So long...farewell...auf veder sehn...good bye
Like JohnRSorrell, I have contributed very little to the PB (either financially or theologically). I have contented myself, however, with being a lurker and learning much during the many threads I have read. And, like JohnRSorrell, I too must leave.
{Moderator - inappropriate.}
It seems that if anyone speaks of the Federal Vision in any way that would even SEEM to be favorable, they're banned. If they talk about it with other PB members outside of this forum (ie: email, IM or blog), they're banned. (Did you know that this is a policy? It is!) I am NOT an FV proponent. But I do not think that Doug Wilson or any of his cohorts are to be damned or anathematized. They simply see things differently.
Matt & Scott - if you read this - this next line is important - I want you to pay attention to it and read it twice if you must.
<b> If you cannot articulate another person's beliefs accurately enough so that person would agree that you're stating them correctly, you do NOT understand that person's beliefs.</b>
And, Matt, you have not been able to do that with Doug Wilson. In fact, you really haven't even tried. I've read your diatribe on FV and you've misinterpreted Doug Wilson in several places. And yet you never even attempted to really understand him. That's what bothers me so much. I've listened to your Sabbath series. I've listened to your Covenant Theology series. I've read your "Simple Overview of Covenant Theology" - all because of Joseph's recommendations - and you seem to be so knowledgable and gracious. And this ONE THING seems to have gotten under your skin so much that you've become "ban happy" at anyone who even looks at you sideways with an FV thought. This is something that should be discussed on this board and worked out here. It isn't something to be pushed under the rug and eliminate anyone who you see as the enemy on this subject. It just goes against the man I thought I was getting to know.
Then you go on to say that those people can't even discuss it with other PB members even in emails, blogs or instant messages. Now Matt, how can you regulate that? You may have control over what happens in this forum, but how can you even THINK that you have a right to stop people from discussing it in other forums over which you have NO control? You are greatly overstepping your role as webmaster of the Puritan Board.
And Scott, when you threatened to contact the Monergism.com webmaster and have Joseph basically fired from being a prominent contributor, this appeared as an immature, angry and passive-aggressive maneuver on your part. A maneuver that will have no effect, I might add.
<b><u>THE BANNED</u></b>
Pastor Way - BANNED
John Sorrell - BANNED (No? Well he doesn't have posting privileges.)
Joseph Gleason - BANNED
Paul Duggan - BANNED (Why? Because he had some FV-friendly posting on his PERSONAL blog.)
Jeremy Conrad - BANNED after THIS post!!!
[Edited on 4-20-2006 by C. Matthew McMahon]
