Basic Premise: The Bible is the absolute standard of truth and ANYTHING that contradicts it is a lie or an error.
Premise: One function of a forum is to attack ideas to see if they can withstand a challenge.
What should happen is that the attacks are directed exclusively at the ideas and NEVER at the people who hold them or seek to test them. Otherwise we ignore Jesus' command to love our enemies. Not only that; but, there is no reason to make an enemy of everyone we disagree with.
Premise: Another function of a forum is to share blessings and thereby uplift one another.
Blessings are not arguable! if you are not uplifted you have no right to spoil the blessing for someone else.
If you disagree with something someone shares as a blessing start another thread to discuss your thoughts.
Premise: Basic rules of grammar and syntax are not debatable and and definitions are debatable only within established lexical rules.
Otherwise we are not speaking the same language.
What I have set forth are a few rules of formal debate that are universally accepted in formal debate.
Since a forum is not formal debate there is no way of enforcing them here but we can each agree to impose them on ourselves.
Premise: One function of a forum is to attack ideas to see if they can withstand a challenge.
What should happen is that the attacks are directed exclusively at the ideas and NEVER at the people who hold them or seek to test them. Otherwise we ignore Jesus' command to love our enemies. Not only that; but, there is no reason to make an enemy of everyone we disagree with.
Premise: Another function of a forum is to share blessings and thereby uplift one another.
Blessings are not arguable! if you are not uplifted you have no right to spoil the blessing for someone else.
If you disagree with something someone shares as a blessing start another thread to discuss your thoughts.
Premise: Basic rules of grammar and syntax are not debatable and and definitions are debatable only within established lexical rules.
Otherwise we are not speaking the same language.
What I have set forth are a few rules of formal debate that are universally accepted in formal debate.
Since a forum is not formal debate there is no way of enforcing them here but we can each agree to impose them on ourselves.