Where to start? Lets just say that there is a certain person who ignores others because they disagree with his doctrine and so this person uses the ignore button. In doing this they have now made it "safe" for them to continue spreading their doctrine and without opposition in their eyes.
So, for the sake of others these people on ignore continue to refute the person at the cost of being accused of stalking, derailment of threads, defamation, and the likes. This goes on because no resolution can be made between the two parties because one party has decided to use the ignore button. The ignore button abuser uses selective hearing and only replies to posts that aren't addressing his doctrine, so no leeway can be made towards edification.
This has been going on lately, and the certain user has even gone to the lengths of trying to ban people he has ignored wrongly. Why do people use the ignore button as if it makes everything bliss, when in fact it breeds division? Using the ignore button is ignorant because if what you believe is truly false, then you wouldn't know it because you silence opposing ideas. To use the ignore button keeps you in ignorance of the truth if, indeed, what you believe is false but you would never figure that out if you ignore those with opposing view points.
It has caused so much strife as of late, using the ignore button and yet continuing to propagate doctrines others disagree with. Instead of having a bible study and going through the scriptures the person places people on ignore. How would that work in a bible study, in real life? Its even been pointed out, if you do have the truth and ignore others, how inconsiderate and selfish of you to withhold it. Right? The ignore feature while it has appropriate uses, it is also being abused lately to the degree that it has now caused strife and division to such a degree that the instigator is even trying to get people banned.
How can we define standing for the truth and refuting error as stalking? How can we be looked down, negatively, upon for representing the truth and refuting error? A person creates multiple threads with a perspective others disagree with and are put on ignore so they can't address him and yet they are in the wrong for being persistent in standing for the truth, at least for the sake of guests and those babes in Christ?
PS: Stop using the ignore button, ignorance is not bliss when such ignorance puts people in bondage!
So, for the sake of others these people on ignore continue to refute the person at the cost of being accused of stalking, derailment of threads, defamation, and the likes. This goes on because no resolution can be made between the two parties because one party has decided to use the ignore button. The ignore button abuser uses selective hearing and only replies to posts that aren't addressing his doctrine, so no leeway can be made towards edification.
This has been going on lately, and the certain user has even gone to the lengths of trying to ban people he has ignored wrongly. Why do people use the ignore button as if it makes everything bliss, when in fact it breeds division? Using the ignore button is ignorant because if what you believe is truly false, then you wouldn't know it because you silence opposing ideas. To use the ignore button keeps you in ignorance of the truth if, indeed, what you believe is false but you would never figure that out if you ignore those with opposing view points.
It has caused so much strife as of late, using the ignore button and yet continuing to propagate doctrines others disagree with. Instead of having a bible study and going through the scriptures the person places people on ignore. How would that work in a bible study, in real life? Its even been pointed out, if you do have the truth and ignore others, how inconsiderate and selfish of you to withhold it. Right? The ignore feature while it has appropriate uses, it is also being abused lately to the degree that it has now caused strife and division to such a degree that the instigator is even trying to get people banned.
How can we define standing for the truth and refuting error as stalking? How can we be looked down, negatively, upon for representing the truth and refuting error? A person creates multiple threads with a perspective others disagree with and are put on ignore so they can't address him and yet they are in the wrong for being persistent in standing for the truth, at least for the sake of guests and those babes in Christ?
PS: Stop using the ignore button, ignorance is not bliss when such ignorance puts people in bondage!