day no. 16,188: syncretism and the guise of mutual compromise

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,

and between thy seed and her seed;

it shall bruise thy head,

and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Enmity and imposition are inescapable.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Syncretism is insanity. It doesn’t work because it cannot work. The Coexist crowd imposes Unitarianism on all world religions. Imposition is inescapable. It is not a matter of whether, but which; not if there will be imposition, but who is imposed upon. Christianity and Islam cannot create Chrislam anymore than Aslan and Tash could create Tashlan. Either you destroy both in the process or just the one survives under the guise of mutual compromise.

To sign a peace treaty with sin is to sign your own death warrant. Peace with evil is only possible through compromise. Purity cannot cut a deal with promiscuity and remain pure. If it gets in bed with the enemy, it becomes the enemy.

Only in covenant can two parties create a unified diversity. Only in God-honoring, Christ-centered, covenant can God and man be brought together without conflict. Only in covenant can man and woman be joined together without annexation. But even in covenant, we see an agreement that presupposes an imposition. God became a man in order to bring man to God. He imposed on Himself the limitations of the flesh in order to conform man to the limitless grace of God. A man is unified to a woman by asking for her hand in covenant and she takes his last name and reorganizes herself under his headline.