FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
gathering.On September 5, 2000, the Catholic Church issued a document called
Dominus Iesus which declared “the Roman Catholic Church to be the
only ‘instrument for the salvation of all humanity’.” Pope John Paul II
said that “Rome must always be the center of all Christianity and the
pope must be the head.”For two years, a group of eight Protestants, led by Charles Colson, the
former Nixon aide (echoing sentiments expressed in his book The
Body), and seven Roman Catholics, led by Father Richard John
Neuhaus (former Lutheran, who denies the virgin birth of Christ, his
miracles, and his resurrection), worked on an 25-page, 8000-word
document known as “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The
Christian Mission in the Third Millennium.” (or ECT) It calls for
Protestants and Catholics to discontinue their opposition in order to
unite against enemies which are common to both of their religious
philosophies. In the November, 1994, issue of Christianity Today (the
magazine started by Billy Graham), an editorial by Colson was titled
“Why Catholics Are Our Allies.” This seems to be part of a campaign
to bring the two religions closer together in ideology. Since accepting
the “Prize for Progress in Religion” (which included a $1 million gift),
from New Age leader John Templeton, at the 1993 Parliament of
World’s Religions in Chicago; and revelations of a United Nations
connection to his Prison Fellowship ministry, Colson’s motivations are
highly suspect.In addition to many Roman Catholic leaders, some major Protestant
leaders have signed this agreement, including Pat Robertson (700
Club), Bill Seiple (World Vision), Bill Bright (Campus Crusade for
Christ), J. I. Packer (a Senior Editor at Christianity Today magazine),
Larry Lewis (Home Missions Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention), and Richard Land (Christian Life Commission of the
Southern Baptist Church).Needless to say, the agreement came under heavy fire from many
Evangelicals, and on January 19, 1995, Colson, Bright, and Packer met
with some of the ECT critics at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in a conciliatory meeting which including its
pastor D. James Kennedy, John MacArthur (pastor of the Grace