Biblical Separation


​The doctrine of separation from sin unto God is a fundamental principle of the Bible, one grievously ignored in the Church today.
  • This doctrine arises out of the holiness of God. Both the purity and righteousness of God (Luke 1:75) are involved. “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:16, also 3:11; Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 6:3;   2 Corinthians 7:1)

  • The Bible does speak of co-operation (“be of one mind”, “that they may all be one”, “labourers together”, “keep the unity of the Spirit”, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”, also 1 Corinthians 12:25). However, biblical co-operation is based upon TRUTH. It involves the united effort of God’s people. This is not a co-operation born of a spirit of undiscerning pluralism, or that of seeking “truth” in all religions.

  • We maintain that Scripture teaches a separation that is based on the holiness of God, producing purity in all of life, personal and ecclesiastical.

  • It is the duty of all true churches of the Lord Jesus Christ in these darkening days of apostasy in many professing churches, by which apostasy whole denominations in their official capacity, as well as individual churches, have been swept into a paganising stream of modernism under various names and in varying degrees.

  • There has been a notable growth of autocratic domination on the part especially of modernistic leaders by whom the rightful powers of true churches are often usurped and are now being usurped.

  • The commands of God to His people to be separate from all unbelief and corruption are clear and positive: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 6:14; see also Matthew 6:24; Romans 16:17; Galatians 1; Ephesians 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14; 2 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 3:10; 2 Peter 2:1-3; 1 John 4:1-3; 2 John 7-11; Jude 3, 20-24; and Revelation 18:4). We reach out to those who are part of any human system which involves compromising with error, and who thus ought to “come out from among them” (2 Corinthians 6:17), separate themselves unto the “Father ... the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:18), thus “cleansing themselves” and perfecting holiness in the fear of God (2 Corinthians 7:1).

  • In loyalty to the revealed Word we, as an organised portion of the people of God, are obliged to oppose all forms of modernism, cultism, Romanism, and false religions. Dialogue for the purpose of reaching a compromise between all true Bible believers and representatives of such beliefs is impious, unbiblical, treasonous and unfaithful to the holy God, as He has revealed Himself to us in His infallible, inerrant Word.

  • We are opposed to all efforts to obscure or wipe out the clear line of separation between these absolutes: truth and error, light and darkness. See Isaiah 5:20, 2 Cor 6:14-18. We refer to such efforts by New Evangelicals, Charismatic Christians, promoters of ecumenical cooperative evangelism and of the social gospel, and all churches and other movements and organisations that are aligned with or sympathetic to the Ecumenical Movement.