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Interfaithout the discipline of which allhave become partakers, you arereally illegitimate children, andnot sons . Furthermore, we used tohave fathers who were of ourflesh to discipline us and we usedto give them respect. Shall wenot much more subject ourselvesto the Father of our spirituallife and live?"Early Christians Resisted Effortsof "Interfaith" by Emperor2 Cor . 6 :14-18 "Do not becomeunevenly yoked with unbelievers .For what partnership do righteousnessand lawlessness have?Or what fellowship does lighthave with darkness? Further,what harmony is there betweenChrist and Belial? Or what portiondoes a faithful person havewith an unbeliever? And whatagreement does God's templehave with idols? For we are thetemple of the living God ; justas God said : `I shall reside amongthem and walk among them, andI shall be their God, and theywill be my people .' `Therefore getout from among them, and separateyourselves,' says Jehovah,`and quit touching the uncleanthing,' `and I will take you in .''And I shall be a father to you,and you will be sons and daughtersto me,' says Jehovah theAlmighty .""Many Roads, One Destiny" aFalse Religious PrincipleProved disastrous to those nottrue Christians, white sincereconverts took right courseActs 19 :13-20 "But certain onesof the traveling Jews who practicedthe casting out of demonsalso undertook to name the nameof the Lord Jesus over those havingthe wicked spirits, saying : `Isolemnly charge you by Jesuswhom Paul preaches .' Now therewere seven sons of a certainSceva, a Jewish chief priest, doingthis . But in answer the wickedspirit said to them : 'I know Jesusand I am acquainted with Paul ;186but who are you?' With that theman in whom the wicked spiritwas leaped upon them, got themastery of the two of them, andprevailed against them, so thatthey fled naked and woundedout of that house . This becameknown to all, both the Jews andthe Greeks that dwelt in Ephesus,and a fear fell upon themall, and the name of the LordJesus went on being magnified .And many of those who had becomebelievers would come andconfess and report their practicesopenly . Indeed, quite a number ofthose who practiced magical artsbrought their books together andburned them up before everybody.And they calculated togetherthe prices of them andfound them worth fifty thousandpieces of silver. Thus in a mightyway the word of Jehovah keptgrowing and prevailing ."Merely taking name of God notsufficient for approvalMatt. 7 :20-23 "Really, then, bytheir fruits you will recognizethose men . Not everyone sayingto me, `Master, Master,' will enterinto the kingdom of the heavens,but the one doing the will ofmy Father who is in the heavenswill . Many will say to me in thatday, `Master, Master, did we notprophesy in your name, and expeldemons in your name, andperform many powerful works inyour name?' And yet then I willconfess to them : I never knewyou at all . Get away from me,you workers of lawlessness ."Matt . 25 :40, 45 "And in replythe king will say to them : `TrulyI say to you, to the extent thatyou did it to one of the leastof these my brothers, you did itto me .' Then he will answer themwith the words : `Truly I say toyou, To the extent that you didnot do it to one of these leastones, you did not do it to me .'"Matt . 12 :30 "He that is not onmy side is against me, and he