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Under what conditions can a Christian associate with
the world?
In
I.I Corinthians
6:14-15
we read:
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together
~unbelievers:
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th r g teousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with· darkness •.. or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel?"
This scripture · is generally taken to mean that a
Christian and a non-Christian should not marry. But this same
principle that applies to marriage would also apply to any
close relationship or partnership that one might enter.
A Christian should never include non-Christians as
his bosom friends, even though he should love all men. This
does not mean that a Christian cannot have any dealings with
one whOisn't a Christian, "for then must ye need go out of
the world" (I Cor. 5:10).
Christ said: "Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every
creature"~
16:15).
Christiana are
supposed to be
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the salt of the earth ... the light of the
world" (Matt.
5:13,14).
But at the same time we are to come_
out of this Babylonish civillzation referred to as "this
present evil world" (Gal.
1:4),
established by men under the
away of the Devil. "Wherefore come out from among them (the
people of the world)
,
and be ye aepara te, saith the Lord . . . "
(II Cor.
6:17;
Rev.
18:4).
The teaching of the Bible, when all of the scriptures
are put together, is that we are to go into the world, but that
we are not to become a part of the world and its Babyloniah
societies, customs and traditions. God's plagues will fall on
those who will not renounce this present evil world (Rev. 18:4).
Any Christian who yokes himself unequally with an
unbeliever -- whether in marriage or in a business partnership -–
is certainly treading on dangerous ground.