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D. White · #1 10-20-08, 12:35 AM

In what scriptures can we prove that you may have to stop friends wth the world?? Using scripture...how can we do that??

Lee Parish · #2 10-20-08, 11:03 PM

1 Cor. 15:33 and James 4:4 come to mind

Lee Parish · #3 10-20-08, 11:13 PM

In addition I would say any person who causes us to violate Romans 12:1-2 would need to be put away.

Jack McNiel · #4 10-23-08, 10:44 AM

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And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
(Mat 5:29-30)

The same would apply, "if thy best friend offend thee..." Offend here means to cause to sin or to tempt to sin. If your friend is tempting you to sin and will not stop - get a new friend.

Jesus came to do the will of the Father and be crucified. He would have sinned had he not done the Father's will. Yet his friend Peter tempted him in trying to prevent it.

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From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
(Mat 16:21-23)

Jesus literally told Peter "get thee behind me adversary..." (the Greek word "satanas" simply means "one who opposes another in purpose or act" Thayer's)
"thou art an offense to me..." - literally a cause to stumble.

After this Peter no longer was a cause of offense to Jesus - so the relationship continued.

Our lesson from this ought to be that we should tell those who cause us to stumble to get away from us, or to stop tempting us to sin. If they refuse, then they do not have our best interest at heart and are therefore become our "satanas" from whom we must depart.

JasRandal · #5 10-23-08, 08:41 PM