Quote:
Originally Posted by LFJC
Eric - good luck to you. I hope this helps turn your life around. If you truly have found God and faith and all thaty - why not end all the hatred on your last site? I mean, isnt that a testament and your legacy? A site dedicated to embarassing, humiliating , and insulting people? YOU created it, and thats about THE most unchristian thing you can do. So, if this IS all real, prove it. Get rid of the hatred site. But of course you wont - you'll stammer and stutter and mutter something about the guy you left in charge. But the truth is - you wont.
|
My last site (eq2flames.com, a video game site) has nothing to do with this one. I created that site over two years ago. I've only been saved since June 2008.
I agree that site - a flame board - promotes argument, which is not a Christian value. Since Usenet in 1992, my main hobby was being a daily participant in leading Internet flame boards. The main purpose of those boards is for people to argue with each other. As you may be able to tell from the fact I stopped participating in that site beginning several months ago, except to politely reply to a few posts and talk about this new one, I'm no longer interested or involved in the behavior represented by that and similar sites.
But I can't kill that site, I'm only the 50% owner of it. I can't destroy property that doesn't belong to me. All I can do is renounce it and stop using it. I've already been donating the small share of profit I receive from that site to charity.
It's my belief that God forgave all my sins when I was saved, including all those I committed on that site when I was argumentative and hateful toward others. There is nothing illegal on that site, and no pornography, racism or anything else I know to be sinful, except for people boasting and arguing about video games.
That other site has served as a platform to launch this one, and so has served the Lord in that regard. I've taken significant criticism and persecution on that site by talking about my faith in Christ and announcing this new site. I'm not sure I could have possibly come out stronger or made a greater demonstration of my new faith than I've done. But that's all good. My point is that the purpose of this site is to glorify and praise God.
And finally, I believe that God wants us to bring others to him, and we can't do that if we only hang out with others who are saved. And a main purpose of this site is to promote interaction between saved and sinners, as stated in the first paragraph of our Site Rules:
Quote:
|
The mission of this site is to provide a Christian themed discussion forum, Christian blogging, and to promote interaction between the saved and the secular.
|
I'm convinced that maintaining a conduit between that site and this one is in accordance with the teachings and examples of Jesus, for example:
Quote:
Luke 5:27-32 (New American Standard Bible)
Call of Levi (Matthew)
27 After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, "Follow Me." 28 And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him.
29 And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.
30 The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
31 And Jesus answered and said to them, "It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick."
32 "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
|
The bottom line is, I can't call sinners to repentance if I shun them and destroy their meeting place.