August 14, 2013

APOSTASY AT THE RE-IMAGINING CONFERENCE OF 1993

Editorial

May/June, 1994
Volume 29, Number 3

Paganism at the Re-Imagining Conference 1993

Rev 18:4 says to us Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;.” As in the days of Noah and Lot, there must be a marked separation between Good and Evil. the controversy must be decisive in our minds There can be no compromise between God and the world. for in “Matthew 6:24 it tells us “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other……

The WCC Solidarity with Women Minneapolis Conference November 4-7, 1993

Near the end of 1993, more than two thousand delegates met in Minneapolis for what was called the Reimagining 93 Conference. The delegates were primarily national leaders from mainline denominations associated with the World Council of Churches. The attendees included more than twenty members from the Church of the Brethren. The Conference grew out of The World Council of Churches Decade of Solidarity with Women. The speakers seemed set to try and destroy the traditional Christian faith–by adopting ancient pagan beliefs and rejecting the divinity of Jesus and His blood atonement on the Cross.

THE ATONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST

Delores Williams, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York, told the group, “I don’t think we need a theory of atonement at all…atonement has to do so much with death…l don’t think we need folks hanging on crosses, and blood dripping, and weird stuff…we just need to listen to the god within.” Another speaker, Virginia Mollenkott, who serves on the National Council of Churches commission to prepare an inclusive language lectionary, claimed that the death of Jesus was the ultimate in child abuse. She said that the commonly accepted view of Christ’s atonement pictures God as an abusive parent, and Jesus as an obedient child.

The Minneapolis Conference trampled under foot the Gospel of salvation through the work of Jesus Christ, and attempted to reconstruct the Christian faith without the offense of the cross.

      THE ALL-ENCOMPASSING GOD

Speaker Chung Hyun Kyung drew many of her ideas from Eastern pantheistic religions, in which God is an all-encompassing energy force uniting and permeating all that exists. Chung led the delegates in an exercise that she called “pranic healing,” and said that “this life-giving energy came from god and it is everywhere; it is in the sun and in the ocean; it is from the ground and it is from the tree. This world-view looks at the material world, including human beings, as sacred and divine. At one point, the participants were led by Aruna Gnanadason in putting red dots on their foreheads. The red dots were to represent the divine within them. Then they bowed to each other, that is, to the divinity within human beings.

THE UNDERSTANDING OF FAMILY

Speakers at the Minneapolis assembly tried to re-imagine the family by suggesting “sex among friends,” and proposed that such activity should be considered normal and appropriate. They declared that sexual pleasure is “a human right” and implied that fidelity in marriage is a kind of old-fashioned idolatry.

THE WORSHIP OF GODDESS SOPHIA

One of the most disturbing aspects of the Minneapolis gathering was the worship and adoration paid to Sophia. The Greek word for “wisdom” is “sophia,” and the name “sophia” is a feminine name. At the Re-imagining Conference, as each speaker took the podium, she received a chanted blessing from the entire assembly. The women chanted, “Bless Sophia, dream the vision, share the wisdom dwelling deep within.”

THE CELEBRATION OF LESBIANISM

As if pantheism and debunking Jesus were not enough, an added insult included the celebration of lesbianism. The lesbian theme was heard repeatedly from major speakers. During a workshop entitled “Prophetic Voices of Lesbians in the Church,” one speaker said that the biblical Mary and Martha were not actual sisters, but lesbian lovers.

GOD SAY’S

“There have forever been two classes among those who profess to be followers of Christ. While one class studies the Savior’s life as they seek His presence, and Spirit’s transforming power to change there Character like the character of Christ. The other class turns there back on Gods word as it exposes truth and error Heb 4:12 says For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

This warning is sobering because the world is closer than ever before. John 19:30 tells us When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. The controversy and grace will end at His second coming . There has never been a time as now where getting the good news to a dying world is more urgent. Remember the controversy, did not begin in Babylon but in the Garden of Eden where  Satan convinced Adam and Eve to disbelieve God.

Where he said “You will not certainly die,”…… “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:4-5 That statement introduced the foreign spirit of Satan to all mankind and now we have reached the time the Bible calls “the last days” We are at the threshold of the end of the Lord’s tolerance over evil when all mankind good and bad will recognize that Gods way was the right way from the beginning.

And now God’s  prophecy says that Babylon will fall  its  forces of evil will fall, the powerful economic systems that have degraded the poor will fall, the strongly entrenched and popular religions, who did not follow God’s precepts in His word will fall, the extremists who have influenced the masses against their Creator and His people will fall. Paul says In II Corinthians 4:3-4,  “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”

Ps. 51:5  tells me  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” But my God had a plan and that plan happen on Calvary Heb 2:14 is a promise that says “Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death that is, the devil” Oh what a promise. His death for My life.

The battle to resist  is fought daily in our hearts and minds, but in 1 Corinthians 10:13 it says “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” What God commands of us, through Faith  and endurance it can happen! Therefore, He commands come out of Babylon today. And the departure from Babylon tells me I will live throughout Eternity in the presence of my Savior.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY