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The Councils Would Have Rejected the World Council of Churches Framework
The idea that the Church exists as a “fellowship of churches” united by minimal confession would have been explicitly condemned by every Ecumenical Council.
Why? Because this framework:
Makes truth negotiable
Treats dogma as tradition bound opinion
Reduces unity to cooperation
Removes repentance from the path to communion
The Councils did not seek common ground; they stood on revealed ground. Any forum that requires the Church to speak as one voice among many would have been rejected as relativizing the truth entrusted to her.
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- The Councils Would Have Rejected the World Council of Churches Framework. in Church History, Apoteichisis, Heavenly Communion. https://apoteichisis.com/history/the-councils-would-have-rejected-the-world-council-of-church
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- "The Councils Would Have Rejected the World Council of Churches Framework," in Church History, Apoteichisis, Heavenly Communion, https://apoteichisis.com/history/the-councils-would-have-rejected-the-world-council-of-church.
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- "The Councils Would Have Rejected the World Council of Churches Framework," Apoteichisis, Heavenly Communion, https://apoteichisis.com/history/the-councils-would-have-rejected-the-world-council-of-church.
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