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‘Imagine sex among friends as the norm. . Imaginevaluing sexual interaction in terms of whether and how itfosters friendship and pleasure. . Pleasure is our birthrighto f w h i c h w e h av e b e e n r o b b e d i n r e l i g i o u spatriarchy” (AFA Journal, Feb. 1994).Worshiping Sophia. e Nov. 3, 1993, Minneapolis StarTribune reported that “throughout the conference worshipexperiences will celebrate Sophia, the biblical goddess ofcreation.” Sue Seid-Martin of the University of St. omasSchool of Divinity in St. Paul, Minn., claimed that this Sophiais “the suppressed part of the biblical tradition, and clearly thefemale face of the human psyche.” Seid-Martin believesSophia is found in Proverbs 1-9, Matt. 11; Lk. 3:35; 11:49; and1 Cor. 1-2, and she identifies Jesus Christ with this Sophia. ese feminists are not reading the same Bible I have readfor over 30 years. I have never found a Sophia goddess in myBible! e Greek word “Sophia” is translated “wisdom” in theKJV and “denotes mental excellence in the highest and fullests e n s e . . . c o mp r e h e n d s k n o w l e d g e a n d i mp l i e sgoodness” (George Berry, A Greek-English Lexicon and NewTestament Synonyms). is word is o en applied to JesusChrist but never in any sense whatsoever having to do with“the female face of the human psyche.” e word “sophia” isnot found in the Old Testament. e Hebrew word mostcommonly translated wisdom is “chokmah.” is is the wordtranslated wisdom in Proverbs 8 and 9. It refers tounderstanding, skill, revelation, godly reason, and it hasnothing whatsoever to do with a supposed feminine side ofGod.Naked Sophia goddess. A painting displayed at the Reimagining conference supposedly depicted this Sophia. epainting contained the picture of a bald, frowning womanwith large naked breasts. e middle of her forehead isadorned with a mark that appears to be a Hindu “tika” ortilaka, the same mark women in Nepal and India receive fromtheir priests when they do “puja” (worship) at pagan shrines.

(It is interesting that one of the speakers at this conferenceencouraged the wearing of the tika. Aruna Gnanadason,South Asian feminist, “lashed out against alleged oppressionby Christian missionary teachings in India,” and she invitedparticipants to put red dots on their foreheads to “representthe divine” in them.) e cover of e Presbyterian Laymanfor January-February 1994 featured this painting. In a framesurrounding the painting were some of the words from theprayer to Sophia.On Sunday morning the conferees joined together inrepeating a prayer to Sophia, including these words:“Our maker Sophia, we are women in your image. .Sophia, creator God . shower us with your love weinvite a lover, we birth a child; with our warm body fluidswe remind the world of its pleasures and sensations. . Ourguide, Sophia, we are women in your image. . With thehoney of wisdom in our mouths, we prophesy a fullhumanity to all the peoples.”Honey of wisdom, my foot! is is the sour mash of newage feminism, a movement foreseen almost 2,000 years agoby the prophet Jude:“Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about themin like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, andgoing a er strange flesh, are set forth for an example,suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also thesefilthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion.” (Jude7-8).World Council of Churches Baptizes Heathenism e Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches(WCC), held February 7-20, 1991, in Canberra, Australia,gave plain evidence of the Council’s hideous apostasy.We do not feel it is necessary to report on all that went onthe WCC Seventh Assembly. We believe it is enough to reporton the abominable ideas of syncretism and universalism

which were supported there--the heresy that there is somelight and salvation in heathen religions. is has been atrademark of the World Council for decades, but itssyncretistic emphasis grows bolder with time. e Canberra meeting was opened by Australianaboriginals who worship nature. Consider the followingReligious News Service report:“Aboriginal men girded in loincloths and feathers, theirbodies painted in tribal decoration, danced around an altarand beat drums in a traditional purification ceremony thatopened the Seventh Assembly of the World Council ofChurches here February 7. Standing near them at the altarwere aboriginal women clothed in traditional black andred dresses and colorful aboriginal clergymen garbed inwestern vestments.”(Christian News, Feb. 18, 1991, p. 1).An Ecumenical Press Service report gives more details ofthe heathen purification ceremony which opened the WCCAssembly.“ e congregation entered the tent by passing throughsmoke made by burning leaves--a traditional cleansingprocess for Aborigines in Australia. . Before worshipbegan, a traditional Aboriginal ‘message stick’ was carriedto the worship tent by an Aboriginal runner. In that action,WCC General Secretary Emilio Castro asked permissionfor the council to enter the land. Gathered in the tent wereAboriginal elders, who ritually granted permission,whereupon the WCC worship leaders walked in processioninto the tent.” e Aborigines involved in this rite were almost naked, andthe entire thing was an abomination to God. e supposedspirituality of the Aboriginals was applauded by the WCCAssembly, but the Bible condemns it as heathen idolatry. eWCC leadership has no understanding of Bible salvation andspirituality. erefore they find “spirituality” in this fallen,wicked world even among the unsaved.

Prayer to a female god. Further evidence of the WorldCouncil’s syncretistic spirit occurred the second day of theAssembly, when South Korean Presbyterian feminist, ChungHyun-Kyung, evoked a female pagan god.“Combining verbal fireworks with a performance byKorean and aboriginal dancers, Chung rendered adramatic evocation of a female Holy Spirit. She linked thatspirit to that of Hagar, the Egyptian slave woman inGenesis who Chung said was ‘exploited and abandoned’ byAbraham and Sarah. Chung then burned bits of paperbearing the names of other exploited spirits--which shesaid were full of ‘han,’ the Korean word for ‘anger’--andidentified them as Holocaust victims, freedom fighters,murdered advocates of non-violence, struggling Koreanwomen, the poor, and women in Japan’s ‘prostitution army’during World War II” (Religious News Service, March 5,1991).Eighteen times Chung summoned the spirits of the deadand claimed that “without hearing the cries of these spirits,we cannot hear the voice of the Holy Spirit.” Chung said, “Ihope the presence of all our ancestors’ spirits here with usshall not make you uncomfortable.” She also summoned “thespirit of Earth, Air, and Water.” Chung said, “I also know thatI no longer believe in an omnipotent, Macho, warrior Godwho rescues all good guys and punishes all bad guys.” Chungconcluded her message by likening the “spirit” to theidolatrous image of Kwan, “a goddess of compassion andwisdom [worshipped in] East Asian women’s popularreligiosity.” Chung went even further in her blasphemy whenshe said, “Perhaps this might also be a feminine image of theChrist who is the first born among us, one who goes beforeand brings others with her.” e RNS report stated that though some WCC delegateswere offended by this blasphemy, most warmly received it. Infact, the audience gave Chung’s blasphemous presentation astanding ovation!

All Scripture not life-giving. In a follow-up report by theReligious News Service in February of 1992, further evidenceof Chung’s apostasy was given. In an interview with CarlMcIntire, Chung said she was not certain that Jesus spoke thewords of John 14:6 - “I am the way, the truth, and the life: noman cometh unto the Father, but by me.”Chung also said that many women do not find all ofScripture “life-giving” and pointed especially to Paul’sadmonition that women be quiet in the church and be subjectto their husbands at home.She said she agreed with a Catholic priest who recently toldher the greatest harm to the promotion of unity is claimingthe truth. e struggle between who’s right and who’s wrongdivides people, she said.All faiths are one with God. e Director of the WCC’sInter-Faith dialogue is a Sri Lankan, Wesley Ariarajah. Hisapostate ideas about salvation were voiced at the Canberrameeting and were reported in local newspapers. Consider thisreport from the e Australian:“ e World Council of Churches took ecumenism to itsfarthest limits at the weekend, suggesting Muslims, Hindusand others achieve salvation in the same way as Christiansand warning the latter against ‘narrow thinking.’ e council’s Director of Inter-Faith dialogue, Dr. WesleyAriarajah, said it was inconceivable to him that Godlistened to Christian prayers but ignored those praying totheir particular versions of God.‘As a Sri Lankan Christian who has read the Hinduwritings and the scriptures of the Hindu saints I simplycannot believe that there have not been other people [thanChristians] who are familiar with God,’ he said. ‘It isbeyond belief that other people have no access to God orthat God has no access to other people. Who are listeningto the prayers of the Hindu? Are there many Gods? If weare thinking about a God who is the creator and sustainerof the whole universe, as in Psalm 24, then there are not

two Gods. erefore it is inconceivable to me that a Hinduor a Buddhist, or anybody, is outside God. Myunderstanding of God’s love is too broad for me to believethat only this narrow segment called the Christian churchwill be saved. If you are a Christian you must be open andbroad, not narrow and exclusive.’“Dr. Ariarajah said being a good Christian did not includegoing around telling people of other faiths they had got itall wrong” ( e Australian, Feb. 11, 1991).Ariarajah is dead wrong about the condition of thoseoutside of Christ. Consider the following truths from theWord of God, truths which are utterly ignored by Ariarajahand his WCC friends:THE CONDITION OF THE HEATHEN. e followingverses from Ephesians show us plainly the condition of theunsaved heathen.“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespassesand sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to thecourse of this world, according to the prince of the powerof the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children ofdisobedience: Among whom also we all had ourconversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfillingthe desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by naturethe children of wrath, even as others. . at at that time yewere without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealthof Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise,having no hope, and without God in the world: But now inChrist Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nighby the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:1-3,12-13).Before the Ephesians came to Christ, they were religiousidolaters. What was their spiritual condition at that time? eBible says they were dead in trespasses and sins. ey wereunder the power of the devil. ey were by nature thechildren of wrath. ey had no hope and were without Godin the world. at is the “spirituality” of every person outside

of Jesus Christ. e Bible says it was the blood of Christ thatchanged the spiritual condition of the Christians at Ephesus.SALVATION ONLY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. efollowing plain Bible statements make it clear that there is nosalvation outside of Jesus Christ. All men are sinners and arecondemned under the righteous judgment of God. e onlyway of escape from sin’s condemnation is through personalfaith in Jesus Christ and in His blood which was shed atCalvary. e Bible says salvation comes through one nameonly: Jesus Christ. Any other name--whether it be Buddha,Mohammed, Sophia, the Great umb, or Krishna--is unableto bring eternal salvation.“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Jn. 14:6).“And [the jailer] brought them out, and said, Sirs, whatmust I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the LordJesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts16:30-31).“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is noneother name under heaven given among men, whereby wemust be saved” (Acts 4:12). e Bible says God loves all men and is no respecter ofpersons. But He offers only one way of salvation, and menmust repent and come on God’s terms through the Lord JesusChrist. e problem with the World Council of Churches issimple: ey have rejected the Word of God. e rainbow serpent that created the world. WCCblasphemy reached equally perverse heights in an advancepublication which called for “a rediscovery of Aboriginespirituality and for a new creation spirituality.” Consider aquotation from this amazing ecumenical document. In thisquote, the WCC is giving an example of the supposed“spirituality” of Aboriginal thought:“ e creation of the world began in Dreaming. Before theDreaming, there was a pre-existent formless substance, in

which spirit beings lived. In some of the stories of thecreation event, the Rainbow Serpent emerged from herlong sleep underground when she realized her time to givebirth had come. She set free in the spirit beings to createhills and valleys, light and shade, water and trees, andflowers, and all living things. . e serpent also set freethe spirit beings to create the animals and the humanbeings in a particular relationship with each other, foreverrelated through story, song, and ceremony” (Wanderer,March 14, 1991). e World Council publication in question called “forrecasting the theological understanding of creation. Much ofChristianity, especially the major strains of Western theology,has given support to human dominance over creation. eAssembly discussions want to challenge theology andChristian thinking that have seen humanity’s task assubduing the earth.” is is foolishness. e Bible plainly states that man wasmade in the image of God and was given the commandment:“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, andsubdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, andover the fowl of the air, and over every living thing thatmoveth upon the earth” (Gen. 1:28). Man is not an animal.Man is not a product of evolution. It is not wrong for man tosubjugate the forests and rivers of this world. It is not wrongfor man to subjugate animals. e fact is that the World Council is the home of every sortof radical philosophy: universalists, environmentalists,communists, New Agers, One Worlders, feminists,syncretists.Dancing with Idolatry: 6th Assembly, July 1983 e Sixth Assembly of the World Council was held inVancouver, British Columbia, in July 1983, attended by morethan 4,000 people.

In the opening ceremony, North American pagan Indianswere invited to build an altar and a “sacred flame.” eytossed offerings of fish and tobacco into a fire for their naturegods and danced around the altar. Candles that were used inthe worship services of this conference were lit from thatpagan fire which was kept burning throughout the Assembly.A Native Indian Sweat Lodge, used in their heathen‘purification’ rites, was also featured; and one of the eveningworship services consisted of Native Indian dancing,chanting, singing and drum beating. (Foundation, Vol. IV,Issue III, 1983). ree Hindus, four Buddhists, two Jews, four Muslims, anda Sikh were official guests of the Assembly. ere werereadings from Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim scriptures.In the General Secretary’s report to the Assembly, PhilipPotter said that it is God’s will “to unite all nations in theirdiversity into one house.”Pauline Webb, who serves on the WCC executivecommittee, welcomed the visitors from “other faiths” andsaid, “Let us meet as those who have nothing to defend andeverything to share.” e World Council has nothing todefend because it has no truth.Dirk Mulder, moderator of the WCC interfaith dialogueprogram, said that he “does not believe people are lost foreverif they are not evangelized.” Dr. M.H. Reynolds, editor ofFoundation magazine, attended the Assembly with presscredentials. In an interview with Mulder, he asked, “Wouldyou feel that a Buddhist or Hindu could be saved withoutb e l i e v i n g i n C h r i s t ? ” H i s a n s w e r w a s , “S u r e ,sure!” (Foundation, Vol. IV, Issue III, 1983). e 1983 WCC Assembly also featured a pagan dance by aHindu woman from South India. It was a “classicalBharathanatyam dance” that is performed the Hindu “earthmother goddess.”

Children are eir Oppressors, Women Rule Over em e prophet Isaiah, in describing the apostate condition ofIsrael, said, “As for my people, children are their oppressors,and women rule over them. O my people, they which leadthee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths” (Is.3:12). e apostate ecumenical movement is enjoying thefulfillment of this prophecy today. At the World Council ofChurches Seventh General Assembly in Canberra, Australia,many who stood to preach and to lead the business meetingswere women. Angry women! One of the two keynoteaddresses was delivered by radical Korean feminist ChungHyun-Kyung. “Reverend” Violet Sampa-Bredt of Zambia toldthe ecumenical gang that Junia in Romans 16 was an apostleand that anyone who is involved in the work of the church isan apostle. She spoke of “the lie that only men can beministers.” Aruna Gnanadasan of India, director of theWCC’s Sub-unit on Women, spoke disparagingly of the“male-dominated structures of the churches” and said, “It isurgent for the whole church to be in solidarity with women.”Andrea Carmen spoke on “that mos

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