Originally posted by Guy Vestal:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Smoke_Eater:
Baptist Board is not a church.
It is a fellowship where two or more are gathered none the less. It is a service provided free of cost, one would hope that some of the same respect would be shown towards it as one would show the church.
It is a message board created primarily for Baptists, but with forums for non-Baptists and even non-Christians.
It is not the "genuine seeker" that I am posting about, it is the purposeful "agent of destruction" that I am posting about. Folks here are giving the same level of attention to someone dispatched here to destroy as they do the genuine seeker.
There's a world of difference between the two.
Indeed, there are those seeking, and those who are trying to stop the seeker.
Since it's not up to you whether or not they're allowed here, you have two choices.
True, it is not my call as to whether or not they are here. But I have many more choices than two. Another choice I have is to expose them for what they are, and to advise those here of their agenda.
Allow them to continue un-hindered...
The other is to engage them
Assist them in the furtherance of their agenda...
(respectfully!) in the arena of ideas.
It is that very "respect" that they are counting on!
Either one is perfectly acceptable and I would respect your decision either way.
I choose to stop what I have started. I created them, I will expose them.
If you think that Christians should lock themselves in a closet and create some Christian ghetto,
I think christians should be aware of what is going on around them.
then that's fine but that's not what God has called me to do.
And God has called me to repair the damage I have done, to expose the very plans I made for your's (and now my) destruction.
If the Christians God had sent to me before I knew Him took the attitude you do, I still might not know Jesus.
You are a quite different person than the intellegence gathering agents of the BB FFA forum.</font>[/QUOTE]Guy,
You keep talking about "exposing them" and engaging them but your not doing either here.
All you're doing here is badmouthing them behind their backs in a forum where you know they can't respond to you.
I don't see how that helps them or us.
Guy, we're not idiots. We all know that thre are a lot of trolls out there and, like I said, the best way to handle a troll is to just ignore them.
But there are plenty of guests who stop by with less sinister motives.
They may sincerely be seeking which is great because there are a lot of people here who can answer their questions and, hopefully, point them in the right direction. They might be looking for lively debate which is also OK because I trust the Gospel to stand up against any skepticism. Or, they might just be stopping in to say "hi". I don't know.
As long as they're friendly and not here to attack, I enjoy talking to them.
Usually, it's not about lofty spiritual type things, but about pop-culture or politics.
(NOTE TO ATHIEST LURKERS: why don't you guys ever just want to talk about music or things like that? I'd like to know what you think about music and books and "stuff".)
Arrowman's pretty cool. There's another guy who usually turns up in threads with Arrowman who's alright (whoever you are, sorry I can't remember your name). I just enjoy talking to folks. What can I say?
Mike
http://www.jimlauderdale.com
[ May 11, 2002, 07:39 PM: Message edited by: Smoke_Eater ]
