2 Timothy

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NASB	2 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.
AMPLIFIED 2015	2 Timothy 2:23 But have nothing to do with foolish and ignorant speculations [useless disputes over unedifying, stupid controversies], since you know that they produce strife and give birth to quarrels.

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Subject: Can you read and comprehend Greek?

Bible Note: To whom it may concern:

Are you proficient in the Greek language? (How many years did you study New Testament Greek at the university level?)

Have you studied Old Testament Hebrew?

What about Aramaic?

If you cannot answer in the affirmative, then you are not qualified to second guess the interpretation of someone who is proficient in one or more of these languages.

Reading a dozen medical or health articles in Reader's Digest does not qualify you to second guess your doctor.

Watching every episode of "L.A. Law" does not prepare you to pass the bar exam and set up your own practice.

Subscribing to "Psychology Today" doesn't mean you are ready to start your own counselling service.

Nor does the ability to quote a dozen Bible verses and outshout the other guy anoint you to serve as a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, or a teacher of babes.

In the event that you have an irresistible urge to proclaim that another man is incorrect, wrong or in error, you need to know the subject as well as, if not better than, the other man.

Before you blurt out your omniscient pronouncements, just remember: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Does a child in kindergarten take it upon himself to tell a college physics professor that he is wrong?