The New CF

[calmcoolandelected]

Yikes... lots of new forum sites might splinter off from this. I'd start another one myself but I've come to realize there are already WAY too many out there.

I miss GF....... (HINT, HINT)

CC&E

 

[xapis]

I miss GF....... (HINT, HINT)

CC&E

Me too... really. But I do think there are too many Christian forum sites and I think it would be a bit hypocritical of me to pile on with another.

 

[Defcon]

Question on the new forum rules format that we (as a majority) have control over (if anyone knows) - is SR allowed to define and enforce what constitutes a Christian and what doesn't? Or do the new site rules, where there is no such restriction, supercede these types of statements?

 

[ReformedChapin]

I had been noticing that the wave of the tolerance movement has been invading CF for a while now. I never thought it was going to hit this low. Good old postmodernism run a muck. Seems anyone is a Christian now a days kind of brings my signature into perspective.

 

[Iosias]

Question on the new forum rules format that we (as a majority) have control over (if anyone knows) - is SR allowed to define and enforce what constitutes a Christian and what doesn't? Or do the new site rules, where there is no such restriction, supercede these types of statements?

Good questions, honestly I have no idea...it is just wait and see!

 

[Defcon]

Good questions, honestly I have no idea...it is just wait and see!

Here's 'an' answer responding to my question - I don't know how this person is involved or their knowledge of the new rules.

http://www.christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=36522889&postcount=10

Take it for what it's worth.

FYI - the thread I posted this question: http://www.christianforums.com/t5660804-discussion-of-new-rules.html

 

[eiluj]

After returning to CF from a long absence I'm greeted by this new situation. I was desiring to hang out in SR again with other like-faithed folks. I can see why so many are disheartened, but I hope you all don't leave.

 

[Defcon]

1) eiluj - hang in there. We'll see how this change actually plays out.

2) My response to the post above: http://www.christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=36543361&postcount=12

 

[EvAng]

Here's 'an' answer responding to my question - I don't know how this person is involved or their knowledge of the new rules.

http://www.christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=36522889&postcount=10

Take it for what it's worth.

FYI - the thread I posted this question: http://www.christianforums.com/t5660804-discussion-of-new-rules.html

I would take it with a large pinch of salt

 

[drstevej]

My take:

Erwin knew we were right and CF is broken. He knew he did not want to return as referee amid the dysfunction. He decided not to sell or close it.

So he changed it so the community makes the decisions and he does not have to be referee. If it fails then he can sell it and blame it on the community. In any case, after he recodes the software, he is out of any spiritual decisions and can just tweak code.

Steve​

 

[calmcoolandelected]

My take:

Erwin knew we were right and CF is broken. He knew he did not want to return as referee amid the dysfunction. He decided not to sell or close it.

So he changed it so the community makes the decisions and he does not have to be referee. If it fails then he can sell it and blame it on the community. In any case, after he recodes the software, he is out of any spiritual decisions and can just tweak code.

Steve​

So what is the point of that? Why settle for mediocracy?

[FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica] 15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, F6 let us be of the same mind. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica] 17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who set their mind on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica] Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.
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[intricatic]

All I can say is: Go figure.

 

[cygnusx1]

Brethren....don't forget about Puritan Board

i am, a member of the Puritan Board but don't have much time for posting there , CF was always best because of it's variety , but now it is open to takeover , the sneaky abusive manipulative anti-Evangelical kind.

Good that the mods were corrected , but who could have imagined the rest ?

there are people on CF that I have real concerns about and they will be laughing very loudly at these new measures.

 

[heymikey80]

My take:

Erwin knew we were right and CF is broken. He knew he did not want to return as referee amid the dysfunction. He decided not to sell or close it.

So he changed it so the community makes the decisions and he does not have to be referee. If it fails then he can sell it and blame it on the community. In any case, after he recodes the software, he is out of any spiritual decisions and can just tweak code.

Steve​

I'm mostly an outsider as to motivation.

What I see is, Erwin doesn't want to become pope. To me that's a good thing. I didn't see CF as actually accomplishing unity among the different forces in Christianity, even if that's its interest. It's a nice sentiment. It's not gonna happen. I think it makes more sense if we have our own spheres of authority, and then have places for dialog & conflict under some simpler arbitration.

If it's a no-man's land of constant battlefields, it won't get many takers. If it's a more-inviting place, then it'll tend to attract people into its discussions. But it's really not up to us -- it's up to people who can post there. I'm not even sure how to arbitrate it, so I can't throw rocks around.

I feel Erwin's interested in the technology more than the arbitration, now. So I expect he won't find a solution to the actual problem -- because the problem's not technology.

Me, I'd invite discussion how we think we can get ourselves heard as redemptive people. I've always had problems with Christians (of all stripes) getting lost in the cacophony of the world's catcalls. That concerns me now, too.

 

[synger]

From my understanding, each category and forum on the site will be able to make its own specific rules. This may even include keeping (or reinstating) the Nicene Creed restriction. So if that is important to us, we should at least request it.

 

[eiluj]

Here's another site to consider. For now it's only a chatroom, but they are going to expand to forums. It's also reformed only! except during Gene Cook's radio show.... he is in that chat during his show. They are new, so the traffic is slow right now.

ooo, i can't post links yet

google hat chat , or have a tulip chat

(as for puritanboards.... their restrictions are too strict, imho. oh well, i'll be patient here and keep trying at have a tulip)

 

[eiluj]

1) eiluj - hang in there. We'll see how this change actually plays out.

2) My response to the post above: http://www.christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=36543361&postcount=12

Any response yet?

 

[drstevej]

A Open Letter to Erwin:

Erwin,

We are both elders in our churches. I ask you to read Paul's words to elders in Acts 20:28-30

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

The New CF is opening the door to ravenous cultists and gospel denying liberals.

Do you want to give account to the Lord for this? The Erwin I use to know understood the danger of cults and protected the sheep.

Brother, be very careful with the sheep bought with the precious blood of Christ.

In Him,
Steve

 

[invisible trousers]

As someone who is labeled "liberal" and has more in common with the atheists than christians at CF I honestly don't think you guys have anything to worry about.

 

[CaDan]

The Worst Catholic On the Internet (tm) wanders in with the proposal he's selling in all the Congregational Forums . . .

Weighted Voting. That is, a person would get one vote for each post that person has made in a forum. So, in a vote for SR mods, I would get something like 5 votes, but cygnusx1 would get something like 30,000 votes. This way, the people who are the most invested in a Congregational forum have the greatest say in how it is run.

The Worst Catholic On the Internet (tm) wanders out to peddle his proposal in all the other Congregational forums.