How do we engage in bible discussions without it getting personal?
How do we do that?
I've seen it happen over and over to others, and it happens to me as well.
How can we make our point without jabbing in the lance?
Face to face we would be much nicer to each other.
We all like to be right.
But what good is it is if all we are doing is offending each other?
What are some good ground rules to remember?
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
- O.K. , now how do we put that into action on this site?
Is it a matter of just being nice?
Can we be nice and right?
Can we be nice and wrong?
Is it possible to make a cogent argument without offending the other?
It must be possible, lawyers do it all the time.
But we arn't lawyers. True, we are held to a higher standard.
I'm just wondering if it's possible?
[h=3]Proverbs 15:1[/h]King James Version (KJV)
15 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
I can post and if angry, grievous words will be noticed, and is of the flesh. We all have this wired in our unredeemed bodies
So when one starts it whether they mean to or not, the ripple effect grows and it takes trust in God's way of God's love, not to overlook it, rather how to answer it.
I know that I can say to my dog I love you in a hateful voice and the dog does what? Cringes, just as humans do or attack, Fight or flight is the flesh's answer.
maybe asking God for God's words to flow through you, might change the tones, and we all just might learn some Gold nugget from each other. Is not this why this site was created for?
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and
divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Avoiding the above verse or better yet overcoming that verse from Paul above, I think would for each of us that do believe that we start considering ourselves dead to flesh sin, carnal nature by the death of Christ and then alive to God in the resurrection of Christ, and just maybe God will show us each how to renew our minds to God's way of thinkng
Hmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is this possible?
I think so, I know I have learned a lot here, whether it was someone going against or for. It matters not to me, because I know by God's way of thinking, God will and does discern truth in me as to what to say or not say, as in what to do or not do.
You know just as Christ was led, by the same Holy Ghost that was upon Christ before the ministry of God just love you came to be shown. So can one recieve this type of love of God best described in 1cor 13:4-13, in our unredeemed flesh? Is it possible? Okay and 1 cor 13 is usually used for to convict right and feel quilty over and over right?
When in truth God wants to spread this love of Him throughout our new self, that God gives us by the resurrected Chirst
[h=3]Romans 6:4[/h]King James Version (KJV)
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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Maybe then we might be able to:
Lesson our judgement of others. We never see the whole picture. Never.
there are 1,000 reasons a person can behave a particular way. We don't know what is going on in their movie that motivates them to act in that way. I never know how I'd behave if I were in the other shoes. Today little by little,
it would be good to learn to be more forgiving. Learn to where we can come from a place of help, rather than Judgement.
Judgements are only based on what one sees, from their owns thoughts. From their own experiences.
There is truly only one that knows all. that one would be and is the creator of all.
If one learns to listen to the creator as Jesus Christ revealed to all mankind. (Christ taught us, to do nothing or say nothing w/o Father's instruction first and foremost), we would make the right judgements, with out condemnation. ( coming from the one listening),much less likely
The ones that argued would reveal their true selves, as was done in the day of visitation from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Steer clear from arguements, seek the truth in all things and one shall be free from the world and it's traps.