Biblical Separation Defended - Far Eastern Bible College

consider compromise [i.e., for entering the synagogues],” 8 are seen to beunfounded because the separatists do not object to a conservative’sentering a house filled with error and sin as long as the conservativealong with his Gospel message somewhere makes it clear that in God’sbook the error and sin that is in the particular house is wicked and sinful.However, the separatist does point the accusing finger at a conservativewho enters a temple of idols and asks one of the Baal priests to lead inprayer, preaches a good gospel message and denounces sin in general,poses with his arm about the leader of the temple, directs the newconverts to a Baal priestess with the words that the Holy Spirit will lookafter His own (which He will, despite the disobedience of theconservative in question), and leaves saying that the Baal gang reallybelieves a lot of things similar to our own faith and are a “swell bunch”when one gets to really know them. This type of service which makesGod’s flock wonder if the liberals are really sinful after all, disobeys thespirit of 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1, as well as the spirit of a holy Jehovahwho hates sin.ConclusionsDr. Ferm has advanced two analogies within the proposition underdiscussion. In the first he equated the sin of the synagogue authoritiesbefore Christ’s entrance to the sin of the present day liberals before theentrance of the orthodox evangelist. This analogy has been shown not tobe quite proper for the liberals had sinned under great light before theentrance of the cooperative evangelist, while the synagogue rulers hadnot sinned under equally great light before the entrance of Christ—for asChrist’s entrance provided their great light, they sinned in its presenceonly during His visitation and not before it. Thus the sin of the liberalsbefore the entrance of the evangelist is greater than the sin of thesynagogue authorities before the entrance of Christ, because at this stagethe former had received the greater illumination. Also, the synagogues,although they misinterpreted it often, received the written Word of Godwhich the liberals do not.The second analogy of Dr. Ferm within this fourth proposition,however, is where the major fallacy lies, for it has been Biblically shownthat the Lord’s fixed attitude against the unbelievers and the other44