On Mount Carmel, the prophet Elijah had to call the people of God back to faithfulness after Jezebel led them away into pluralistic idolatry. In the New Testament believers had to contend with the many gods of Greco-Roman society. Religious pluralism should not catch the followers of Jesus off guard. However, we must distinguish between acknowledging religious pluralism as a reality and subscribing to religious pluralism as an ideology. To subscribe to religious pluralism as an ideology is to believe that all religions equally teach truth.
Religious pluralism is a reality.
Yet we, who are followers of Jesus Christ, must reject pluralism as an ideology. Religious pluralism, as an ideology, is an imposter and seeks to destroy the unity that Jesus prayed for. Syncretism Syncretism is the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties as in philosophy or religion. Religious syncretism is the attempt to develop a theology that incorporates elements from a variety of major world religions. For example, the religious syncretists may attempt to take Bible, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism and then think that they have found a whole faith.