Hey all, I was wondering about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueChristian/comments/1cn3g41/why_do_you_believe_in_speaking_in_tongues/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

It says something about needing to be approved to comment on it. Can you help me understand what's going on?

If you go over and look at r/Christianity, you might as well just call it r/Religion. There are a bunch of random atheists and people from other religions in the sub stirring up strife and arguments among the actual Christians.

Doesn't matter if a Christian actually makes a heartfelt post about what they believe, or what is going to happen in their lives, there is usually going to be a militant atheist who despises God and jump in to try to passively tear down their faith. A lot of people in that sub are not looking for genuine discussion, but just to deconvert Christians and destroy their faith through, "logic".

I just feel like this sub is rapidly being polluted by head-strong people with liberal idealogies like that the earth was created and formed via evolution.

The r/Christian sub is an absolute mess, and not a safe space for any Christians, so I think the mods should really crack down on some strict rules on this sub to prevent toxic liberal Chrisitan theology from seeping in. For example no people in the sub are allowed who: Don't believe in hell, think the world was created via evolution, don't believe the Bible is actually the word of God, believe that homosexuality is not a sin, believe that all go to heaven and you do not need to repent of your sins.

Lastly, make sure the posts are actually high quality, save you low quality posts like, "is x or y thing a sin" for crappy subs like r/Christianity to answer. I think Mods should start to monitor posts that are more high quality.

I know we get a lot of repeat topics. It can be annoying, and while we have trolls, we do get a lot of genuine questions from people.

However, several times a week someone shows up to complain about r/Christianity I get why, but it almost always turns into a pile-on from the r/TrueChristian community. It very rarely a discussion of something, and more usually "those guys suck" with all the commenters chiming in with "oh yeah, didn't you realize that place sucks?"

Half of the time, the OP acts like they were booted for "simply sharing the Gospel" and it usually turns out they were flagrantly breaking the rules or antagonistically shoving verses at people. I've only seen 1 or 2 instances where it felt like someone did get suspended/booted unfairly.

I usually report this under Rule 5, but maybe having an explicit rule about this would cut down on it?

In an extension of my other post on this subreddit, I also propose the complete abolishment of rule 10 parts a & b. This is another separate issue though hence another post.

This rule is harmful to this community. Clarify that promotion of homosexuality and abortion is not allowed here since that is what the spirit of the rule is and why it was allowed to stand to start with. Any other use of this rule simply destroys interdenominational conversations.

RULE 10 IN THE SIDEBAR GIVES FAR TOO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR MODERATION OVER REACH AS STATED and I would argue this is where many of the problems are coming from.

What is conservative to a Catholic and a Calvinist are very different things. As is what is conservative to the Orthodox and the Episcopalian. r/Christians already serves as a Protestant safe space, we do not need another.

I have been here for 10 years on and off, so I know my stuff and the history of this place.

r/TrueChristian started off as a place where we could all get along and provide interdenominational support for any Trinitarian Christian. The denominational subreddits served their own people and r/Christianity served all people.

TrueChristian has always had a theologically conservative bend, which was the intended purpose of the subreddit. I myself was a very big proponet towards moderation changes that this subreddit experienced around 2015-2016 to bring it into more of a Christian safe space, and that is what I am proposing now.

Coming back 5 years after a I became a lurker on Reddit is jarring. This place has some of the most extreme flame wars I have ever seen in the Christian related subreddits. r/Christian and r/Christians have retained the quality of their communities, and their purpose is almost identical to r/truechristian, so this has to be a difference in moderation.

A jarring aspect is the cage stage calvinists and other highly aggressive believers not being censored. You have people basically starting fights with people over some of the dumbest things. Almost every single thread that asks a theology question has a flame war going on inside of it somewhere.

THAT IS NOT WHAT r/TRUECHRISTIAN IS FOR.

You need to start clamping down on people being rude, because that is going to make every single non-christian that comes to this subreddit think that we are a group of disorganized punks that don't love each other. We can disagree, but the insults need to stop. That is the literal purpose of largely unmoderated subreddits like r/Christianity and the debate subreddits.

Everyone, stop calling each other heretics every two seconds. You both believe Christ is God in most cases.

Moderators, ban the people that are being rude. They make us look like jokes when atheists see our threads. How many souls are lost because they see us acting like fools? When I debate I never insult someone, because that is the line where it goes too far. You need to start handing out permanent, monthly, and year long bans for people that do this.

There are repeated questions with the same theme:

Does God care?
Why didn't he do anything in this situation? Why did he abandon me?
Why didn't he answer my prayer?

Ultimately, there's a perception of bad God, who doesn't care about something from OP's pov(be it relationship with God, relationship with friends, romantic partner, healing etc) - which is definitely untrue. Since the ratio of such questions are much more, Maybe we can change that

• by a recurring praise thread, like a prayer thread, where testimonies of God's goodness are collected...
• and anyone requesting prayer/question about something, will be requested to start with one thing God already had done for them(if nothing else, for the fact that they're still alive to ask for prayer that day)

Or maybe any other ideas to increase praise and glorifying God? What do you think? I think if we don't actively encourage praise mode, there will be griping and complaining as the focus will be on what the devil is doing rather than what God is doing.

Hello! I used to be a member of the "r/Christians" subreddit, but a couple of days ago, I got temporarily banned by a mod, because I said that falling away from the faith is possible for a christian in response to someone claiming "once saved always saved". Now I have argued this with scripture and in a normal, polite way. I know that there are different interpretations and opinions on it, and some may disagree. I have no issues with people who disagree, I just wanted to show that there are other viewpoints as well so people can make up their own mind. However, the mod in question banned me because, alledgidely, saying a christian can fall away from the faith is "maintenance salvation". Something I expressively do not believe in what so ever. I tried arguing my case, again based on scripture, but we came to no agreement.

Then I found this sub. This also says it's a non-denominational sub for all christians to share biblically. But now I ask myself, the other sub also said it was "non-denominational" but in the end enforces the doctrines of their mods. Is this the case here too?

And I mean issues where different denominations and christians may disagree. I am NOT talking about essentials of the faith. I am NOT talking about heresy like denying the trinity, opposing the Nicean Creed or something like that. So, would I, for example, be banned if I were to say that a person who had the holy spirit (aka was saved) can fall away from the faith, even though a mod may be of a different opinion?

Thank you for reading :)

The other day there was a post from a young woman/student about recently being r*ped. Her post was discombobulated and lacked basic communication skills, but she explained that she had autism and that she just found out she was pregnant.. People thought it was an "abortion-debate" rage bait post, and yet it wasn't. She had no intention of getting an abortion, and people were not considering that autism has a WIDE range of communication difficulties.

This was potentially a real Christian woman with autism going through real hell, and people/Christians called her a liar. Needless to say, if this was a true situation then irrepairable damage has been done to a fellow Christian sister. She deleted the post.

Responses like the ones received are unbecoming of Christian community, and only add to the stigma of "judgemental Christians". It's a "witch-hunt", so I'm requesting that the current Rules 1 and 2 better reflect to prevent this form of harrassment: Where potential victims are called liars/villified... I understand that there are people who rage-bait, so if a person is believed to be a liar then simply ignore the post/comment, or ask valid questions.

The post was: I'm pregnant and I want to die

Given the recent schism between the global Methodist conference, and the United Methodist conference, would it be possible to add a global Methodist flair?

I’m not the most familiar with Reddit so idk if there is a limit (although I did see a couple that were repeated on my screen for some reason). I’m Assemblies of God so I chose that flair. However, I did grow up Free Will Baptist and my brother (who’s also been discipling me) was ordinated in that denomination.

All that to say, I couldn’t find a flair for that. I did see Southern Baptist but they are not the same.

Why are the mods on this sub constantly manipulating posts with attempted restrictions?

People post about gay controversy and porn addiction every day and those posts are not restricted.

People post fake troll posts constantly in this sub.

What is the point of restricting my posts? Would be nice if you could explain.

It's not a good look considering I just messaged the mods a couple days ago and didn't receive a response.

If you are banning me from True Christian subreddit then please say what your intentions are instead of playing around with posts.

Bring it to he light. Don't do things in the dark. That's what the secular world is doing and we shouldn't be imitators of the world.

I'm a moderator over at DebateaChristian and the main mod over at AskaChristian is an expemplar. I think that the inciting posts which are demanding that Christians justify XYZ ought to be removed and the users directed to the appropriate sub.

At DaC we WANT to debate. AaC is all about explaining ideas. TC isn't a one stop shop for all Christian conversation but intended as a safe haven for Christians to just talk about their beliefs.

I discovered an alternative to Reddit that is federated like mastodon: lemmy I think we should switch.

I’m so sick of

• accounts that were clearly made to try to anger people and get them in trouble

• coming into the subreddit when they know the mods aren’t around,

• pretending to have a polite question

• that is easily answered by any search engine in the top three results or a search of the subreddit

• coaxing people into replying by pretending to need help

• then leave flamebait responses

• that don’t make any sense anyway because they used an ai to craft them

• since they’re atheists who don’t know much about Christianity anyway,

and nothing is done about the threads because all the mods are offline. The weekend is when I have time to talk, and I can’t, because everybody is blaspheming God and trying to get Christians in trouble.

Are you okay with low value users trying to start flamewars between sects and making the sub look like a mockery of Christianity for people to mock on r/atheism and r/sidehugs? What do you want us to do? Reporting seems meaningless if you won’t take care of it the same day.

Do you ever ban these people? Do you ever lock the threads?

Do you have coverage hours for the sub?

Should we make a new sub just for the weekend?

I'd like to suggest an addition to rule 5: posts must be marked NSFW if their content is sexual.

Every Christian subreddit deals with people coming in and detailing their sexual sins. While I think that's ill-advised, it's still allowed in this subreddit. But posts have an NSFW button for a reason, and it's extremely underused (of the past 30 posts containing "masturb" only 2 of them were marked NSFW). It's gotten to the point where I don't look at this subreddit in public because of all the NSFW content that isn't filtered because people aren't marking their posts NSFW.

Ideally, I don't think that kind of content should be on the sub at all (in which case these posts could fall under rule 5a). But if it is allowed, can we at least get people to mark it appropriately so it can be filtered appropriately?

It would go next to the prayers thread. I think there’s a lot of negativity sometimes (not necessarily in the sub). The world can be harsh, sometimes an uplifting story can remind people how loving God is. It could give people hope in hard times, it could brighten peoples days by letting them see something good. A place where people can express gratitude.

I would like to discuss the possibility of removing the Nicene Creed requirement from the Christians Only tag. As a saved Christian, I agree with everything except the last line of the creed as I do not agree with the "Catholic" portion, which means that I cannot respond in Christian only posts.

Am I misunderstanding the creed? Or can we discuss?

I just joined r/TrueChristian after seeing it referenced in r/Christianity as another Christian board and I went to add a flair and saw that there wasn’t one for Moravians. Hoping that one could be added! Thanks.

I just received a 3-day ban for a post where I linked an article about Christian Nationalism being a smaller percentage than some might suppose, seeing as how I keep hearing people complain about it on r/Christianity. I thought it was relevant to the faith, but I'm not going to bother debating that.

What I'm curious about is what rule 8 is meant to accomplish. I assumed it was to keep trolls from linking inappropriate content, and to secure the Christian experience in the sub. Was I wrong?

How old does your account have to be?

How many upvotes do you need?

I tried messaging the mods to get approved to post but they ignored it.

Would you please consider setting Automoderator to remove posts made by people with no subreddit karma?

u/pm_me_judge_reinhold recommended suggestions be posted here so paging him.

The title is the question. Just noticed (from my recent post there) didn't have much interaction; and got me thinking maybe the sub is mostly for encouragement/advice/prayer request/gen info purposes? Not sure if 'theological' is the right word, but I'm referring to topics that need a little bit more depth than (I guess) what's usual.

Some users seem to participate in r/TrueChristian solely to act as apologists for their political views. These users typically advocate for atheist or liberal political stances and only participate in threads where they can insert their political opinions, but since they're not talking about theology, they aren't technically breaking a rule because they aren't promoting liberal theology. At the same time, this kind of engagement seems to be against the spirit of the sub as a primarily theological forum. I suggest that the mods consider either adding a rule against this behavior or clarifying that this behavior is not allowed under an existing rule.

Hey there folks, this is just a poll to see who all agrees that our sub should have an icon (For clarification a background image, being nothing more than a representation of our Christian faith and not an idol). Now, this poll is just to see if it would be a good idea to have an icon (my suggestion would be something simple but to the point, like a cross) and, if the mods approve, (And Mods, if so, could you please comment or make a post of approval) then we could have another poll voting on what the icon should be. God bless y'all and rejoice, for this is the day that the Lord hath made!

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