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In a 1986 report in the Ecumenical News Service of the World Council of Churches, Lois Wilson, then one of the seven presidents of the World Council of Churches, made this statement: "And then there is the `Virgin Mary.' IN MY VIEW, THE FACT OF HER VIRGINITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR" (EPS, Dec. 21-31, 1986).

Wilson is an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada and was also its former moderator. She is director of the Ecumenical Forum of Canada. She also has a vile, unregenerate mind! If Mary was not a virgin when Jesus Christ was born, He could not have been sinless, as the sin nature is inherited from the father, through Adam (Rom. 5:12). Maybe Ms. Wilson doesn't understand the facts of life, but virginity DOES have something to do with sexual behavior! The modernist and neo-orthodox delights in double- speak, in redefining Bible terms, but Bible words mean exactly what they appear to mean. Virgin means virgin. Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ was born of a woman who had never known a man sexually. His Father was Almighty God and He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. For this we can rejoice, because He was sinless and could therefore pay the sacrificial penalty the law demanded for our sin.

Statements such as the one made by Lois Wilson reveal just how terribly apostate the World Council and its more than 300 member bodies have become. If the biblical command of separation does not apply to coming apart from this apostasy, it has no application whatsoever! God commands that His people come out from among this awful apostasy. Are you obeying?

World Council president on advisory committee for Hare Krishna organization The World Congress for the Synthesis of Science and Religion was held January 9-12, 1986, in Bombay, India. The sponsor was the Bhaktivedanta Institute, the same institute which sponsors the Hare Krishna groups around the world. In my possession is an announcement of this event I obtained in 1985 at a Hare Krishna center in Kathmandu, Nepal.

One of the goals of the congress was to "achieve a full and balanced life ... illumine the inner core of the human psyche and ensure full development of the individual." This, of course, is impossible apart from a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ who alone is Lord and Saviour. Congresses such as this which bring together followers of false religions can never solve man's deepest, most urgent problem--the need for atonement for his sin, atonement which only the Cross of Jesus Christ provides.

The listing of participants on the conference's international advisory board included Harvey Cox of Harvard Theological Seminary, Paulos Mar Gregorios, one of the presidents of the World Council of Churches, J. Robert Nelson of the Roman Catholic Boston University, and J. Stillson Judah, professor emeritus of the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, California.