Why debate at all?

[Tony Bristow-Stagg]

I'm going to agree to disagree - we are definintely NOT on the same page, and I'm very comfortable with my view, despite you labelling it hate speech.

o/

God allows us to be comfortable in our own views.

I have come to appreciate the God given turmoil in life.

Regards Tony

 

[lismore]

Curious as to the purpose.

Listening to Matt Dellahunty, Seth Andrews and others helped me to lose my faith for 2 years.

Now I have repented and I am hopefully accepted again by Christ.

Isn't it risky to allow debate that may take away others from the true faith of Christ?

What's the point?

It would be good if we spent as much time praying together and we did debating together. 'The prayer of the righteous person is powerful and effective'.

 

[Tony Bristow-Stagg]

It would be good if we spent as much time praying together and we did debating together. 'The prayer of the righteous person is powerful and effective'.

Prayer is great. Any prayer offered from the heart to God.

There is a great saying to meditate upon though.

"The good deeds of the righteous are the sins of the near ones".

Thus it may very well be that some prayers from the righteous, may not be compatiable with Gods purpose.

Regards Tony

 

[Saint Steven]

Respectfully every believer is called to give an answer, there is no such thing as "some who are not called to Apologetics". Unless of course you can give me chapter and verse...maybe I've missed that calling but I doubt it.

That sounds like an argument. Be careful lest you have to "repent" again.

 

[Saint Steven]

Debate is a good thing.

Arguing is not.

Most do not understand the difference.

In debate both people should be able to pose their beliefs in a calm, rational way. Not only should they be able to state what they believe, but why they believe it.

Good points.

Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

 

[Rescued One]

I think reading an argument can actually be used by God to persuade a person in the right direction. For instance, God has people read the Bible, or listen to a preacher, and He uses it to convict the recipient of the message. Suppose you listen to opposing views, and He tells you which is correct.

 

[Jamsie]

Curious as to the purpose.
What's the point?

"Modern culture is a tremendous force. It affects all classes of society. It affects the ignorant as well as the learned. What is to be done about it? In the first place the Church may simply withdraw from the conflict. She may simply allow the mighty stream of modern thought to flow by unheeded and do her work merely in the back-eddies of the current. There are still some men in the world who have been unaffected by modern culture. They may still be won for Christ without intellectual labor. And they must be won. It is useful, it is necessary work. If the Church is satisfied with that alone, let her give up the scientific education of her ministry. Let her assume the truth of her message and learn simply how it may be applied in detail to modern industrial and social conditions. Let her give up the laborious study of Greek and Hebrew. Let her abandon the scientific study of history to the men of the world. In a day of increased scientific interest, let the Church go on becoming less scientific. In a day of increased specialization, of renewed interest in philology and in history, of more rigorous scientific method, let the Church go on abandoning her Bible to her enemies. They will study it scientifically, rest assured, if the Church does not. Let her substitute sociology altogether for Hebrew, practical expertness for the proof of her gospel. Let her shorten the preparation of her ministry, let her permit it to be interrupted yet more and more by premature practical activity. By doing so she will win a straggler here and there. But her winnings will be but temporary. The great current of modern culture will sooner or later engulf her puny eddy. God will save her somehow—out of the depths. But the labor of centuries will have been swept away. God grant that the Church may not resign herself to that." Machen

 

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