In my last post I indirectly established something quite significant about the modern gentile church.
Did you catch it?
If not, let me just go out and say it.
The gentile church has been engaged in religious syncretism for years…actually centuries now.
To be even more accurate, it would be no exaggeration to assert the church IS the product of religious syncretism.
And it all began when the pagan religious customs of the gentiles were mixed with the Messianic religion of the early Jewish believers in Messiah.
That’s right homies.
The birth of the Roman Church in the West and the Orthodox Church in the East are products of God-forbidden religious syncretism.
Of course things have worsened considerably since then.
Take any measurable demographic that is applied to the secular world such as divorce, homosexuality, abortion and crime rates and apply them to the Christian world, and what do you get?
Absolutely no measurable difference.
That’s what you get.
Why has this happened?
It’s because the true Torah-based Messianic faith (which was really Judaism) has melded itself in with the world we’re commanded to be in but not a part of.
It’s like eating ground up meat mixed with beef and pork.
And of course, the Interfaith Movement has jumped on this bandwagon big time.
In fact, the world’s leading Christian and Jewish influencers have jumped on the Interfaith bandwagon.
I find this funny because the original purpose of the Interfaith Movement was to somehow find a way to bring together all of the literally thousands of Christian denominations out there.
However, that objective seems to have changed and now the movement is trying to harmonize Christianity with Islam and even other faiths from among the Eastern religions.
If there’s anyone out there who might still be on the fence whether this is really an abomination in God’s eyes or not, let me remind you that the foundational Biblical principle woven in throughout the whole Bible from the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelations is that our God is a God of…
…DIVISION, ELECTION and SEPARATION.
And when I say it starts in the very first chapter of the Book of Genesis, I’m not kidding.
In Genesis chapter 1, you’ll see that God SEPARATED the light from the darkness.
He DIVIDED the waters from the land.
He created Adam in His image and ELECTED him above all the other living creatures on the planet.
And God has separated, divided and elected His People away from those who are not His People.
The Lord demands that His people do not mix or mingle with those who are not His People.
In fact, the academic definition of the word “syncretism” means the doing away of differences and distinctions.
That’s all it means homies.
This is exactly what Nimrod wanted to achieve with his Tower of Babel project.
That’s really the true lesson of the Tower of Babel.
It’s all about man’s attempt to do away with God by getting rid of the divine lines of demarcation the Lord put in place.
So make no bones about it.
It was syncretism that caused Israel’s downfall as depicted in the Book of Judges.
And it was syncretism that caused the original Messianic Christian faith that began in Jerusalem to become the aberration it is today.
CONNECTING THIS TEACHING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test
and approve what God’s will is
—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
-Romans 12:2
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