Words Can Be Like Leaves in Apologetics

Ecclesiastes 5:2 says, "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few."

One of the greatest issues today of apologetics ministries is that some of them speak many words what they believe to be the truth or the truth but it doesn't hit the point?  Why?  The statement is true- "Words are like leaves, it's rare to find fruit among them."

Here are some examples of how that can happen:
  • An apologetics blog or website can have up to 1,000 posts or more yet most of the content is not meaty.  He can start to refer to a few Bible verses but always takes them OUT OF CONTEXT rather than IN CONTEXT.  Pastor John Macarthur quoted, "You do not take the Bible out of context, you take it in context.  You interpret the Bible with the Bible.  If you don't, you're going to end up in bad interpretation and use John 11 to speak of the Rapture of the Church."  In the process, he has also quoted Pastors Harry A. Ironside and Charles Spurgeon.
  • Certain books write to defend the doctrine of conditional security or where a Christian must do good works to stay saved and cite verses that however do not agree with the doctrine.  Often ignored is that salvation is never by works or kept by works, rather it always results to works because salvation grants power AGAINST sin but only by the grace of God (Ephesians 2:8-10, Titus 2:11-15).  Other kinds of books try to defend their idolatry as not idolatry (ignoring the other verses in the Bible that really beat their doctrine), the unscientific doctrine of evolution (ignoring basic science rules like the rule of genetics), baptismal salvation, infant baptism, atheism (and these books are the bibles of atheism), animism, their own conspiracy theories, any heretical doctrine that Jesus is not God, New Age doctrine and so on that is just not plain Scriptural.  Many of these books are used in illogical apologetics.  Honestly many 2-minute commentaries make more sense than their heretical books.

Here's a comparison to do- they're mostly leaves, usually no fruit.  It's like a businessman who sells many types of items but they're all defective or a restaurant that serves different types of food yet they all poisoned the customers.  So what did Jesus do to the fig three that bore no fruit?  He cursed it for its fruitlessness probably to show how words can be like leaves.  That's really a warning sign that words will be just like leaves.  In fact, He warned in Matthew 7:21-23 that many will say many words but He will just dismiss them saying, "I NEVER KNEW YOU!  Depart from me ye that worketh iniquity."  Please note that these people were NEVER SAVED to start with.