of the World Council of Churches
Posted on 03/05/2022 7:11:26 PM PST by marshmallow
Rev. Ioan Sauca, a Romanian Orthodox priest and acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches, implored Patriarch Kirill of Moscow to intervene for peace in Russia and Ukraine.
UKRAINE (LifeSiteNews) — The acting General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, an ecumenical coalition, asked Patriarch Kirill of Moscow to speak out and intervene for peace in Ukraine.
“In these times of hopelessness, many look to you as the one who could bring a sign of hope for a peaceful solution,” Rev. Ioan Sauca wrote in a letter published on Tuesday. Rev. Sauca is a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church.
“Please, raise up your voice and speak on behalf of the suffering brothers and sisters, most of whom are also faithful members of our Orthodox Church,” he wrote.
Rev. Sauca asked the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church to reflect on the purpose of the Lenten season and to help seek reconciliation and peace in Ukraine.
“These powerful moments in our liturgical calendars call us to repentance, peace and reconciliation,” Rev. Sauca wrote. “While celebrating these spiritual moments, with filial respect and consideration I write to Your Holiness to intervene and mediate with the authorities to stop this war, the bloodshed and the suffering, and to make efforts to bring peace through dialogue and negotiations.”
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What’s wrong with female clergy?
Do you really think that men are more capable of sincere spiritual vocation than females are?
1 Timothy 2:12
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Some insecure man wrote that.
I’m sure Saint Paul would defer to your judgment.
Do you believe that every word in the Bible is ‘divinely inspired’ and the actual Word of God - and not interpreted through very limited individual human minds which were influenced by their (often primitive) earthly cultures?
I believe in a much bigger God than that.
But you can remain limited, if you like.
The Woke Council of Churches us urged to oppose homosexuality, abortion and cancel culture.
I’ll take the Bible for eternity. You take the parts you like. I believe the old saying if you play with fire you get burned.
I don’t have a problem with anything written in the Bible. I would would also say it takes faith to believe many things. I do not question it as the devine word. Now those who have a problem with the Bible for whatever their reasoning then by which deny worship of God is not where I have problems with those who believe as you do, but rather your fruits of rejection tend to make life on earth hell for everyone by compounding the denial everything good in order wrong others by extension of disagreement. Those who deny say that is okay (but it is not good) to deny the devine world or reject God always find themselves in conflict with God’s followers - it is not the other way around. Your rebellion puts you into direct conflict with me with no action on my part; in these days those in rebellion make up “thought crimes” using Men’s Laws and ill logic.
I believe in God, period. Jesus is where faith comes into play. I suspose the majority do not believe in God nor Jesus but have faith in both if they are worshipers of God.
God created man and woman. God created the Bible as the only resource man, and woman, will ever need to be right... Men (women too) are earthly constructs of rebellion setting apart themselves as Men/Women from God. Men believe that their mental state allows them to act as and with as animals; Man believes and worships God without questioning Him.
Thus those who find fault with God will find fault with the Bible. Those who worshp God as He intended for Man to worship God have no problems with the Bible.
For what this is worth the difference between those who worship and follow God and those who do not worship/love/accept Him is as plain to see as night and day, or right and wrong.
Reject as Men or accept His Bible as a Man.
Man is but a few but Men the many. Each of us individually stand the test of time alone as a Man or woman, however if you are of the Men-kind you need one another to validate your rebellion.
Yes, yes, quite right. There must be a new, universal religion bowing down before higher gods, higher than the selfish one of the ignorami. These misguided unwashed must be gathered and grouped according to moral dictates of religious universalism.
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Reminds me hearing an ‘Offical Taliban Judge’ in Afghanistan saying...’Woman can’t be judges because they have less brain and can’t make judgements.”
World Council of Churches does not represent me in any way shape or form.
Since God chose a woman to bring forth the Savior, the idea that women aren’t capable of spiritual leadership seems nuts to me.
(I doubt very much that God thought we were only capable of being brood mares, housekeepers and cooks.)
We are all equal in Christ.....However I do think there are differences which are distinctly one sex or the other.
Reporting on the war certainly shows those differences - woman tend to speak mostly about the suffering...men seem to speak about the conditions and movement of each side...because they are solution oriented.
I don’t think you can distinguish between the sexes in such a general way.
We’ve always had women who defied common notions of the tendencies and capabilities of the female mind. It may not have been very common, because so many of us were raised up to believe we were ‘really meant’ for just certain things.
As my old Granny used to say, ‘Imagination is a Great Nation’. You can become whatever you dream of being, and wherever your talents take you, if you just ignore the assumptions and expectations of others.
What you’ve seen is women generally conditioned by the expectations of their cultures.
Women will always be influenced by their hormones, just as men are. But that’s not the same as what women’s minds might do when unfettered by narrow, limited expectations of tradition and culture.
That could be good, or bad...but that would be no different than with men, as history has shown us.
BTW I don’t think God would have used a man bring forth the savior.
God could have done anything. The Savior could have sprung from the brow of Joseph....or someone.
(I personally think He probably did...)
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