PAGAN RELIGIONISTS JOINING APOSTATE CHRISTIANITY

PAGAN RELIGIONISTS JOINING APOSTATE CHRISTIANITY

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July 8, 1997 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - We were reminded by two recent items in the religious news that the one-world Harlot "church" of Revelation 17 is progressing rapidly.

Item Number One. The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of occultic Tibetan Buddhism, is scheduled to speak on August 8 at St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland. This is John Calvin’s old church. The cathedral’s dean, William McComish, is also general treasurer of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. In announcing the Dalai Lama’s visit, McComish called him "His Holiness" and recognized "his spirituality." McComish explained that "the cathedral was becoming a home for a new religious centre to experience understanding between the world’s major faiths."

Item Number Two. The new president of the British Methodist Conference is Inderjit Bhogal, who was raised in the Sikh religion and though he is "captivated by the story of Jesus," he does not reject the Sikh faith as paganism. Bhogal says emphatically, "I am not someone who rejected the Sikh faith when I turned to Christ." He continues to attend Sikh temples and says he feels secure in his heritage. "Others might find it confusing but I am not confused. I am happy to say that I am a disciple of Jesus rooted in the Sikh faith and have a deep respect for the Sikh faith," he said. Bhogal is an ecumenical Modernist who does not believe that personal faith in Jesus Christ as God and Savior is necessity for eternal salvation. His christ is the false ecumenical christ of the World Council of Churches. Bhogal’s Ph.D. at Sheffield University focuses on John 14:6, which Bhogal calls "a difficult verse." He is "exploring what this [John 14:6] means in a plural society" (Ecumenical News International, July 6, 1999).

John 14:6 does not need to be explored in an ecumenical sense; it needs to be proclaimed. Jesus Christ meant exactly what He said in this verse and in many other Bible passages. He is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man can be saved except by being born again through repentance of sin and idolatry and faith in Christ’s atonement.