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Question: How do we balance our friendship with the world and our love for God?

A) We should embrace all that the world has to offer, as it is all a creation made by God.

B) Whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

C) Whoever chooses to be a friend of the world will find great favor by God.

Answer: B) Whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ~James 4:4-6 (AMP)

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