“What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols for ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty.” (2 Corinthians 6:14-18)
WE ARE KNOWN BY OUR ASSOCIATIONS
Since time immoral God has called individuals to flee disfunctional frameworks, viz. Jared from the Tower of Babel, Lot from Sodom, Ether from the Jaredites, Lehi from Jerusalem (600 B.C.), Nephi from the Lamanites, Alma from King Noah, Mormon from the Nephites, the Three Nephites from the Nephites, Martin Luther from the Catholics, Thomas Campbell from the Presbyterians, David Whitmer from the Mormons, the Colonists from Great Britain, etc.