The Second Coming of Christ

[Praxeas]

I thought maybe the problem was WORD was counting hyperlink markup, but it still comes out the same.

Some things to remember, as the responder all you are supposed to do is refute his arguments. Later you can make opening remarks for your position and then he will attempt to refute it.

Often in debates it's important to pick your fights. Focus on the most important scripture or scriptures and really use it to prove your case, rather than post a lot of scriptures that are all over the board so to speak.

Further more we can change the format like this

1. Debater 1 makes opening statement
2. Debater 2 responds
3. Response from Debater 1
4. Response from Debater 2
5. Response from Debater 1
6. Response from Debater 2

That is the original. We can change it to

1. Debater 1 makes opening statement
2. Debater 2 responds
3. Response from Debater 1
4. Response from Debater 2

1. Debater 2 makes opening statement
2. Debater 1 responds
3. Response from Debater 2
4. Response from Debater 1

Don't worry about having the last word here since you can cover what you think needs to be said in the concluding remarks.

part of the point to this is to make the debate not a long dragged out one and force you to focus on the most important arguments or picking your fight.

But remember Opening Debater is the affirmative. He or she is supposed to be arguing FOR their position and the other is to be pointing out why that persons arguments are not good ones