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World Council of Churches Promotes Female Gods

By David W. Cloud

We are constantly amazed at the blindness of evangelical and charismatic leaders who speak positively of the World Council of Churches. Yet this happens frequently. Several key charismatic/evangelical leaders attended the WCC's Seventh General Assembly in Canberra, Australia, last February, and spoke highly of the things they witnessed. Among these were Mel Robeck, an associate dean at Fuller Theological Seminary; Juan Sepulveda, Chilean pentecostal leader; and Peter Kuzmic, pentecostal leader from Yugoslavia. At the end of the Assembly, Robeck said, "I came to appreciate the vastness of the body of Christ. I found that there was a lot of common ground with many members. There is a lot we can learn from them and a lot they can learn from us."

This is amazing. The meeting was opened by half-naked Australian aborigines who built a heathen fire and danced around it. Those who attended the WCC conference walked through the smoke of that idolatrous altar to enter the "worship" tent for the opening assembly.

One of the key speakers was Korean professor Chung Hyun-Kyung, who exalted pagan concepts of God. Of the Holy Spirit Chung said, "Don't bother the Spirit by calling her all the time. She is working hard with us." Eighteen times Chung summoned the spirits of the dead who have suffered injustices in the past and claimed that "without hearing the cries of these spirits, we cannot hear the voice of the Holy Spirit." After calling on the spirits of the dead, Chung said, "I hope the presence of all our ancestors' spirits here with us shall not make you uncomfortable." She also summoned "the spirit of Earth, Air, and Water." She blasphemously claimed the Holy Spirit was the same as the "image of Kwan In," an Asian goddess of compassion and wisdom. Chung went even further in her blasphemy when she said, "Perhaps this might also be a feminine image of the Christ who is the first born among us, one who goes before and brings others with her." For these unspeakable blasphemies Chung received a standing ovation from the WCC delegates!

This reveals the utter apostasy of the World Council of Churches. Each year the WCC becomes more radical, more openly pagan. Yet the farther this organization moves from the Bible, the more we see evangelical/charismatic leaders attending its meetings and dialogues and speaking well of it. What does this mean? If the WCC is drawing farther and farther from Christ and Scripture with each passing year, and evangelicals are following the WCC, we see clearly the departure of these evangelicals from the Word of God.

To illustrate the radical heresy of the WCC, we offer some poems from a book printed by them in recent years. The book No Longer Strangers was a joint project of the Lutheran World Federation, World Council of Churches, World Student Christian Federation, and the World Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). It was first published in June 1984 and reprinted three times in the first year.

This WCC publication is supposed to be a guideline for worship. Consider some names we are supposed to call God during worship times--

The Source
Lady of peace
Lady of wisdom
Lady of love
Lady of birth
Lord of stars
Lord of planets
Mother
Home
Bakerwoman
Presence
Power
Essence
Simplicity

Nothing could be more blasphemous than these names by which the WCC says we should address God. My friends, God is not a "lady," nor is He a "bakerwoman," nor a "presence" nor the "Lord of planets"!

Throughout this publication God is spoken of in female terms. Consider a few more examples:

TEACH US TO KNOW & LOVE YOU

O God of a thousand names and faces
Mother and father of all life on earth,
You who live in the cells of all life,
Teach us to know and love you.
Lady of peace, of love, of wisdom,
Lord of all the stars and planets,
Best consoler, inward guest,
Teach us to know and love you.

BLESSING THE BREAD

In the beginning was God
In the beginning, the source of all that is
In the beginning, God yearning
God, moaning
God, labouring
God, rejoicing
And God loved what SHE had made
And God said, "It is good."
Then God, knowing that all that is good is shared held the earth tenderly in HER arms
God yearned for relationship
God longed to share the good earth
And humanity was born in the yearning of God
We were born to share the earth...

God said, You are my people,
My friends,
My lovers,
My sisters,
And brothers
All of you shall eat
of the bread
And the power
All shall eat.

Then God, gathering up HER courage in love, said,
Let there be bread!
And God's sisters, HER friends and lovers,
knelt on the earth
planted the seeds
prayed for the rain
sang for the grain
made the harvest
cracked the wheat
pounded the corn
kneaded the dough
kindled the fire
filled the air with the smell of fresh bread

And there was bread!
And it was good!

I BELIEVE

I believe in God, MOTHER-FATHER SPIRIT
who called the world into being,
who created men and women and set them free to live in love, in obedience and community.

I believe in God, who because of love for HER creation, entered the world to share our humanity,
to rejoice and to despair,
to set before us the paths of life and death;
to be rejected, to die, but finally
to conquer death and to bind the world to HERSELF.

PRAYER OF ST. ANSELM

And Thou, Jesus, sweet Lord,
Art Thou not also a mother?
Truly, THOU ART A MOTHER,
And Thou, Jesus, sweet Lord,
Art Thou not also a MOTHER?
THE MOTHER OF ALL MOTHERS,
Who tasted death,
In Thy desire to give life to Thy children.

BAKERWOMAN GOD

Bakerwoman God,
I am your living bread.
Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God,
I am your low, soft and being-shaped loaf.
I am your rising bread, well-kneaded
by some divine and knotty pair of
knuckles, by your warm earth-hands.
I am bread well-kneaded.

Put me in your fire, Bakerwoman God,
put me in your own bright fire.

Break me, Bakerwoman God.
I am broken under your caring Word.
Drop me in your special juice in pieces.
Drop me in your blood.

Drunken me in the great red flood.
Self-giving chalice, swallow me.
My skin shines in the divine wine.
My face is cup-covered and I drown.

I fall up in a red pool
in a gold world
where your warm sunskin hand is there
to catch and hold me.
Bakerwoman God, remake me.

These quotations leave no doubt about the apostasy of the World Council of Churches. It would be difficult to conceive of things more blasphemous, more foolish, more unscriptural than the things we have quoted from this strange WCC book.

What does this mean? It means that those who are members in World Council of Churches' affiliated denominations are in fellowship with these abominations. And this includes most major denominations. It includes the United Church of Canada, the Presbyterian Church USA, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the United Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Church of North and South India and three hundred others. The Bible forbids fellowship with the wickedness of the World Council of Churches.