Scott, I really believe we could build a lasting friendship here if we both would agree we didn't have it all together when we first got saved. If you caught what I said in letting him make his stand, I don't believe you would have responded this way. Here, let me use this scriptures to give what I meant, from your AV 1611 KJB:No. That would be unloving toward both God and Timothy. Linking salvation to the Bible one uses is absolutely ungodly. Being confronted on this error so that he can reject it will only add his maturity.
1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.