Facts at the fingertip are manifestly superior to guesses at the mental gate. No one desires to be voluntarily ignorant but knowledge may puff up rather than build up, and man is expected to be a babe in Christ, not a balloon. But this has nothing to do with our reconciliation. Antagonism is not necessarily irrelevant under a legalistic system. It is the nature of law to create such.
Legal arguments belong to law, gracious acceptance belongs to grace.
It is unthinkable that Jesus would make antagonism irrelevant between Jew and gentile to bring them together and then make relevant antagonism between them to divide and fragment them. The party spirit operates to produce conformity, the Holy Spirit to encourage community. The party spirit begins with recrimination, the Holy Spirit with reconciliation. The party spirit makes antagonism inevitable, the Holy Spirit makes it irrelevant. If we are to be workers together with God we must help men see the cross purpose of God and cease to be at cross purposes with one another.