We show the people how Jesus teaches not to teach against even the least of the laws, and they will not hear Him.
We show people in the test of His Word how He teaches the law is not abolished but fulfilled by Him.
I believe Jesus, because I am "under the Messiah," so you who do not believe the above try to be a little more in keeping with His Word......I am simply repeating it with understanding.
If being "under Messiah" is not good enough for you, nothing is.
When I first bought a computer I eventually found my way to Christian discussion forums. I was delighted.
One site was the best site for any Christian to attend. When logging off to begin the work schedule, I was elated. Buoyant, at peace, filled with joy, and it felt as if I was walking inches off the floor. It was a joy to be there. Everyone, without exception, demonstrated what it means to be indwelt with the joy of the holy spirit. That peace that passeth understanding is a feeling that no matter how many years have passed I still recall as I write this.
Then it changed.
The owner from what I was told either passed away and their heir sold the site. Or, they simply sold the site because they were not physically up to keeping it maintained due to failing health. Two stories, likely one a little late on the news the owner they thought was sick had actually died.
After they left the site went down. Fast.
Trolls started showing up making posts as soon as they registered. Grotesque stuff. Porn ad's, etc... In the public announcements forum.
All sorts of wicked thread starts that ran the moderators mad deleting the posts and banning the newbies.
Then they put a waiting period on the registration. The new member had to be approved by a Moderator.
That didn't help.
Rather than wicked ad's the new arrivals were just wicked people. Atheists turns out playing the role I had never heard of till then; POE. They would pretend to be Christian, they would find a Bible site and cherry pick scripture and then enter into a thread that was already underway as a Bible discussion. Or, they would start a thread. They'd use the scripture they copied to insist all sorts of pathetic truths surrounded "the word".
Without exception they were ill behaved from start to finish. No kind words ever toward anyone that would challenge their position.
Eventually all the original members left. New moderators entered that assumed sock-accounts, dual accounts that made them appear as if they were not that one known by the moderator pseudonym. Initially they did this to not intimidate an open discussion if members replying thought a moderator were involved.
But in a very short time, returning to the site as some of us did, registering a new name, to see if the atmosphere could be brought back to what it once was, we'd find those moderators would be the worst sort under those pseudonyms. Because by then the site had been sold I think at least twice prior. And now the owner sold out to advertiser space. No control over who advertised mind you. So again advertisements unfit for a Christian community appeared.
Thank God for Ad-Block.
Then, after I think it was another sale, some of us returned unaware of that handover to find those Advertisements were now appearing peppered throughout threads. The more pages accrued, the more advertising $pace sold to make the current owner more money. As you can imagine, the trolling types insured page counts increased for the $. Those were the sock accounts belonging to the moderators turns out. Because they were related to the owner as family.
It became a Hell hole. And its reputation on the net spread due to members being banned due to the current owner being Catholic.
They sold again and it never got better. The owner wasn't Catholic but the site was still Hell. That family has two more communities active on the net. They all operate the same way. Badly.
Today it is still on the net. And today there are review streams all over the place that forewarn people not to go there if they are Christian.
The real heartbreak is what it once was is dead and gone .And its like has never been found by any of us who were those original members that remain networked so as to alert one another should we be so blessed to happen on a place like the place we use to know.
The manna of Heaven tastes dirt to demons. The light and peace of Christ hurts the reptilian eyes of the trolling wicked that seek to spread their vile shadow into sanctuaries dedicated to the God of lights and turn it dark as soon as possible. And their disguise often enough is to claim they are Christian. Especially, non-denominational. That way they are never found out when they don't know the means of worship certain denominations practice.
And then they go to work in their air of pretend. They weren't unique to that forum I spoke of. That forum was just one stop on their road to Hell. But they breed you know. They go back to their little nest from whence they sprang, atheist forums, chat sites, or school, and talk about what fun it is to mess with Christians. And how seriously they're taken when they put on a good show that always is intentioned to conflict with the truth of God's word and mercy. These aren't those seekers or new arrivals that are unaware of God's word and salvation and are genuinely at a site to learn what it means to be in Christ. These are people that no matter what degree of focus actual Christians commit to educating their errant scripture references and proclamations , refuse to deviate from that wrong understanding. And instead work harder to push their "belief".
And it is all to cause chaos and seek to lead those who are in peace into that one's state of mind in response.
I share this because any Bible forum , any Christian discussion board, are a target of these type pretenders. If you know their MO you know what you're dealing with.
They think Christians are weak because we're told to love our enemies and turn the other cheek. So they dig in as strong enemies and take satisfaction in smacking us around with regularity. They hope we'll respond as they do. We'll become what they are. And then they will "win" in proving there really is no peace in Christ.
I was a moderator of a forum, not the one I mentioned. We learned a great deal as new staffers about those type demon POE's.
Then I decided to turn the tables after finding a thread in a search engine quite by accident wherein an Atheist forum had a thread bragging about the steps one could take to be their very best POE amid Christians.
I joined the Atheist forum and posed to see how the enemy behaved and thought about such things. They're not intelligent in the least because they imagined their tactics published on a public forum was a secret from the Christians they'd harass when they joined their forums pretending to be Christian.
I PM'd the link to the thread to my fellow moderators, the administrators, and the owner. And they in turn did the same in a network of such overseers of Christian discussion communities so that everyone on their email tree at that time was made aware.
If you call the Devil by name it flees from you because it cannot survive in the light.
This post is my hope of shining a Halogen beam onto the very real fact those type devils I describe are still at it.
And you will know them by their posts.
No one comes to Christ but the Father calls them. Perhaps such demonic masses that sit before computers in their dark little holes are actually there because they're heartbroken Jesus will never know their name. So they wreak havoc while they still have time.
To God be the glory.
Satan was there when the Book was written. He knows the ending. His disciples likely shall be surprised.