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Religion goes Esperanto; John 17 as call for One-World Religon

last update 04Dec16
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I. Gatherings, Handshakes & Re-defining
Assisi, Italy 1986,2011,2016
It is a community of churches on the way to visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and in common life in Christ. It seeks to advance towards this unity, as Jesus prayed for his followers, "so that the world may believe." (John 17:21).
"Non-governmental organization with the goal of promoting understanding between religions. Founded by Juliet Hollister in 1960" located at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
"Seems the Pope would rather talk to atheists than people who read the Bible" ~Walter Veith

"We believe that Christ has ONE church (one bride) consisting of ALL Believers, professing Jesus Christ as the only means to salvation regardless of denomination. Denomination is your chosen expression, not your religion!" Re: John 17.

The John 17 Movement is a contagious call to all professing Christians to relate together properly, beckoning us to embrace the final prayer of Jesus. Thanks from Pope May 2015
"The ecumenical movement is The Episcopal Church's response to Jesus' prayer for his disciples in John 17:21"
Agreement between The Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), establishing full communion between them. It was ratified by the ELCA in 1999, the ECUSA in 2000. PDF
Anglican Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church Accord calling to Full Communion reached in 2001.
We feel that every denomination, para-church organization, religious group, and religious web site should consider creating a statement of belief or faith and displaying it prominently. Quite often, when we visit a Christian web site for the first time, we have to search around among its articles to find out exactly what Christian belief system they follow and promote on their web site.

 

II.Going Home to Rome

Pope Paul VI calls to abandon sovereignty in the name of peace & equality
Closely linked with the Second Vatican Council, It was Pope John XXIII's desire that the involvement of the Catholic Church in the contemporary ecumenical movement be one of the Council's chief concerns.
Dallas Morning News, October 1st, 1989."Anglican leader Archbishop Robert Runcie called Saturday for all Christians to accept the Roman Catholic Pope as a common leader, presiding in love. ‚For the Universal Church, I renew the plea,‘ he said. ‚Could not all Christians come to reconsider the kind of primacy the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, exercised within the early church?
Bakersfield Californian, August 27th, 1989 -Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics, the nation’s two largest denominations, generally have been regarded as doctrinally far apart, but their scholars find they basically agree.
Conflict to Communion: Lutheran–Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017 PDF
by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church.

 

III. U.N. Spirituality & Politicians

{political calls for unity included only where applicable to sprirituality and ecumenism}

...which has as priciple the unity of religions; that all major religions have the same spiritual source and come from the same God; and the unity of humanity. Bahá’í heavily involved in League of Nations and U.N. from beginning. Accredited as an international nongovernmental organization at the U.N. in 1948 and was granted special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council in 1970. Ranked by the Foreign Policy magazine as the world's second-fastest growing religion by percentage (1.7%) in 2007. see Bahá'u'lláh below.
Robert Muller, UN Assistant Secretary-General
"Was it not inevitable that the United Nations would sooner or later also acquire a spiritual dimension?
""We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one-world leader."
"Teilhard de Chardin had always viewed the United Nations as the progressive institutional embodiment of his philosophy."
"Teilhard de Chardin influenced his companion (Father de Breuvery), who inspired his colleagues, who started a rich process of global and long-term thinking in the UN, which affected many nations and people around the world. I have myself been deeply influenced by Teilhard"
"The underlying philosophy upon which the Robert Muller School is based will be found in the teaching set forth in the books of Alice A. Bailey by the Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul"
Official non-governmental organization within the United Nations with the stated aim: To cooperate in the work of preparation for the reappearance of the Christ;
UN-recognized non-governmental organization founded by UN Sec Gen U Thant & Donald Keys. "Our Vision is the Creation of Heaven on Earth through Honoring, Protecting and Uplifting All of the Citizens of Planet Earth...devoted to preparing people for the coming of the new culture."
Bawa Jain, secretary-general of the U.N.’s Millennium Peace Summit
We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one-world leader.
Joseph Alexander Saint-Yves d’Alveydre (1824-1909)
Synarchy.
Sri Chinmoy
Hindu chaplain of UN: "The United Nations is not a thing to appreciate, admire or adore. Rather, it is the way, the way of oneness, that leads us to the Supreme Oneness. It is like a river flowing toward the source, the Ultimate Source. The United Nations is the way that wants to lead the world to the destined Goal, where Light and Delight reign supreme."

 

IV. Historical Calls for interfaith & theosophical ideas that Jesus is just the solar avatar found in most religions. Details in The New Age

Godfrey Higgins (1772-1833)
Wrote Anaclypsis (1836). Claimed that Abraham is Brahma, and there is a secret "pandeist" global movement..
Kersey Graves (1813–1883)
Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892)
Real Name: Mírzá Ḥusayn, follower of "The Báb" (real name Ali Muhammad Shirāz). Created Bahá’í religion (see above) wrote The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Gerald Massey (1828–1907)
Helena Blavatsky (1831 – 1891)
Founder of Theosophical Society, which states that Jesus is merely an avatar of the Piscean Age and just another Solar-based savior-god such as Mithra, Horus, Adonis, Krishna, Quetzalcoatl, and Odin.

 

V. Real Estate

Through all our activities we do our best to put spiritual values into practice...The community has no formal doctrine or creed, and practises the timeless and essential values common to all the world’s major religious paths.
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