Truth

I want to share an excerpt from The Bravehearted Gospel by Eric Ludy.

"Yet the biblical worldview is one of replacement.
We are taken out of darkness and into light, out of death into life, from the mind of the world to the mind of Christ, from the image of Adam to the image of Jesus--it is always a transition out of one thing and into another. It is never an addition of one thing to another. The Bible is all about purity of ingredients, not mixture of ingredients...
The biblical worldview is one of displacement.
There is absolutely no precedent for "mixture" in the Christian life--only the displacement of one thing by the arrival of another. Light arrives, darkness flees; truth arrives, lies evaporate; life arrives, death goes bye-bye.
The biblical worldview isn't springy. Both replacement and displacement require one option to be chosen as the correct option, and this requires a judgment to be made--which would, of course, mean that the other options are wrong. The round-earth theory is accepted and the flat-earth theory rejected. Truth is embraced, and lies are refuted. Light is chosen, and darkness is expelled. The truth that grabbed hold of Tony on Tuesday yearns to violently put to death the cancerous error that had begun to infect his mind on Monday, so that on Wednesday Tony can move forward and chart a clear course to the New World.
"Come on, Eric!" I can hear someone say. "So what! At least this Tony guy found the truth!"
Yes, Tony may have heard the truth on Tuesday and appraised it as correct, but as long as the error from Monday still remains lodged inside his soul come Wednesday, it will fight against the truth, canceling out its effects for the remainder of that week and every week that follows. It's like a brain with a tumpr lodged in its frontal lobe: Sure it's still a functioning brain for the time being, but the tumor will eventually cause it to cease to function. If the tumor isn't removed, then it will ultimately make the brain completely inoperative. And in the same way, if the truth does not displace the lie, then the lie will displace the truth. These elements are at war one with the other, and it is imperative that exclusive acceptance be shown toward one and intolerance to the other.
We must decide. We must choose."