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But I came thinking this was an open forum, that any Bible discussion could be had without restriction, open for dissection, debunking, denuding, acceptance, propagation, as necessary.

Seemingly, Dom has greater rights as a member than another. Your words here have indicated this. I then have lesser rights. But I had first thought all members were equal. Now, after over a year I now know that I am not an equal member and Dom has undeclared rights because he is a founding member, a friend of an admin. Has favouritism been shown to him because? He is so nasty. I think a blind eye is turned to this because of a long term friendship with an admin. But, I'm only guessing by severely limited knowledge.

Blather, rinse, repeat. Why are you so soft? Where is the thickness of your skin? If you cannot run with the footmen, how will you ever run with the calvary (Jeremiah 12:5)? If being on an online message board and forum with a small handful of internet strangers victimizes you so, how will you ever endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 2:3)?

Can we start fresh? Can I re-new my membership with the knowledge that the forum has members with special privileges which I should be aware of? Or, is there no hope for me as an AFF member?

Stop it already. You ridicule yourself posting like this.

I'll not point out that you've taken liberties with calling me Don. No offense taken.

Really? This is where you want to go? Really, are you sure?

DON, your screenname is “donfriesen1”. How else should you be addressed but by the way you have introduced yourself? You gave us the name “Don” to use. But Evangelist Benincasa gave us the name Evang.Benincasa to use. And even though his first name is indeed Dominic, and Dom is a truncated form of Dominic, show me where he introduced himself to you in this way? Show me an example of him writing to you, “Please, call me Dom”. It is usually an accepted practice, even a manner of etiquette, to address people the way they want to be called. It is also an accepted practice, even a manner of etiquette, to address elders and ministers of the Gospel with epithets that befit the commensurate respect one has for that elder and minister. Is it Biblically necessary or required that one must use ecclesiastical titles? No, of course not. But we are to look upon elder women as mothers and entreat elder men as fathers (1 Timothy 5:1-2). And I for one, don’t go around calling my dad, whose name is Steven, Stevie.

Point clearly made.

So, if you get it, what’s so hard about understanding it? You’re not unwelcome here. You haven’t broken any rules. But you don’t seem able or are unwilling to realize how the world works. People build relationships. Those relationships develop over time, when mutual trust and respect are earned as people show themselves to be trustworthy and deserving of respect. Evangelist Benincasa has put in the time to do that. You haven’t yet. This is the norm everywhere in the world, and yet you bristle?

So, what gives?

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