Christian Forums....Why did you join?

[Heart2Soul]

At least he will not have the most number of posts before the end of the years like the projections that I had suggested before his going away to another country for a while before his return as his posting rate is a little lower than previously.

However, I find his crypt posting style is a little difficult to follow a lot of the time and does not clearly convey what he is wanting to say.

However, there are others on this site that are just as bad, if not worse than him.

Well, he is a brother and let's get back on topic. Why did you join?

 

[Heart2Soul]

Even if the owner is still the same, CF is the money-maker, but this site is the real one. I would prefer if we were as big as CF, but it would be a total free-for-all if we had that many people here. This site is indeed more Wld West, where people largely police themselves as necessary and take matters into their own hands. It's why I believe this place is reserved for those the Lord Jesus Christ calls to it (aside from the entertaining nut jobs).

I think I was told the owner is someone different.

 

[Mike Waters]

??
What was/ what is/. "an escape" ?

My jocular reference to my attempt to become the site's owner.

 

[Mike Waters]

At least he will not have the most number of posts before the end of the years like the projections that I had suggested before his going away

Hi Jay
Just out of interest, where can I find the projections to which you refer please.

 

[Mike Waters]

It's interesting that my writing is considered to be cryptic and not always conveying what I might be trying to say.

There was a time, when I worked for a large offshore engineering contractor, that the company's CEO created a new position of 'Pre-Contracts Manager' and gave the job to me, to quote his own own words, "because of my ability to use 'Queen's English' to define the requirements of a client, and the details of our bid, with legal and binding precision".
Maybe I've since lost that ability.
Or maybe it's a question, to quote Winston Churchill, of England and the USA being "two great countries divided by a common language".

 

[mjrhealth]

Correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that if a member want to close their account the only way it can be done is for them to ask, in which case the software only facilitates the closure by means of a 'ban'.
I guess this is because, when the site last changed hands, it was acquired on the basis of its income generation which is dependant on the size of its membership as well as on the volume of activity.

Is that a bit like the money changers in the temple...

 

[mjrhealth]

You omitted the remainder of what I had posted which clearly precludes either of your two implications.
From what I posted the more relevant implications would be that some Christians are bigoted in what they say, and that others may well have seen a degree of light (albeit that none can have seen 'absolute truth' because of the effect of the darkened glass which pervades the view of all prior to seeing Christ face to face).
If that is a 'bigoted opinion then 'yes', I raise my hand.
Here is what I said in full:-
"the light' that, IMO, can never be more than a distorted view of things that can only be seen "as through a glass darkly until we see Christ face to face and finally know even as we are known".
Blimey, I had even added the anti bigoted rarity of 'IMO'

But than if there are those who Have seeing Christ, have seeing the light because He is the light of the world,

Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Dont know why I came here, maybe one day ill find out, than it wont matter.

 

[Jay Ross]

Why did you join?

Many years ago, in June 2011 I was head hunted by the then owners of the forum via an email and joined, but I did not become active on the forum until a few years ago. I became active on this forum because the two other forums I was on faded due to a lack of interest from its members. The Prophecy Talk Forum was shut down because of strife, I believe, from some of its members. I was an active member on that forum for a number of years. Some people on this forum remind me of some of those members on that forum.

 

[Mike Waters]

But than if there are those who Have seeing Christ, have seeing the light because He is the light of the world,

Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Dont know why I came here, maybe one day ill find out, than it wont matter.

Hi David,
Don't worry about it.
It's all about understanding that the word 'light' can have various meanings, depending on what's in the heart of whoever uses the word.

 

[2 Chr. 34:19]

At least he will not have the most number of posts before the end of the years like the projections that I had suggested before his going away to another country for a while before his return as his posting rate is a little lower than previously.

However, I find his crypt posting style is a little difficult to follow a lot of the time and does not clearly convey what he is wanting to say.

However, there are others on this site that are just as bad, if not worse than him.

You do know that he can see you
‘happy clappy’ types...Ive met them before

 

[Mike Waters]

Many years ago, in June 2011 I was head hunted by the then owners of the forum via an email and joined, but I did not become active on the forum until a few years ago. I became active on this forum because the two other forums I was on faded due to a lack of interest from its members. The Prophecy Talk Forum was shut down because of strife, I believe, from some of its members. I was an active member on that forum for a number of years. Some people on this forum remind me of some of those members on that forum.

I'm reticent to say another thing that is negative about forums, but perhaps I'm allowed to quote scriptures.
"When you come together there will be divisions among you; and there must be also heresies, that they which are approved may be made manifest. However, if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another".

 

[mjrhealth]

Hi David,
Don't worry about it.
It's all about understanding that the word 'light' can have various meanings, depending on what's in the heart of whoever uses the word.

Stopped worrying long time ago.

 

[Waiting on him]

Hi David,
Don't worry about it.
It's all about understanding that the word 'light' can have various meanings, depending on what's in the heart of whoever uses the word.

For certain, the power of life and death are there.

 

[Hidden In Him]

I think I was told the owner is someone different.

Possible. It's certainly run differently. Much better, IMO.

 

[Joseph77]

My jocular reference to my attempt to become the site's owner.

? ... hmmm ... if you had the site, owned it, or had the power otherwise,

would you put a stop to the posts of the false (as defined by Scripture) gospel ?

Maybe allow them to ask questions, of course, but not to continue to promote the false (accursed) gospel ?

 

[Waiting on him]

? ... hmmm ... if you had the site, owned it, or had the power otherwise,

would you put a stop to the posts of the false (as defined by Scripture) gospel ?

Maybe allow them to ask questions, of course, but not to continue to promote the false (accursed) gospel ?

He's already explained, this is how they are manifest.

 

[Joseph77]

He's already explained, this is how they are manifest.

I saw his explanation , I think.... (not sure - it would have to be posted again)....

but it does not explain if he would put an end to the false gospel being posted daily, frequently ...

On another site that is restricted to a particular baptist denomination, the posts of the anti-christs, the false gospels, or promoting anything such as that, are simply not allowed at all, and never seen there, as far as known so far.

In the instructions to the assemblies in the NT, they are likewise told not to talk with nor eat with anyone who brings a false gospel, period. (i.e. the destructive false teachings are not allowed in those assemblies. )

 

[Waiting on him]

I saw his explanation , I think.... (not sure - it would have to be posted again)....

but it does not explain if he would put an end to the false gospel being posted daily, frequently ...

On another site that is restricted to a particular baptist denomination, the posts of the anti-christs, the false gospels, or promoting anything such as that, are simply not allowed at all, and never seen there, as far as known so far.

In the instructions to the assemblies in the NT, they are likewise told not to talk with nor eat with anyone who brings a false gospel, period. (i.e. the destructive false teachings are not allowed in those assemblies. )

Yes, but that was then and this is now, and dogs gotta eat.

 

[Joseph77]

Yes, but that was then and this is now, and dogs gotta eat.

Non-sequitur ? Then and now, Scripture and God and Jesus and God's Instructions/Torah have never changed....

 

[Waiting on him]

Non-sequitur ? Then and now, Scripture and God and Jesus and God's Instructions/Torah have never changed....

Ok,

Jeremiah 15:3 KJV
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord : the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.