Uh oh... We're EXPOSED???

[CaspianSails]

Hello Not David, David here I agree that's a bit odd, but in reality, there are FAR more Arminians, and other non-Calvinist type believers, who hold to OSAS, simply because there are so many more of them than there are Calvinists these days.

Also, we Calvinists hold to a doctrine of Eternal Security that is different from OSAS (at least different from the way that OSAS seems to be most often understood) called, The Perseverance of the Saints.

--David

Hello David. I am also not David, but not that not David or David at all. I am not a Calvanist but I have been comparing the teachings of Calvanism and Arminiam doctrine. I find them very close and separated on narrow lines, well depending I suppose on which subgroup, and I am not attempting to nullify or reduce the difference as at some level salvation or becoming a Christian is a difference of how one interprets the act. It seems as if it comes down to free will or not and the consequence of such. This is not the place but perhaps you can point me to a discussion that is.

 

[Der Alte]

Yeah... Not all of us are Catholic here. I ain't. Many different types of Christians use this site, but if it was founded by Catholics I don't know.

I don't know if he was Catholic but the original owner of CF was Erwin Loh, of Chinese descent, doctor and lawyer, in Australia.

 

[kiwimac]

I don't know if he was Catholic but the original owner of CF was Erwin Loh, of Chinese descent, doctor and lawyer, in Australia.

Wasn't there a different owner pre-Erwin? Mind you, I'm going back a Loooonnnnggg way here. Perhaps I'm wrong but I sort of remember Erwin buying the site from someone.

 

[Hammster]

Wasn't there a different owner pre-Erwin? Mind you, I'm going back a Loooonnnnggg way here. Perhaps I'm wrong but I sort of remember Erwin buying the site from someone.

He combined his site with Josephus’s site at one time early on. That’s about all I know.

 

[Der Alte]

Erwin also merged with King's Table which I was a member of. That is how I came to CF. That was about '99-'00.

 

[seeking.IAM]

Troy sounds as if he has an axe to grind for getting banned from Christian sites for bashing other Christians, which sounds like a pretty good reason to me.

 

[kiwimac]

He combined his site with Josephus’s site at one time early on. That’s about all I know.

That might be it. Kinda showing my age there. Was telling my sons about pre www internet, using Archie and Jughead to access databases and BBs. Looked at me as if I was talking a foreign tongue which I suppose I was in a way.

 

[Hammster]

That might be it. Kinda showing my age there. Was telling my sons about pre www internet, using Archie and Jughead to access databases and BBs. Looked at me as if I was talking a foreign tongue which I suppose I was in a way.

I actually met my wife on a BB. Neither of us was looking. Just kinda happened.

 

[Not David]

When did this Troy issue happen? He sounds like an interesting guy to give you headaches

 

[Cis.jd]

You know those websites and videos that expose things they think are bad? It looks like we're under attack. Out of curiosity, I saw this website exposing many Christian forum sites, including this site we use, because I wanted to check if any other Christians think this site is evil since they tend to claim that of a lot of things (and I think that's how I got my anxiety problem!) are bad.This is the site that "exposes" us. So-Called Christian Forums
Help?

In terms of the title of your thread: Yes, I consider this forum bad. I have conversed with many people of different beliefs and it's the views of many Christians here that has posed the biggest challenge in faith than anything I've experienced. It's because of this forum where I can now understand why people leave and have a resentment towards Christianity.

As for what you've linked, no. Those are not the reasons to fault on this forum. I think that writer of that blog is one of those bad christians here that i referenced. Who likely played the "my views are Gods" card to give weight to his crazy or bad theology.

 

[Olmhinlu]

I try to be wary of those "exposing X" websites that look like they were made by a lone 55 year old guy on GeoCities...

 

[bcbsr]

You know those websites and videos that expose things they think are bad? It looks like we're under attack. Out of curiosity, I saw this website exposing many Christian forum sites, including this site we use, because I wanted to check if any other Christians think this site is evil since they tend to claim that of a lot of things (and I think that's how I got my anxiety problem!) are bad.This is the site that "exposes" us. So-Called Christian Forums
Help?

"So-Called Christian Forums" was written by Troy Brooks, a Watchman Nee Free Gracer. He's known for misrepresenting people, so I wouldn't take him seriously.

 

[Daniel Marsh]

By googling "Salvation and Eternal Life" I found that he is likely an ex-local church person who is now in an offshoot of the Local Church of Witness Lee. He likes the books of Watchman Nee.
15 Sins of Witness Lee
6 Major Sins of Leeism
Which Church I Should Join: Abiding in Biblocality
Living Stream Ministry Legal Action
Differences Between Nee, Lee and Anti-Nees
YAHSHUA
Questions you can ask a Witness Lee LSM Local Church member
Troy Brooks | CARM.org
He likes an author stephen kaung

 

[jacks]

Who currently owns Christian Forums?

 

[Hammster]

Who currently owns Christian Forums?

Rex.

 

[jacks]

Rex.

Just "Rex" like "Spock"? Is he a Vulcan?

 

[Hammster]

Just "Rex" like "Spock"? Is he a Vulcan?

Yes. He’d tell us his real name, but we couldn’t pronounce it.

 

[jacks]

Yes. He’d tell us his real name, but we couldn’t pronounce it.

Well I hope he lives long and prospers.

 

[Bob Crowley]

You know those websites and videos that expose things they think are bad? It looks like we're under attack. Out of curiosity, I saw this website exposing many Christian forum sites, including this site we use, because I wanted to check if any other Christians think this site is evil since they tend to claim that of a lot of things (and I think that's how I got my anxiety problem!) are bad.This is the site that "exposes" us. So-Called Christian Forums
Help?

I read a few lines of their site. Just another arrogant self righteous bunch who think they're the last word in doctrine and dogma.

I wouldn't take any notice.

 

[Learning always]

.....the original owner of CF was Erwin Loh, of Chinese descent, doctor and lawyer, in Australia.

He was the original owner? You mean he's no longer the owner??