Joel M Bradshaw

41So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.–2 Kings 17

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.“You shall have no other gods before me (Exodus 20:1-3).

 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

1. The Assyrians had either killed or exiled most of the north.
2. So they decided to resettle it with other people groups.
3. These peoples would eventually intermingle with Israelites and produce the people called Samaritans in Jesus’ day.
4. But here they were instead intermingling faiths.
5. They left a legacy of religious syncretism.
6. The God of the Bible is exclusive and therefore doesn’t support a tolerant, diverse faith that welcomes all objects of worship as of the same importance.
7. Are you an intermingler of the faiths? You might support diversity regarding life, but regarding your faith? This mindset might take what you like from one faith and add it to another. This is not the faith supported by the Bible.–JMB