{"id":9550,"date":"2023-04-04T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"answer-a-fool-or-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9550","title":{"rendered":"ANSWER A FOOL &#8230; OR DON&#8217;T"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Do not answer a fool according to his folly,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>or you yourself will be like him.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Answer a fool according to his folly,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>lest he become wise in his own eyes.<\/i> (Proverbs 26:4-5)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love these two proverbs and the way they appear side by side in Scripture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If nothing else, they should serve as a warning against proof-texting theological opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And a word of precaution to those who confidently begin sentences with the words &#8220;The Bible clearly teaches &#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes. (Proverbs 26:4-5) I love these two proverbs and the way they appear side by side in Scripture.\u00a0 If nothing else, they should serve as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9551,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions\/9551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}