Can you suggest a good Christian discussion web site?

Question

I seriously want to discuss the Holy Scriptures (the Bible) with solid, serious, conservative, compassionate, faithful, mature knowledgeable Born Again Christians. Are their any Internet web sites where I could do this? I have lots of questions about the Bible and about living as a Christian. I have found some Christian forum or discussion sites, but they seem to be full of immature people with little or no knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. Any suggestions? (P.S. I completely rule out these denominations: Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witnesses, Episcopalian, Eastern Orthodox, Methodist, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian Church USA, ELCA, Reformed Church in America)

Answer 1

I recommend http://forums.christianity.com/

It's an active Christian community (scroll down for the Theology section) with many mature believers like you have described. But, as with any internet forum, there are also members who may sometimes be considered more immature than others, an occasional unbeliever, or one who holds different beliefs. While the moderators do not encourage or allow promotion of these beliefs (Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Catechism of the Catholic Church) they do allow users to post certain questions for discussion so that their fallacy might be revealed to them. This is a well organzied forum, with active moderators who do not allow things to get out of hand as they are in YA.

This is their Statement of Faith:

We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We believe that the Bible is God's written revelation to man and that it is verbally inspired, authoritative, and without error in the original manuscripts.

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the cross to provide for our redemption, bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven, present ministry of intercession for us, and His return to earth in power and glory.

We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, that He performs the miracle of the new birth in an unbeliever and indwells believers, enabling them to live a godly life.

We believe that man was created in the image of God, but because of sin, was alienated from God. That alienation can be removed only by accepting through faith God's gift of salvation which was made possible by Christ's death.

Our Website
Our aim is to offer the freshest and most compelling biblically-based content to Christians who take seriously their relationship with Christ.

Answer 2

You can click on the Friendship button @ http://web.express56.com/~bromar/ and that will take you to a good site where they have a theology forum. You have to fill out a profile to use the sight but it doesn't cost anything. Of course, just like the rest of the Christian world not everyone is going to measure up to the stand of being "compassionate, faithful, mature" since each of us are at various stages in our walk with Christ. Still there are a number of people who fit the general outline of your description of the type of people you would like to interact with on that site.

Answer 3

Sadly, trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded

Answer 4

The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum theory is incomplete and does not fully explain the nature of wavefunction collapse with regard to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (e.g. Schrodengers cat paradox). This brings into question the exact nature of consciousness or specifically who or what is conscious enough to cause wavefunction collapse. With this in mind, quantum theory seems to be at a critical juncture between science and religion and a proper explanation of the observed scientific phenomonea may provide scientific validity to religious principles and the divine nature of delicious tacos.

Answer 5

your list of descriptive terms is contradictory. born again is a term used by those who are relying of the english translations and is indicative of someone who lacks knowledge. i'm not putting you down but trying to explain that the born again idea is divisive and exclusionary on false grounds.

The correct translation is born from above and also the associated phrase born of water (the amniotic fluid of a flesh birth) which distinguishes man in the flesh from those beings chained in tartarus who refused to be born of woman as is described in Jude.

Answer 6

Feel free to IM me. I am intellegent and open-minded and rational. I am a Christian.

Look over some of my answers if you would like. I am always up for discussion. I will be patient and Biblical based.

This offer stands for anyone. Believer or non believer.

Answer 7

I would truly love to find that myself. I will be keeping up with this to see what you come up with. There are a lot of good christians on this site, but unfortunately, there are a lot of people who come on here to bash us and to blaspheme, and that chills me to the bone. I would love to find a forum where true christians could study together and share their thoughts. Good luck and God bless you and yours!!!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I would like to find one also.

Answer 10

You could try these.
http://www.equip.org
http://www.intouch.org