What is a separatist within Christendom?
Especially in recent Christendom with the growing left-wing, anti-Christian censorship culture in the first world, the Christian separatists' actions can be readily seen by their attempts to ban certain information that makes their position look bad, to put it simply before providing greater detail that explains why.
Banning, censoring, or mislabeling viewpoints that disagree with or threaten one's own is in actuality a primitive, fear-based reaction driven by the motivation to protect one's isolated team rather than seeking truth even at the expense of isolated teams (Calvinism, for example, is just one isolated team of many, and we know that former Presidents of the SBC like Criswell were anti-Calvinist, yet still communicated with them instead of isolating himself and using false labels that misrepresent what Calvinists actually believe).
In fact, those who bring in information out of a concern to help others align closer with God's truth are those attempting the influencing (not the separation) with God's word as the unifier, not the protection of traditions of men or any one team as the unifier. By contrast, those fighting to keep these people and their information out are actually separating themselves from those who disagree with their isolated team. Separatists will never be found communicating in a way where they're willing to learn from those who disagree with them: they will typically only associate with those who agree with their view, and dishonestly smear and misrepresent those who don't as their primary tactic to win people to their side.
Notice the difference in approach: influencers simply use the truth, they are purely information spreaders, whereas separatists instead censor and/or misrepresent the information of other positions to make their own position look better than it actually is. This is because they understand their knowledge outside their isolated system (whether that be Calvinism or Arminianism) is usually weak and there's a chance they will lose face in an open discussion where it's being compared against new information. This is why they must resort to separating themselves by banning/censoring those who disagree, after which they use their platform that is now free from anyone questioning it, to quite frankly and plainly, lie and smear campaign against those who can no longer speak to defend themselves with truth and information.
In recent times, we are seeing this more within the New Calvinist Movement. In times where mass information and various viewpoints are instantly visible all at once on the internet, they're realizing their belief system does not hold up against careful examination from other perspectives that they did not previously understand or interact with as much, yet they are inclined to protect their reputation regardless, as this is a higher priority than admitting where they may have been wrong and realigning themselves with whatever truth God reveals to them.
Just one example of this, the President of CARM issued an open challenge exclusively to non-Calvinists, then hit the mute button on them once truth he was previously unfamiliar with began to threaten the validity of his business (a natural response, but this is why being a Christian leader is extremely difficult: we must be ready and willing to sacrifice and give anything up to stay with God and his truth, even if that means laying the errors of our life work at his feet and suffering the temporal consequences, James 3:1):
Especially in recent Christendom with the growing left-wing, anti-Christian censorship culture in the first world, the Christian separatists' actions can be readily seen by their attempts to ban certain information that makes their position look bad, to put it simply before providing greater detail that explains why.
Banning, censoring, or mislabeling viewpoints that disagree with or threaten one's own is in actuality a primitive, fear-based reaction driven by the motivation to protect one's isolated team rather than seeking truth even at the expense of isolated teams (Calvinism, for example, is just one isolated team of many, and we know that former Presidents of the SBC like Criswell were anti-Calvinist, yet still communicated with them instead of isolating himself and using false labels that misrepresent what Calvinists actually believe).
In fact, those who bring in information out of a concern to help others align closer with God's truth are those attempting the influencing (not the separation) with God's word as the unifier, not the protection of traditions of men or any one team as the unifier. By contrast, those fighting to keep these people and their information out are actually separating themselves from those who disagree with their isolated team. Separatists will never be found communicating in a way where they're willing to learn from those who disagree with them: they will typically only associate with those who agree with their view, and dishonestly smear and misrepresent those who don't as their primary tactic to win people to their side.
Notice the difference in approach: influencers simply use the truth, they are purely information spreaders, whereas separatists instead censor and/or misrepresent the information of other positions to make their own position look better than it actually is. This is because they understand their knowledge outside their isolated system (whether that be Calvinism or Arminianism) is usually weak and there's a chance they will lose face in an open discussion where it's being compared against new information. This is why they must resort to separating themselves by banning/censoring those who disagree, after which they use their platform that is now free from anyone questioning it, to quite frankly and plainly, lie and smear campaign against those who can no longer speak to defend themselves with truth and information.
In recent times, we are seeing this more within the New Calvinist Movement. In times where mass information and various viewpoints are instantly visible all at once on the internet, they're realizing their belief system does not hold up against careful examination from other perspectives that they did not previously understand or interact with as much, yet they are inclined to protect their reputation regardless, as this is a higher priority than admitting where they may have been wrong and realigning themselves with whatever truth God reveals to them.
Just one example of this, the President of CARM issued an open challenge exclusively to non-Calvinists, then hit the mute button on them once truth he was previously unfamiliar with began to threaten the validity of his business (a natural response, but this is why being a Christian leader is extremely difficult: we must be ready and willing to sacrifice and give anything up to stay with God and his truth, even if that means laying the errors of our life work at his feet and suffering the temporal consequences, James 3:1):