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CajunRick
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Posted: Sat Feb 16th, 2008 01:12 pm |
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Geneva, Feb 15, 2008 / 07:36 pm (CNA).- Russian Orthodox bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, the Moscow Patriarchate’s delegate for international relationships, said on February 15 that liberal Christianity is on its way to extinction.
"Liberal Christianity will not survive long and political correctness within the Christian environment is destined to die," said during a conference addressing the Ecumenical Council of Churches at Geneva, Switzerland.
The Orthodox bishop also criticized the words of the Anglican primate, Rowan Williams, regarding the "inevitability" of introducing the "sharia" (Muslim Law) in England.
"I would like to warn you about the perils of liberal Christianity," a trend, he said, that has sharply divided the Christian community in the last decades.
"Today we can't talk about Christian morality because the standards of 'traditional' and 'liberal' Christians are dramatically different and the abyss between these two branches of Christianity is growing," he added.
"We are hearing from some Christian leaders that marriage between a woman and a man is not the only possible option for the creation of a Christian family, that there can be other type of couples and that the Church should be 'inclusive' by recognizing such lifestyles and grant them a solemn blessing," Hilarion also said.
The Orthodox bishop also said that "we have heard that the human life is a negotiable value, to the point that it can be aborted in the mother's womb." "What has happened with Christianity? In a confused and disoriented world, “Where is the prophetic voice of Christians?" he asked.
Finally in a veiled criticism to the Anglican primate, Hilarion said that "it is not our duty to defend sharia, promote alternative lifestyles or secularized values. Our mission is to announce what Christ himself announced".
The above article is reposted with permission from Catholic News Agency.
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JasPax
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Posted: Sat Feb 16th, 2008 04:10 pm |
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Acts 20:28-30 NAB St. Paul to the Church at Miletus:
"Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the church of God that He acquired with His own blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them."
Notes: 1. Overseers = Bishops
2. "church of God." Not an "invisible" church but that established by Jesus Christ.
God's Blessings,
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"Abide in me, and I in you..." John 15:4
"He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him." John 6:56
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BodRod
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| Location: | Apple Valley, California USA |
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Posted: Sat Feb 16th, 2008 04:40 pm |
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We have a couple of these types of preachers on one of our local radio stations. They can talk for several minutes and when they are done, I can not put my finger on specific topic of their talk. It is all generalities and "ra, ra" stuff.
One of the things I like about my religion is that when the bishop or our pastor or his vicar or a visiting priest is finished talking, I know what their point was and what, if anything, I need to do about it.
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