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Pat Robertson calls for Hugo Adventists Join a Sunday Ecumenical Chavez to be Assassinated Worship Service at a Jesuit University USA Today, August 22, 2005, by Gene Puskar Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
Churches Take a Break Sunday to Unite Followers The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, October 24, 2005, by John Johnston, Front Page, A1, jjohnston@enquirer.com
On a typical Sunday morning, about 300 people worship at Heirs Covenant Church of Cincinnati. But this Sunday "We have the ability to take him won't be typical. Services have been The following list of churches and ministries out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that abil- canceled at the West Chester Township have expressed support for Sunday's communitywide church service. This list was pubity," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Net- church. lished in the Cincinnati Enquirer. work's The 700 Club. "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.
Members instead will gather at the Cintas Center on the Xavier Jesuit University campus for a prayer, praise and worship service that has the support of at least three dozen other local congregations. More might decide to participate; every Christian church in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky is invited.
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop." Robertson, 75, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, accused the United States of failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002.
Organizers believe it's the first time local congregations have canceled services on a Sunday morning so members can worship in an inter-denominational, multiracial setting. "We see this as a step to model and demonstrate to our city and to the communities that as believers, we really can come together," says John W. Stevenson, pastor of Heirs Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In Covenant Church. October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that femi- Stevenson is vice president of Transfornism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witch- mation Cincinnati & Northern Kencraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." tucky, a nondenominational group that has held several large-scale worship The Vatican Seeks Broader UN Power events in recent years, including two at Cintas Center, one at Great American Ball Park and one at Fountain Square Catholic News Service, Sept. 19, 2005, New York but never on Sunday morning. The Vatican’s Secretary of State has called for a reform and reinvigoration of the UN, giving the international body greater power to intervene in world conflicts. Speaking to the UN General Assembly on September 16, Cardinal Angelo Sodano remarked that “time has taken its toll” on the UN, and the international body “needs to be renewed, to respond to the Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secregreat challenges of the tary of State of the Vatican, adpresent day.” dresses the United Nations General Assembly, Friday Sept. 16, The UN’s mission to the 2005 (AP Photo/Richard Drew). developing world is “above all spiritual,” the Vatican Secretary of State said. He praised the effort to “bring justice and solidarity among men,” and said that the Holy See will give its “total support” to the goals of the Millennium Development Campaign. In his speech, delivered in French, Cardinal Sodano reminded the participants that the Holy See has strongly supported the growth of the UN, adding that the Vatican still believes the UN is “an institution that is ever more necessary for the peace and progress of all mankind.”
"A lot of pastors that are participating have had the vision that one day many churches would leave their four walls and come worship Jesus together," said Ford Taylor, a business consultant and former CEO who is founder and president of Transformation Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky.
Abundant Life Ministries, Monfort Heights. Agape Fellowship, Madisonville. The Ark by the River, Linwood. Beth Messiah, Deerfield Township. Beyond the Veil Christian Fellowship, Paddock Hills. Christ Community Church, Anderson Township. Christian Life Center, West Chester Township. College Hill Presbyterian Church, College Hill. Ebenezer Second Baptist Church, Lincoln Heights. The Encampment - the Church, College Hill. Faith Christian Center, Forest Park Faith Fellowship, Middletown. Four Seasons Community Church, Edgewood. Heirs Covenant Church of Cincinnati, West Chester Township. Heritage Fellowship, Florence. Landmark Baptist Temple, Evendale. Lifeline Community Church, Price Hill. Living Stones Ministries, Goshen Township. Living Word Fellowship, Symmes Township. Love and Faith Christian Center, Cherry Grove. National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families, Finneytown. New Era Baptist Church, Middletown. New Life Temple, Madisonville. New Richmond Church of the Nazarene.
North Star Seventh Day Adventist Church, The church's pastor, Michael Rowe, Covington. says, "This event is an opportunity for Princeton Pike Church of God, Liberty Townchurches who share a hope for unity to ship. come together over a common cause, sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, Princeton Pike Church of God - West, Hamilton. without compromising individuality." Shepherds Heart Christian Fellowship, WestTransformation's mailing list includes wood. 1,500 regional churches, and all have Solid Rock Baptist Fellowship, Over-the-Rhine. been invited. "We have a vision that one day the big stadiums will be full Solid Rock Church, Monroe. doing these kinds of things," Taylor SonRise Community Church, Milford. said. Taylor says his hope is that Sun- St. Stephen AME Church, Evanston. day's event will lead to new relationships among the area's spiritual leaders, Teen Challenge, Milford. so people can "start working together Trinity Church, Williamsburg. outside our theologies and races ... and Word of Truth, Norwood. start doing things that can impact the World Outreach Christian Church, Bond Hill. city collectively."
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The Secularization of the Church A Revolution Within Adventism in Disguise
G. W. F. Hegel [1770-1831] claimed that all truths, facts, and values are dependent upon man’s feelings and man’s reasoning. These philosophers liberated people to think and do as they pleased with little reference to reality or responsibility. They created their own concept of good and evil. This dismissal of absolutes set many modern people to rebel against God and His Word. These so-called educated men attempted to create a “progressive” perfect society built upon “scientific” human knowledge, free from God and His law.
“How the Roman church can clear herself from the charge of idolatry we cannot see…And this is the religion which Protestants are beginning to look upon with so much favor, and which will eventually be united with Protestantism. This union will not, however, be effected by a change in Catholicism, for Rome never changes. She claims infallibility. It is Protestantism These secular ideas soon gave birth to three new pervasively influential that will change. The adoption of liberal ideas on its part will bring it where movements that have brought catastrophic consequences to our day: Darit can clasp the hand of Catholicism.” Last Day Events, p. 130. winism [evolution], Marxism [democratic socialism and revolutionary comNotice how the prophet of the Lord describes accurately the manner in munism], and Freudianism [psychoanalysis]. Their founders, Charles Darwhich Protestantism, particularly in America, is going to change and even- win [1809-1882], Karl Marx [1818-1883], and Sigmund Freud [1856-1939] tually clasp the hand of Catholicism. It is through the adoption of liberal all expressed contempt for Christianity. At the same time liberal religionists ideas. were attacking the very foundations of Christian truths. Similarly, Sister White shows us how to determine between a false movement and a genuine: “Yet none need be deceived. In the light of God’s word it is not difficult to determine the nature of these movements. Whenever men neglect the testimony of the Bible, turning away from those plain, soul-testing truths [the three angels’ messages] which require self-denial and renunciation of the world, there we may be sure that God’s blessing is not bestowed.” The Great Controversy, p. 464. We are living in a generation where Seventh-day Adventists are facing a crisis that has never been faced before. We are being bombarded from outside and infiltrated from inside with liberal ideas that are turning us away from those plain, soul-testing truths of God’s inspired writings. One of the main characteristics of this deception is in the subtle, stealthy manner in which liberalism develops. Never do Satan’s deceptions appear to be malevolent or evil; rather, they always present themselves as being highly desirable and so filled with spiritual integrity that if it were possible, they would deceive the very elect [Matt. 24:24]. It is our conviction that the “liberal ideas” of the new theology, ecumenism, and the social gospel fall into just such a category; for it is these very principles that are bringing us back to Rome. Once we have obtained a full grasp of this deception of global proportions, then you will understand the urgent need to expose its developmental roots within Seventh-day Adventism. Historical Roots of Liberalism The generations between the late 1700’s through the early 1900’s witnessed a tremendous cultural breakdown that threatened to destroy the very roots of civilization. This period is commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The leaders of this period considered themselves courageous and elite and regarded their purpose as leading the world toward progress and out of a long period of doubtful tradition, full of irrationality, superstition, and tyranny. This phenomenon is known today as liberalism, and it is expressed in philosophy, theology, education, politics, art, science, society, and culture. Because ideas result in consequences and our beliefs affect our decisions, liberalism has played an important role in shaping twentieth-century history and has almost completely destroyed the church today.
Religious Liberalism Such men as Adolf von Harnack [1851-1930] in Germany, Alfred Loisy [1857-1940] in France, R.J. Campbell [1867-1959] in England, and Walter Rauschenbusch [1861-1918] in America glorified and praised the new advances of liberal sciences while denying the truths of the Bible. These infidels, many of whom studied theology and philosophy said that in the modern age, it was old-fashioned to take the Bible literally and believe in a literal heaven and hell or any of the major themes of the Bible [garden of Eden, Noah’s ark, Jonah and the whale etc.]. Thus, they were called modernists and they introduced religious liberalism to the churches of Europe and America. In reality, Modernism and Religious Liberalism which has dominated European Protestantism since the 1890’s and American Protestantism since the 1930’s is not a “new” expression of religion, but only unbelief clothed in a modern garb and deceitfully using the language of traditional Christianity in a new sense of doubt. One core doctrine after another has fallen away through liberal theology all in the name of salvaging the faith in the modern age. Liberalism denies the literal creation of this world. It denies the fall of man, his sinful human nature, and his need of regeneration by teaching that man is generally good by nature and that the evils of society must change. Karl Marx advocated the same ideal; that man was good but society is bad and when society changed, man would change. Liberalism also denies the absolute standards of good and evil that God has established. Their understanding of right and good is defined simply as whatever furthers liberal ideas. And whatever hinders the cause of liberalism is bad or evil. Liberalism suppresses the concept of Biblical redemption by substituting this work with social or political activism. 1955 – The Beginning of the End for Historic Adventism There would be no liberalism [new theology, ecumenism, or social gospel] in Adventism today if certain church leaders in the mid-1950’s had not welcomed it in. For the errors of liberal theology were brought in and have taken root. But many in our time do not realize how firmly the errors have been placed within the church. In the Spring of 1955 when Presbyterian minister Donald Grey Barnhouse and Southern Baptist minister Walter Martin asked for a face-to-face contact with representatives of the Seventhday Adventist Church in order to improve understanding and appreciation for each other and to clear up any doctrinal misunderstandings, immediately our response should have been: “Babylon is fallen” and “Come out of her, My people.” [Rev. 14:8; Rev. 18:1-5].
Before this period, people in the Western world, particularly Protestant America, had almost always based their reasoning upon certain unchangeable truths - beginning with such truths as found in God’s Word. However, the Age of Enlightenment’s philosophy of relativism, the view that human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute standards for right and wrong, took away this trust in God’s Word for many people and opened the door to humanistic views of history, education, morality, science, government, and religion. Relativism was the foundational principle of the French Revolution But unfortunately, LeRoy E. Froom, a scholar and author of Prophetic Faith and was the cause for all the chaos and destruction that followed afterwards. of our Fathers; W. E. Read, Field-Secretary for the General Conference; T.E. Unruh, a Seventh-day Adventist Pastor; and R. Allan Anderson, a colThe most devastating effect that liberalism has had during the entire twentilege teacher of religion, evangelist, and author, were authorized by the Seveth century has been the secularization of the mainline Protestant churches – enth-day Adventist General Conference President, R. R. Fugurh, to meet including Seventh-day Adventists. This has resulted in secularist heresies with Walter Martin, Donald Barnhouse, and George Cannon, some of the coming in among us which continue to pervert the truth of God and destroy most influential men among American Sunday-keeping Protestant circles. the church. These men, through a series of doctrinal discussions, opened the door for The word liberal comes from the Latin word “liber” with means free. A doctrinal heresies to come into the SDA church. No one has been able to liberal is someone who desires to be free from something or free to do get those errors out once they got in. All these men are now dead, and something. Sometimes it stands for good such as free enterprise, free press, we’re still living with the problems they left us with. or as in a liberal [free, generous] giver of offerings. Whether this is good or It is an interesting fact that we know of not one instance in which either of evil depends upon what one wants to be free from or free to do. Historically, these Evangelical Protestant ministers ever gave up any of their errors or in the early decades of the American Republic, libertarianism meant the changed any of their positions on a single doctrinal point throughout the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, modern liberalentire affair. All the compromises were for us to make. From start to finism is usually equated with the desire to free man from authority, from ish, Evangelical Protestantism did not change one bit or budge one inch as a moral restraint, and responsibility. result of these conferences. Tragically, Seventh-day Adventists were the Modern liberalism can be traced to the revolutionary minds of European ones who made all the compromises! Consequently, we find that the nature thinkers such as the French philosophers Voltaire [1694-1778], Rousseau of Christ, the nature of His atonement, attacks on Ellen White’s prophetic [1712-1778], and Auguste Comte [1798-1857) who stressed the need for the role, the law of God, the 2,300 day prophecy, 1844 and the investigative state to “liberate” the masses from traditional, moral, and social authority. judgment, the sanctuary message, our views on the papacy, the mark of the Comte aggressively taught that no truth can be known except by observable beast, and other distinctive doctrinal beliefs have been changed, discarded, scientific facts and their relations to each other. This extremely secular and or hidden under a bushel in order to come into line and harmony with Evanarrogant claim completely destroys the entire concept of faith in God and gelical Protestantism. [For the complete story of this dark chapter of SDA His Word. German philosophers such as Immanuel Kant [1724-1804] and history, please read “Letters to the Churches,” by Elder M.L. Andreasen.]
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the eternal gospel herald — volume 4, no. 4 page 3 —continued from page 2 Today we are seeing an obsession of ecumenical fellowship and dialog with the world. This is not the time for Adventist to haul down our banner, for the third angel’s message is inscribed upon it. God has placed each one of us in this world at this time in history for a purpose. We must stand true to that purpose, no matter what the cost may be. The Bible/Spirit of Prophecy teachings given to us are to be cherished. Our pioneers had to deal with some of these same liberal ideas in their days, and in doing so, they gave up nothing of the historical doctrines of the Adventist faith. Charles Darwin and the Biological Origins of Liberalism The concept of evolution, that rejects the Biblical record of creation and advocates the ideal that man evolved through natural processes, was not new to Charles Darwin. Many pagan people and ancient Greeks had expressed similar ideas. However, Darwin thought he had “scientific evidence” for this idea. Because Darwin the naturalist was called a “scientist” and because science was so highly respected and esteemed in the nineteenth century, many people began to accept his views. Evolution basically says that God is dead, at least as far as science is concerned. Evolution teaches that man is autonomous, that man is responsible to no one but himself, and that man must attempt to continue to survive without reference to God or to His Law. Darwin said that the God of the Bible was a cruel tyrant because he allowed people to suffer. Even though he knew that this was not true, for he had studied at Cambridge University to prepare for the Anglican ministry, that was Darwin’s thinking. Evolution has slowly but steadily progressed into the theology of many churches.
corrupts people, breeds crime, exploits the poor for profit, and oppresses the working class. Socialism claims to offer everyone a life free from exploitation, job insecurity, poverty, unemployment, hunger, and homelessness. How? The goal is by seizing complete control over everything, eliminating private ownership, and through redistribution of wealth. The major problem and flaw of this system is that socialism/communism does not bring equality to the people; it is really the concentration of power among a small, elite group of bureaucrats who control the wealth and resources of the nation while the majority of the population work like slaves to support the state. It brings not liberty but bondage under an all-powerful state that dominates the body and soul of the people. Between 1917 and 1991, over 100 million people in the former Soviet Union alone were murdered by means of forced starvation and wholesale execution by the brutal Communist regime. And ever since Communism overthrew the Nationalist government of China in 1949, they have executed over 40 million Chinese citizens. And these figures say nothing of the millions more who have died at the hands of the Communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Cuba, and numerous African nations. The Origins of the Social Gospel The Social Gospel is the idea that the preaching of the Gospel can be better fulfilled through social activism and the promotion of societal change rather than the historical, God-appointed method of preaching Biblical doctrines.
Albrecht Ritschl [1822-1889] was an avid liberal German theologian who promulgated the false teaching that the work of the church is to attack social inequalities and to work toward the establishment of complete democracy, Sigmund Freud and the Psychological Drives of Liberalism as opposed to bringing individuals to personal salvation through Christ. Sigmund Freud, a behavioral psychiatrist, believed that there is no such This is by definition the meaning of the Social Gospel. thing as sin, guilt for sin, or repentance from sin because people really have no control over their own actions. He taught that every action is determined According to Ritschel and to American “Social Gospellers” Harry Emerson by “unconscious drives,” especially sex drives, which we have no control Fosdick [1878-1969], Washington Gladden [1836-1918] and Shailer Matover. In order to alleviate one’s guilt and remorse for the wrongs done, thews [1863-1941], Jesus had proclaimed a “Social Gospel.” And the task Freud advocated psychoanalysis, the process of finding unconscious com- of the church was to implement the social gospel by social reform and poponents of a person’s mind. He believed that children and adults should not litical action. They preached the importance of persuading government to be punished for their crimes, but rather they should be allowed to express intervene in order to bring in perfect economic conditions. They spoke pasthemselves freely and to play out their “unconscious drives” [sins]. These sionately of a new order [1000 years of peace on the earth before Christ ideas of “unconscious drives” have been politically influential in today’s comes] that would rest on the Christian principles of equal rights and desociety, particularly in our schools and educational systems, our prison sys- mocratic distribution of economic power. The Social Gospellers were all tems, and has also affected the theology of many of our churches [new the- advocates of big government and became enthusiastic supporters of the proology]. This is the reason why many churches are beginning to ordain ho- grams of the social democrats in Europe and other liberals in America. Many turned to communism and socialism as the “Christian” solution to mosexuals into the ministry. economic ills and social problems. Such prominent churchmen as By denying that crime is the result of a sinful heart, and by denying man’s Archbishop William Temple [1881-1944] of the Church of England were personal responsibility for his or her actions, liberalism has robbed many ardent socialists who worked to establish a perfect social order. people of the true freedom and dignity that comes from God and have made men the object of “social engineering” at the hands of scientific “experts.” It is not surprising that religious liberals made common cause with political Because of Freud, the treatment of criminal/wrongdoers is being changed liberals and social revolutionaries. Liberal Christianity today, as represented from punishment for wrongs done to psychiatric treatment by helping them by the National and World Councils of Churches, continues to actively support the worldwide socialist revolution both philosophically and financially, cope with their so called “unconscious drives.” calling it “Liberation Theology” or “Social Justice.” Karl Marx and the Social Theories of Liberalism Doctrine Divides / Social Gospel Unites It is important to know some background of Karl Marx in order to understand the hidden agenda of the Social Gospel, because today, the churches When the ecumenical movement, as expressed in the World Council of are preaching “Liberation Theology” – a mixture of leftist politics and so- Churches or the National Council of Churches, begins to discard and undercial action programs masquerading as a Gospel-inspired, Christ-promoting mine the doctrinal truths of the faith as a basis for unity, something else is substituted in place of Bible truth so there can be a basis on which to unite. mission. And what the ecumenical movement has substituted in place of the truth as Left-wing politics and socialism trace their origins to Karl Marx, a Jew who a basis of unity has been charity. But their understanding of charity is to was reared as a nominal Christian in the Protestant state church in Germany. take up a wide variety of social, secular, political, and revolutionary He was the chief founder of two of the most powerful liberal movements in causes. Whenever the church opts for social/political activism instead of history – democratic socialism and revolutionary communism. He very preaching its historical/fundamental truths, the end result always lead to the early came to despise both Judaism and Christianity, and throughout his life secularization, the “de-Christianization,” and the “de-Adventization” of the he exhibited a violent hatred for God and humanity. As a student at the church. Satan wins when the church replaces its original, historical work of University of Berlin, Marx came under the spell of the liberal German phi- preaching the truth of the three angels’ messages and decides on advocating losopher G.W.F. Hegel. Marx accepted and applied Hegel’s reasoning by political, material, secular, liberal, human interests. These new ideas within rejecting God’s revelation of beginning, end, and history. Adventism are heresies disguised as an angel of light [2 Cor. 11:14]. In his book, Das Kapital [Capital], he claimed that history is a record of The Gospel of Christ verses the Social Gospel class struggle between the “haves” [rich] and the “have nots” [poor]. His goal was to usher in a perfect society by eliminating poverty, unemploy- In fact, the Social Gospel is really a no-gospel as far as doctrine is conment, and all the classes [the rulers, nobles, rich, middle class, and peasants] cerned. It is not primarily about God, His law, His work of redemption, nor and thereby eliminate all the struggles. Socialism claims to seek equality His promises. It is actually freedom from the true Gospel. The true Gospel and liberty for the people by helping to alleviate the poor by eliminating the and true liberation is a spiritual liberation of individuals, groups, nations, greedy middle class and the oppression of the poor by the wealthy races, and all human beings, regardless of social status. The true Gospel liberates us from sin— its power and its consequences. “Whoseover commit“capitalists” who owned the nation’s businesses and industries. teth sin is a servant of sin...If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall Socialism starts with the nationalization/confiscation/stealing of every be free indeed.” John 8:34, 36. means of production, the plants, factories, businesses, corporations, industries, farms, private property, natural resources, money, and banks—which The Social Gospel, on the other hand, is specifically a freeing from political all supposedly come under public ownership, that is, under the collective oppression, economic want, misery here on earth, and a freeing from politiownership of the nation. Socialism ends when all the wealth is redistributed cal domination by the so-called “evil” American capitalism. evenly among society. In summary, the liberal Protestant’s Social Gospel and the Roman CathoPoverty would be immediately ended because the vast recourses that are lic’s Liberation Theology are both in essence, Karl Marx’s class struggle. wasted by the rich and by private corporate/business profits would be redis- Sadly, we have seen Seventh-day Adventists following in these similar detributed to the poor by law. Karl Marx theorized that with capitalism gone, ceptions. The challenges of these ideas teach that we are to fight and win – crime will also begin to disappear, for it is the vicious profit system that not the battle of Christ against sin, but the battle of a worldwide class of —continued on page 4
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—continued from page 3 men and women, the poor working class, who vador. After a series of high level assassinations against the government by the FMLN, on November 16, 1989 at 1:00 a.m., a Salvadorian military unit are being exploited by the rich and powerful. entered the campus of UCA and six Jesuit priests [Ignacio Ellacuria, Ignacio Yet we know that Christ never singled out the “poor working class” with a Baro, Segundo Montes, Joaquin Lopez, Amando Lopez, and Juan Moreno] preferential favor with His Gospel. Christ acted on no sociological theory who resided at the school were executed for their alleged participation in about economics or political opposition between classes. He aimed at no guerilla warfare. armed revolution, and no political liberation. Christ was for godliness, purity, humility, and fidelity to God’s law, wherever he found it, poor man or Similar campaigns were carried out in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominican rich, child or elderly, in his rich friends like Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimat- Republic, Granada, Cuba, and other Latin American countries. Fidel Castro hea, Lazarus and his two sisters, and Zacchaeus, or in his poor friends – no- attended Colegio Belen [Bethlehem College] in Havana, Cuba, a Jesuit tably the twelve apostles. Boarding School. For Christ was the Savior of sinners, not a secular leader. It was not povJesuits Call for Redistribution of Wealth and the End of Poverty erty nor riches that made or makes you desirable in Christ’s eyes. It was On July 1, 2005, twelve high ranking Jesuits delivered a letter to the heads what you did in your poverty or your riches, what sort of morality you pracof state gathered for the annual G8 economic and political summit. The G8 ticed, and what beliefs you cherished that counted. group consists of the heads of governments for the top 8 industrialized na“The Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the earth and then the tions of the world: USA, Japan, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, Italy, end will come.” Matt. 21:14. This meant that all the nations are to be evan- France, and Canada. gelized by the Gospel, Christ’s true spiritual Gospel; the Gospel that He anIn the letter, the Jesuits call for the immediate “redistribution of global renounced when he declared “Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15. sources” and for the “control of profits” and “monetary systems.” The letter In reality, the Social Gospel/Liberation Theology is a complete metamor- was carefully written and was echoing the critical social thinking of Karl phous—from a spiritual warfare into a social-political struggle, and if nec- Marx from his book Das Kapital. They were in essence calling for the end of the free-market economy of capitalism. essary, armed revolutionary warfare. 1963 Communist Goals and the Social Gospel On January 10, 1963 in the House of Representatives, Florida Congressman A. S. Herlong, Jr. was alerting the U.S. Congress of the public dangers of communism in America. Under unanimous consent by his colleagues, he entered into the Congressional Record the “Current Communist Goals,” a list of forty-five goals of communism, taken from the book ‘The Naked Communist,’ [1961] by Cleon Skousen. Many of their goals have been fulfilled already. Goal #27 reads: “Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with ‘social’ religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a ‘religious crutch.’” Communist Goals 1963, U.S. Congressional Record, 1/10/1963, Appendix, pp. A34, A35. This certainly has been done already. What becomes of the real Gospel when it is submerged under liberal aims and political maneuverings? When has the “permanent establishment” of the kingdom of God on earth taken precedence over the preaching of the Word of God, or in our case the preaching of the three angels’ messages? Why do we bend scriptures to support merging the teachings of Marxism and Christianity? Roman Catholicism has been spearheading Marxism/Christianity through its Liberation Theology. However, many Protestant organizations have also been propagating and supporting the use of revolutionary protest and even uprisings against the authority of the state in the cause of social change.
The letter was signed by: Fernando Franco SJ, Social Justice Secretary of the Society of Jesus; Andreas Gösele SJ, Social Apostolate Coordinator for Central Europe; Antoine Berilengar SJ, Social Apostolate Coordinator for Africa and Madagascar; Javier Arellano Yanguas SJ, Social Apostolate Coordiantor for Southern Europe; Jim Stormes SJ, Coordinator for Social and International Ministries of US Jesuit Conference; Jorge Julio Mejía SJ, Social Apostolate Coordinator for Latin America; Rafael Moreno SJ, Assitant to the Social Apostolate Coordinator for Latin America; Paulo Sergio Vaillant SJ, Social Apostolate Coordinator for Brasil; Antoine Kerhuel SJ, On behalf of the Social Apostolate in Western Europe; Jakub Cebula SJ, Social Apostolate Coordinator for Eastern Europe; Paul Dass SJ, Social Apostolate Coordinator for East Asia - Oceania; Joe Xavier SJ, Secretary of Jesuits in Social Action [JESA] – Southern Asia. Adventists Unite with the Ecumenical Movement to End Poverty More than 30 leaders of Christian denominations worldwide gathered at the Washington National Cathedral for an ecumenical Sunday worship service on Sept. 11, 2005, to affirm and advance the United Nation's Millennial Development Goal—to end extreme poverty by 2015. The event was called “Consultation of Religious Leaders on Global Poverty.”
Roman Catholic Archbishop from Nairobi, Raphael Ndingi Nzeki; Jesuit Priest John Foley of St. Louis University; Rajmund Dabrowski, Director of Communication of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists— along with 30 plus high-ranking faith leaders from the Northern and Southern hemispheres representing Anglican, Roman Catholic, Reformed, MethLiberation Theology of Vatican II odist, Evangelical, Lutheran, Greek Orthodox, and Seventh-day Adventist Roman Catholic theologians in Latin America, principally the Jesuits of the denominations were among the participants. For a list of participants and post-World War II, post-Vatican II era, had been developing a new theol- program schedule of this historic event, please go to: ogy. They called it the Theology of Liberation, and based it on the lib- http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/pdfs/050911poverty.pdf eral/social theories of the French Revolution – Liberty! Equality! Fraternity! It is often cited as a form of Christian socialism. This is a movement that An article appeared in Adventist News Network which covered the event. In attempts to unite theology [Roman Catholic] and socio-political concerns the article, notice the following observation made by Adventists regarding the United Nations’ call to end poverty by 2015: “‘This is an urgent call [Marxism], particularly in areas of social justice and human rights. and one that responds to the cry of the least among us—the voiceless,’ said Within five years of Vatican II, the whole of Latin America was being Pastor Rajmund Dabrowski, communication director of the Seventh-day flooded with this new theology, in which basic, fundamental, orthodox Adventist world church, and a participant in the consultation. ‘It’s a cry for Marxist teachings were cunningly combined with traditional Christian justice to be done, and for equitable redistribution and accountability for themes. By 1973, a Peruvian Jesuit Priest, Gustavo Gutierrez, codified the wealth the world has. As Christians, we know this cry, but we also these teachings in a book called “A Theology of Liberation.” Liberation know that much more must be done and that intentions must turn into acTheology was a carefully worked out system whose purpose, they claimed, tions.’” Christians Call Against Poverty, Adventist News Network, Sept. 14, was to liberate men and women from the economic, social, and political 2005, Rajmund Dabrowsky. slavery imposed on them by the greedy, exploitations of Latin American countries by the evil U.S. capitalist corporations and government that were Here we see the politicking, ecumenical, Marxist idea of “redistribution of stealing their wealth, manipulating their economies, and controlling their the wealth” being promoted by the General Conference Communication policies. Liberation Theology was followed by the establishment of Director. This is the same liberal/social ideas of the Jesuit’s Liberation the“Democratic Socialism” which incorporated the very goals and principles of ology. Should we suppose that Pastor Dabrowski was in this conference to bring the third angel’s message to the poor people, or maybe to these BabyMarxism. lonian leaders? Seventh-day Adventists were never called to end global For example, the Marxist revolutionaries called the Sandinista National Lib- poverty, form political action committees, or create a utopian society. eration Front of Nicaragua enlisted the efforts of the influential Roman Catholic Jesuits such as Fernando Cardenal to work together, cooperate, and Jesus reminds us that poverty will never be removed in this present world help promote the installation of a socialist society. Today, after years of when He said, “For ye have the poor always with you.” Matt. 26:11. If civil war, the Sandinistas form the largest political party in Nicaragua and fact, Ellen White states this same truth in her writings: Fernando Cardenal, the Jesuit Priest, became the first Minister of Education “There are two classes of poor whom we have always within our borders— in the Sandinista government. those who ruin themselves by their own independent course of action and Similarly, in El Salvador, the Marxist coalition of revolutionaries called the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front [FMLN] launched a series of military offences against the Salvadorian government from 1980-1992. The Salvadorian government’s military officers claimed that the Marxist revolutionary planning was being orchestrated from the Jesuit University UCA [Uneversidad Centroamerica San Jose Canas] in the capital city of San Sal-
continue in their transgression, and those who for the truth’s sake have been brought into straitened circumstances.” Welfare Ministry, pg. 178. We wonder if these ecumenical, politicking, social gospel churches will come to the aid of those who are giving the final warning message of Revelation 14 when they are “brought into straitened circumstances” “for the truth’s sake.” —continued on page 5
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—continued from page 4 “Those who are loyal to God will see every preaching the truth to thousands of people? – the healing of the lame man. earthly support cut off. Because they refuse to break His law in obedience to And today, we are called to do the same. earthly powers they will be forbidden to buy or sell.” Last Day Events, p. “Christ is coming the second time, with power unto salvation. To prepare 148. human beings for this event, He has sent the first, second, and third angels’ Will these religious leaders who are combating global poverty come to the messages. These angels represent those who receive the truth, and with aid of the faithful SDA people, who refuse to break the law of God during power open the gospel to the world.” Letter 79, 1900. the Sunday law crisis? Will they help and alleviate the self-supporting ministries who are preaching the three angels’ message? How about the rest of This of course is in complete contrast to the twisted theories of the Social the small faithful SDA minority? Apparently not! Because the prophet of Gospel – which persistently interprets the scriptures of helping the downthe Lord says that “those who are loyal to God will see every earthly sup- trodden while at the same time drop out of view the fundamental doctrines of the historic Christian faith. Satan’s victory is complete if he could disport cut off.” Ibid. tract the church from its necessary, primary, spiritual mission and service, We can only conclude that the present SDA involvement in “eradicating while at the same time allowing opportunity to the intrusion into the church global poverty” by 2015 is either being done for publicity or for the simple of ideologies which are completely opposed to the Word of God and to the desire of wanting to join up with Roman Catholics, Jesuits, Anglicans, and cause of the three angels’ messages. Seventh-day Adventists were never other members of the Babylonian family. The inspired writings say that called to just become social workers, welfare centers, or political activists. poverty will not be eliminated: Not to be misunderstood, God did give manna to His people. While the “In the providence of God events have been so ordered that the poor are physical/material work should be a natural outgrowth of the regenerating always with us, in order that there may be a constant exercise in the human work of the Holy Spirit. However, as Seventh-day Adventist, we must reheart of the attributes of mercy and love.” Welfare Ministry, p. 17. main true to our task, to our single abiding mission; that of sharing with all So if poverty will not be eliminated, who or what will these religious lead- men, whatever their race, background, outlook, politics, social or moral ers eradicate by 2015? Maybe those who refuse the mark of the beast? We standing—our all-encompassing, all-sufficient, authorative, and necessary message of the three angels of Revelation 14. can only speculate. The True Christian Service Let us never in exchange for the true “Living Bread” of truth offer a stone; There is no doubt that being attentive to human rights, feeding and clothing for the Gospel is to be given in its purest form, in accordance with the Bible the poor, and nurturing and loving people is part of the work of the Gospel. and Spirit of Prophecy, and unmixed with extraneous or cultural elements. Of course, Christians should be in the forefront of work which cares for Liberalism Leads to Secularization people. But let us not be disingenuous in our work for helping others. Liberalism opts for man, to serve man, to meet man’s needs, and to help What would be the purpose of liberating people from structural oppression, him build his home on this earth. Liberalism is based on man’s ideas, starvation, and poverty if we do not give them the real “Bread of Life.” If man’s aims, man’s hopes, man’s fears, man’s suffering, and man’s difficulfact, Jesus Himself rebuked those who came to Him solely for the purpose ties. “We must give man what he wants and needs,” is the centerpiece of of material bread. this message since it has entered into the churches. So pointedly and elabo“Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the rate has this theme been accepted in the mainline churches that Karl Marx loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that himself could not have written a better plan for the secularization of the relimeat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give gious institutions. What has happened ever since these ideals are accepted in whole or in part, is that true prayer, true faith, and the true mission of the unto you.” John 6:26, 27. church is replaced by human solidarity, ecumenism, and political alliances; Christ always gave people more that just physical sustenance or physical which eventually become the new aim and focus of the church. healing. And secondly, when Jesus performed the miraculous feeding of five thousand and four thousand, he was providing a living parable about Secularization teaches that all the meaning of human life and the answer to what He does for the human soul, which is actually more important than the every human hope are to be attained within the boundaries of this visible, tangible, material world of the here and now. “The whole world is moving,” temporal state of their physical bodies. the liberal preachers proclaim, “toward the concept that the whole society of “And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with nations should be formed into a unity, into one great peaceful society, withcompassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shep- out all the old religious divisiveness and based on one common goal— herd: and he began to teach them many things.” Mark 6:34. It was only af- charity, solidarity, and ecumenism.” ter He taught them many things that Christ fed them [Mark 6:37-44]. Isn’t this what the Bible describes as the great Babylonian system, which Furthermore, when He performed a miracle, He was not simply doing a portrays a mixing of the merchants of the earth [economy and wealth] and good work, He was signaling to the world, especially the Jewish people, the great harlot with her daughters [religious institutions] and the kings of that the Messiah had arrived! He performed these “signs” as proof of His the earth [earthly governments]? Here is another section of Pastor Rajmund Divine authority and majesty, and not just to create a more healthy and just Dabrowski’s formula for achieving success in combating the social ills of people, but to save their souls. society: “Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, [he saith to the sick of the palsy] I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.” Mark 2:9-11.
“As Christian leaders we challenge our own churches to pursue partnerships with governments, international organizations, civil society, and across confessional lines.” Christians Call Against Poverty, Adventist News Network, Sept. 14, 2005, Rajmund Dabrowsky.
Friends, who did Jesus, His disciples, or the early Adventist pioneers partHere again, Jesus did not simply go about doing good works. He pro- ner up with when fulfilling their work? Governments? Across confessional claimed His Messiahship, the right to forgive sins, to all those to whom He lines? Ecumenism? Secular Liberal Organizations? Obviously, they dehelped. pended and received help from God alone. Again, in John 9, after healing the blind man, Christ said unto him: “Doest No Other Gospel thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou has both seen “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel...let him him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he be accursed.” Gal. 1:8-9. Let us not be ignorant of the Devil’s devices lest Satan get the advantage [II Cor. 2:11]. The existence of these liberal, secuworshipped him.” John 9:35-38. lar developments within Adventism are designed to destroy or neutralize the Here we see clearly Christ’s intention of helping the poor and afflicted. He unique messages of our faith. Let us rejoice that in spite of all these forces wants to restore the burden of despair upon all, both physical and spiritual. of evil that have attempted to eradicate our historical Adventist message, He offers forgiveness and complete transformation of the whole being. God has reminded us that His message will triumph in the end. Lastly, the healing of the lame man in Acts 2 was for the benefit of the en- “The bulwarks of Satan will never triumph. Victory will attend the third tire Jewish temple. Notice Peter’s address: angel's message. As the Captain of the Lord's host tore down the walls of “Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this…as though by our own power or Jericho, so will the Lord's commandment-keeping people triumph, and all holiness we had made this man to walk...Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and opposing elements be defeated.” Testimonies to Minister, p. 410. denied him in the presence of Pilate…but ye denied the Holy One and the Just…And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead…And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know…Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.” Acts 3:12-19. Here Peter “pricked the hearts” of his listeners by preaching to them the present truth inside the Jewish temple. And what provided the occasion for this great accomplishment of
Notice, only those who hold fast to the faith which was once delivered unto the saints, the three angels’ messages, in context to the everlasting gospel, will in the end triumph under the power of the latter rain. “I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” Isa. 45:6-7. - The Editors
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“So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” Matthew 24:33
Pope Benedict XVI poses with King of Spain Juan Carlos and his wife Queen Sofia during a private audience in his summer residence of Castelgandolfo, near Rome Sept. 5, 2005.
ATHENS, Greece Aug 22, 2005 — The last man conscious in the cockpit of a doomed Cypriot airliner made a desperate call for help "Mayday! Mayday!" two seconds before the plane carrying 121 people smashed into a mountain near Athens.
The death toll from devastating mudslides in Guatemala topped 2,000, as rescuers called off their search for hundreds of people buried for six days under solidifying mud. (AFP) Helicopter shows the destruction from a recent mudslide about 165 kms (102 miles) west of Guatemala City, Monday, Oct. 10, 2005.
Sept. 1, 2005—Iraqis walk among shoes lost during a stampede on a bridge in Baghdad. Close to 1,000 Iraqis were crushed to death or drowned in a stampede on a Baghdad bridge as vast crowds of Shiite pilgrims were sent into panic by rumors of suicide bombers in their midst.
Residents and security officers gather near the wreckage of a Mandala Airlines Boing 737 jetliner which crashed in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2005. The jetliner crashed into a crowded residential neighborhood in the city of Medan shortly after takeoff Monday, killing 147 people on board and an unknown number on the ground, officials said.
Oct. 7, 2005—Louisiana's official death toll from Hurricane Katrina passed 1,000 on Friday. The state Department of Health and Hospitals reported that state officials and local coroners had recovered 1,003 bodies — 15 more than the total reported Thursday. The increase puts the death toll from the storm at 1,242. Katrina killed 221 people in Mississippi, 14 in Florida, two in Georgia and two in Alabama.
Aug. 23, 2005—A Peruvian airplane crashed in the northeastern Amazon jungle, killing at least 60 people in the second South American crash in a week, Peru's President Alejandro Toledo said.
Aug. 16, 2005—A Colombian airliner has crashed in a remote mountainous area of Venezuela killing all 160 people on board.
Commuters travel on a MRT train in Singapore, September 10, 2005, with a sign (top) warning people about the dangers of dengue fever. The death toll from Singapore's worst dengue fever outbreak on record has risen to 11,000 total cases in 2005, the health ministry said.
Villagers try to get food bags distributed by the Guatemalan Army in Guatemala, in the aftermath of Hurricane Stan, Oct. 9, 2005.
Sept. 15, 2005—Pope Benedict XVI shakes hands with Israel's chief rabbi, Yona Metzger during a private meeting in the pontiff's summer residence of Castelgandolfo, Italy. At center is German Cardinal Walter Kasper, of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Unity.
AIDS is keeping Africa in its death grip, claiming 2.4 million lives on the continent in 2005 out of the worldwide death toll of 3.1 million.
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Irish President Mary McAlesse meets with Pope Benedict following his weekly address at St. Peter's square in the Vatican September 7, 2005. REUTERS/ Osservatore Romano.
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A demonstrator throws a petrol bomb at riot police during clashes in northern Thessaloniki, Greece, September 10, 2005. More than 10,000 protesters participated in a rally against Greek government reforms on labor issues.
Chilean riot policeman is engulfed in flames after a firebomb launched by protesting university students landed at his feet, during clashes in the port city of Valparaiso, September 8, 2005. Some 200 students were dispersed by police when they demonstrated ahead of the 32nd anniversary of the military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. Gang members are escorted after being captured by riot police in San Salvador, El Salvador, September 8, 2005. Authorities announced that the Simultaneous International Anti-Gang Operations in five different countries -- Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and the United States -- have netted some 660 suspects. REUTERS/Luis Galdamez
President Bush signs the commission appointing John Roberts, a Roman Catholic, as the 17th Chief Justice of the US Supreme before swearing-in ceremonies at the White House, September 29, 2005.
Nov. 2, 2005—Up to 150 people were feared killed when seven coaches of a passenger train derailed in southern India on Saturday after a bridge collapsed in heavy rain, a railway official said. (Asia News International/ Reuters).
Nov. 8, 2005—Riots in over 300 cities and town across France was sparked by the deaths of two Muslim youths being chased by police. Vichicles, churches, schools, hospitals, and business were set ablaze by rioters. The civil unrest resembled the scenes similar to those depicted during the French Revolution. In a three-week span, youths torched 9,071 vehicles in nightly rioting that left 126 police officers injured, the Interior Ministry said. Almost 3,000 youths were arrested.
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