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To: narses

Proverbs 26:4-14

4 When arguing with fools, don’t answer their foolish arguments, or you will become as foolish as they are. 5 When arguing with fools, be sure to answer their foolish arguments, or they will become wise in their own estimation. 6 Trusting a fool to convey a message is as foolish as cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison! 7 In the mouth of a fool, a proverb becomes as limp as a paralyzed leg. 8 Honoring a fool is as foolish as tying a stone to a slingshot. 9 A proverb in a fool’s mouth is as dangerous as a thornbush brandished by a drunkard. 10 An employer who hires a fool or a bystander is like an archer who shoots recklessly. 11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. 12 There is more hope for fools than for people who think they are wise. 13 The lazy person is full of excuses, saying, “I can’t go outside because there might be a lion on the road! Yes, I’m sure there’s a lion out there!” 14 As a door turns back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed.


4 posted on 06/14/2014 11:49:15 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001
I agree with you, and for just the same reasons. This sort of stuff appalls me, but in answer to the question "My friend, how can we just ignore this?" my answer is "very easily". The people who put this kind of thing up are either thoroughly twisted or maybe just ignorant, but its all done to gain attention and try and get a rise out of us. And the best way to fight that is just simply to ignore them.

I care about my view of Mary and Jesus, not their deranged opinions. I'm certainly not going to change their minds or bring them to a realisation of the truth by censoring them. Conversely, this kind of thing is unlikely to affect non-believers in a negative way because all but the utterly immature and foolish can see how childish the whole thing is.

25 posted on 06/15/2014 12:23:20 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: jsanders2001

“4 When arguing with fools, don’t answer their foolish arguments, or you will become as foolish as they are. 5 When arguing with fools, be sure to answer their foolish arguments, or they will become wise in their own estimation”

Verse 4 and 5 seem to contradict each other...yet it may be more of a degree sort of thing. Some things fools may spout off about may just need to be ignored. There are other things fools say or do that just are so evil and obnoxious that these fools must be confronted...and confronted with a number of like minded compatriots in such a way as to shame and to put to silence such fools.


100 posted on 06/17/2014 3:16:11 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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