The forum endorses discussions ABOUT Christianity, not only FOR Christianity.
Whether you are a believer or not, most of us will have to contend with the politics, morals and social force that Christianity is today, and as far as I'm concerned that gives us the right (or perhaps the word should be obligation) to engage in debate.
I think Dave meant that you guys are prob asking crazy questions or being rude about the questions.....maybe you should seek with sincerity and not criticize.......
The forums are open to all who want to comment.
Yes. They are lost. They (the non-Christians) don't have a savior.
Some are curious; others may want to debate; others still may want to rant.
If it must be on your terms than many will NOT hear the gospel from you.
Look at Matthew the tax collector. He's a Jew who's in it for the money. S lifestyle is pagan and decadent.
He hangs out with hookers and thieves.
This is the program...this is Jesus style..meet people where they are..tell them about God's love.
The Christian Forum is a place where all kinds of people come together. Pray about it. It'll come to you.
Yah, odd that is indeed, brother dave, I never feel a compunction to run around to other forums and impute my beliefs in areas where I totally don't believe whats being discussed. I dislike the gasoline engine but I haven't even considered running amok with answers of "your gasoline god is a nasty hater and will kill you all! ".
I think the interference we christians get comes from these nonbelievers wrestling with their consciences. They are trying to rally supporters for their opinions to justify their own opinions. Obviously they are bugged about not believing and want to believe, so they show up, do what they do, get to vent a bit or just yell untruths and quickly scurry off in a frail attempt to....
Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
.....appease their convictions that they hold deep within themselves. Blowing off steam, disrupting. I'm sure someone will say their work is the work of the devil and metaphorically they wouldn't be wrong.
They can't help themselves but we have been given a better mind, in the mind of christ jesus.
Glad you asked, I was pondering this before. :).
With what thooghun said. Everyone has the right to 'debate', if 'debate' is what they are doing. If they are just dropping off nasty notes, not even discussing the topic, then no they should not have the right to be purely disruptive.
How many times have we had to scroll past the long long list of off topic coffee conversation not even on topic. Its a shambles often and does not help to discuss the topic one bit. I wish hubpages would allow for clean up of this sort of action but thats my flesh, I hope they learn something because, actually, its just rude quite often and saddening.
Dabeaner's got it right. American redneck religious fascists Catholics, evangelists, baptists, congregationalists and seventh day adventists think nothing of wading into "Home and Garden" or "Knowledge and Education" or "Health" to tell us what makes God sad, what God's thinking, what he eats for breakfast, what gives We should all be able to wade in everywhere.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.