# Old Testament- Optional?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-testament-optional/146081>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 1, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-testament-optional/146081 "2003-01-01T19:49:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-testament-optional/146081/41 "2003-01-13T14:51:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ThatGuyWithPants \*  
> \*\*Titus 3:9-11
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> I’m done. You can say whatever you want, but I told the truth. You can continue to make up as much as you want, but I’m not going to read it. Its pointless to continue when a person refuses to hear. and I bid this thread adeu. \*\*

OK, here’s your quote:

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> [sup]9[/sup]But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. [sup]10[/sup]Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. [sup]11[/sup]You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.

So, in other words, when you can’t win an argument, simply call the argument foolish and call the one with whom you’re arguing warped and sinful? Is that how you act **ThatGuyWithPants**?

Zev Steinhardt

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