Are Forum Members ever guilty of stirring up strife?

[missmuffet]

1 minute ago, Joline said:

Or you are or are not? It is in the eyes of the beholder here.

No it is not in the eyes of the beholder. It is God's Holy word. If a person is distorting it that is serious business in the eyes of God.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, The_Patriot2016 said:

it was a generality, I was describing why people may become "militant" so to speak over a topic. perhaps it was the wrong word to use, but it was a generality, I was not accusing anyone. It wasnt personal. Like here, I made a general statement, perhaps didnt use the best word, but was discussing generalities and why I think people do the thing they do. And now you and Ted are both coming after me personally. I wasnt assigning blame, ted just did-even though, it was to a situation that hasnt even happened. And he may have been trying to drive home a point, which is fine, but it brings forth my point. People often take things that werent personal and take it personally, and then go after the person that hurt their feelings.

 

Like this post. It was whether people are here to cause strife. I presented my opinion. Now I have 2 people coming after me personally. Its not to the point of hostility yet, but this is how they start, oftentimes. 

Nobody is coming after you that I can see. I agreed you used the word militant in general in my last post . Therefore I said this.....................

"You spoke of person's becoming militant. So to whomever it applies Patriot."

In other words, to whomever you, (or anyone) considers to be militant at any given time (in the eyes of the beholder). I am sorry if that was not clear to you.

Now I am gonna back out of this thread because it is getting out of hand already.....

[The_Patriot21]

1 minute ago, Joline said:

Nobody is coming after you that I can see. I agreed you used the word militant in general in my last post . Therefore I said this.....................

You spoke of person's becoming militant. So to whomever it applies Patriot.

In other words, to whomever you, (or anyone) considers to be militant at any given time. I am sorry if that was not clear to you.

Now I am gonna back out of this thread because it is getting out of hand.....

not out of hand, actually. This is the kind of discussions we need. When one doesnt understand something someone else says, its ok to stop them and say hey, thats not what I meant, in a nice way, and when someone says to us that we misunderstood what they said, we need to take it with grace. Why? because it woulds top a lot of the strife from happening, if we talked out our differences, instead of going straight to the "your a heretic" and "no you are" accusations, and such. Like I said in my first post-none of us are perfect, and any time you bring a group of people together, especially a group of people who are passionate about their beliefs, there is going to be strife. It is unavoidable, im afraid, but it can be minimized by people taking the time to sit down, and talk through their issues, like were doing right now. I have taken nothing you said personally-in fact, while I did think you were turning it personally onto me, I did not detect a bit of malice in your post, and it was concerning words that me and another member did exchange, so not only were they not hostile words you said, they were appropriate.

I am sorry you thought I was getting heated (if you did) and defensive. Was merely trying to better explain my view on the matter, and how the principles I said earlier applied to the discussion at hand that is all.

[Omegaman 3.0]

1 hour ago, HAZARD said:

Jesus came with an agenda and a message no one had heard before. Can we say He was stirring up strife? I believe so.

I agree, Jesus even said that He did not come to bring peace, and that a man's enemies would be of his own family etc.

However, I do not think He wants to see strife between the brethren, and that is more what I am speaking to here. Also, regardless of how highly some here think of themselves, none of them are Jesus. There can be such a thing, as righteous anger, for example, but none of us is so righteous, that we should conclude that our anger, or other behaviors, is/are always righteous, but that should be our goal.

[Omegaman 3.0]

1 hour ago, Joline said:

No disrespect Patriot but........ You spoke of person's becoming militant. So to whomever it applies Patriot. I did not see ANYTHING in Ted's post accusing you of claiming to be perfect at all. Did you read his post? Maybe you have jumped the gun here perhaps?

I can see the kids in the schoolyard now, chanting "fight, fight, fight"!

[Omegaman 3.0]

1 hour ago, bopeep1909 said:

False teaching is false teaching. Either you are putting out there the true literal word of God or you are not.

Those are two options, there are others!

[Omegaman 3.0]

1 hour ago, bopeep1909 said:

No it is not in the eyes of the beholder. It is God's Holy word. If a person is distorting it that is serious business in the eyes of God.

Just an innocent, curiosity type question bopeep, are you having some sort of eye trouble lately? I ask, because you have taken to using unusually large font lately, and it has a similar effect as typing in all caps, at least to me it does.

Other than my curiosity about you recent font choices, thanks for your thoughts in the thread.

[HAZARD]

13 minutes ago, Omegaman 3.0 said:

I agree, Jesus even said that He did not come to bring peace, and that a man's enemies would be of his own family etc.

However, I do not think He wants to see strife between the brethren, and that is more what I am speaking to here. Also, regardless of how highly some here think of themselves, none of them are Jesus. There can be such a thing, as righteous anger, for example, but none of us is so righteous, that we should conclude that our anger, or other behaviors, is/are always righteous, but that should be our goal.

Well said, I agree.

[Omegaman 3.0]

As long as I am on a posting streak, even if off topic, I could help but notice your signature AlgotS, I have to say, I never took your for a "the Message" kind of guy!

Back to our regularly scheduled program!

[missmuffet]

7 minutes ago, Omegaman 3.0 said:

Just an innocent, curiosity type question bopeep, are you having some sort of eye trouble lately? I ask, because you have taken to using unusually large font lately, and it has a similar effect as typing in all caps, at least to me it does.

Other than my curiosity about you recent font choices, thanks for your thoughts in the thread.

I am sorry. I will keep it smaller if that suits you best. I just think the font that comes off on Worthy might be hard for some people to see. My eyes are fine.