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Also, to live peaceably with all men does

not require that Christians keep silent when

heretical and false teachings are being

propagated or accepted at a social gathering.

Unknowingly, sometimes family gatherings

can breed the endorsement of false and

heretical religious beliefs and can also

become a place of religious ecumenical

unity, in a sense, because most family

gatherings represent a diversity of religious

beliefs that go unchallenged in conversations

for the sake of family unity.

Romans 16:17 says, “Now I beseech you,

brethren, mark them which cause divisions

and offences contrary to the doctrine which

ye have learned; and avoid them” — and,

again, family members are not excluded from

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