WHAT IS A FUNDAMENTALIST AND BIBLICAL SEPARATION

I AM A EVERETTE T. WHISNANT, INDEPENDENT, FUNDAMENTAL PREACHER SORT OF

IS THE LATE JERRY FALWELL A FUNDAMENTALIST? I AM A FUNDAMENTALIST AND AS YOU CAN SEE I WOULD CLAIM HIM AS MY FRIEND

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Well, I am a Independent, fundamental, five point reformed, ten percent Evangelical

and .01 percent Emergent

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i.e. I continue to grow and move more in the

direction of Biblical policy

as I learn what they are.

WHAT IS A FUNDAMENTALIST AND BIBLICAL SEPARATION

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Biblical Separation

• The same is true for neo-fundamentalists such as Jerry Falwell and the Baptist Bible Fellowship today. When I hear Jerry Falwell standing up boldly for Christ on Larry King’s television program and in other public forums, I am thankful for him and love him in the Lord, but I could not work with him because I am convinced he has determined to walk in a path of compromise and disobedience to the Bible.

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• for the most part, contemporary Christianity cringes when confronted with the word separatist or separatism. Almost immediately a offensive stance is assumed and separatism is attacked as being legalistic, unloving, and a threat to Christian unity. The fact is, most people who throw around the term legalistic or legalism are using a popular, home grown definition that is not biblical. Some define legalism as the presence of rules or standards that a believer should obey. Charles Swindoll says legalism is, "an obsessive conformity to an artificial standard for the purpose of exalting oneself." Both types of definitions of legalism are erroneus! Biblically, the term legalism "describes human attempts to gain salvation and/or spiritual maturity through self-help and conformity to a list of religious laws. A person who sees legalism as a way of salvation and continuing acceptance by God is called a legalist." A good illustration of a legalist, biblically defined, can be found in Luke 18:10-14, the Parable of the Pharisee & the Publican.



• "The world is constantly trying to squeeze believers into its mold--to put the screws on believers, to pressure believers, to make the individual believer just another person of the world." If you are going to resist being conformed to the world and if you are going to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, there are things you will do and will not do! That is NOT legalism. (See Standards: Liberty or Legalism? by Dr. John Cawood in the appendix)



• According to the American Dictionary of the English Language published by Noah Webster in 1828 the general definition of separate is, "To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part; to disconnect; to withdraw from each other; being parted from each other." He goes on to define a separatist as "one that withdraws from a church, or rather from and established church, to which he has belonged; a dissenter…" (Noah Webster; American Dictionary of the English Language 1828 Edition reprint; p. 68).
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While these definitions are certainly true as far as they go, they do not adequately define the Biblical Separatist or Biblical Separation.

1. A Biblical Separatist will not cooperate and withdraws from organizations, groups and individual unbelievers and their ungodly philosophies and practices
2. A Biblical Separatist will not cooperate and withdraws from churches, para-church organizations and individuals that are apostate and that propagate apostate teachings and practices
   
3. A Biblical Separatist will not cooperate and withdraws from churches, para-church organizations and individual believers that Aid and sanction apostates by their alignment & cooperation with them \\
4. A Biblical Separatist will not cooperate and withdraws from churches, para-church organizations and individuals that professe to be Christian but disobey & compromise clear Bible Teachings and will not repent.
   
   

A Biblical Separatist is a Christian who withdraws or will not cooperate with an established church (organization or individual) that

• 1) includes unbelievers and advocates godless philosophies and practices, and/or



• 2) is apostate and propagates apostate teachings and practices, or



• 3) those believers that aid and sanction apostates by their alignment and cooperation with them, and/or



• 4) individual believers that profess to be Christians but disobey and compromise clear Bible teachings and will not repent.

IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN I COULD NOT FELLOWSHIP WITH ANY CHURCH.

Every church, local church, I would say has wheat and tares in their flocks.

Charles Spurgeon's Biblical Separation