A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.

202. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 2

1-3 About those who adulterate the good of the sense of the letter of the Word: these destroy the good and truth of the church. (2, 17)

4-5 About those who destroy the celestial things of the Word: they destroy both its celestial and its spiritual things. (2)

6-8 About those who destroy the spiritual things of the church: these go away in consequence into falsities of every kind. (2)

9-11 The Lord entirely removed falsities of evil when the church was instituted among them, and they were instructed. (2)

12-16 Nevertheless that church perverted all things, and hence it has become like one who has truth and yet is without truth, and thus perishes in the 2 (2)

time of judgment. (15)