Ecumenism, Divided Faith and a Message of Hope

Ecumenism, Divided Faith and a Message of Hope

Ecumenism is a movement promoting worldwide unity among all Christian Churches. It sets aside all theological differences between all Churches, all doctrines, in order to work together helping each other within the aspects of faith which all churches agree upon, through an organization and cooperation of all believer in Christ.

Even my 1 year old niece would clearly understand that unity in the faith would be impossible without a doctrine, the doctrine of Christ. Ecumenism need the doctrine of Christ in order to cut through the differences between a non-believer and a believer with the Sword of the Word to win.

Then again,

ALL Christian faiths show tremendous judgment against each other and against those who are not part of their church and these divisions are meant to happen, because Jesus said:

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. “Luke 12:51

Division between us humans, in all aspects but today we are going to talk about division between religions

Everyone at some point in their given life has come across the comment about Catholics being sinners.

Which has puzzled me, I have began asking myself; what really stand for the right doctrine, which one inclines more towards  “the doctrine of Christ?”  which one brings us together, the thought of Ecumenism or which one is the actually doctrine, is it just the bible, itself?

If we began to say that Catholics are sinners than those who point catholics are even more sinners because they are pointing and judging catholics. That isn't christian at all.

If Catholics begin to comment on the absurd thought of the Evangelicals who say "in order for you to be baptised within the Holy Spirit, you need to bring 10 people into church for them to repent.. REALLY? Are you KIDDING ME?

I hope this is a JOKE!!

So putting worldly comments and visions aside, let's begin to talk about the bible says:

After reading the book of Revelations and coming across chapter 17 under the title of: “Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast”  where the Angel tells John:

“Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.

First, Babylon stands for a false religion which is a great harlot.

In the Bible harlot stands for false gods, false worship, false religion, and false devotion. It basically stands for idolatry. It is worshiping something other than God Himself.

As it states in Matthew, you are only to worship the Lord your God:

‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ Matthew 4:10 & in Exodus 20:2-7

2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

A person commits spiritual harlotry or prostitution when following an earthly religion and its rituals, and worshiping images and teachings instead of following Jesus Christ as revealed in the Scriptures.

So we can all agree that at some point we have committed sin, we have prostituted ourselves... as much as you hate to admit it, even those who love the money itself has committed adultery.

As we are all born sinners, we have all committed adultery within the physical and spiritual sense, therefore the question lies in there being the possibility of God designating someone on earth the task of fulfilling his purpose until he claims his authority?

17. “ For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled.” Revelations 17:17

For example; 

The Vatican is obsessed with earthly enterprises, as posted on the Washington Post by Paula Kirby:

“The Roman Catholic Church is a giant multinational corporation, differing from its business equivalents only in that they pay their taxes. Like any corporate business, the Vatican's focus is all on the bottom line: profits rather than prophets; financial rather than spiritual growth. 

Everything else is just a means to an end. And in order to achieve this end, it deploys all the tactics that have served the corporate world so well: dodgy marketing techniques, products that are not fit for purpose, the refusal (or inability, in the church's case) to honor guarantees and warranties, advertising based on unproven claims, corrupt trading practices, and obscene rewards for its Chief Executive whilst workers on the shop-floor struggle to make ends meet on poverty wages: these are the daily business of the multinational corporation that is the Roman Catholic Church.   

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

And then again, Jesus advices us (Matthew 23:15) to only obey and do what they tell us to.

3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

Seven Woes

1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

“Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; “they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them ‘Rabbi.’

“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you will be your servant. “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

14Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Therefore you will be punished more severely.

15“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

and it clearly states that he will come and punish those who do what these do, in Isaiahs’ visions concerning Jerusalem where it states how the city has prostituted itself, the Catholic Church has prostituted itself and soon God will take revenge upon his enemies:

Unfaithful Jerusalem

21 See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.

22 Once like pure silver, you have become like worthless slag. Once so pure, you are now like watered-down wine.

23 Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

24 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says, “I will take revenge on my enemies and pay back my foes!

25 I will raise my fist against you. I will melt you down and skim off your slag. I will remove all your impurities.

26 Then I will give you good  judges again and wise counselors like you used to have. Then Jerusalem will again be called the Home of Justice and the Faithful City.”

27 Zion will be restored by justice; those who repent will be revived by righteousness.

28 But rebels and sinners will be completely destroyed, and those who desert the LORD will be consumed.

Again, Johns visions in Revelations 17: 15-18



15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 

16 The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 

17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled. 

18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”



If we analyse it, the description fits well.



Babylon, The Prostitute on the Beast.



16. “The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute” ... the beast is the Anti-Christ.

18. “The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.” 


...the woman is a city, that city is Rome, the Vatican City- “called the city of seven hills, that the entire area of Vatican State proper is now confined”-  as stated by the Catholic Encyclopedia. The Vatican City claims to have been the worldwide headquarters of Christianity since its beginning and maintains its claim to this day. The Pope enthroned in Rome, which has long been known as the “Babylon” (Babylon is the symbolic name for Rome), as Peters’ statement:

13. Your sister church here in Babylon sends you greetings, and so does my son Mark. (1 Peter 5:13). This proves that Peter was writing from Rome. Which Rome claims to be the exclusive representative of God, the vicar of Christ and is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, and in that too is incomparable.

To my personal opinion, I think I will follow Jesus Christ Doctrine from the bible together with the Holy spirits guides, teachings and comforts; for I am sure all of these doctrines follow this one book and with Jesus companionship. I might use a few things here and there, as he says, “do what they tell you in accordance to the scripture but do not copy what they do”

In the meantime, regardless of our divided faiths, whether its’ ecumenism, Catholic faith, Evangelical Faith, Adventist's, or Pentecostal, always remember that regardless of your social status, your spiritual growth and struggle to find yourself in a doctrine which you can trust, there is a world out there in need of someone to  deliver them the message of Jesus Christ to them.



Will it be you?

In this world there is a 40% of the complete world population who hasn't heard of the name Jesus, this represents about 2.4 thousands of millions of people who have never heard of Jesus. They've never heard of him in a song, or even in a history book, the great majority doesn't even have a history book for they are Illiterate. Many of them are those who live Isolated from society within the mountains, in the deserts of the earth, marginalised and forgotten by the rest.



While our different churches, our group religions, waste time in discussions, arguments fights and divisions, these thousands of millions depart to an eternity without Jesus. What will you and I do? Will we be the generation that takes them the message of hope? "Marcos Witt"

Romans 10:14-15
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”