By
Geri Ungurean
I received an email this morning from a brother in Christ from
Germany. He is a
reader of my
articles, and
said that he
thought I should
know what is
happening in
Germany right
now.
A Protestant pastor in Bremen, Germany preached that Christ is
the only way to
heaven, and now
he is the talk
of the town. The
people are not
praising him —
Pastor Olaf
Latzel is being
accused of
disparaging
other religions,
and the
prosecuting
attorney of
Bremen is
considering
filing charges
against him.
Pastor Latzel’s
sermon was
delivered to his
congregation on
January 18,
2015.
From the Bremem Newspaper Die Welt:
“Bremen senior theologian whitefish Brahms described the sermon
Latzels in part
as "intellectual
arson". It is
liable to make
violence against
foreigners,
other faiths or
asylum seekers
feed. Latzel
himself defended
his sermon. The
criticism was
based on
shortened and
taken out of
context quotes,
he said on Radio
Bremen. It is
only against the
mixing of
Christianity
with other
religions.” [1]
*Note that you
can choose to
translate this
website into
English.
Latzel is against the preaching of Chrislam. Is it not clear that
the only
religion that
answers others
with “violence”
is Islam? Much
of political
correctness
stems from pure
fear of violent
retaliation from
Islamic
terrorists.
Pastor Latzel said in his sermon that while Muslims who are
citizens of
Germany do
belong to
Germany, Islam
does not.
The prosecutor
said that this
talk is
disrespectful to
Muslim brothers
and sisters. He
also charged
Latzel with
“pure
fundamentalism.”
Pastor Latzel
made it clear
that he is
against the
mixing of
Christianity
with other
religions.
The problem we are now facing stems from the belief that there is
no absolute
truth. This
philosophy that
everything is
relative,
depending upon
the person and
the
circumstances,
flies in the
face of
Christianity,
where we
understand that absolute
Truth comes
from and depends
upon God and His
Holy Word.
The Church worldwide is facing an angry unbelieving world,
wanting to force
us to accept gay
marriage as
normal. As
followers of
Jesus Christ,
our measuring
stick for truth
is His Word. It
won’t be long
before many of
us are
incarcerated and
our churches
closed, because
those in
authority claim
that we are not
tolerant of
others.
The persecution of the pastor in Germany is actually more
extreme, because
he has caused a
fire storm by
proclaiming
Christianity as
set apart from
other religions.
The government
in Germany does
not approve of
Christians
saying there is
only one way
to heaven, and
that is through
the Lord Jesus
Christ.
They are obviously pushing for a Universal church, where everyone
is included, and
no one is told
that their
beliefs are
wrong. I can’t
help but notice
the irony here —
that a Christian
pastor’s words
being
scrutinized and
him reprimanded,
but we must
tread oh so
lightly with the
Muslims, for
fear that we may
be blown up!
Pastor Olaf Latzel knows that Allah and the God of the Bible are
not the same
God. There is
much confusion
coming out of
the RCC and from
pastors like
Rick Warren and
others, claiming
that Christians
and Muslims
worship the same
God. One must
only look at the
Lord Jesus
Christ in the
Scriptures and
compare Him to
the one called
“Isa” in the
Qur’an, to
clearly see that
Allah and our
God are
completely
different.
Jesus Christ is God incarnate. He is also the Son of God.
He was crucified
on a Cross and
died for the
sins of the
whole world —
that whosoever
believes in Him
would have
eternal life.
The Qur’an
states that Isa
never claimed to
be God, and that
he was not
crucified. The
Qur’an goes on
to say that “God
has no son.”
Could it be any
clearer that
Muslims and
Christians do
NOT worship the
same God?
I firmly believe
that Allah is
Satan. One
of the names for
Allah is “The
great deceiver.”
Satan is the one
propagating
these lies in
order to
establish his
One World
religion.
There is an organization that we are hearing more and more about,
called the
United Religions
Initiative.
Pope Francis has
close ties to
many members and
especially to
its founder,
William E.
Swing, a former
bishop of the
Episcopal Church
in San
Francisco.
When Pope
Francis was the
Archbishop of
Buenos Aires, he
invited Mr.
Swing to
celebrate the
United Religions
Initiative’s
10th anniversary
in Latin America
at his
Cathedral.
“The UR is a United Nations project. It was heralded in June 1995
by Bishop Swing
at the occult,
earth-worshipping
interfaith
service he was
invited to
conduct for the
UN, honoring the
50th anniversary
of the signing
of the UN
Charter.
Attending the
service in San
Francisco’s
Episcopal Grace
Cathedral were
political
luminaries and
representatives
of all
religions,
including
Britain’s
Princess
Margaret,
Anglican
Archbishop
Desmond Tutu of
South Africa,
Polish President
Lech Walesa, UN
Secretary-General
Boutros
Boutros-Ghali,
Archbishop
Renato Martino
(Vatican nuncio
to the UN), and
Archbishop John
Quinn of San
Francisco.
The UR is meant to be for religions what the UN is for nations.
Its purpose is
to be the world
religious
authority, “a UN
for religion” in
order to foster
peace. Delegates
to its
charter-writing
summit in 1997
considered they
had given birth
to a “movement
as well as a
spiritual
institution”.
“[T]ell the
people that
there is a
United
Religions,” said
Swing. It will
shine “the light
of the world’s
spiritual
traditions
[paganism and
occultism
included] into a
world
desperately in
need of light.”
It aims to solve
issues of
environment,
population,
poverty and
disease whilst
building
religious
unity.” [2]
Taken from an “interfaith” website about Pope Francis:
“Pope Francis’s openness to other faiths is part of a trend at
the Vatican
A post today on the Wild Hunt noted that on a recent trip to
Brazil, Pope
Francis met with
representatives
of Candomble.
The post asked:
If the Pope embraces reconciliation with Candomblé, with real,
human, interface
between leaders,
why shouldn’t
Catholics also
embrace
practitioners of
Vodou? Or
indigenous
African
religions? Or
modern Paganism,
for that matter?
Indeed, the
Pope’s new
attitude is
needed more now
than ever
before. We live
in a world where
human beings,
fueled by
religious
beliefs, are
persecuting and
killing one
another in
increasingly
disturbing
incidents. What
better time for
a Pope to
emphatically
embrace an
interfaith
mission? A
mission that had
been blunted
during the
Papacy of
Benedict, but
now, hopefully,
will bear new
fruit.” [3]
Brethren, the political correctness which we see permeating every
area of life in
America, is
sweeping Europe
as well. Don’t
think for a
moment that this
event happening
in Bremem,
Germany will not
happen in
America, and
soon in every
country of the
world.
Jesus said:
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto
the Father, but
by me.” (John
14:6)
I will gladly go to jail if asked to renounce my belief in this
verse of
Scripture.
Maranatha!!
Shalom in Yeshua
