Refrain From Arguments. Who is a fool?

“The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.”(Psalms 14 :1 NKJV).

“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.  He who sends a message by the hand of a fool Cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.  Like the legs of the lame that hang limp Is a proverb in the mouth of fools.  Like one who binds a stone in a sling Is he who gives honor to a fool. Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard Is a proverb in the mouth of fools. The great God who formed everything Gives the fool his hire and the transgressor his wages.  As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly. Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.”(Proverbs 26:4-12 NKJV).

” But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.  And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”( 2 Timothy 2: 23-26 NKJV).

•When you are right you don’t necessarily have to argue.
•If you are right (by God’s standards) you are right, why argue?
•No one can be right without the truth.
•No one has the power to permanently hide the truth. The truth will always come out and will always prevails.
•It is knowing the truth with the exercise and application of wisdom that prevents arguments. In other words getting your facts straight.

“For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.:( 2 Corinthians 13: 8 NKJV).

“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,  for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;  that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”( Ephesians 4: 11- 16 NKJV).

“Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”( James 3:13-18 KJV).

•Refrain from arguments and keep your peace. It is the wise thing to do.

“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,  To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.” [Jude 1: 24-25 NKJV].

+++Blessed you are and blessed you will always be and to God be all the glory. Amen!