If God is not your father, you have nothing.

We Pick and Choose What To Believe From Our Religions

So, I was reading this article this morning and it was very strange to me. There are couples getting married that are not of the same faith. Now, I am not talking about what some people call different faiths, as in Catholicism and Christianity, but rather Christianity and Buddhism. There is no justification with that. We are told not to be unequally yoked. If you are marrying a Buddhist you are being unequally yoked because they are not a believer. You can talk to me until you are blue in the face about how Catholics are unequally yoked with the Reformed folk, but that is a lost cause, so don't even try it. The woman in the first part of the article says that they (A Hindu and a Christian) are not strict in their dogma and they take the parts of each religion that they like. This sounds a lot like the early false church. If something is frightening it must not be true, right? I mean, after all, the God of the OT cannot be the God of the NT because there is a warm and fuzzy God in the NT, right? You are wrong again. Believers have to marry believers or you have lost what you are here for. I guess you can try and convert people, but if two people are strong on their beliefs it really is not going to work. I don't expect to wake up tomorrow morning to find my father being a CRC person. I also don't expect my mother to wake up tomorrow morning and discover that she wants to be Catholic.
Last night my mom told me things that were quite interesting. She was actually encouraged to go experience what other churches were about. She went to a Catholic church, a Lutheran church, and a few other churches when she was younger. You have to experience things to know that you don't agree with them. You can convey to others why you don't agree with their beliefs, but people can do the same thing to you. Be ready for that. But, if we are just strictly taking what we learn some place as the only truth we are suffering. If you have not really experienced it then you can't really talk about it. I have learned that history is written from four vantage points. Some vantage points are objective, some just make sure that whoever they are in support of actually wins. Do I accept all the stuff of the early church that is written down? Not really, but there are certain things that I hold as true. But in the times that we are living now there is so much difference that broad generalizations don't really work. For instance, to hit myself in the face, saying that all CRC's are in support of infant communion would be a broad generalization that is false.
But going back to the article, if your common thread is not faith in the same God, then you really have no common thread. Small town values mean absolutely nothing. We need to stop being such a pluralistic society. We really do. Instead of fighting denominations about their beliefs we need to focus on other religions. Islam is growing at an alarming rate and we are still stuck fighting against other denominations of Christianity.