If Someone Is Bad Mouthing Debates, You Might Mention The Following Points To Them

If someone is bad mouthing public religious debates or debaters, you might mention the following points to them

Examples of first day of the week Lord’s Supper = 1. Examples of public religious debates in the New Testament = 11. Is it okay just to pick and choose which approved examples we are going to follow based upon what we think is good, or what we like and dislike (Jer 10:23)?

Would you say these same bad things about the observance of the Lord’s Supper because some don’t do it in a proper manner (I Cor 11:27-30)?

Would you similarly run down the debates of Jesus, Paul and Stephen? Did they make a mistake by participating in such discussions? Was something wrong with them because they contended in such way for the faith (Jude 3)? Did the Christians make a mistake by supporting said debates?

Is it slightly possible these criticisms (for the most part) have been made up by preachers to save face, because they either don’t have the courage, or have not studied enough to defend publicly what they preach publicly (I Pet 3:15)?

I’ve probably attended over 200 debates, and I only remember seeing one opposing debater act up (and in not a single one of the debates I’ve participated in). Since I see a lot more misconduct in sermons by gospel preachers, should we therefore campaign against sermons?

Perhaps those who run down debates need to be reminded that Prov 14:12 (“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death”) and Isa 55:8-9 (“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”) apply to us Christians too, not just the denominations.

Is it possible we think God will judge us based upon how we align with the majority of brethren instead of what the Bible actually says? That’s the way many act it seems.

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