God’s anathema upon the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Lvov (Ukraine), 12 July 2011

To Representatives and Believers

of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Your Church has approximately 700,000 members in about 4,000 congregations in North America.

In 1977, Your Church approved of a “Study document on Homosexuality and the Church”. It suggested that the denomination’s traditional interpretation of the biblical, cultural, biological and psychological aspects of homosexuality needed to be revisited. In 1979 You de facto gave permission for the ordination of active homosexuals. In 1987, the General Assembly of Your Church defeated a resolution stating that all same-sex sexual activities are sinful. In 1993, Your General Assembly called on governments to create laws protecting the civil rights of LGBTs. In December 2002, Your congregation in Washington DC voted unanimously to allow homosexual wedding ceremonies in their churches. At that time, same-sex marriages were not valid in DC; however, Your apostatical Church approved them. In 2005 the General Assembly of Your Church issued a resolution that denounced the so-called hate speech and any conduct directed against LGBTs. This means that no pastor is allowed any more to say that homosexuality is an abomination; so he must not have the faith which is based on the Holy Scripture. Therefore he has no right to exhort homosexuals to repent and to change their lives. This is a manifest spirit of antichrist. Your anti-Church advocates contraception and women’s “right” to reproductive freedom, which means that a mother can kill her own child. Your Church, moreover, pressurized the government into legalizing abortions.

You have thus rejected God’s laws and the authority of God the Creator and Supreme Lawgiver. You no longer call evil evil, a sin a sin, an abomination an abomination. You exchanged the truth for a lie and turned the Church of God into an assembly of Satan (Rev 2:9).

The apostatical Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has ceased to be a blessing for the nation and brings down a curse upon it as well as upon all America, leading them to self-destruction.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate, by authority of the apostolic and prophetic office before God and before the Mystical Body of Christ, which is the true Church of Christ, hereby declares before all Christians of the world (Mt 18:18): The Christian anti-Church (Disciples of Christ) is no longer the Church of Christ but spiritual Babylon and the harlot of antichrist (Rev 17:1-6). We hereby call upon every member of this Church to be converted, to repent and to go out from that spiritual Babylon (Isa 52:11). The spirit of antichrist cast the Spirit of God out of this Church. All who want to be saved must separate from this anti-Church because it leads the deceived souls to eternal damnation in hell. This anti-Church has become a synagogue of Satan (see Rev 3:9; Rev 2:20-24) and preaches a different gospel. “Even if an angel from heaven should preach any other gospel to you, let him be accursed.” (Gal 1:8-9) By reason of apostasy from the Gospel of God, God has cast this curse upon the Christian anti-Church (Disciples of Christ).

On behalf of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

+ Elijah

Patriarch

+ Methodius OSBMr               + Timothy OSBMr

Secretaries of the BCP

Copies to:

–         President and Government of the U.S.

–         Churches in the U.S. and the Christian Churches in the world

–         Mass media of the U.S.