An Immoral System.

2nd  Thessalonians 2:10-12  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

What is an immoral system?  Those who are familiar with the acts of the Papacy, or modern day Christianity, should have no doubt that the language in 2^nd Thessalonians 2:10-12 accurately describes an immoral system. The plausible reasoning, by which the advocates of that system have palliated and apologized for sins of various kinds, is among its most remarkable features.   Thus, love the sinner, hate the sin emerge as an apology and acceptance of sin.  Sinning is of no consequence for 'we all sin". 

Clichés have a way of sneaking into our sub consciousness and thru a process of self-coding, they emerge as something profound and worthy of reflecting upon.  Call them clichés, truisms, rhymes or even crude remarks they are capable of improving or even perverting our thought process.     Many of the clichés we heard as a child lay dormant waiting for that moment to spring forth and replicate themselves in the mind of those we meet.  Often they are nothing more than cute phrases that tickle the ear and soothe the mind of the discontented.   In the early onset of emerging, nations and communities the use clichés or truisms as learning or indoctrination tools were commonplace.  

Often, speeches that the presenter considers worthy of the populace remembering are filled clichés.  Although bordering on embellishment, John F. Kennedy's famous speech. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", was enshrined in history as one of the greatest presidential speeches made by an American president.

My grandmother used numerous clichés to teach me objectivity lessons.   Among her favorite were, "It is the early bird that gets the worm", and "You can't have your cake and eat it too."  Both of these statements drove her point home, but one afternoon while plowing my mother's garden I began to question the early bird concept, there were variables that created inconsistencies.  Even today, I still find myself wondering; why a cake is not a cake once you eat it or why one monkey doesn't stop the show.

The use of clichés or truisms in a religious setting often promotes a sublime intent to deflect or detract from or even shape the word of God.  When a Bible truth is reduced to a Cliché the values of Christianity suffers.  Clichés maintain the innate ability to cross the line between teaching and indoctrination in a veiled manner.  A cute phrase can create a point of reflection such as, "One monkey doesn't stop the show", or a point of action such as, "Love the sinner, and hate the sin". 

On any given Sunday, thousands of preachers will stand before their congregation and proclaim that Jesus said, "Love the sinner, and hate the sin."  Many of those hearing those words will believe because "my Pastor said it".  If we do not show love they will hate us.   If we do not show love they will not come to our churches, thus our bottom line will suffer.  The organized church has decided that in order to remain relevant in a pessimist society it must dumb down its rhetoric in the face of it an adversary.   Thus, the organized church has chosen to become a part of the immoral system rather than being shamed into an irrelevant existence.  Imagine the howls of the wolves if one would proclaim from the pulpit or on national television, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matthew 23:33) The political correctness police would descend upon the interloper, with the intent of shaming the pastor and the church into compliance with the immoral system.

Shaming has evolved into an art form.  It has morphed into something sinister from the days when one kid would say to the other, "Your mother wears cowboy boots".  Usually, a fight would erupt and afterward, they would usually leave the playground as friends unless an adult intervened.  The intervention of adults usually results in words used like antisocial and bully to describe a harmless prank. 

In today's society, we create new and potent words, and those that speak from self-elevated positions rush to provide the proper definition and narrative.  The media courts this new age narrative.  The list of the made-up word includes; racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.  Call a person one of these words and the result is similar to saying to the person you have body odor.  These words affect or offend a person whether it is true or not.

I was in a Sunday school when I first heard the words, "love the sinner and hate the sin".  To put things in the proper perspective, it was the Sunday after the Supreme Court of the United States validated the alternate lifestyle agenda. My world, based on the Holy Spirit led common sense and the Bible entered into a state of turmoil.  The Sunday school teacher took an ample amount of time explaining what I considered a new concept of Christian values.   The pastor made a feeble attempt to explain how and why we were supposed to love the sinner and hate the sin.  I am not alone in saying, "I don't get it", but the shame of acknowledgment it silences the voice of many.  The government's re-indoctrination of Christian values with the support of the clergy was in full play.  I left the church that day one very confused soul.  

A possible reason Christians have begun to spout these phrases and cliches as if they were God inspired scripture is they are a part of the process of justifying sin.  Now that sin has been justified by the government, the populace is facing cultural crises, church crises, and family crises.   These crises have torn our communities and cities apart and now they are on the verge of destroying the very nation that spawned them.  As marriage equality gained support, the traditional church and Christianity found itself in a dilemma. How do the churches attract people in a society that have turned its back on God?  Traditional churches are becoming empty and many churchgoers are wonders where it will end.     

Two statements in the above paragraph are not scriptural. The founding of the church was not to attract people to Christ, and Christians who study the Word of God know how this world is going to end.   I must restate to draw people to Christ was not the purpose of the church; it was a place of refuge for those who had found Christ. 

Many learned Bible scholars would have us to believe that Jesus actually said, "Love the sinner, and hate the sin."  Whether he said it or not our indoctrination implies that, he would be on board with this 'simple truth'.  Why would he not be?  The adage supports universal love.  We take the catchphrase from Mahatma Gandhi who morphed it from Augustine's, "With love for mankind and hatred of sins", not because we agree with everything Mahatma Gandhi said, but because he conveniently said, “Hate the sin and not the sinner.”  The problem of dealing with any sin is settled.

The problem with Mahatma Gandhi statement “Hate the sin, not the sinner” is, there is nothing in the Word of God to validate the statement.  The question that it does present is how does humanity separate sin from a sinner?   Will the creation of laws eliminate hate? Can we accent the positive and the negative will disappear? 

The immoral system that has become a part of the organized church teaches that the use of the word sinner is hate speech and it would be judging to make such an assessment of a person's nature.  According to the pious prelates, the bible says, we are not to judge, yet, every day we make judgment calls.  We judge when we refuse to hire a person because of his history or calling a person names because they do not agree with modernist views. 

The use of Matthew 7:1 as the foundation of the dissent against judging is a miss-characterization of the heart of Jesus.   Matthew 7:1 does not say, "Judge not", it says, "Judge not that ye may not be judged", and in the rest of the paragraph Jesus explains his meaning.  If you do not want to be judge, do not judge, because if you judge, you will be judged.  My Grandmother said it this way, "If you can't stand hot grease stay out of the kitchen."   My brother interpreted it as, "grandmother said to stay out of the kitchen when she is cooking."  We err when we surgical remove a segment of a verse or scripture and present it as a complete thought.  To do so is an attempt to turns the Word of God into a polluted mess.

The provincial rabbit hole has re-emerged or recreated itself in the name of political correctness, and now it has become a safe haven for the church.  The leader of this immoral system is promoting, promising and dispensing the blessings of God for a fee.  "This was the problem with the early church that the protestant reformation was supposed to correct."  Salvation and money have become synonymous and sin is not a part of the equation.  The church is no longer a place for the broke and poor because if you are serving God, he will give you money.  The Santa Claus concept of Christianity has placed many in a Lazarus syndrome; we are begging God for the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table.   A careful study of Lazarus offers a clear path of refutation to many of the notions and clichés that have caused Christian values to suffer.   Cliché after cliché emerge, but they are lacking in the constancy and power of God word.     

The Bible makes a clear distinction between the fate of the righteous and the sinner.  "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" (1^st Peter 4:18)   "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our LORD." (Romans 6:23)  Paul's message to the Corinthians was as such, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.  (2^nd Corinthians 6:17).   "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Matthew 6:24) 

The problem with most truisms, clichés, and new age interpretations is that they seek to justify a preconceived ideology.  My perspective is supportive of what I expect to prove.   In essence, if we want to prove that infidelity is acceptable all we need to do is study the life of Abraham and other great bible figures.  Once we have completed our study we can proudly proclaim, David was a man after God's own heart, "BUT" he sinned.

Are We Playing With God?

There is an argument that uses the Word of God as the basis of justifying sin.   This argument implies that sin is of no consequence because it is covered by the Blood of Jesus.  The justification of sin, once the rhetoric of the heretic was necessary because of the testimony of the saints.  When the spotlight once again shifted from believing to receiving the Holy Ghost, the saints began to testify of living a life free and separated from sin.  This was unacceptable and not conducive to the expansion of multi-facet and multi-denominational churches.   does not the Bible teach, we all sin? 

Standing in the grocery check out I was not amused as the young child threaten to "knock out", his mother.  Annoyed by the verbal altercation  a customer's intervention was met by a stinging rebuff by the mother who exclaimed, "You don't stand there looking down your nose at me and talk to my child that way." Shaming, a new age form of one-upmanship was employed placing the concerned customer in a defensive position.   The young mother of two barely sixteen years of age, explained to all within hearing distance, "There is no shame in my game, and what ever I do GOD got my back."

In the olden days when the knowledge of the ancients prevailed, there were certain protocols put in place that governed the interaction of children with their parents.  Parent was to always address by the title of their position in the household, thus "mother or father", was the proper way to address one parent. Certain deviations were allowed such as "ma, momma, dad or daddy", but never by the first name.   This was not to enhance the standing of the parent within the household, but merely a sign of respect.  Respect was the first step on the path to obedience.

It seems as if it was my generation that tore down the walls of that were put in place to govern the process of being a parent.  The child became the controlling factor and the parent became the facilitator.   I still shudder when I think of the first time I heard a child address his parent by their first name.  The easing of the parenting protocol was necessary because we were of a generation that wanted to be a part of our children lives and not controlling their lives.  Respect for the office of parenthood soon became a declining entity in many children lives.   It was only natural that the lack of respect for God followed.

Years ago it was almost unthinkable and a rarity to hear of children attacking or killing their mother or father.  The code of the family was tight under the rule of "Blood was thicker than water."  We can amuse ourselves by asking, "what happen", but the inconvenient truth is, we know what happened.  We are the generation that killed all of the sacred cows.  There is nothing left that is sacred, not even the name of God.

Much of the posting on the social media cause me to shudder as enlighten men and women speak so cavalier about God or his works.  I am not impressed when a pile of money is used to imply that God is going to work to resolve financial situations in a matter of days.  How many people type "amen" and share, then sit back and wait for supernatural money to fill their bank account?  The question that fills my conscious when I see these type of remarks is, "Do we really believe in God or are we just playing?"

At this point of our dissertation, we should ask, what is causing the erosion of Christian values when the field is crowded with worker?  However, to ask or even answer the question we can become guilty of validating the "pretentious nature of Christianity".   It is easy to pretend that we know the answer, invoking deliberate confusion through the twisting of the scripture and the trivialization of the name of God, his works, and his plan.

Deliberation confusion exists when those who proclaim to know the answer, cloud their message with supposition and obscured platitudes, quoting scriptures out of context and saying nothing in the process.   Confusion is a politician's gambit; distraction is a magician's trick, combine together they form the necessary elements of deliberate confusion.     Much is spoken but very little is said while we are distracted, often by the pomp and pageantry.  

 A most grievous display of contempt for the LORD of our Salvation is the flagrant abuse that we bestow upon the use of His name.  God addressed the subject of disrespecting his name, in the first major group of commandants given to the children of Israel.  "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." (Exodus 20:7)   There are made-up words or phrases that use "god" as the first part of a compound word or phrase, these words or phrases serve no purpose other than to trivialize the name of God.   Does god-awful-truth make the truth more believable?   What about when we scream "Jesus take the wheel" when things are not going our way?

Trivialization, an innate form of disrespect that traverses generations and with each passing generation, it grows more acceptable.   It is sad to say but even a threat from God did not protect his name or his Word from abuse.  The evolution of man was as such that the name of God, even the Word of God became more and more irrelevant in the affair of man. 

God has become the butt of many comedy-show-off-colored jokes.  Music of all genres seems to have learned the emotional and financial value of invoking the name of God in their lyrics.  The entertainment value of misusing God's name in music has created a profitable crossover that appeals to the churchgoers as well as the nightclub crowd. 

The name of God has become synonymous with disgust or cursing, whereas the use of the name of Jesus often expresses alarm or despair.   Furthermore, the name of Jesus has evolved into just a figure of speech.   This misuse of the name of God or the attributes of the Godhead is not limited to those who are of the world; the misuse and abuse exist in the household of faith. 

Those that are of the world, as a Christian's would say, is not totally the blame for the condition of Christianity, the church and it leaders must accept much of the blame.   Our leaders have abused and misused the metaphysical God of our salvation.   What once was a solid foundation has emerged into a fairy tale ideology, based upon a foundation of entertainment.   The stellar awards go to those who can entertain as they recount the stories of a God rendered impotent by our greed. 

One of the most pathetic abuses occurs in the Church.  This type of abuse emulates from the pulpit, spreading through the congregation and community, it exists in the form of a testimony of what God is doing.  From positions of authority, they indoctrinated the masses into a belief that God is just standing by to fix all of humanities problems.  This is not scripture.  In the midst of pain and suffering, "Fix it Jesus" is the cry of the indoctrinated.  Trained to interpret the scripture from a naturalistic perspective the same as the Devil did in the Garden of Eden, they make unfulfilled demands and promises in God's name.

The sad truth is church members are dying waiting on Jesus to fix it, and many have crashed and burned while waiting on Jesus to take the wheel.  Those that are left behind are having are having a hard time reconciling their shattered faith.  

      

The Truth, the Myth and the Lie

""The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.  He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.  He restores my soul.  He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me." (Psalm 23:1-4)

The Twenty-Third Psalm is one of many classic feel good scriptures.  An accomplished speaker can place special emphases on certain word that will causing burdens to disperse and smiles to radiate from once frowning faces.  Those of us who enjoy an ethnic flavor often rejoice in that moment when the preacher tone up and roar, "The LORD is my Sheppard."

       

What do we think off when we think about LORD as a Sheppard or a protector?  If you are like most Christians, you think of someone who will shield you from the hardships of this life.  Since David described him as a Sheppard, we ask him to protect our family and us, from sickness and diseases like heart trouble and cancer.   We ask for traveling grace and protection when we travel and the list could go on.  Some even pray for and testify of the LORD putting gas in their car.

It’s tempting to read the verses in the Bible of God as a protector with a kind of absolute interpretation, applying these verses to ourselves directly and proclaiming it to be the truth for all times and places.  If I read about God as a shield, it is logical that I want him to be a shield in all situations.   However, does God protect all of us in every situation?   Most of us cannot answer the question with a simple "Yes" or "No", we must add a disclaimer.  How often have you heard the phrase, "He might not come when you want him but He is always on time"?  From what perspective are we speaking?  Does God have to show up every time we get into trouble?  Here is where a type of disclaimer comes in handy.  In one sense, we will never know how many times God actually protected us, then there are times when God simply left us to karma.   Reaping what we have sown is as much a part of the scripture as God building a fence around us.  In a world with the freewill to make our own choices, we cannot get around the fact that hardships await us—Jesus promised us as much.  However, he has a perfect will for us and that includes different kinds of protection.

Trying to answer the questions of what God do and do not do without adding the disclaimer exposes a cognitive dissonance.  This is one of many common examples of cognitive dissonance activated when people confront the scriptural reality of their concept of God's protection or even miracles.  Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time; performs an action that is contradictory to one or more beliefs, ideas, or values; or confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.  Therefore, if you are reading this right now and you are feeling uneasy, nervous even; it is a normal reaction.   This is what cognitive dissonance does, but confusion can be the prelude to clarity. 

We need be careful that we do not use too cavalier approach when interpreting the scripture.    Christian values suffer most when myth and lies impregnate the truth through bogus interpretation.  This fallacy occurs when we shape the scripture in such a manner that it says what makes the listeners feel good.  When we read the Old Testament we see that God was a deliverer to the Children of Israel, in the New Testament, to the church he was a comforter. 

 The three Hebrew men who was about to be casted into the fiery furnace knew they served an all-powerful God, but they did not pray for God to display his power.  When asked by the evil King they confirmed their faith by stating, "Whether He deliver us or not He is still God."  Deliverance was not a prerequisite of their faith, yet God showed up.   John the Baptist sent a message to Christ, his concern was are you the Christ or shall we look for another. Deliverance was not a prerequisite of his faith.   After receiving an answer from Christ, John was contented to languish in Jail and face execution, refusing to tone down his rhetoric.  Jesus did not show up and save John's life.  Stephen, like his Savior, when confronted with death called upon God to receive his spirit.  It seems the Martyrs were comfortable with dying to be with their LORD.

"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." (Revelation 6:9-11)

Let us come together and reason, do we believe in God?  Maybe we should rephrase the question, “what God do we believe in”?   There is the God of Moses who left his children to wander in the wilderness forty years because they were rude and disobedient.   There is the God of John the Baptist who left the forerunner of his son to languish in jail until a grumpy old King ordered his head removed.  Then there is the God who allowed the execution of his Son for a crime he did not commit, and there is that God, whose vial of wrath is overflowing.  Both Simon Peter and Paul expressed a profound desire to die to be with the Son of God who said I am going away to prepare a place for you.   

There seems to be a new God in charge today, one that has changed all of the rules.  This new God has "flip the script' and it's about now and not the hereafter.  The rules only apply when it comes to getting stuff.  The wages of sin is passé and the feel-good gospel is in vogue.   The rowdiness of the world has invaded the church house and the sacredness of worship is discarded or desecrated.   Money and power have become the new gods of salvation.  To be able to use the word salvation, I must post the question; do we still believe in salvation of the soul?   What is it that drives us to church each Sunday?    Is it the performance of the preacher, the choir or the dance team?    Is our desire to get our ‘praise on’ greater than our desire to be like Jesus?  Imagine Jesus, that person that we say we want to be like, telling his disciples, let us go to the temple and get our praise on "Yawl"?

Humanity has reached a level of indifference and intolerance to the truth.  From our leaders in high places to the lowly minions whose life is a constant struggle, the truth has become elusive.  Many have bought into the lie because it is the acceptable thing to do.  Without an honest dialog, we quickly digress into a conversation of lies.

In a conversation of lies, stretching and shaping the truth is a necessary element to accommodate or appease the person or speaker who might have a difference of opinion.     Sadly, to say, in many instances nothing can resolve the differences when we elevate our opinion above all other opinions.   

The Hypocrisy of Christianity

After a three month habitat, I began this discourse in a confused state, it is not the confusion of dealing with my business associates or writer friends that shape my gloomy outlook, nor is it the gloomy breaking of daylight outside my office window, it is the confusion of humanity. The people of the world and the people of this nation now exist in a total confused state. Undeniably, this nation has become a sea of confusion.  It is not necessary to establish a timeline when these changes began to occur, they began when we began systematically removing God from the equation, thus preparing the way for the advancement of (the) antichrist.   Revelation 13:1 speaks of a new nation rising up out of the sea (confusion).

The world I once knew, the community and the social groups that I once was a part of have undergone drastic changes.  Even the church was not immune to these changes.  It is as if awakening from a beautiful, peaceful dream and realizing that reality is a cold, dark place. Instead of awakening from a nightmare, those of my generation and older often speak of this dilemma as having awakened to, or within a nightmare.  We can no longer ignore the problems or questions by burying our heads in the sand or pretending the Elephant in the room do not exist.   It is the time we face our own reality.  How did we get to this point?  Did we not train up our children in the way they should go?  If so then why are we plagued with a godless generation whose intent is to destroy our Christian values?  It is easy to cover ourselves with scriptures, plead the blood and proclaim, "God knows what he is doing." Are we contributing to the decline of Christian values by blaming God for our shortcoming?  


If we look closely at the dilemma that we are in, at least two inconvenient truths will emerge.   I use the word inconvenient truth because it can be hard to accept these truths.  The first truth is the millennial generation that precedes us is a product of our own creation.   The base of the second truth is as follows.  "Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest" (Matthew 9:37-38)  Our generation has produced preachers, apostles, teachers, prophets and other workers of the harvest by many different names, more than any other generation.  This being true, the question is where is the harvest.  Instead of a harvest, God, church and Christian values have become toxic.   

The cumulative effect of the past eight years has been a blatant attack on Christianity and Christian values.   The attack on Christian values is the elephant in the room that is being overlooked by those who profess to teach the Word of God.  If the attack on Christian values were to be acknowledged, many ministers who have sided with the losing party would lose their credibility.   In this day of confusion, the ancient teaching of the Bible has been cast aside or reinterpreted to accommodate the sinful nature of humanity, and the ministers are saying Amen with cute cliches and shaped truths.  Bible history and science confirms the effects of challenging God, the evidence presents itself when we trample through the relics of lost civilizations that were wiped from the face of the earth.  
  

There are biblical accounts of civilizations perishing and the reason given in the Holy Scripture.  Sodom and Gomorrah, the flood, the threat on Nineveh is just to name a few.   What happened to Africa, the birthplace of humanity?  Consider Eygpt and all its great gods and even the Maya civilization.  Why did a cloud of darkness descend over these along with other civilization, separating it people from their past?  Many of these civilizations demonstrated a technology for surpassing that of today.   There seem to be dark clouds rising. 

The Hypocrisy of Christianity manifests itself as a religion that seeks compromise with other religions.  

As I watched the twisting and shaping of the scripture that 30,000 plus different denominations can attest to, I was overcome with fear.  Theis type of fear has allowed me to believe we are standing on the eve of destruction.  In simplest terms, as pertaining to the United States I assumed that martial law would be declared,  the elections would be set aside and a new and ungodly nation emerges. This worst-case scenario did not happen or did it happen in a way that I and many did not expect.  

Even now as I watch the events unfolding, I am still convinced that America is the nucleus of the birth of this new and ungodly nation.  The cauldron of hate that once was hidden or suppressed has been brought center stage, the fires are stoked and it constant stirring has caused it to overflow and infect the country and entire world. A one world government seems to be on the horizon.  Whether history is repeating itself and whether we are in the first act or last act, the stage is set for an apocalyptical conclusion.

In my study of the Book of Revelation, there were numerous inconvenient truths uncovered.  Revelation is a book about the vengeance of heaven. Ignorance of God is naturally accompanied by vice and crime, filling the nations and communities with violence and bloodshed, and making it ripe for the vengeance of heaven. (Hosea 4:6)  To mask these truths it is necessary that the interpretation of this book follow certain guidelines (denominational and politically correctness).  These guidelines often inject variables into the book that renders it incoherent.  This technique discredits the book of Revelation as well as the entire Bible.  Here again, tampering with the Holy Scripture is a reality that most are not prepared to acknowledge.  If we consider the numerous interpretations and revisions, we should be able to draw a conclusion as to what has and is taking place.

Never in my lifetime has the attack on Christian values been so intense.  Many failed to see the shift in the battle and belief structure as a "man of color" took the helm of a nation that once was proud to proclaim it a Christian nation.  A change was what he proposed and he soon issued a proclamation that America was not a Christian nation.  The institutions of old that made this country what it is, though not perfect, suddenly came under attack.  Those who shared his ethnic background or views accepted much of what he proposed.  To implement changes, the empowerment of dredge elements was used solidified a campaign of shaming and hatred directed at anyone who did not agree with the emerging agenda.  The enactment of laws that in theory was supposed to eliminate hate created an environment that allowed hate to thrive.   

Once these laws were enactment, sermons, certain verses in the Bible and the teaching of Christian values were subject to intense scrutiny.    Appling the hate speech label indiscriminately became the focus of the newly enlightens.  For protection, the church scrambled to change, even the ancient focus and direction of Christianity.  Subjected to reinterpretation the Word of God the church was able to embrace new and alien concepts.  To implement changes pagan values were intermixed with Christian values thereby forming an unholy union.    


We can use Biblical and secular history to document the effect of mixing pagan values with Christian values.  Once our values shift, the warnings of old tend to go unheeded.  The Roman Empire became weak and floundered when its values shifted to include Christian values mixed with Pagan values.  Christian values do not mix with pagan or worldly valued.  Christianity seeks to impress upon the individual or church the need to form a wall of separation from the world. "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," (2 Corinthians 6:17)