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Here it is: create a section like you did for the Calvs/Arms for racial issues. The rest of the board strictly for political issues not involving race.

What do you think?


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I wouldn't test that myself, as they may be forced to get rid of more than a few, lol. If there was a specific place for racial issues it might be an object lesson to those that seclude themse!lives to it.


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Why not? If they are trolls shouldn't they be restrained from open access as it is now? That might cut down on circular and repeated argument.


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The suggestion was singular. lol

Like the Calv/Arm issue.


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I don't like to give up on people. How we approach everyone will be different and some will seem to be a lost cause, but our part might come under scrutiny as well.

I've never done that. Can you not see their posts?


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Yes. Good-natured atheists too, lol.

Its classifying people that will usually ensure discussion will be fruitless. Is someone a troll or a brother or sister in need of restoring?

I don't even assume atheists are actually atheists. Many of them claim they use to be Christians, and I think it possible some may still be, but are angry with God or Christians and in need of restoring.

Liberal theology is definitely a fault a believer can fall into, but that error, like atheism, has to be addressed on a doctrinal level, not an emotional level. It can be fun to yank chains but establish first that we want to address the doctrine that is relevant. If it breaks down, at least the possibility for returning to doctrinal discussion remains on the table.


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I don't take this verse as a reason to walk away from people.

We could negate our duty to restore a brother if we use it thus.

Would we give up on a father? Brother? Sister?

And who decides what is heresy? Does political position take precedence over soteriology? I've been called a heretic several times since I've been back. I'll be called a heretic when I return. I'll be called a heretic on the next forum I go to.

Am I? That will only be seen through doctrinal discussion.

And if your boss is the heretic? Would you reject him? Your wife?

Evangelism is work, and sometimes we have to grab the bull by the horns. And if its liberal bull...

...wear gloves.

Just consider whether there's a point where you can say "Okay, you want to be eternally separated from God, I'm okay with that."

There will be lost causes sometimes, but heresy doesn't involve being in error about politics, it centers on the Person of Christ.


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And that is why you will never accomplish anything useful in debate with your chosen enemies...because you judge people before you even know what they believe.

We have to know what our antagonist believes, and just as important, why they believe it...before we can speak with them.

Fifty years? You can look at the public record and see if your assumption is true.

But that's the major problem in most discussions between antagonists: assumption.

I would agree orthodoxy has remained consistent for two thousand years, I just reject the notion a particular group can be pointed at as having preserved it.

Only the Word of God has that consistency. Not a singular group.

And the errors of those groups is why most of us are here.

And please, if you're going to use the Word of God to insult someone, understand it won't work with me, lol.


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