Bible Verses about “open discussion”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.”

“Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;”

“so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”

“For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.”

“or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;”

“or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.”

“For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,”

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

“So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.”

“Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.”

“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.”