. full of angst, kill the police, and do what feels good. Sorry, but teens do go adrift during this time often. Not all, not all, but many.
Jars of Clay and a few Christian singers have good music. The world is filled with vile and evil. (Have you noticed evil is live spelled backwards, and vile is in the category with evil? (just a side note). Language is powerful and is hugely subliminal..
Today “good” which I love ... is considered boring, in movies, literature, songs, reading material in general, even the Internet is filled with porn, and other bad (to my mind stuff). And TV is altogether sin filled and shapes people;s thinking, and inures them to being shocked by all the sin occurring on the programs.
Look at the absurdity of same sex marriage. Same sex couples have been living together for years, if they desire they can leave all their possessions to their partner with a will........: so why all this hullabaloo about getting married? To tear down the family, the home and to teach anything goes, including pedophilia, etc.
We have lost our compass. God's word is our guide and we are allowing it to be suppressed and hidden from the public eye. Now Islam is entering the churches.
We are in a mell of a hess!!!MOO
God help us in our day, in Jesus name amen.
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