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1 | When or should we avoid unbelievers? | NT general Archive 1 | dat | 71200 | ||
Are we to totally stay away from "UNBELIEVERS" or are we to try to win them to Christ? And if we are to try to win them to Christ, are we to stop associating with them if we are not successful? Advice would be appreciated. dat | ||||||
2 | When or should we avoid unbelievers? | NT general Archive 1 | inmyheart | 71201 | ||
dat, It is good to mix with unbelievers to love and convert them. If you can convert them, then you can happily yoke together. We should sometimes revisit people even if they don't believe at first, as conversion can take time. Back in the time of Christ the tax collectors or publicans were considered evil and part of the world. Jesus indicated they were sick and needed converting. The disciples who were tax collectors gave their professions away to do God's work. Matthew 9: 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It must have been widely known that it was wrong to work for a corrupt system in Jesus' time. The Pharisees must have thought that it was so bad to be a tax collector that they had no hope of salvation, and that Jesus should stay away from them as if they had no hope of being saved. Tax collectors were still needed as God said to pay taxes but it seemed that it was not for Christians to become tax collectors. Jesus did the right thing by loving and mixing with sinners and tax collectors for the purpose of converting them. But he did not yoke, work and stay with the same people if they did not believe. Jesus and the Apostles moved on if people did not believe, and met other people, trying to convert them. However, the false church of today is wrongfully encouraging people to live or work with the same unbelievers and work with and for a corrupt system, which is now far worse than it was in the time of the Pharisees. Many of the so-called Christians today could be seen by Jesus as being much sicker than the tax collectors. |
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3 | When or should we avoid unbelievers? | NT general Archive 1 | Makarios | 71218 | ||
Greetings Inmyheart, Excellent post! - Makarios |
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