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: I think, I feel, I believe. Hogwash!

Bible Note: Why, oh why, are you people so FASCINATED with speculation about what the Bible does NOT say? Shouldn't you be watching "Unsolved Mysteries" or one of those TV shows? Does anyone here have any respect for the silence of the Bible? When you speculate on what the Bible does not say, who is edified, who is encouraged, who is comforted?

You people need to study and learn what the Bible DOES say. Then you might have less questions about and interest in what it doesn't say.

I assure you, the Bible is complete. God has not, as some of you have suggested, left anything out that should be there or made any mistakes in the Bible. To go on and on and on about what the Bible does not say is to cast doubt upon the inspiration and sufficiency of Scripture. Scripture surely is not sufficient if you people have to make up 1,001 questions about what it does not include.

You may get some kind of kick out of questioning the reliability or sufficiency of Scripture, but all you do is add doubt and confusion to seekers and babes in Christ. And by a strange twist of logic some of you declare that this is somehow helpful in furthering the gospel and the kingdom of God. That somehow speculating on trivial matters on which the Bible is silent is going to strengthen someone's faith in God or in the essentials of the Christian faith.

Read your Bible with an open mind and heart. Be willing to obey what you find there. Accept it for what it actually is, the very words of God Himself.

"Therefore, the person who rejects [the Bible] does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit."

One more time: according to the Lockman Foundation, this is neither a discussion group, a survey, or an opinion poll.

Take a hint from the Apostle Paul and do not go beyond what is written.

If you find the Bible insufficient to satisfy all your curiosity, maybe you ought to discard it and turn to the Apochrypha, the Book of Mormon, the Watchtower Society, the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, or some of the more colorful and imaginative postings here at the forum. All of the above are equally spurious, fanciful and uninspired. Here at the Forum you will find all the bricks without straw, clouds without water, and idle speculation without Scripture that you'll ever need.

Selah. (Pause and think about that.)