Fools

Are we allowed to say fool about others
Obviously there are fools out there.

Lot of Christians quote following verse and mean that we can never call anyone fool. Is that true?

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.

I believe we must distinguishing between calling foolish behavior such and calling a brother a fool in anger.

 

Proverbs 27:22

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him. 

God calls people fools, Here is just a couple of examples:

Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

Ezekiel 13:3
Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

Jeremiah 50:36
A sword is against the soothsayers, and they will be fools. A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed. 

Jeremiah 17:11
“ As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, So is he who gets riches, but not by right; It will leave him in the midst of his days, And at his end he will be a fool.

Jeremiah 4:22




“ For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 5:4
Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD, The judgment of their God.

Isaiah 44:24-26  Judah Will Be Restored

  Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
      And He who formed you from the womb:

      “ I am the LORD, who makes all things,
      Who stretches out the heavens all alone,
      Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
       ²⁵ Who frustrates the signs of the babblers,
      And drives diviners mad;
      Who turns wise men backward,
      And makes their knowledge foolishness;
       ²⁶ Who confirms the word of His servant,
      And performs the counsel of His messengers;
      Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’
      To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’
      And I will raise up her waste places 

Foolish !

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