Steve,
I am glad to hear that. My point remains that this isn't something that is a static thing that is understood and then conveniently dismissed. Perhaps you have already covered that as well. In any case, we all need to remain vigilant, as I am sure you know. In the near future (and of course I set no dates) God's elect will face hard choices; of that I am certain.
As I said before, neither is there a doubt in my mind about the "hard choices".
My point remains that this isn't something that is a static thing that is understood and then conveniently dismissed.
We've already shown you that we consider ecumenism to be a great evil here on this website. What would you have us to do? Stand on a busy highway? Perhaps leap from a building with a protest sign?
Steve, is your presense here on the Highway perhaps a bit of "ecumenism" of your own? While I was looking through the Orthodox Church website I found these gems of wisdom in the article "I Believe":
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Salvation is not imposed upon him in spite of himself as Augustine of Hippo's and John Calvin's doctrine of predestination would have it, nor is it obtained solely by the endeavors of human will, as Pelagius taught. Salvation is synergetic; that is, man co-operates in the work of his salvation.
I believe that my worship and veneration of the saints is a well-pleasing worship offered of God since it is because of Him and for His sake that I worship them.
I venerate the holy icons by prostrating myself before them, by kissing them, by showing them a "relative worship" (as the definition of the Seventh Ecumenical Council says) while confessing that only the Most Holy Trinity is to be offered adoration.
I believe and I confess that when we venerate and kiss the holy relics, the grace of God acts upon our total being, that is, body and soul, and that the bodies of the saints, since they are the temples of the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 6:9),
Therefore, the Holy Scriptures themselves
are a part of Holy Tradition which is a unified whole and we must accept it as a whole, and not choose bits and parts according to our private opinions or interpretations.
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I'm afraid that we will not find the unity you seek, simply by agreeing that there are troubled times for remnant Christians ahead, or a solidarity of belief in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Denny
Romans 3:22-24
