Brian Oakley wrote:



> The way my mind understands why there are so many religions, or more
> specifically, denominations, is that God knows what is going to
happen in
> the end times. And we, in a limited way can see it happening right
now in
> what is generally called the "ecumenical movement" (pardon my poor
> spelling).  The ecumenical movement is one in which churches of
different
> denominations come together in "harmony".  On the surface this is
good, but
> as it gets extrapolated out, in the end it will be an abomination to
God.
> The reason I say that is when you examine what is already happening
in this
> movement, Christians are being reconciled to Muslims, and Buddhists,
and
> Hindus, etc, in the spiritual sense, giving us a "many roads to God"
> theology.

I think a problem is the word "ecumenical" as it could refer Christians
(and/or Christian churches) all around the world. In that  case,
bringing more harmony to the body of Christ would be a fine thing.  If
ecumenical is used to mean all religions, that is a horse of a
different color. In my opinion, to try to harmonize Christianity with
all other religions could run into big problems right quick.

There are no Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Shamanistic, and etc.
churches.  The word "churches" apply only to Christian groups.

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