Ah! pearls of wisdom from my ol' drinking buddy, Benjamin Creme — another messenger of "hope." Oh my, dearest sister in Christ, but that's become quite a magic word nowadays....
[As in: "Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream," on the tides of Hope. Not the Christian Hope mind you. Just generic, man-centered, secular "hope." Then, the story goes, just trust "us" — big question mark right there — for all the rest. Oh sure; that sounds just dandy to me — NOT!!!
The fact is, I have met not only Ben (on several occasions), but the people with whom he surrounds himself, his acolytes and devotées. All I can tell you is they are mindless, helpless, and naïve. And most of them literally worship Ben.]
If anybody wants to know where the Maitreya, the imminently emerging "World Teacher," is right now, you can look for him inside Ben's head. That's where he's always been.
What is really scary is that Ben's baby, Share International (IIRC a subsidiary of Lucis Trust, now Lucis Publishers) is a highly respected NGO affiliate of the UN. The organization is esteemed in those precincts for their "high spirituality" and "concern for the world's poor."
As for this Schiori person, all I can say is: She is to the Anglican Church what Benjamin Creme is to the UN. They evidently are soul mates.
It seems to me the spirit of objective Evil is blowing through our world. And its enablers and co-dependents are already firmly ensconced within our own churches, and other main cultural and political institutions.
I'd be really depressed right now, were it not for the fact that I have absolute trust that God will turn all this mess into His Good Purpose.
All thanks and praise be unto our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Amen.
Thanks for your perceptive and enlightening post.
MARANATHA!
BTW, Betty, what’s your take on the recent encyclical about global governance?
Of concern in all this mess is my sense that the accuser is working overtime to confuse Christians regarding the mystical Body of Christ. The Church includes all real believers of all ages, and it is not determined by denominational or regional or temporal affiliation.
When a Schori comes along saying “everybody’s automatically on the boat”, she means pagans, atheists, Christians, Wiccans, etc....everyone. (In fact, as a liberal theologian she considers all of this a “myth”. In her heart she thinks that we all just die and go away, but in her “religious pronouncements” it’s easy for her to say all are in, since she doesn’t believe in an in or an out in the first place.)
We must be careful to distinguish between syncretism and unity. Confusing the two makes it hard for others to recognize dear brothers and sisters in Christ.
And by my reading of the prophecies, the one world religion will not simply be an "I'm ok, you're ok" belief, but will have a mortal person at the head of it.
If Creme, Schiori et al cede to a single authority, e.g. a Maitreya, then we Christians should get ready for our homegoing, praising God and saying "Maranatha, Jesus!"
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39
Sorry, betty, but the only thing that brought to mind was this and then Sarah Palin's "Only dead fish go with the flow."
Cheers!