Full Question
Is there any scriptural compulsion on those who hold the truth to step aside from those who do not?
Answer
1885, pg. 308. “We say we cannot be implicated in the position which you feel at liberty to hold toward the new doctrine which has been introduced. We desire to regard you with feelings of friendship and brotherly love; but so long as you retain connection with a false doctrine of so dangerous a character set aside, in the spirit of Paul’s recommendation, which while telling us to count you not as enemies, but to admonish you as brethren, at the same time directs us to have no company with things which are on a footing that does not allow of it.”
1885 pg. 388. “It is the duty of the friends of the Truth to uphold it as a basis of union among themselves by refusing any part of it, or those who would receive those so denying.”
1886 pg. 167. “However sound a brother’s belief may be, if he knowingly permits or fellowships the believer of false doctrine, he is accounted a partner in their evil work, hence the necessity of withdrawing from such.”
1886 pg. 273. “The taking of sides on such an issue is inevitable with enlightened and faithful men; and if men who rightly regard the Bible refuse to take sides against a wrong regard of it, it is an equally inevitable and painful result that they come to be separated from those with whom they insist on remaining. Men in the camp who remained with Korah, Datham, and Abiram perished with them, though not sharing in their revolt against Moses.”
1885 pg. 376. “There are always two aspects to every vital doctrine. A truth may be received by men who are prepared to wink at its denial in friendship; and in such case, a full basis of fellowship does not exist for faithful men; for the basis of our union in Christ is not only a concurrent conception of the truth, but a concurrent resolution to recognise and maintain that truth, as the basis of our relation to Him and one another. He must ‘not receive’ any man coming in the name of the truth. It is the course prescribed by apostolic law; and if we are to have anything to do with apostolic law, we must submit to it in its entirety.”
“The Valley of the Shadow”