WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ABOUT MIXTURE – SYNCRETISM – COMPROMISE?
· Numbers 33:55 – But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. [20] · 1 Kings 11:1-2 – But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites 2 from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love. [21] · 1 Corinthians 5:11 – But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner not even to eat with such a person. [22] · 1 Corinthians 15:33 – Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits. [23] · 2 Corinthians 6:14 – Do no