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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. |
Subject: What To Shut Your Mind Against |
Bible Note: Greetings Kalos! You wrote: "So is it OK to have "stupid and foolish controversies...and dissensions and wrangling" among ourselves, as long as we don't have them with false teachers? Among ourselves is it OK to engage in "trifling (ill-informed, unedifying, stupid) controversies over ignorant questionings," even though we "know that they foster strife and breed quarrels"? Is there no problem if those in the body of Christ have "a morbid fondness for controversy and disputes and strife about words, which result in (produce) envy and jealousy, quarrels and dissension, abuse and insults and slander, and base suspicions"? Such things are A-OK (they edify, and inspire) as long as we keep them all in the family?" Of course not, my friend! But, I would disagree that study and discussion fall into these catagories. We are commanded to study, to rightly divide, and to teach God's word. None of these activies are prohibited by these passages. That is all I am saying my friend! I have been a part of this forum for a long time now (almost as long as you, but not quite). It seems to me that every time a good discussion starts, it is condemned as too long, or too controversial, or too something else. Where is the study? Are we to forever be limited to only generic answers to generic questions? How many times can we or must we answer "who was cain's wife"? ;-) I long to be challenged and to grow in my understanding of God's word. Study is hard work and it will not take place in only one or two posts. But, perhaps this forum is simply not the place that I would like it to be. :-( Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |