Early on once they hit the Amish Country, Eli quotes a line about being separate or apart from everyone. What did he say, and more importantly, is it a Biblical quote? I assume it is, and that it's the foundation for being Amish. Can anyone shed any light on the reasoning behind Amish people's wanting to be apart from "modern" society and/or technology?
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When Eli is talking to Samuel about John Book's gun, he quotes 2nd Corinthians 6:17 (KJV) as follows:
'Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.'
It helps to have a little context here. The command to live seperate and apart is from the old law, but Apostle Paul writes in his second letter to the Corinthians that the old law has not been done away with. Paul uses this law as an example in II CORINTHIANS 6 14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[b]? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”[c]
17 “Therefore come out from them
and be separate,
says the Lord.
Paul realizes the world is becoming smaller and that Christians have to live and work amoung the pagan, but when you come home with your family you should be with your kind. That your heart is seperate and apart from the evil world, even if physically a Christian is not able to. The Amish take this to heart and more in a traditional old law manner they live seperate and apart mentaly, spiritally, physically and by not even dressing in clothing used by the worldly or using the devices that lead to worldly temptations like lazyness.