The World Council of Churches
And
Its Further Apostasy and Socialist Leanings
Missionary David C. Bennett, D. Min.
If you are a fundamental Bible believing Baptist you already know the
World Council of Churches (WCC) is an
apostate organization composed of apostate religious denominations. As
Bible believing Baptists we need to be aware of what is happening in the
world of religion for these happenings do affect us and our ministries for
Christ. The following report only further solidifies that which you
already know of the WCC.
The following report was taken from the Internet site of the
World Council of Churches 25 March,
2003. Emphasis has been added by the editor (DCB) and is designated as
such.
"World Council of Churches Media
relations office
WCC Feature
150 route de Ferney, P.O. Box 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
E-mail: media@wcc-coe.org
20 March 2003
Che Guevara's daughter condemns unjust trial in Miami
The daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Dr Aleida Guevara March,
speaking yesterday at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva at the invitation of
the World Council of Churches (WCC),
condemned as "deeply flawed" the trial of five Cubans in Miami,
Florida, USA. (Emphasis added) The five were charged with accessory to
murder and spying after infiltrating an anti-Cuban terrorist group based
in Miami. In her presentation, Dr Guevara March, a paediatrician
practising in Cuba, said the trial proceedings had flaunted the basic
legal rights and norms due to accused people under American law.
Dr Guevara March's trip to Geneva is part of a wave of protests against
the irregularities of the trial and the harsh sentences ranging from 15
years to life. She was accompanied in her visit to the Ecumenical
Centre by Cuba's ambassador to Switzerland and a delegation of Cuban
officials. (Emphasis added) "We ask the
World Council of Churches to be in solidarity with us, to ask
for clemency for the five Cubans under arrest in Miami", Dr Guevara March
said. Her visit follows that of the president of the Cuban Council of
Churches, Rev. Dr Reineiro Arce, who had made the same plea to staff of
the WCC.
"The World Council of Churches",
said Dr Guillermo Kerber of the International Relations staff "is
concerned that justice be done and all legalities be taken into account in
the legal proceedings against these five people."
In her wide-ranging presentation, Dr Guevara March talked about the
impact of the US blockade on the health of Cuba's children. "Doctors
cannot get basic medication for children suffering from leukemia," she
said. Noting current concerns for the situation in Iraq, Dr Guevara March
pointed to the impact of a similar blockade on the children of Iraq, and
urged the WCC to continue being part of worldwide calls to prevent war in
Iraq.
In her closing remarks, she shared stories of her early memories of
her father, the Argentinian revolutionary who fought with Cuba's leader,
Fidel Castro, (Emphasis added) in the revolution of 1959. ‘We, his
family, fight against use of the term ‘myth’ to describe him. My father
was a man with virtues ... and with some flaws,’ she said to a round of
laughter. (Emphasis added) ‘If we turn him into a myth, he is not
a man. We want him to be known as a man. A man who loved a woman with whom
he had four children in five years. A man who went to work for people
other than his own people, who loved those people and fought for them.’"
NOW who was this Ernesto Che Guevara? Ernesto Che Guevara was
born 14 July, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina. His father was of Irish descent
whose occupation was an engineer. His mother was of Spanish-Irish descent.
His parents were politically liberals with leftist leanings.
His parent’s liberal and leftist leanings are seen in that when
Guervara was fourteen he began reading Freud. He also loved French poetry.
At the age of sixteen he became a great admirer of Neruda a Chilean poet.
Neruda is considered one of the 20th century’s major poets. Neruda was
apolitical radical who became very prominent in the Chilean Communist
Party. He was elected to the Chilean Senate and served from 1945 to 1948.
From 1948 until 1952 Chile banned the Communist party so during this time
Neruda travelled throughout the Soviet Union, Europe, and Mexico. When
Chile lifted the ban on the Communist Party he returned back to Chile. In
1970 Neruda was the Communist Party's candidate for the presidency. From
1970 to 1972 Neruda served as the Chilean ambassador to France and in 1953
he was awarded the Lenin Prize for Peace. In 1971 he won the Nobel Prize
in literature. THIS WAS THE MAN WHOM ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA ADMIRED AT THE
AGE OF SIXTEEN!
In 1944 Ernesto Che Guevara travelled through Latin America which
exposed him to what he saw as the exploited villagers of Latin America. In
1953 he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina with a
medical degree. The next year, 1954, Guevara went to Mexico where he met
Cuban exile Fidel Castro. Castro and Guevara both believed revolution and
socialism was the only remedy for social injustice and inequities.
From Mexico Guerva and Castro sailed to Cuba aboard the ship Granma. In
Cuba Guerva fought on the front lines with Castro to finally defeat the
Cuban dictator, Batista. In 1959 Guerva was given Cuban citizenship and
later married another communist, Aleida March, with whom he had four
children.
Guerva was assigned to the presidency of the Institute of National
Agricultural Reform, and of the National Bank of Cuba in 1959. In this
position he was accountable for the financial responsibilities of Cuba.
Then on 23 February, 1961, Guerva was appointed to head the newly
established Ministry of Industry in which he served until 1965.
In the years after the revolution Guerva became a very strong opponent
of the United States and its influence in the Third World. It was Guerva
that helped guide Castro and his dictatorial government down the strong
communist path. Guerva authored two guerrilla warfare books and strongly
advocated peasant-based revolutionary movements in developing countries.
In September, 1965, Guerva left Cuba to help organize revolutions in
overthrowing governments. On October 3rd, 1965, Fidel Castro read Ernesto
Che Guevara’s famous farewell to the people of Cuba.
It was in Bolivia in 1966 that Guerva reappeared. He was again a
revolutionary leader. In 1967 he was captured and on October 9th,
1967 Gureva was shot.
THIS IS THE MAN OF WHOM DR. ALEIDA GUEVARA MARCH SPOKE AND SAID HAD
"some flaws" AND TO WHICH THOSE IN ATTENDANCE AT THIS
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES MEETING 19 MARCH,
2003 GAVE "a round of laughter." Laughing at a remark made
of a man who as a Communist hated individual freedom and Bible believing
Christianity!
However, that "laughter" should not shock us for the
WCC is also not a friend of individual
freedom, the Bible, or of the Bible Believing Christian. The
WCC and its members do not have as
their goal Biblical missions but mission. This is important to note. Their
mission is not evangelism of the lost through the preaching of the gospel
but is rather the promotion of the social gospel, of social justice, and
seeking to right the wrong through revolution by any means. The
WCC not only detests Bible
Christianity but detests (as they view it)
the Colonialist spirit of the United States of America. This is also cause
for revolution.
The World Council of Church’s
apostate unbelief is seen in its affirmation of dialogue with
non-Christian religions. Dialogue with non-Christian religions is one of
the World Council of Churches main
goals! To pursue this goal the WCC in
1968 or 1969 engaged India’s Stanley J. Samartha to conduct the study of
"The Word of God and the Living Faiths of Men". This study initiated the
first multi-faith dialogue convened in 1970 in Lebanon under WCC auspices
where Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian participants came to engage in
inter-religious dialogue. Later in 1971 the one major event happened due
to this multi-faith meeting. The WCC
appointed Samartha as the director of what is known as the Sub-unit on
Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies. That is mouth full!
THEN in 1975 for the very first time in WCC
history five people from non-Christian religions were invited to a
WCC assembly as special guests and
took part in discussions on "Seeking Community". Interfaith dialogue as
now led to interfaith prayers among the various religions including those
who claim to be Christian. Then there are the Zen and Benedictine
monasteries who exchange monks each year so as to learn from
each other’s meditative practices. In India there are weekend live-in
sessions where those of different religions come together for exposure to
each other’s prayer life and to participate in common devotions.
THEN in 1983 the number of non-Christian guests from other religions
rose from five to fifteen! Of those fifteen four made presentations to
plenary sessions! Also in that 1983 Vancouver meeting the
WCC (Wacko Churches of Corruption)
even debated whether other religious traditions are vehicles of God’s
redeeming activity!!
Things only get worse for in the 1991 WCC
meeting in Canberra, Australia there were representatives of other
religious and indigenous traditions which included the Australian
Aboriginal and Islander peoples. Their participation brought forth
according to the WCC "controversy and
new interest both in gospel and culture and in the theological
understanding of other religious traditions."
Spurgeon said "Whenever a man is about to stab religion, he usually
professes very great reverence for it. Let me beware of the sleek-faced
hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and infidelity. Knowing the
deceivableness of unrighteousness, let me be wise as a serpent to detect
and avoid the designs of the enemy."
The World Council of Churches
certainly "professes great reverence" for religion. The
World Council of Churches is certainly
"sleek-faced" and full of "hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and
infidelity." and may I add apostasy?! The World
Council of Churches and its members are nothing but that old
Serpent still with a smile saying "Yea, hath God said?" The
World Council of Churches doubt,
yea, they disbelieve the very Word and Words of God!
There is a warning in all this. Many within fundamentalism are dropping
the guard of Biblical separation and holding hands with new evangelicals.
These "fundamentalists" say we should appreciate our new evangelical
brethren more for the good they do and criticize them less. Holding hands
with the new evangelical brethren mean these one time "fundamentalists"
are heading hand in hand with the new evangelical toward a closer
relationship with the World Council of Churches and Rome!
We who know the Lord as Saviour are required by the Word of God to be
separatists and to warn our brethren to "have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
2Peter 3:17 "…beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the
wicked, fall from your own stedfastness."
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