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Hardshell Baptist (derogatory designation) = obstinate = resistant to change = hardheaded = remain with the old ways = refuses to conform to groupthink herd mentality ....

 

Why would posters not learn and grow and correct their mistaken views? Pride, arrogance, and a know it all mentality?
People do not post to learn and grow. That is why all efforts to discuss biblical doctrine are obfuscated with smears, falsehoods, and change of subjects.

We know all scripture is profitable for instruction, yet when a doctrine is refuted with scripture, it is said the scripture does not mean what it says. With that as our prevalent attitude, no one is even given the opportunity for edification.

[Edited: Off topic]

 

I'd like to reflect on another aspect that I think the BB has aided.

Age is no friend. It is that insidious wage being paid because sin remains in the flesh.

I could sit around "Waiting on God" (taken from a long ago BBC program).

However, I will not be so easily paid off.

I will demand the flesh conform, that the mind be cleansed, that the Spirit of God shine from me.

And when that final wage be paid, I will hope the last breath be exhaled as, My Savior "Led Me All the Way." (John Peterson: Jesus Led Me All the Way)

Until then, I hope for some to be a thorn in the side to keep the focus upon the sufficiency of Christ, to others a brother in Christ, a prayer partner, a quiet confidant.

So, though the BB has not greatly changed my theological perspective, it has been expressly beneficial.

I am unanimous in that.
(from Hyacinth Bucket: BBC show "Keeping Up Appearances")

 

But that actually may take the fun out of the game.

Don't you get exercised when unsupported opinions are offered as fact?

Just consider what avenue would your Spirit be exercised if not in attempting to show by Scriptures how unsupported opinion are bridges of termite ridden wood. Good for the termites, but worthless to carry the load of need.

 

Agreed, and in this I hope that the benefit can be shared by all in the BB world of threads.

That the Light of the truth be that which all issues resolve. For that is the poison that destroys the termites, though they often do not even realize it.

 

The Baptist Debate Forums all should be put under stricter scrutiny. Posters are allowed to post obvious falsehoods, to derail and deflect.

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Does 1 John 2:2 really say the "blood" is the propitiation, or does it say "He" is the propitiation? When falsehoods are allowed, truth is obfuscated. Not what we should be all about as an arm of Christ's ministry.

 

Certainly folks can make a case this means that (propitiation equals means of salvation from God's wrath) but rather than indicate they believe the intended meaning if this or that, many claim that is what it says, when it does not.

Take unable to understand "the things" of the Spirit. Some say this must mean all the things, and could not just refer to spiritual meat, the contextual idea.

Another problem is when folks attribute ulterior motives to another poster, as if they were mind readers. This behavior should be corrected

Then we have the name calling smears. Even Wikipedia acknowledges Calvinist use "Semi-Pelaganism" as a pejorative. Yet without any foundation in truth, we see that term used non-stop on this forum. I believe no one comes to Christ unless they are drawn by the Father, and therefore by definition I am not an SP. Yet I am called that again and again.

Finally it appears the same infraction draws a differing response, depending on whether a person is a Calvinist. One of my posts was edited as off topic in this thread. Yet when Icon threw up Evan's divorce to undercut his thread's topic, nothing was done.
I could go on but I believe leadership knows what I am talking about. If you look at a bottle you will note that the bottleneck is at the top.

 

This post has just got to be completely taken as sarcasm!

However, perhaps Van should start a thread on “falsehoods allowed” or “ truth obfuscation” and see if there is any truth to what he thinks is false or any false in what he desires as truth.

This isn’t the place to argue over personal pronoun use.

Are all believer’s an arm, because I thought Paul said that believers are each given a specific gift in the ministry. That not all were the same.

I might think of myself a nose hair that when irritated causes the body to discharge pollution, and more often needs cut back to prevent being exposed to the public inappropriately.

 

This is exactly why no edifying discussion of biblical doctrine occurs. Rather than address the issues, they are denied, and fault in found in the messenger.

 

I’ll leave you and JonC to work out the best resolution.

 

So, when posts made by you that are in error, rather than addressing the error, you would rather be found personally at fault?

 

Yep, had some of them in our lake in Florida.

Sometimes sunning themselves on a log.

Couple never get a single one to learn how to cantch fish for me, and never tried them in a stew.

Oh, your about baptist and not turtles of the snappy sort.

Well, their of the same characteristics, too.



Is there such a thing as a soft shell baptist?