What's your favorite scripture?

Goose · Post by **Goose** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:43 am

Just wondering if any one has a favorite or good scripture they use when talking to skeptics. The one I like to help remind me why I'm on this site and provide some guidance is this:

2Timothy 2:23-26

23Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

The reason I'm asking is I was in a thread with andy3sp about grading the book of Matthew and I realized I was being a bit of a jerk and teasing him. That scripture helped remind me of one of the reasons I'm here. I bit the bullet and apologized to him. Hope he accepts it.

Does any one have any favorites?

achilles12604 · Post by **achilles12604** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:38 am

Funny you should mention that. I just recently found an old e-mail/ debate that I included a verse that stuck out to me.

Proverbs 16:1
1 To man belong the plans of the heart,
but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.

keltzkroz · Post by **keltzkroz** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:18 pm

Mine is from 1 Corinthians 1

"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.

Its a reminder to me that even though I will never be able to competely understand God's mind, it is no reason to lose faith.