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How far does our responsibility as Christians go? If you have an atheist friend who is clearly living in sin, do you separate from them to avoid having your own walk be hurt or do you witness to them?

Just something that I've been debating about for a while. What if in this person's life I'm the only example of Christianity they have and if I leave they just fall back into their old ways? Obviously I'm not psychic so I don't know if there will ever be another source of Christianity that enters these peoples' lives, but at the same time do I put myself first question

Jesus ate with questionable people. ninja

I think it depends how firm you are in the faith, if you are easily knocked off the right path then I would advise you to stay away from certain crowds until you are very firm in your faith.

I have friends that are very much against Christianity, I have friends that have been in and out of jail, I am also friends with addicts. Do I get swayed into doing any bad stuff that they do? No. I have told them that when we hang out to leave the drama at the door, and I don't allow any illegal going on's around me. They know that if they try to get me involved in questionable activities that I will stop letting them come around me. I hang around them because I am the only good influence that they have in their life. I pray for them and I try to answer any questions that they have regarding the Lord. I don't cast out people and ban them from being in my presence just because they have done bad things or reject the Lord. Again though, I don't recommend that people should do this until they are confident in their faith and have prayed about it before hand. If you don't find yourself able to hang around them for whatever reason then please still keep them in your prayers. Love them from a distance. Pray for them and speak blessings over them.

You make an interesting point. It was just something that I was thinking about because of my little brother. He's in high school and has been having problems with his friends to the point my dad had to say something. We were talking about it and how much his friends have been changing him over the school years. Obviously in his case it would be much harder to cut them off cold turkey because he goes to school with them, they're in his class, on his social media, and on his sports teams and are his club leaders. My case is a little different especially since I'm in college but it's an interesting (if not, troubling) thing to see developing.

I agree. Always keep love for your friend, whether it be up close or from a distance. I will keep you and them in my prayers.

Glad I could help smile

I know the Bible says that bad company corrupts good morals (1 Corinthians 15:33) but Paul in his letter to the Corinthians also says this:
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. 11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves. (1 Corinthians 5:9-13)

I do not have an answer for your specific situation but I hope what I give you in this post would help guide you to the right decision assuming you haven't already made it but it is not bad to have friends who are unbelievers, not even atheists, as Paul said in his letter, he never told the Corinthians to seperate from unbelievers because then they'd have to baisically leave this world if that was to happen because they're everywhere, we can't escape from them, they'll always be around, even in churches there are unbelievers as well, even those who profess to be Christians and even think they're saved but in reality they are not (Matthew 7:21-23). The reality is that if you live your life as God has called you to and avoid doing sinful things, this person will see that and they might distance themselves from you or leave on their own because they might realize you have nothing in common anymore or they might think you're no fun anymore, or it will do something along these lines, it would depend on the situation but all unbelievers hate God and they hate what's good so therefore they will hate you, if you're following Christ this world will hate you (Matthew 10:22, John 15:18-25). Now it could also have a different effect, they might see your life and desire to come to God because of it and through the power of the Gospel they might come to Christ, they must however believe the Gospel in order to come to Christ and how will they believe in what they have not heard? Assuming they haven't heard it, which not many people really know the true Gospel, they know either an incomplete Gospel or a false Gospel. So therefore you must make sure that you don't just live your life according to the Gospel but that you also preach the Gospel or how will people come to Christ? (Romans 10:11-17) . I suggest you pray and seek God's council for what you're asking because I think it would depend on your situation, like if they're causing you to stumble then maybe it would be good to cut them off? I don't know though, I couldn't say because if they're causing you to stumble then I think that would also depend on the situation. Like for example maybe there's something you could do to avoid the things they do that cause you to stumble instead of cutting them out of your life completely? That's just an example of one possibility but I'm honestly not sure what the answer would be for your situation and that would be something I'd struggle with as well, trying to figure out what to do in that situation because that would be hard because I think it would depend. If the person is a threat to your physical life, as in them threatning to kill you or something like that then yes it would definatly be right to cut them out of your life (I'm not saying they are but I want to use that as an example). I hope this makes sense and please pray and seek the Lord on this matter first and formost before making a decision.

Sorry for the super late response

I somewhat agree with your first point

However, with your second point let me put it this way; if I tell my friend that walking on the train tracks but they decide to continue walking towards the tracks- that's on them. I'll call out to them and try and pull them back but once they step on the tracks I'm letting go. I'm not getting myself killed just because my friends didn't listen and made a bad decision, there has to be some responsibility from the other party as well. I love my friends, and I'll fight for my friends, but ultimately the decision is theirs, and I'm not going to put myself in danger for them.