JimBowie1958
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In St Paul's time, the church lived among a pagan culture and the church was told by the Apostles of the church to separate themselves from the pagan culture around them.
2Corinthians, 6:14-18
The Temple of the Living God
14 "Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Be′lial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,
“I will live in them and move among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore come out from them,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch nothing unclean;
then I will welcome you,
18 and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”
Our society in the West has returned to paganism and the most vile and disgusted things are celebrated now as 'love' or simply a form of entertainment, and so St. Paul's old command to us returns to effect.
We must culturally separate ourselves from the paganism we live in. It should be shunned and we must quarantine ourselves and our families from the spiritual disease that is engulfing this once admirable civilization.
2Corinthians, 6:14-18
The Temple of the Living God
14 "Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Be′lial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,
“I will live in them and move among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore come out from them,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch nothing unclean;
then I will welcome you,
18 and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”
Our society in the West has returned to paganism and the most vile and disgusted things are celebrated now as 'love' or simply a form of entertainment, and so St. Paul's old command to us returns to effect.
We must culturally separate ourselves from the paganism we live in. It should be shunned and we must quarantine ourselves and our families from the spiritual disease that is engulfing this once admirable civilization.