Anathema

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"

(1 Timothy 2:5)

If your religion has another god or multiple gods, then it is a false religion. If your religion advocates that you can get to God without Jesus Christ, then it is a false religion.

“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” (Galatians 1:6-9)

Anything repeated in the Bible is done to stress its importance. “…let him be accursed” is repeated. Accursed, or the Hebrew, “Anathema” means, “devoted to the direst of woes”.

If anyone, including an angel or an Apostle-Anyone!, preaches, teaches, or advocates anything other than what is written in the Bible, if they change, alter, omit, or add anything that is not directly from God, then they are to be committed to the utmost worst of griefs, strife, and woe. This is serious business. What worse grief and woe is there other than Hell?

If you or your religion contradict the Word, then you are Anathema!

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6)

God is in you!

So, what do you do when you encounter someone of a false religion? It is an edict, a command, and the backbone of our religion to love thy neighbor. But this love does not necessarily mean acceptance of the other’s beliefs. You can express a Christian love without joining, advocating or tolerating a false narrative, false precept and principle or a false god.

Let the following always be your guiding light when expressing Christian love.

"Love had its perfect expression among men in the Lord Jesus Christ, Christian love is the fruit of His Spirit in the Christian. Christian love has God for its primary object and expresses itself first of all in implicit obedience to His commandments. Self-will, that is, self-pleasing, is the negation of love to God.”

Source: Vine's Expository Dictionary

First, we must be implicitly obedient to God and His word. Self is a no-go. It doesn’t matter what you think and feel. It matters only what God says. Understand this, a Christian love is not an inclination, impulse or feeling. Christian love is more concerned with the other person’s well being than anything else. It does not seek ill of anyone.

Love the apostate and reprobate along the way and be careful not to get ensnared by their ways or beliefs.

Bill Hitchcock