Tackling Tradition 12 (Folly & Fool)

 “Never answer a fool according to his own folly.”  Have you ever heard the morality police say that?  On the one hand, they operate like the Mean Girls Club.  On the one hand, they feel free to police the local church & community, as if they are practicing divination and locator spells for people whose views disagree with their own & moral problems too.  On the other as soon as you confront Fiona, Diane, & Cordelia, they run to Proverbs to shut you down.  

4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
    or you yourself will be just like him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly,
    or he will be wise in his own eyes. (Proverbs 26:4 - 5)

The fool is one who doesn’t believe what the Bible correctly exegeted, exposited, and understood teaches.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,

lest you be like him yourself.

Don’t answer the falsehoods, poor thinking, & bad doctrine spread by Josephine, by way of her own methods & content lest you be like her with respect to your own gifts & discernment. 

Answer a fool according to his folly,

lest he be wise in his own eyes

Instead of allowing her to continue, answer Josephine’s folly with the Word of God correctly exegeted, exposited, & understood so that her worldly wisdom stands confuted.

Pick & choose your battles.  Remember, God hates spiritual abuse.   It’s a violation of the 3rd Commandment.   

May God bless us all, each & every one, and “Go & sin no more.”