Seventh-day Adventists cannot belong or attend or support the World Council of Churches

 

Koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Visiting Professor

Department of Liberal Education

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

 

A flier of news online by the World Council of Churches reported a meeting in Indonesia by this global body and said that Seventh-day Adventists joined hands there. It is highly unlikely that the SDA organization has sanctioned and sent representatives officially. They may have gone in their private capacity but it is wrong from the WCC or their representatives to report that SDA’s supported their event.

SDA’s cannot participate or belong to the World Council of Churches or their affiliate organizations, for the simple reason that unity cannot be superficially called for overlooking the deep doctrinal and spiritual life resulting from that doctrinal analysis that divides them.

The reason someone is a Christian is because he accepts that Jesus was historical and that the Bible telling about Him is true. The reason someone is a SDA is because Sabbath, a cardinal doctrine of the Bible, overlooked by other Protestants, is cardinal to a proper spiritual life since the logic, the pretext, the proofs in the Bible is so overwhelming that substituting it is compared to the Baal-prophets in the days of Elijah.

Elijah did not want to side with the local Baal-prophets who was mixing Yahwism with Baalism and for the sake of unity called upon WCC superficial sentiments to prevail. They did not stand the test in Elijah’s day.

What you believe does count. The revelation of God and Jesus was incarnated in human language and expression before Jesus was incarnated in flesh and therefore those words, and their recurring instructions are cardinal to a proper spiritual life as a believer and dumping all believers together for the sake of a perceived unity is only humanism and does not have the vertical authorization or legitimacy since overlooking, ignoring, substituting Sunday for the Sabbath, is contrary to the Word of God and its tenets and thus doctrines is the essence of your spiritual phenomenon. Any watering down of that high calling is a clear no-no.

 

Source:

http://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/broad-coalition-of-christians-joins-in-celebration-of-unity

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