The AFF Cesspool of Compromise

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

Talking to a friend privately isn't really a good analogy for posting on a forum, even a closed one. It's more similar to talking at a dinner table at a party that was invitation only. If I said something out loud at a dinner table, I would have no expectation that it will remain private.

None of us should post anything on the internet and expect that it will remain private. The internet is not a private place, no matter how password-protected the "place" is.

But if you joined a club and agreed to the rules, don't you think you should abide by the rules? Isn't that part and parcel with being honest?

[D. Wright]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

But if you joined a club and agreed to the rules, don't you think you should abide by the rules? Isn't that part and parcel with being honest?

Do you know their rules?

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

But if you joined a club and agreed to the rules, don't you think you should abide by the rules? Isn't that part and parcel with being honest?

If the rules said that every word spoken was to remain private, yes I'd obey.

But, as the speakee, I still wouldn't say anything I didn't want repeated.

[Sister Alvear]

Something I said over here was be repeated on another forum and a member of that forum wrote me to join and see what someone was writing...so people are just people...some people have a ego problem it seems it makes them feel important to run and gossip....usually they only paste what makes gossip juicier!

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by D. Wright

Do you know their rules?

No, I'm not a member of their forum. I thought that was the argument Trumpet was making. If there is nothing to agree to besides agreeing to certain doctrines when joining their forum, then why all the fuss? If none of the members took a pledge to keep everything secret, then no one's word was broken.

I think this thread is a little silly anyways. Who cares that someone on a conservative forum called AFF a Cesspool of Compromise? I don't.

[Aquila]

The AFF is NOT a cesspool of compromise.

Their issue with the AFF is that we refuse to compromise with their RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MEN.

We are free to express and study. To challenge and affirm. And though we may have differing opinions we are united in our refusal to be mindless drones. We are also united in the greatest thing this world will ever see... the love of Christ. My brother doesn't have to be brow beaten by Missouri into believing as I do for me to love him. We seek the truth of God's Word. We seek to live by the Bible alone. In that, we do not compromise and will not compromise.

We seek to be Bereans, searching the Scriptures for ourselves. Willing to evolve as our knowledge grows. Discovering truths for ourselves instead of mindlessly following the religious dictates of their man made doctrines or religious hierarchy.

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

Who cares that someone on a conservative forum called AFF a Cesspool of Compromise? I don't.

It wasn't surprising anyway. They've come here and said it themselves often enough.

[TrmptPraise]

Originally Posted by DAII

The correct and guiding Christian, bible based principle is not the outing of backbiting or gossip, giving it a free pass because it was done behind close doors; the principle is backbiting and gossip.

They can dress it up in "venting frustrations" or "grieving".

Whether it was said in sister Wanda's living room, the pastor's office, or a password protected internet site, it is backbiting and gossip.

In our attempts to wash our hands and argue moral superiority, let's not resort to the same arguments that the catholic church has made whenever offenses have been made and cry that it should've remained "in house" ... while never addressing the offense fully.

Walk in transparency, integrity without double mindedness and you don't worry if your words or actions "leak" out or slam a sister who attends your church.

Maybe before telling admin over here how they should run their ship maybe you should have a little powwow, at the increasingly divisive and ever splintering preacher's forum, about admin and the secret society sanctioning gosssip, backbiting and idle words.

Backbiting and gossip? Really? Were you or someone else personally disparaged by the remarks or were they simply surprised with the content of this forum and expressing that the opinions were is direct opposition to what he believed.

Are you going to tell me you have never ridiculed, poked fun of, made light of a man's conviction? And if you do determine it is backbiting and gossip, you have made the point for me. When someone comes to you with such, whether you agree with it or not, the biblical principle is not further distribute it.

There is no higher or mightier than I road being taken by me. You are familiar with me, DA and we have no axes to grind. No one can argue the high road if they are not willing to take it themselves.

[D. Wright]

Some on AMF are disappointed that AFF didn't fold when they left.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by TrmptPraise

Backbiting and gossip? Really? Were you or someone else personally disparaged by the remarks or were they simply surprised with the content of this forum and expressing that the opinions were is direct opposition to what he believed.

Are you going to tell me you have never ridiculed, poked fun off, made light of a man's conviction? And if you do determine it is backbiting and gossip, you have made the point for me. When someone comes to you with such, whether you agree with it or not, the biblical principle is not further distribute it.

There is no higher or mightier than I road being taken by me. You are familiar with me, DA and we have no axes to grind. No one can argue the high road if they are not willing to take it themselves.

Yes, someone specifically was disparaged on this forum (and I know who) by these remarks implying she is not really "on fire for God".... namely by their pastor's wife. And the group as a whole ... "backsliders, reprobate, etc".

Yeah, I have ridiculed a person's logic or extrabiblical conviction, not the person.

We both seem to agree that gossip and backbiting is wrong despite the setting or "closed doors" (the main point).... maybe you want to share that with Douglas and his four.

Moral: We have control over our own actions.

Love you and your dad.