You may be thinking that you do not want to call anyone a fool, because you do not want to judge another person. The Scriptures makes it clear that certain people are fools. You are not judging someone as a fool, but merely identifying certain behavior in a person. The Bible says that when a person exhibits that behavior they are a fool. When you see a person behaving in a certain manner and you call them a fool, you are just declaring what the Bible says.
John Wesley was a great pastor used of God to affect Christianity in the past. In talking about a fool, E. Schuyler English makes a statement about John Wesley by stating: “John Wesley said that there are ‘twin fools’ all over the world: one believing nothing; the other believing everything.” Either extreme should be avoided. The person who believes nothing does not believe that God exists, thus they can have no relationship with Him. The person who believes everything, has no foundation for what is good and bad; they do not believe the Bible.
In Proverbs the Scriptures say a lot about the fool. In chapter 1 and verse 7 these words appear, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” The fool “despises wisdom and instruction,” thus they want nothing to do with the Word of God. They disregard the Bible.
The sad thing about a fool is that a fool does not listen recognize that he/she is a fool. Proverbs goes on to state that you are not to argue with a fool. The reason you are not to argue with a fool is seen in verse 7: the fool has no “fear if the Lord.”
You can learn from the fool and not think like them by putting into practice the first part of Proverbs 1:7. You should be a person who knows that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”
