• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Time Only Exists in the Now

Unfortunately, people saying woe is us have been looking forward to salvation for 2000 years. Times in the past have been a lot worse than they are now although living condition wise, people in the past had a lot less to lose. But perhaps the idea is to not look forward for salvation all the time but to actually improve what we've got.

Salvation is now? We were given the second commandment for a reason. We've been shown how to save us from ourselves and it is not by using the same methods to rectify problems that caused them in the first place. That is man's backwards thinking. Perhaps it is time to take responsibility for our adversarial ways and get our acts together instead of only looking forward to some outside miraculous end. Show we are worthy of avoiding death. This would not be putting our will ahead of God's, simply because He has continually shown us where we have gone wrong and gave us the solution to bring about change. We've been relying on the wrong systems while hoping for rescue. We deserve what we get until we wake up.


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