{"id":1712,"date":"2013-09-11T16:27:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2013-09-11T16:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:27:56","slug":"which-one-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Which One is Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The first to plead his case seems just, Until another comes and examines him.&#8221;<\/strong> (Proverbs 18:17)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <em>first<\/em> evidence always sounds like the <em>only<\/em> evidence until further investigation takes place.\u00a0 The two lines of this proverb form one continuous sentence.\u00a0 The context appears to be that of a court of law, yet the principle of the proverb applies far more widely.\u00a0 The law demanded that judges impartially hear both sides of a dispute (Deut. 1:16).\u00a0 This is also essential for a parent, counselor or pastor \u2014 anyone who deals with people.\u00a0 Listening before forming a fixed opinion is mandatory, if justice is to be done (Prov. 18:2, 13).<\/p>\n<p>The difference between <i>hasty <\/i>judgement and the <i>right <\/i>judgment comes when one \u2018examines\u2019 that which seems so obvious.\u00a0 The verb means to search, investigate or to examine.\u00a0 It describes an intensive, searching probe for the truth.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn1\">[i]<\/a>\u00a0 In relationships, a ponderous question is often more useful than a quick answer.&#8221; (p.402, <a title=\"Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Proverbs-Mentor-Commentary-John-Kitchen\/dp\/1845500598\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1251481962&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a>. Wolf, Herbert, \u2018h~qar,\u2019 <i>Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament<\/i> (Chicago: Moody Press, 1980), 1:318.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first to plead his case seems just, Until another comes and examines him.&#8221; (Proverbs 18:17) &#8220;The first evidence always sounds like the only evidence until further investigation takes place.\u00a0 The two lines of this proverb form one continuous sentence.\u00a0 The context appears to be that of a court of law, yet the principle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-rC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}