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you're so horribly mistaken Erwin. People can't moderate themselves. Let's just remove all police and all laws and all jail sentences-let's create an anarchy so that everyone creates their own rules and their own laws-and when all the staff is gone and CF is in complete anarchy, you'll be running back to the structure that it needs---what we have now is structure and it works!
 
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I just think that Christian Forums is no longer entitled to that name. Let's call it was it is...
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Sooo now were throwing out the Nicence Creed and saying your a christian cuz you say your are......... OHhhh I didnt know the bible said that!
I know of no one who is throwing out the nicene creed, but rather using it as a litmus test. Already many don't agree with it, and many simply don't understand it.
In fact, i was speaking of being open to the POLICY, but..
yes, for me and my house, we will not judge your heart. If you say you are a Christian, that is between you and God--not me.
 
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OK but it will still happen. So instead of dealing with adults misbehaving we will be dealing with youth misbehaving. It will still happen.

Well.... we'll just have to see..... I spent my entire time as an agnostic in the Life Stages, and I never caused any trouble .... I have some different ideas that might help fall out, but there's not much I can do but wait and see. I think that the initial idea of allowing Christians and non Christians to be in the same place is a good idea. I think that Christians are supposed to be the light of the world and the salt of the world, but it can't and shouldn't be done in isolation.
 
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If a muslim says there are a christian does that make them a christian?

Short answer: No

Long answer: A Christian, by definition, is one who believes in Christ Jesus. It is our denominations that are irrelevant: you believe in Christ, you are a Christian. Denominations only dictates the traditions you have to practice your beliefs.

If someone does NOT believe in Jesus, he/she is NOT a Christian, no matter what he/she says.
 
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Actually true democracy by definition is majority rule.
 
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If it worked...

Why are so many people giving up and leaving?...
 
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Okay, I'm only on p. 42 so far...... but I have a burning question...... I am a non-denom AND Charismatic. I do not want to identify as one or the other. Will that be a problem? Oh, you're saying that it's every forum for itself, so it's up to the powers that be in each forum. Can we appeal rules?
 
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So does this mean that scripture is no longer a basis for what is right or wrong on CF? Will topics such as homosexuality, drug use, alcohol use, heretical theology, etc. now be allowed to be discussed and promoted in the teen section?


Teens use drugs, are homosexual, drink alcohol and have unprotected sex why would you imagine discussing these things in a caring and compassionate way to be bad?
 
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Erwin, this big of a change will be hard. We will be praying for you.

I personally am very glad that people will no longer be investigated to see if they are Christian. We have a Righteous Judge who will judge the hearts of men. I hope this site will be a place to come closer to God's truth as we compare notes.
 
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That's the idea.

The idea is not to have a blanket rule to discriminate against any CF member from serving as a moderator.

The idea is that s subforum membership will have the maturity enough to vote someone in to look after their subforum that they respect and trust - it is unlikely that for example a conservative congregational forum would vote an atheist in to moderate their forum.

But this might happen in GA, and that is fine, as long as the members of GA did the voting.

The idea is to trust the members to make the right decision for their subforum.

The rule - moderators can only moderate their own forums.

Category moderators can moderate the whole category (but all subforums in that category get to vote for a category moderator).

Supermoderators get to moderate the whole site - therefore the whole site gets to vote on supermoderators.

Based on the above model, it would make sense that only in subforums where there are a lot of non-Christians could a non-Christian be voted in to be a moderator.

Hope that makes sense.
 
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If someone says they are a christian, they are?
No comment.

Only God knows peoples hearts. Only God knows if someone is Christian or not. That being so, how can we possibly say to someone that they are or not. They know their relationship with Jesus Christ not us. So yes, I would take their word for that.
 
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We just really don't want to go in the "whatever is right/true for you is OK" direction.

There is one Truth, one Way. There needs to be a foundation of true Christians in leadership to legitimately call this place "Christian forums".
 
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I just want to reiterate the suggestion to reopen DR or another forum for policy discussions. This is all very chaotic, and I think part of it can be resolved if there is a forum dedicated to discussing various ideas and suggestions.
 
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