When the Armenian Church was founded in the year 301 AD, it was faithful to God and His son Jesus Christ. It was the soul of the nation’s spirit. It survived through many dynasties and assaults upon its people. The people understood the true purity of life here on earth, and in the thereafter, as Christ had taught. In the realm of Christian biblical scholars, Armenia’s bible translation was highly valued and regarded for its accuracy.

Before proceeding towards an analysis of the Armenian Church and its clergy of today, it is imperative to expose the Armenian people to historical facts relative to the creation of today’s New Christianity.

The most successful assault upon God’s orderliness was brought about by Adam Weishaupt, who was born on February 6, 1748 in Ingolstadt, a city in Bavaria, Germany. Weishaupt felt that human society had grown hopelessly corrupt and that it could only be saved by a complete overhaul. He was the first utopian to think on a global scale, and he looked forward to the day his group would bring about the “Novus Ordo Seclorum” (The New World Order). His organization, the Illuminati, had six main goals, including 1) abolition of monarchies and all ordered governments, 2) abolition of private property and inheritances, 3) abolition of patriotism and nationalism, 4) abolition of family life and the institution of marriage, 5) the establishment of communal education of children, and 6) abolition of all religion.

Even prior to 1750, the banking house of Rothschilds, as well as other world banking cartels, began financing godless intellectualism over purity of Christian thought within the world’s universities. The power of wealth was used to fund Christian seminaries worldwide in order to inculcate into the minds of young seminarians socialist theology, which came to be termed the Social Gospel.

The Scofield Bible
Cyrus I. Scofield was born in America in 1843 and died in 1921. He conceived the revision of the original King James Bible. His efforts in revising the Bible served to popularize a dispensationalist (changes made which did not favor the historic Christian point of view of theology). Financial support for revising the Scofield Reference Bible (as it came to be known) came from a conspiratorial group of six individuals out of Boston, Massachusetts. This Scofield Bible was printed in 1909 by the Oxford University Press in London. His ideas for this revision of the Bible were pulled out of context from various places in scripture and pasted together. This effort in theological revision gave birth to the popularly known phrase “Judeo-Christianity.” There is absolutely no mention in the Christian Bible of “Judeo-Christianity.” It was not enough that he exerted effort in re-doing the Bible; it also opened the door for other disbelievers of Christ to manipulate further changes of the Scofield Bible after his death.

The Gospel was subject to revisions by social-minded clergy. Among the more prominent was Washington Gladden (1836-1918), who was a Congregational pastor in Columbus, Ohio for 36 years, and a champion of what he called “applied Christianity.” Another outstanding prophet of the Social Gospel was Walter Rauschenbusch, a graduate of the University of Rochester and Rochester Theological Seminary, which were Baptist institutions. His “Christianity and the Social Crisis,” published in 1907, brought him nation-wide recognition. Walter Rauschenbusch and Dr. Harry Ward formed the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America on December 2, 1908. They were leaders of the social action movements in the churches that decided to do away with Christian individualism and turn to outright collectivism, using the church as their instrument. Socialism was their first and only concern. And, like all other false prophets who have infiltrated the Christian religion through the centuries, they used fronts or disguises. These fronts or disguises were promoted as the “Kingdom of God” on earth. Their kingdom was not pictured as a spiritual society into which men and women had to be born as individuals through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior, but as a collectivist socialist society.

It was the Oxford School of Theology in London where the young Bishop Karekin Sarkissian of the Cilician See was sent in the 1950s, in order to obtain a supposedly higher theological education than what the ancient centuries-old Armenian Church could give him. After his indoctrination at Oxford, he eventually became Catholicos of the See of Cilicia and finally Catholicos of the Mother See of Etchmiadzin, Armenia. He became a great champion of the World Council of Churches. This invented One World Church, like all other false prophets that have infiltrated Christianity, is no different than the disguises of false gods used through the centuries by those who totally hated Christianity. Our enlightened “New Age” clerical leaders have forgotten the true Kingdom of God because they have been taught in seminaries financed and influenced by the wealth of the world’s moneychangers. They are being taught secular humanism and (socialist) liberation theology within these tainted seminaries. Secular humanism is contrary to the Lord’s Word. Jesus’ words were not a social relationship of this world. His words were a relationship with God, a spiritual one. Christ was not a worldly Marx, but rather the light of mankind.

The road towards a One World Government, together with its One World Council of Churches, has already been disastrous for the nation of Armenia — economically, culturally and religiously. The church of Etchmiadzin at the present time is supporting the government’s creation of a social security number and associated identification card. That is the beginning of identification for control of the populace. It paves the way for graduated income taxation by a tyrannical government. Graduated income taxes were proposed in Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. This is an excellent example of how the highest order of the Armenian Church is practicing socialist liberation theology when it involves itself with government. The heads of the Armenian National Church, as well as the Armenian Protestant churches, are also intermingling secret occult societies with the church.

On August 11, 2003, the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Dr. Konrad Raiser, called for a consultation on “Reconfiguring the Ecumenical Movement” to take place November 17-20, 2003 in Antelias, Lebanon. The consultation was hosted by the Armenian Catholicos Aram I, who has become amorous with the World Council of Churches. A phrase used was “Overcoming Institutionalism.” What does this mean? It means to nullify institutions such as the “old-fashioned” Armenian Church. The word “Ecumenical” means universal. Do we, as Armenians, want our church to become a part of a universal church? If so, why did we celebrate 1700 years of our ancient “independent” church? It must be understood, that the World Council of Churches was created by the powerful (unbeliever) moneychangers of today. Catholicos Aram I should know that Christ did not accept other Lords, but Lord himself. As a Christian, it is not possible to serve two (or three) masters at the same time. We are now beginning to see the effect of our church leaders’ relations with the World Council of Churches for the last 50 years. Armenian clergy who possessed God-given dynamic oratorical skills became influenced by pseudo-Christian theological institutions, which stressed social action movements in churches and also espoused the elimination of Christian individualism by turning to socialist collectivism, using the church as their instrument. It should be remembered that Archbishop Tiran Nersoyan authored the book “A Christian Approach to Communism” in 1942 while residing in London.

The Apostle Peter never went to a seminary, he was never a theologian, but merely a fisherman who listened to God and the Holy Spirit; and who would dare question his brilliance, in the Word of God? St. Peter and other disciples were craftsmen who served but a three-year apprenticeship with Christ, the master. If our Armenian theologians are trying to work with the likes of the World Council of Churches in a spiritual detente with the intention of changing or finding a common ground, be assured that it can be likened to placing a healthy apple into a barrel of rotten apples, hoping the rotten apples will turn healthy. You cannot make an alliance with evil without surrendering something in return.

Rousas J. Rushdoony (a descendant of Armenians from Van), one of America’s most well respected Christian leaders, makes a very choice comment regarding this subject. “The concern of Christianity’s enemies is a New World Order, one without Christ. Man believes that he can, with his planning and controls, create a better, (more) orderly arrangement than can the triune (trinity) of God. Of course, what he creates is not a cosmos, but rather a vast and evil disorder.”

Revisionism will only de-nationalize the Armenian Church with the acceptance of a globalized church. It will hasten the day of extinction for the most historically free, unique, and ancient church of Christendom. The Armenian people should demand a return of their church to its historically free and independent status. It should concentrate its efforts on improving the religious and spiritual values of our people instead of supporting the enemies of Christianity. With that achieved, the world will then recognize the greatness of the Armenian Church and its people.

Let the Armenian Church return to its early Christian roots to regain God’s blessings and thus again be a true godly Christian people, and the light to a confused world.