Real names?

[SparedByMercy]

I've been on this forum for almost a month and I may have missed an explanation. But why don't you guys want to fill in your name and location and age in your profiles?

The Internet is the perfect place to bring harm and get away with it or to remain anonimous and act like you're asking for help. But if we don't say our names and make unspoken prayer requests or tell just half of our problem, how do we expect to be helped?

[buckthesystem]

Me, my reason is that if I put up a really dumb post at least it is anonymously.

I go to various different discussion boards and use different pseudo-names, it is good fun. Why use your real name and take all the fun out of it?

As for age and location, I can't entirely remember whether or not I put these on my profile. But I think I remember at some stage somebody asking these things, so I probably didn't. I am just too plain lazy to go and check my profile to see what is there, and change or add accordingly.

I keep meaning to put up a post about apathy, but I can't be bothered.

Anyway, the Lord doesn't care, because he doesn't have to rely on written information, he knows it all anyway.

[SparedByMercy]

Yeah, the Lord knows, but we here are people. When I sit and talk to someone I normally know their name.

If we keep discussing things without telling each other names we are really just throwing words into the empty space. Talking to ghosts. Having fun disguising ourselves when the kingdom of God is not about fun but about communion.

We are not children of the light if we remain hidden.

[buckthesystem]

I've been on this forum for almost a month and I may have missed an explanation. But why don't you guys want to fill in your name and location and age in your profiles?

The Internet is the perfect place to bring harm and get away with it or to remain anonimous and act like you're asking for help. But if we don't say our names and make unspoken prayer requests or tell just half of our problem, how do we expect to be helped?

My Real name is Christopher_John

Yeah, suuuure it is!

[SparedByMercy]

No matter what name we use? What if Jesus the Christ had come and called himself something else so that no one bothers his with spam in his mail box? He surely had other things to do but rebuke the pharisees and heal the sick, why reveal that he was the Messiah?

[SparedByMercy]

"this is a ministry, and those of us who are serious here know who we are and we know each others names, even if we choose not to make them public."

Alright, you know each other's names and I'm not allowed to? A strange ministry it is. Serving through the Internet and afraid of the Internet.

[SparedByMercy]

I cannot compare this time to Jesus' time, but I can compare Christ's followers to him.

[SparedByMercy]

"it is not real wise for young women and teenagers to splash everything there is to know about themselves all over a profile"

Thanks for the warning. I'm a young woman. In the light of what you said, I'm happy you never went to see my profile. God knows what you could do to me...

[Floatingaxe]

I think that everyone here at Worthy will know me instantly as Floatingaxe when we are in heaven..so what's the diff?

[SparedByMercy]

"Are you saying that since this is a christian board that everyone here is as pure as the driven snow?"

No, Eddie, I'm just saying that it's normal to tell your name to a person you are talking to. There are many Lora's in Varna, Bulgaria. It's about being open and honest when I come and talk to people about God.