What
is arguing?
Difference
of opinion
disagreeing
quarrels
fights
quarrels
fights
I’m
right and you're wrong.
Why do we argue?
Does pride enter into disagreements?
What causes quarrels and fights among us?
Can
both parties be wrong?
Can
both parties be right?
Do
egos enter into the equation?
Do
we see this in politics today?
Arguing can lead to physical altercations.
Is there a difference between arguing and disagreeing?
In a
court of law, we have Judges that are called referees, at times they break up
opposing statements.
We cannot argue, disagree with, or blame God.
___________
Isaiah
45;9
[ The
Lord Gives a Warning ] "One who argues with his Creator is in grave
danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The
clay should not say to the potter, “What in the world are you doing? Your work
lacks skill!”
Isaiah
50;8
The
one who vindicates me is close by. Who dares to argue with me? Let us
confront each other. Who is my accuser? Let him challenge me.
Revelation
22;18-19
18 I testify to everyone who
hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God
will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19 and
if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God
will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy
city, which are written in this book.
James
4
[ Submit
Yourselves to God ] What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they
come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so
you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight.
You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,
because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your
pleasures.
Judges
18;25
The
Danites answered, “Don’t argue with us, or some of the men may get angry
and attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”
1
Kings 3;22
The
other woman said, “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.” But
the first one insisted, “No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine.”
And so they argued before the king.
Job
9;14
“How
then can I dispute with him? How can I find words to argue with him?
Job
13;3
But
I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.
Job
13;8
Will
you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?
Job
15;3
Would
they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
Job
33;5
Answer
me then, if you can; stand up and argue your case before me.
Isaiah
43;26
Review
the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for
your innocence.
Mark
9;34
But
they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the
greatest.
John
6;52
Then
the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give
us his flesh to eat?”
Acts
23;9
There
was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees
stood up and argued vigorously. “We find nothing wrong with this man,”
they said. “What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
Romans
3;7
Someone
might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so
increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?