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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I assume everyone is a non-believer or agnostic unless something about our interactions (usually mentioning religious service attendance) indicates otherwise.

If I actively avoided speaking to these people at all, I'd only be friends with people I met through my faith community. That would be:

1) insane and bad for my mental health
2) actively opposed to teachings of my faith[/quote]

What faith is that ? Because there’s an awful lot in the Bible about being separate from the unclean and unbelievers [/quote]

Could be pp is not a Christian or not the type of Christian  who worries about what the Bible says.[/quote]

Buahahaha, that's funny. I'm PP, and an every-Sunday-at-church kind of person who listens to morning prayer with readings from Psalms, the OT, and the NT almost every commute.

Some of the separation from the unclean was part of Israel's ceremonial or civil law, which is not binding on Christians (versus the moral law aka the 10 commandments which is). Some of the parts about separation from unbelievers refers specifically to communion and to membership (or confirmation, depending on your denomination's preferred terminology) in the church. Yes, I would not want to attend a church that doesn't fence the table as we Christians call it and remind everyone that communion is for believers only.

But nothing in the above says anything about never talking to non-believers. That would flatly contradict other Scripture. See Romans 10:14

[quote]How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?[/quote]

Or Colossians 4:5-6

[quote]Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. [/quote][/quote]

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