If You're Not a Berean, Here's Your Sign

• If you criticize others, but don't allow yourself to be criticized, you may not be a Berean
  
  
• If when asked about your beliefs, you reply by simply cutting and pasting the opinions of some post-Biblical theologian, you may not be a Berean.
  
  
• If you treat the opinions of your pastor or denominational leader or Bible Study Commentary as infallible, you may not be a Berean.
  
  
• If you show partiality or prejudice in judgement, you may no be a Berean
  
  
• If the elders of your church expelled someone without the concensus of the members, and you don't bother to investigate why, you may not be a Berean.
  
  
• If you interpret the Bible without studying i comprehensively, you may not be a Berean.
  
  
• As a hermeneutical principle, if you treat inferences of wha the Bible says as having priority over what the Bible explicitly states, you may not be a Berean.
  
  
• If you presume a person is saved just because he claims to believe, you may not be a Berean.
  
  
• If you judge a book by its cover, an article by its title, a person by their outward appearance, you may not be a Berean.