Charity in disagreement

1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:King James Version says to be ready to give a reason for the Christian hope, with meekness and fear. Colossians 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.King James Version says those words should be gracious and fitted to the person. Gentleness does not make the Trinity, the cross, or the resurrection a small disagreement.

Key points

• 1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:King James Version pairs the reason for the hope with “meekness and fear.”
• 1 Peter 3:16Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.King James Version says a good conscience answers slander of a good manner of life in Christ.
• Colossians 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.King James Version says speech should be “alway with grace, seasoned with salt,” so that each person is answered.
• James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:King James Version says to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
• Christians confess that the Trinity, the cross, and the resurrection are true. “We all believe in God, so the rest is details” erases tawhid, the Latter-day Saint Godhead, and an atheist’s unbelief.
• These articles quote the other community’s texts and then state the Christian claim. A joke is not that claim.

What Peter and Paul require

1 Peter 3:15–16^3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: ^3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.King James Version, King James Version:

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Colossians 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.King James Version: “Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

The reason is required. So is the manner. The verses do not say to hide the claim.

What the verses do not mean

Charity is not a claim that the disagreement is small. Christians confess the Trinity, the cross, and the resurrection, and they hold that some honored teachings in other communities are not true. “We all believe in God, so the rest is details” is not a kindness to a Muslim who has explained tawhid, to a Latter-day Saint who has explained the Godhead, or to an atheist who does not believe in God. It erases what they said.

James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:King James Version says, “let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” Hearing comes first. The articles state the other community’s words before the Christian answer. Names people do not use for themselves, and stories told about them that would not be told in their presence, are not that answer.

How these pages are built

An article states their view in words the quotations will bear, states the Christian claim, and lists the passages and the sources. Mockery is not published here, including when the conclusion is one this wiki shares. How to use this wiki says what a page is and what it is not.

Passages

• 1 Peter 3:15–16^3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: ^3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.King James Version.
• Colossians 4:5–6^4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. ^4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.King James Version.
• James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:King James Version.

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