EDINBURGH 2010: A FALSE UNITY
Last week’s Edinburgh 2010 was an ecumenical celebration of the 100th anniversary of the World Missionary Conference. It was a celebration of a false unity and is more about the building of the Harlot Church of Revelation 17 than the true church of Jesus Christ.
Edinburgh 2010 brought together a hodgepodge of Evangelicals, Modernists, Roman Catholics, Orthodox, and Pentecostals. There were Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans, Baptists, you name it. Olav Tveit, general secretary of the wretchedly apostate World Council of Churches, said, “Mission and unity belong together” (“Evangelicals, Ecumenicals,” Christian Post, June 3, 2010).
Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of the World Evangelical Alliance, said that though Christians can’t agree on doctrine, they should “build bridges rather than create chasms.” The conference concluded with “a Common Call to Christians.”
In John 17:21, Jesus did not call for any sort of ecumenical unity. John 17 is a prayer that Jesus prayed to God the Father, not a command that He gave to Christians. By the context, it is obvious that Jesus was not describing the “unity in diversity” of modern ecumenism (including “evangelical” ecumenism). Jesus was describing those who keep God’s Word (John 17:6). That is definitely not a description of the crowd at Edinburgh, with their wholesale rejection of the infallible inspiration of Scripture, acceptance of evolution, infant baptism, prayers to Mary, replacement theology, liberation theology, interfaith dialogue, social gospel, private prayer language, and a host of other heresies.
If God is so big on unity, why did He demand that His people earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 3)? Why did He demand that we keep the truth without spot (1 Timothy 6:14)?.
” But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. — 2Peter 2:1-3
The participation of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism and other “evangelical” organizations in Edinburgh 2010 is clear evidence of the apostasy of evangelicalism today. Where are the prominent evangelicals who are lifting their voices against this rebellion?
This is a loud warning to those fundamentalists who are footsying with the evangelicals.
