DEBATE is a big NO NO
Take God's Word on it...debating is fruitless arguing. It does not do anybody any good. So why do it? In other passages of scripture we are warned against striving about words. The works of the flesh are obvious - please read Galatians chapter 5. Isaiah 58:4 "Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high." Romans 1:28-32 "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteous, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, convenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgement of God, that they which