The rules for discussion groups are the same as those for writing stories, poems, other writings and comments.  The rules are: no profanity, no immoral content, no real names, addresses, no phone numbers and no email addresses.  By immoral content we mean no cheating on your spouse, and no homosexuality or bestiality or any other form of sexual conduct that the Bible condemns or that is illegal.  We may discuss sexual issues or describe sex with your spouse.

Because in the past we have had arguments in the discussion groups and in an effort to promote harmony within marriages and between subscribers we ask that subscribers refrain from asking questions whose answer might become a wedge or source of argument between a husband and wife or between subscribers.  For example asking wives how they feel when their husband asks them to wear a low cut dress can lead to arguments in the marriage if the wife confesses that she feels uncomfortable when her husband asks her to wear a low cut dress. 

If God does not condemn something then we should not condemn it either. This is called a "disputable matter" by Paul in the New Testament.  And in the following passage you can see that we are not to judge each other on "disputable matters".  In Romans Chapter 14 verses 1 to 4 Paul says, “ Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.”   Notice Paul assumes the mature Christian should know that he has freedom in Christ to eat everything (when Paul says "One man's faith allows him to eat everything"). 

And so we ask you not to condemn others directly or indirectly unless God clearly condemns the conduct in the Bible.  This includes answers, statements and questions on subject matters and issues that are directly or indirectly related to a moral issue. 

Since the issue of wearing low cut dresses was a point of argument in past discussion groups please let me use it as an example.  Let us assume someone says they feel uncomfortable wearing a low cut dress or they feel uncomfortable around people who wear low cut dresses. They may not realize it, but someone else might interpret this as intimidation or criticism of how they dress because they wear low cut dresses. 

This would be like someone in the early church saying to a new Christian saved out of Judaism, "I eat meat", when he knows the new Jewish Christian feels eating meat is wrong.  See in the early church new Christians were being saved out of the Jewish religious system.  And so when they got saved they still thought they needed to keep the Jewish rules and laws.

Today new Christians are the opposite.  New Christian women and women who might become Christians today are very likely to wear a low cut dress with their husband on a Friday night because that is popular in our secular society.  And so as mature Christians we should not be criticizing or intimidating women who wear low cut dresses, because God does not condemn them and second we know new Christians or those who might become Christians are very likely to wear them. 

And we know that God wants to make it easy for sinners to enter the Kingdom of God (Matthew 11: 28-30) and so we don't want to discourage  sinners from accepting Jesus as their Savior by trying to force our own personal convictions on them (Acts 15: 19-20) by way of intimidation or criticism of the way they act or dress (Romans 14: 1-4). 

Of course if there is something that God really does condemn then we should condemn it too.

The discussion groups are real-time.   We limit discussion groups to active members and this way it gives us some control over the content.  We do reserve the right to remove or edit posts.

Please note, for performance reasons we only store the last 100 messages posted on each group.