Originally Posted by
Matt TwoFour
I would argue you are mis-applying the "plank/speck" passage. If a wolf or false teacher or false teaching has slipped into and amongst the flock...what are you proposing we should do? Apparently...nothing.
The Bible has something different to say about that. I mean...even the Apostle Paul took Peter on, publicly. At one point, Peter was folding on the issue of Jewish dietary laws, and Paul called him on it. You would tell Paul to get the plank out of his eye....instead of trying to relieve Jesus-followers of the false and unbiblical burden of defunct Jewish dietary laws?
Makes no sense.
Paul called Peter on a doctrine but Paul was a direct disciple of Christ given a directive by Christ Himself.
The foundations of the faith - the very message itself to be preserved for generations to come was being engraved.
We can share how we believe those very scriptures have meaning in our life and what we have learned from and about them but we are not writing doctrine or in a position of authority as they were.
'A person with an experience is never at the mercy of a person with an argument,'" writes von Campe
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