[count-your-change]

All right.. who is doing that? What are they saying? Criticizing a belief is hardly the same as criticizing the person, is it?

I don't mind debate but there's precious little of that to be found on these threads because a few think apparently that using a rafter to remove the mote in the eye of another is o.k.

Cut out 75% of the comments and the thread would be improved greatly.

[Cronos]

who is doing that?

Well, i'm talking to you and the met, right?

it is hypocritical to say “oh, I can criticise the mote in your eye but you can’t comment on the plank in mine”....

[Cronos]

Criticizing a belief is hardly the same as criticizing the person, is it?

true, but when one poster is talking to a say Baptist and instead of saying "you are lying" circumvents the rules to say "Baptists are liars" -- that is wrong. Cut that finessing of the rules and we can have a start to dialogue.

Let people look first at common ground before mucking up and we can actually have dialogue.

If I even ask a person if they believe in the Trinity, it's deemed a "personal information" issue? Isn't that absurd?

[Cronos]

Sticking to that bit that if I even ask a person if they believe in the Trinity, it's deemed a "personal information" issue? --> if a person DOESN'T believe in this, yes, a lot of commonality is taken away, but we do then understand where the other is coming from -- there is a Oneness Pentecostal on the forum who of course disagrees with the Trinity but is open about this and discusses it -- it means that we know at which point we can agree to disagree.

If I ask you about this and you say it is a personal question and won't answer, then any debate on the rest of the theological matters is like asking me to spar blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back