You know, I'd love to be friends with everyone on this site. I'd love to share a common interest . . . this ministry. But it is impossible to befriend another person unless I see that we are walking together in a like biblical faith and agree in our convictions.
Paul's classic summation of this issue is not open to negotiation, reinterpretation, redefining terms . . . it is just to be accepted as God laid it upon his heart to write.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (II Corinthians 6:14-18).