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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
Flaming:
"Flaming, also known as bashing, is hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users."
In other words: Comments that only serve to insult the opponent rather than contribute to the conversation.
Examples of flaming on this thread:
The above are examples of comments that are only intended to insult and not to contribute to a healthy discussion or debate, e.g., "flaming." Comments that show zero respect for the opponent's views, and an air of superiority about the infallibility of one's own views.
UnTraditional, we could say that about anyone whose interpretation differs from ours. It isn't your place to bring another Christian "to account"; only to persuade them to a more excellent way, assuming you believe your understanding constitutes a more excellent understanding. Bro. McKee certainly didn't do ANYTHING wrong or sinful by posting his understanding or application of a parable, and it's a ludicrous suggestion to make.
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Well, thank you, Your Honor, for at least including RM in the evidence.
(I jest)
Context is needed on most of those remarks you cited, and not all of those were directly said to RM. This was a spirited discussion about the way people play "willy nilly" with the Text.
And calling the opening "FACTS" from RM "bologna" isn't flaming -- at least as far as I'm concerned. Those scriptures were "flaming." They were irrelevant, except he was trying to say we "believed a lie and were damned." They served no other purpose. So let's not play "poor Rob." We are all grown men and women.
This was not the worst example of AFF threads. Far from it. Some words got exchanged. I mean what I say about "raping the Word of God" and won't say it any other way. If the Text mirrors our creative thought and not the original intent, that's just what it is.
He isn't just "sharing his interpretation" and by saying it like that, you are giving him too much credit for his posting.
Like Rob always says, outside the exchange of words, I'd gladly have a late-night, post-Sunday night burger with him any day. Chances of that happening are slim, but I'd be willing. We all will get along better in person (well most of us), and that's the impersonal nature of computers. I am truly sorry he was directly dragged into this. His FB page turns into good fodder for discussion -- I'll come up with creative ways in the future to bring that over here, but I don't feel any reason to stop.
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