Some sundry notes 3

Look at this reaction from one of the moderators of the PuritanBoard to posts like the previous two on this blog:

I figure it this way...we shouldn't be afraid to call a spade a spade. Let them read...we occasionally read them (and laugh...sometimes it sounds like 3rd grade..."he booted me, I'm not listing him or recommending him anymore" "me neither because he booted you"). Aiaiaiai!

Look at how deaf they are. It's the first thing you notice when you come into these Christian (actually 'churchian') internet realms: these people can't just talk to a person. They are nigh socially retarded. Why is it? It's due to the fact that they are squarely ensconced in Bunyan's Village of Morality. No real Christian lives in the Village of Morality, so real Christians scare the [blank] out of these types.

Look how dead their world is though. They protect themselves from any influence that can possibly challenge them and surround themselves with mirror images of themselves.

The only people who should be banned from a forum are people who clearly don't value the subject that the forum exists for, and people who are repetitive along a line of attack against what the forum exists for. Like FVist androids who no matter how many times you answer them pretend like you havn't and just android on. Yeah, those people don't value the very subject that the forum exists for (a forum that exists to discuss Calvinism, Reformed Theology, apostolic biblical doctrine, etc.).

Look at also their lack of desire to debate or teach anybody who isn't already like them. Part of that process is destructive too (which is why you simply CAN'T ban people all the time for the smallest of infractions and on the least whim of one of your ridiculous moderators). Yes, you sometimes have to tear a building down to build up a sound building. That also involves talking and interacting though. (Why is this so [edited] difficult?) Time is needed, but an environment chilled by asinine moderators looking to always ban people for any reason (usually if they see some heat in an enchange) denies that process being able to take place.

A regenerated person is somebody with understanding. Understanding of human nature and of the ways of the world. Understanding that people are at different levels of development and different stages of coming into understanding. A regenerated person with understanding can talk with anybody and deal with anything. But these Village of Morality churchians can't interact with people simply because they don't have understanding themselves. If somebody approaches me with a question I jump at the opportunity to give them what I have come into. I don't say and think: "So who is this person. Why is he here. How do we make him go away. Obviously he's not one of us." If strangers and people who are different from you threaten you you are not a Christian. You don't have the Spirit of Christ in you.

Get out of the Village of Morality, and get into the Way. Engage influences and activities that provoke and extend your current limits. You're just asinine now (and currently useless to God).