Question: "Needing to be a Berean" is unscriptural.

Question: You keep expressing the idea that "people need to be Bereans." This is misleading and unscriptural. Nowhere in the Bible does it say, "You must be a Berean." In fact, the term "Bereans" is not even found in the King James or New King James versions or the Geneva Bible (which predates the KJV Bible). Berea only occurs 3 times in the King James and New King James versions and the Geneva Bible: Acts:17:10And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
See All..., 13 and Acts:20:4And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
See All.... While I agree it's true that born again Christians need to diligently search and study the Bible daily, asserting that people "need to be Bereans" goes against Paul's warning about preaching any other gospel as stated in Galatians:1:8-9 [8] But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. [9] As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
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Response: To begin, your statement that there is no place in the Bible where it says "You must be a Berean" is true. But on its own, the statement becomes a false premise without "rightly dividing the Word of truth." This opens the way for all sorts of unbiblical arguments. In an exchange with a JW, for example, does their similar ploy bring us to the point of saying, "Yes, the word Trinity is not in the Bible. Guess you win..."? I don't think so.

From the beginning of the ministry we have stated (written in 1993), "That is our heart cry and calling here at The Berean Call: that we would see people developing personal discernment and, like the Bereans in Acts:17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
See All..., searching the Scriptures daily 'to see if these things be so.' Ultimately, each must arrive at his own position, for each is accountable to God for what he believes, not for what someone else proclaimed or taught." 

That's what we have written to folks who ask, "What does it mean to be a Berean?" That includes letters, emails, phone calls, or answering the question in newsletter Q&As. It is certainly not "misleading and unscriptural.”

Consequently, to "be a Berean" simply means that we are understanding and following the biblical example of those in Acts 17, whom Luke spoke of as he was moved by the Holy Spirit. 

You say, "...asserting that people ‘need to be Bereans’ (i.e., following their example) goes against Paul's warning about preaching any other gospel as stated in Galatians:1:8-9 [8] But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. [9] As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
See All...." We'd appreciate you giving an example of someone claiming to follow the example of the Bereans and yet "preaching another gospel….” If we find one, we better correct him!

Quite to the contrary, Paul in Romans:10:17So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
See All... tells us, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." And in Acts:17:12Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
See All..., we read, "Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few." 

The example of the Bereans going to the Scriptures confirmed the gospel which Paul had preached to them. It wasn't preaching another gospel.