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1 hour ago, OneLight said:

@Starise

As with all things, change is inevitable over time when leadership changes.  When I first came here in 2007, the site was different.  The admins, which were much more than just one, were solid brother and sisters in Christ.  The topics were much more bible based, Christ centered and focused.  Worthy was a place where one could learn a solid foundation where division was rare.  False doctrine was exposed, often shut down, or quickly faded from sight as nobody responded after corrections were made.  Not so today.  Many topics are allowed so "people could learn how to expose a lie with the truth" due to "the experiment" George visualizes, but that opens up more cans of worms and it becomes a zoo, his vision failing in my opinion. 

Instead of biblical based threads, as it was then, we now see more threads about personal interests, like you would find on Facebook.  What I see Worthy evolving into, and quickly over the past few years, is a Christian based Facebook, not a site where people could learn solid scriptural wisdom and knowledge as it was when I joined.  Due to this, my interest to be involved has continued to wane as time goes on.  Sad as it is, there is no real biblical based web site that I can find as His time draws near and believers become more like the world as they wander from the truth, where their inner fire becomes only a flicker of the past.

The argument that changed this site was the cry of too much policing going on.  People complained that threads were locked when fights broke out so that the thread could be cleaned.  Members were "hurt" when they go banned from threads.  Some members, when they outright refused correction over an extended period of time, got banned.  All this caused an uproar from membership, which we don't see today.  Worthy's policies have become much like what we see in society today which is resulting is letting the criminals go free, police strongly restricted from doing their jobs, courts throwing out cases or even prosecuting, those who wish to do damage are allowed to do so unhindered (just look at what many cities have become).

This is what I see ... as with society and the wokeness environment, the same is seeping into this site.   Where are the watchmen on the wall that sounds the alarm when they see danger approach?  Where are those who will stop those who desire to do harm?  They have been disbanded.  Instead, ministry is now all about overseeing.  Exactely what are they overseeing?  Surely not how the site operates. 

I am with you on this bro.

4 hours ago, OneLight said:

@Starise  It seems you are looking for a directed response Brother.  Your title asks us to "Please Describe How You See Worthy", which is a great question, hoping for honest opinions.  Then, your poll title asks a slightly different question of "Why Am I At Worthy", narrowing the possible responses.  Then the poll itself clearly directs the reader to respond to one statement, "I like Worthy because..", purposefully directing the conversation to discuss only what people like about worthy.  Why such a change when your thread title was the best question of all?  Did you really want to know?

How about a poll for those who do not participate in Worthy any longer? Perhaps ways that Worthy can improve as a Christian website.

Everything that came out of that man's mouth is the truth. Thank you for sharing OneLight.

1 hour ago, Michael37 said:

Here are some quotes by C.S. Lewis:

1. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ¹
2. “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.” ¹
3. “Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.” ¹
4. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” ¹
5. “Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.” ¹
6. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ¹
7. “If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.” ¹
8. “One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.” ²

I hope you find these quotes inspiring! [BingChat]

 

Thanks Michael, loved the quotes. My favorite is #1. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year.

Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.

                                                   St. Augustine

Thank you for sharing angels. Very important words.

I have been getting the flu vaccination since 1990. For 33 years. I have had no side effects and no problems from the flu vaccine. A month and a half ago I received the flu vaccine for the year. The day after I got the flu vaccine I developed a weird side effect. This is not your usual sore arm, headache etc side effect. I know that it was from the vaccine because I was just fine before I received the Fluzone quad intramuscular vaccine manufactured by Sanofi. I am still dealing with this side effect since I received the vaccine. I will never get another vaccination. I don't know what they are putting in these vaccines but it isn't good.

Thank you for sharing angels. Loved it

I don't buy the fact that Jesus Christ created the angels. God created all things and that includes the angels.

I thought this was an interesting presentation to post. But my only question on this presentation is that Ron Rhodes said that Jesus created the angels? I always thought it was God