Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." +++ As an Orthodox Christian, this is my belief - clearly stated.
According to several recent surveys, 50 to 57% of Evangelicals no longer believe this.
Suddenly the great BIBLE-Centered Evangelical movement is faltering and failing - the right word is Apostatizing - that is falling away from Truth in Christ Jesus, our God. Oh, but they all believe in the supremacy of the Scriptures Alone, until they don't.
Some of these same people claim that Roman Catholicism is the center of Apostasy, (while they themselves apostatize) and that the Pope is the Anti-Christ. Sadly they say this while following false teachers like:
Robert Schuller |
Joel Osteen
Rick Warren
Glen Beck |
Paul Crouch, Jr. |
Robert Schuller, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Glen Beck, Paul Crouch Jr and other Ecumenists, and Unitarian/Universalists.
As an Orthodox Christian I know that "even hell is salvitic, but it would take a fool to choose it." I know that God's mercy is everlasting. Yet, at the same time I know there is no such thing as "universal salvation."
These great Evangelical "lights" are ushering in the era of "Chrislam" an admixture of Christianity and Islam - a false New World Order, religion.
(1) Ecumenism - Actually the best definition of Ecumenism was given by Maximus of Tyre, a pagan, defending paganism to the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate. When I read Maximus' words, 40+ years ago I realized that I, myself - a person who professed faith in Jesus Christ was really a pagan and I didn't even know it. And what was more, a great many people I knew who claimed to be Christian were Pagan also. So if you have no difficulty with the following paragraph and call yourself Christian, you need someone to kindly inform you, "You Are A Pagan." Here is the paragraph:
"God the Father, and the fashioner of all that is, older than the sun or sky, greater than time and eternity and all the flow of being, is unnamable by any lawgiver, unutterable by any voice, not to be seen by any eye. But we, being unable to apprehend His essence, use the help of sounds and names and pictures, of beaten gold and ivory and silver, of plants and rivers, torrents and mountain peaks, yearning for the knowledge of Him, and in our weakness naming after His nature all that is beautiful in the world . . . If a greek is stirred to the remembrance of God by the art of Pheidias, or an Egyptian by worshiping animals, or another man by a river or a fire, I have no anger for their divergence; only let them note, let them remember, let them love." - The Pagan Maximus of Tyre, mentor of Julian The Apostate.
If you have no problem with that paragraph - you are NOT a Christian.