The RADEN Report
Yes,
they really did say that!
Amazing
admissions, shocking quotations…
Bishop
says Orthodox Church exploiting members through encouraging idolatry…
“When
believers identify themselves with an icon, that is idolatry.
And we bear responsibility for this, for we encourage idolatry by hawking around saints’
relics to fill church collection boxes.” Bishop Theoklitos of Ioannina,
criticizing his Greek Orthodox Church for exploiting the “paganistic,
sick faith” of its members. For this remark, the head of the Greek Orthodox
Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, accused Theoklitos
of “veering toward Protestantism.” (Christianity Today, February 2003)
The
Teresa we never knew…
“My
smile is a great cloak that hides a multitude of pains,” wrote “Mother”
Teresa. “I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God, and that God does not
exist.” (Mother Teresa’s Secret,
a book recently published, quoted in Christianity Today, February 2003)
No
consensus on salvation…
”Evangelicals,
Catholics, and the Orthodox do not share a common understanding of how the work of Christ
accomplishes our salvation – and this is the heart of the gospel…. Many
evangelicals, myself included, remain unconvinced that any consensus on salvation now
exists between those who hold to the teachings of the Reformers and those who hold to the
official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.” (Dr. R. Albert Mohler,
President, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Consensus
on salvation claimed…
In
the first Evangelicals and Catholics Together statement “we explained why it is
necessary, as ‘brothers and sisters in Christ,’ to work with one another, and
not against one another, in the great task of evangelization…. ECT can be understood
as simply making explicit what was implicit: that our unity in action is the fruit of our
unity in faith.” (Charles Colson and Richard Neuhaus, Introduction, Thy Word Is Truth, Eerdmans 2002)
English
priest believes knowledge of witchcraft can be useful…
For
Richard Thomas, a priest on the Anglican bishop of
Catholic
magazine says the Holy Spirit calls homosexual men to priesthood…
“Healthy
and dedicated gay men serving in the priesthood make an important contribution to the life
of the church…. the main argument in favor of the ordination of gay men is far more
convincing than the arguments against it—namely, the real-life example of thousands
of healthy and hard-working gay priests and bishops…. Historically, the ministry of
gay priests has represented a significant contribution to the Catholic Church. Preventing
the ordination of gay men would deprive the church of many productive, hard-working and
dedicated ministers and would, moreover, ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit, who has
called these men to holy orders.” (
Evangelical
scholar suggests Bible can not be fully understood apart from tradition…
”All
of us, Evangelicals and Catholics alike, acknowledge that the Bible is the divinely
inspired book of the church and that it can be fully understood only in fellowship with
the Brethren, and in communion with the Fathers, not forgetting the Sisters and the
Mothers.” (Dr. Timothy George, explaining his
support of the third ECT document, Thy Word is Truth. Taken from the book by the same title, page 11, 2002.)
Author
says apology for slavery not necessary…
“Many
efforts at racial reconciliation are doomed to failure because they do not take into
account an uncomfortable truth, says African American pastor Earl Carter, that God had a
hand in slavery.”
http://www.mcjonline.com/news/03a/20030106d.shtml
Historic
Christianity more a relationship with the Church than with Jesus personally, suggests
leading “evangelical” ecumenist…
”Seeing
Christianity as exclusively, or even primarily, a personal relationship with Jesus falls
woefully short of historic Christianity….
Colson
claims the Gospel is broad enough to include sacramental faith…
”…orthodox
Christianity [is] represented largely by evangelicalism, conservative Roman Catholicism,
and the Orthodox church.” (Charles
Colson, How Now Shall We Live?
1999)
”I
became a Catholic essentially for the very concrete historical reason that I discovered
that Jesus Christ had founded the Catholic Church…. Now I see that God prefers to work
through intermediaries – Mary and the saints – so that He may exalt and glorify
them as well as Himself; so He wants us to pray through Mary, and not only directly….
When a pious Muslim practices his islam,
his submission, might this be taking place through Christ and His grace and presence,
though the Muslim does not know it or acknowledge it? I think this is very likely. God
loves to hide.” (ECT endorser
Peter Kreeft, Ecumenical Jihad,
1996. And if this is not shocking enough, here are endorsements of this book given
by two other ECT endorsers…
“Peter
Kreeft is one of the premier apologists in America today,
witty, incisive and powerful. On the front lines in today’s culture war, Kreeft is one of our most valiant intellectual warriors.”-Charles Colson.
“Catholics,
Protestants, and Orthodox alike need to ponder Peter Kreeft’s
vision of things…. What if he is right?” –J.I.
Packer)
Truth that never changes…
“I
charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and
the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will
come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap
to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” (From the apostle Paul to Timothy, a
young Christian man charged with caring for the church in Ephesus, recorded in 2 Timothy
4:1-5)
- Jerry Moser, editor RADEN Report
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