To Representatives and Believers

                                                                                                                           of the Uniting Church in Australia

                     God’s anathema upon the Uniting Church in Australia

Your Church has around 243,000 members in 2,500 congregations.

In 1982, the Church leadership issued a Ruling in which they write: “The sexual orientation of a candidate is not and has not been in itself a bar to ordination.”

In May 1996, Your Church issued a report “A Journey into Sexuality”. Quotation: “There is no evidence that a homosexual minister damages the credibility of the ministry, any more than anyone else.”

Answer: This is a lie. A homosexual pastor who lives in grave sin, which the Scripture calls an abomination, commits a sin against the Holy Spirit by his stubborn refusal to repent. Such pastor is not a witness to Jesus Christ but a witness to antichrist.

Quotation: “... The phrase ‘living in sin’ is an alienating concept.”

Answer: The phrase “living in sin” is no alienating concept; however, life in sin and in abomination is really alienating.

Quotation from the report of 1997 under the title “Uniting Sexuality and Faith”: “We were asked to, allow the light of the gospel to shine into our created nature as a spiritual/sexual beings called to glorify God in every dimension of our lives...”

Answer: God’s Word clearly defines the sins of adultery and various forms of impurity as the works of the flesh that lead to perdition. “The one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” (Gal 6:8) The false gospel of the traitors of Christ, behind which is the “angel of light” (Lucifer), “shines through” one’s sinful nature in such measure that people “enlightened” in this way glorify the god Lucifer by homosexuality in every dimension of their life.

Quotation: “The Bible is silent about homosexual orientation.”

Answer: The term “homosexual orientation” was invented by homoideologues in order that they might avoid using the words “sin” and “abomination”. The Bible clearly calls homosexuality an abomination in many places and warns against it. Homosexuality is associated with unclean demons with which Jesus did not carry on a dialogue, but cast them out.

On 17th July 2003, the leadership of the Uniting Church of Australia called on the members of their Church to “to seek to live together in peace concerning same sex relationships.”

Answer: First they promoted homosexuals to the key positions in the Church and now they demand that all should live together with them in so-called peace, which means to accept a homodictatorship and to betray Christ and the Gospel – to live in sin here on earth and to end in hell after death.

The Uniting Church in Australia has thus rejected God’s laws and the authority of God the Creator and Supreme Lawgiver. It no longer calls evil evil, a sin a sin, an abomination an abomination. It exchanged the truth for a lie and turned the Church of God into an assembly of Satan (Rev 2:9).

The apostatical Uniting Church in Australia has ceased to be a blessing for the nation and brings down a curse upon it as well as upon all Australia, leading them to self-destruction.

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 Uniting anti-Church in Australia 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) and 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 Uniting anti-Church in Australia.

On behalf of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

                              + Elijah

                              Patriarch

+ Methodius OSBMr               + Timothy OSBMr

                   Secretaries of the BCP

                                                                                                                                Lvov (Ukraine), 12 July 2011

Copies to: Prime Minister of Australia and Australian Government; All Churches of Australia and Christian Churches of the world; Mass media of Australia