Avoid Foolish and Unlearned Questions

“But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.” 2 Timothy 2:23

If something is “foolish” it means that it is “having or showing a lack of good sense, judgment, or discretion; unwise, stupid, ill-considered.”

So for the first word, foolish, a foolish question is basically a question that shouldn’t have been asked in the first place. That is the easiest way to put it. It is an unwise, ill-considered question, that shouldn’t be asked because they have no purpose, thus – foolish.

Many times the Pharisees asked Jesus questions, not because they wanted to learn from Him, but just to try to find something that they could accuse Him for. They asked Him about paying tribute (taxes) to Caesar, not because they really wanted to hear what He had to say, and learn, but because they wanted to find fault with Jesus. 

Some people who aren’t Christians will try to say that the Bible contradicts itself, and they will ask you, “If it is truly the word of God, then why does it say one thing in this book, and this in another.” Not because they want to learn, but because they are contentious, and fight against the Word. The Bible does not contradict itself. It is the perfect Spirit-inspired word of God. 

Another example would be in regards to the Sabbath day. Some people believe that as God rested on the seventh day from His work of creating the world, that the Sabbath is Saturday, while some people celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday, and they will argue on each side that they are correct while the other is wrong. What if someone had no ability to keep track of the days, and didn’t know what day it was? What if they chose to have a day of rest on a Wednesday? Would they be sinning because they didn’t know? Jesus teaches us that the Sabbath day was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27). So whether or not the Sabbath day is Saturday or Sunday, it is not something to fight over. There are far more important things that we can be learning about, like how to love each other better, and how to help others. 

Now the second word, unlearned. If someone is “unlearned” about something, they are not educated about a subject. Or they are ignorant of it. 

Imagine if someone went to college to learn something, but after years of studying, they found out that all that they had learned was completely false and incorrect. Suppose that someone needed to learn an advanced math course to apply for a certain job, and when they had finished with their schooling, and tried to do their job, their math calculations were all wrong, because someone had taught them wrong. That would extremely upset most people. Their teacher or professor “taught” them about something, but they really didn’t know what they were talking about.

If you try to answer a question that you don’t really know anything about, you will come off really foolish to someone who does understand. 

There is nothing wrong with saying that you don’t know the answer to a question when you really don’t have knowledge about it. Some people just want to act like they know everything to impress others because they are filled with pride, and when someone asks them a question, they will say whatever to appear smart. 

I have no problem admitting that I don’t understand all of the Book of Revelation, and because of that, I do not write much about it. I do not want to write something and find out later that it was completely incorrect. 

That is something that I ask the Lord for, is to understand His scriptures more and more, so I can deepen my knowledge of Him. I will continue to study those things, and try to understand them, but until that knowledge has been revealed to me, any questions that I don’t have a full understanding of, I will avoid. 

Avoid foolish questions because they have no purpose. Avoid unlearned questions so you don’t appear filled with pride and teach something that is incorrect.

In Christ,

Andrew

just a note…..

Andrew willfully lied to me on more than one occasion, and then purposely betrayed me a short while later. Although some of his writings are beneficial, he has nothing to do with this ministry any longer. I never could imagine doing something to him what he has done to me, but it only proves that he never really cared about me at all. Betrayal will normally come from those who you care about the most, and his actions are the proof of his betrayal of the Christian Life. Deceit such as this does not happen from somebody who claims to be in Christ, because they are the works of the devil.