{"id":1577,"date":"2010-01-11T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/01\/11\/masters-on-separation\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:40:47","slug":"masters-on-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/01\/11\/masters-on-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters on separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Masters has a little booklet called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabernaclebookshop.org\/9781899046119stand-for-the-truth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stand for Truth<\/a>. It is a good presentation of the basic arguments for the separatist point of view, first published in 1983, revised in 1996 and reprinted in 2009. I think it is worth your while.<\/p>\n<p>Masters argues for secondary separation (he embraces the term) with the following points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Non-separators deal a terrible blow to the exclusive nature of the gospel.<\/li>\n<li>Non-separators help the devil to achieve one of his main objectives \u2013 to cause such confusion that the world no longer sees a distinctive, biblical Christian community standing clearly apart from Catholic and liberal error.<\/li>\n<li>Non-separators lower the guard of the people of God, exposing them to further infiltration by false believers and false doctrine.<\/li>\n<li>Non-separators encourage false teachers in their infidelity and sin, and so strengthen them in their work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Scriptures cited in this section are 2 Jn 11, 2 Th 3.6, 14-15 with 2 Chr 18.3, 2 Chr 19.2 and Rev 18.4-5 added as illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>The booklet is 36 pages long and sums up the doctrine of separation quite nicely. Masters deals with ten common objections at the end of the booklet.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend it to you. We have ordered a number of copies for our church people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"don_sig2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/don_sig21.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Masters has a little booklet called Stand for Truth. It is a good presentation of the basic arguments for the separatist point of view, first published in 1983, revised in 1996 and reprinted in 2009. I think it is worth your while. Masters argues for secondary separation (he embraces the term) with the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[71,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-pr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}