I went undercover on the "Baptist Fire"discussion board.
Actually I registered there a couple months before I registered here.(Totally different websites,I assure you).I thought I could expose the folks there to a little better way
of dealing with Scripture.Wrong!I was just officially banned today.In the past I had about 16 posts removed because
the Webmaster thought they were objectionable in some form.I was not overt in my Calvinism,very subtle.The final straw was a post I made regarding someone called "on-fire"
wanting info on 1 Peter 2:6.Well,I typed out about 15 verses
that dealt with that passage.But that was too much.My post was taken off.I only used Bible verses,no personal statements.I wrote back and said something like:"What was so offensive about my post?I only used Scripture!You claim
that you uphold the authority of the Bible,yet you delete a
post with only Bible verses!Please ,you will have to inform us all what bad verses not to use in the future.We don't want to
have any bad (Calvinistic)influences.Is Scripture under your authority?"
"Jethro"wrote back and said I was taking my Scripture verses out-of -context.Then he had this killer line:"Scripture,
handled correctly,makes no more room for Calvinism than it does for human sacrifice to placate pagan dieties."I don't know if he dreamed that one up himself or plagerized it.It's
still there on their "discussion forum".
Okay,I was asking for it.I knew the mentality there ahead of time.But still I wanted to try.Maybe I got somone to think
there is something much richer and deeper than what we are used to.Maybe I need to really study my Bible,all of it.I
need to beg the Lord to open my eyes to see wonderful things from His Holy Word that my tradition is dead-set against.
Actually I registered there a couple months before I registered here.(Totally different websites,I assure you).I thought I could expose the folks there to a little better way
of dealing with Scripture.Wrong!I was just officially banned today.In the past I had about 16 posts removed because
the Webmaster thought they were objectionable in some form.I was not overt in my Calvinism,very subtle.The final straw was a post I made regarding someone called "on-fire"
wanting info on 1 Peter 2:6.Well,I typed out about 15 verses
that dealt with that passage.But that was too much.My post was taken off.I only used Bible verses,no personal statements.I wrote back and said something like:"What was so offensive about my post?I only used Scripture!You claim
that you uphold the authority of the Bible,yet you delete a
post with only Bible verses!Please ,you will have to inform us all what bad verses not to use in the future.We don't want to
have any bad (Calvinistic)influences.Is Scripture under your authority?"
"Jethro"wrote back and said I was taking my Scripture verses out-of -context.Then he had this killer line:"Scripture,
handled correctly,makes no more room for Calvinism than it does for human sacrifice to placate pagan dieties."I don't know if he dreamed that one up himself or plagerized it.It's
still there on their "discussion forum".
Okay,I was asking for it.I knew the mentality there ahead of time.But still I wanted to try.Maybe I got somone to think
there is something much richer and deeper than what we are used to.Maybe I need to really study my Bible,all of it.I
need to beg the Lord to open my eyes to see wonderful things from His Holy Word that my tradition is dead-set against.