God’s anathema upon the Austrian Protestant Church

Lvov (Ukraine), 12 July 2011

To Representatives and Believers

of the Austrian Protestant Church

Your Church represents about five percent of the population in Austria. In 1994, the Synod of Your Church falsely declared: “There are no fundamental theological arguments against homosexuality.” This was followed by another declaration in 1996: “The criterion for the admission to ministry is not sexual orientation, but responsible sexual behaviour.” Gay priests can live together in the manse (i.e. a flat belonging to the church). This Church appealed to state authorities for approval and legalization of these perverse unions and hence of this perversion as such in the whole nation. And this is a crime against the Church of Christ as well as against the Austrian nation.

It is a colossal lie on the part of the Church authorities to call homosexual perversion “responsible sexual behaviour”. It is as if the crimes of sadistic killers were called to be “a responsible approach to regulation of mankind”.

You have 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 Church in Austria has ceased to be a blessing for the nation and brings down a curse and self-destruction upon it as well as upon all Europe.

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 Austrian Protestant anti-Church 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) because it 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 Austrian Protestant anti-Church.

On behalf of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

+ Elijah

Patriarch

+ Methodius OSBMr               + Timothy OSBMr

Secretaries of the BCP

Copies to:

–         President and Government of Austria

–         Presidents of EU member states and MEPs

–         All Churches of Austria and Christian Churches of the world

–         Mass media of Austria and the EU