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Ecumenism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Charismaticism, Armstrongism, Branhamism, and whatever isms, are nothing but sects of people who propagate their doctrines and teachings according to their whims and fancies based on some religious books, creeds or dogmas, and calling themselves 'Christians'.
Some of them may claim they are Bible believers or fundamentalists, and that their teachings are traced back to the Apostolic Fathers.
Yet, in the face of the Word of God they are all false cults with filthy names of blasphemy (like the Beast of Revelation 13:1) — Presbyterian cult, Methodist cult, Lutheran cult, Mormon cult, Anglican cult, Roman Catholicism cult, Branhamite cult, Moonie cult, etc..
It does not matter whether they are radicals or so-called fundamentalists.
The only true cult is one which is centred upon the Person of Christ and His Word.
When a group of people devote themselves to some personality, like the Catholicism Pope or a Faith Healer, or to certain religious and traditional church creeds or dogmas, and accept them as THE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY, they form a personality cult or a false cult.
It is idolatrous worship.
Today, Ecumenism, especially through glossolalia (Greek for “speaking in other tongues”) is gathering the various denominational faiths together into “One Faith” by promoting 'LOVE' among the people.
This “oneness” is certainly not that which our Lord Jesus had prayed for (John17: 21-23).
{John 17:21-23; King James Version; ²¹ That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
²² And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.}
As long as the TRUTH of God is not the basis of fellowship, whatever and however LOVE is fostered, God is not in their midst.
Only God's TRUTH can produce the TRUE LOVE (Agapao – 1 John 4:16; 2 John 1,2), otherwise it is only human emotion.
{1 John 4:16 ; King James Version; And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.}
{2 John 1,2 ; King James Version ;1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; 2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.}
Because God is TRUTH, He cannot be in the people unless they have the WORD.
God is in His WORD, for God and His Word are ONE (John1:1). [In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word (Logos) was God.]
God is obligated only to His WORD.
Where there is no WORD, there is no TRUTH (John17:17). {Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.}
And where there is no TRUTH, God is not there.
“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3).
That's right.
A Lutheran Trinitarian can and will walk with a Pentecostal Trinitarian — obviously because they are Trinitarians; likewise, a Roman Catholic Charismatic will walk with an Anglican Charismatic — because they are Charismatics; and so with each of all the other different faiths.
Those people of the same faith will be able to see eye to eye with each other on their same beliefs.
But to walk with God you have to agree with God and His Word, and not otherwise.
You cannot take His Word to fit your belief.
Your belief must be according to His Word.
God's WORD is the FILTER of all our beliefs.
It is every true spiritual thinking man's filter.
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