The Bible has many clear statements forbidding Christians' having spiritual fellowship or ties with unconverted people.
Ps. 1:1: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Eph. 5:11: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18: Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
II John 9-11: Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
So what do the Ecumenicals do?
They take other Scriptures and try to cancel out these plain commands of God!
They attack the character and motives of anybody who defends the faith and opposes modernistic unbelief and yoking up with unbelievers!
They try to show that God is blessing their compromise so much that we must have misunderstood the Scriptures!
Dr. Billy Graham in the Baptist Standard of Texas and elsewhere set the pattern (Ecumenism spiritual stronghold) by saying that the parable of the tares indicated that Jesus wanted both modernists and fundamentalists to go together in the churches. Many others have copied that false teaching (ecumenism deception of Satan).
Jesus explained the parable of the tares:
Matt. 13:38,39: The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
And Jesus in telling the parable said that the servants of the man who owned the field said unto him:
Matt 13:28-30: Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
So Dr. Graham and others who fellowship with unbelievers and unconverted churchmen interpret that to mean that Jesus wants both modernists and fundamentalists to grow together in the church, infidels and Christians, and we are to make no protest against modernism.
But notice how Jesus explained the parable. "The field is the world," not the church.
We are not to kill modernists and get them out of this world.
Leave that to the angels of God.
But these "children of the wicked one" are not supposed to be in the True church.
Not a single Scripture justifies taking one into a the true church fellowship except on the basis of personal faith in Christ as Saviour according to the historic Christian faith.
In Galatians 1:8 and 9 anyone who brings a different Gospel is to be accursed. In II John, verses 9-11, we are plainly forbidden to receive such a person in our houses or pulpits or to bid them Godspeed.
Leave the infidels in the world? Yes. We should not set out to kill them. Leave that to the harvest time.
But should we call infidels Christians? Of course not! No honest interpretation of Scripture can make Jesus teach that Christians and infidels are the same and should be bound up together.
Read More:
FALSE Preachers and Their Lies of Omission
http://www.kissyourillusionsgoodbye.com/articles-33/false-preachers-and-their-lies-of-omission-11562
FALSE Preachers and Their Lies of Omission part 2
http://www.kissyourillusionsgoodbye.com/articles-33/false-preachers-and-their-lies-of-omission-part-2-11573
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