Christians Beware of Forums

Many Christian/Religion forums on the internet are gathering places for unbelievers that are there for one reason -- to undermine the Christian faith. I have personally encountered this on just about every one of them -- whether it's universalists out to assail the value of repentance, or atheists that deny Jesus Christ ever existed. In many cases the forum moderators fully support their un-Christian views and join in with their chorus. You'll hear just about everything you didn't sign up for if you stay there long enough. Does this assessment sound familiar to you?

This post is intended as a roll-call. If you have experienced similar issues on other forums, please share them in the comments section.

I begin the warnings with Christian Forums -- the largest on the internet, and totally chocked full of hedonistic permissivity.

Attached is a petition listing some of its sins. A fellow forum member sent this petition to me. I was warned to cease and desist from circulating this petition by the forum administration, or I'd lose my membership. My link to SRF was removed from my signature line at Christian Forums.

Petition: Christian Forums Repent

As God-honoring members of ChristianForums.com, we demand that Webmaster LeeD and his administration immediately remove the following offensive content from ChristianForums.com and change its policy towards allowing sexually explicit material to appear outside the designated recovery forums.

-Teenage 'Fornication'
-Fornication definition
-Getting forgiveness for being a complete self-indulgent moron (masturbation related)
-Weird sexual attractions.
-Christian Hedonism
-Why is incest a sin?
-Already lusted, so it is OK to have SEX?
-Should prostitutes be able to adopt?
-Swingers
-Swapping Partners
-Subforums that entertain debate on homosexuality and abortion

The abortion and homosexual subforums have become gathering places for advocates of said sinful practices and have no place in a Christian environment.

LeeD has steadfastly refused to repent from his sinful practice of allowing sexually perverted threads and posts to appear on this forum, even after other administrators spoke up against this practice. According to Scripture, it is now up to us, the church assembly, to voice our opinion on this matter.

Should LeeD and his administration refuse to listen to reason, we shall obey Scripture and leave CF as if they were heathens and corrupt tax-gatherers. "Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.

Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:15-20, NKJV)

There are other so-called Christian forums that are apostate as well. Please feel free to add your suggestions, comments, and warnings.

Thank you

SRF