And of these Christians who are in local fellowships, whether it be after weeks or months or years, this teaching has been empowered through the internet to spread into local fellowships across the country. With the internet the world has changed in such a way that a teaching coming from one man who is prominent online, can now quickly spread to 1000s of Christians in an afternoon, be accepted as truth and reality, and almost just as quickly, be proliferated to 1000s more in larger online communities. This is in contrast to comparing teachings against the Bible and leaning on more mature Christians for guidance and balance in what they choose to believe, or reject as false. It’s certain that recommendations from those who seem prominent, and desire for acceptance on online forums etc., can lead to peer pressure, following the example of those deemed prominent, which all factors heavily into what people are prone to believe. Popularity can be based on sensationalism, personality, and too often unverifiable qualifications, self-appointed expertise, or rumors without knowing these teachers or people personally. People who are in a local body, or who may otherwise not be in fellowship locally, both have a tendency to rally behind certain teachers, and believe their claims whatever they may be, without discernment. Unfortunately there is a dark side to it also.
In itself the online Christian community is not a bad thing. The internet can allow for small ministries to help many people who might not otherwise be reached by local churches. This in itself is not a bad thing, it is an experimental ministerial laboratory that produces new Biblical teachings relevant for keeping up with the times, and the culture of the lost, which local churches can benefit from receiving and considering for application in the local body. Ideas in the online Christian fringe do not stay there, but spread into local churches. I exist in this world in ministry, and have seen good come out of it. Truth is a relative concept in the Christian fringe online community, juggling topics of conspiracy, prophecy, spiritual warfare, and the paranormal. This is the world I partake in freely, and have for a number of years, my friends are here, and I have made enemies also. And this is the online jungle of the Christian fringe community, an unregulated anarchy where anyone may teach and have their opinion, without any real accountability to anyone but God. Of those who do attend church, among the Christian conspiracy online community, many would not share some of the ideas they learn online with their local pastor or elders for review, as in many churches the fear of ostracization for strange ideas is a real one. Ideas spread like wildfire among internet communities, and among Christians, there are no fixed overseers to regulate and speak against false teachings, raised out of the body or otherwise, and in fact many do not attend a local fellowship either where a pastor might correct false teachings. It’s easy to become trendy, easy to go unchallenged, easy to become popular, and easy for the public to be misled and mistaught. What formerly would have been isolated teachers many would never have heard of, now have the potential through the web to gather followings of large numbers of people, and teach them their opinions this also has a good and bad side.
This has allowed for people to easily network or rally behind causes, but also for internet-based teachers to arise, some good and some bad. And this includes not just good information, but bad, not just truth, but lies, and also the ability for people of a conspiratorial mindset (Christian or non) to find each other in ways that previously were difficult. Since the inception of the internet the world has changed at a frantic pace, allowing for people to connect and receive information with an ease before unseen. “The New McCarthyism of the Christian Conspiracy Fringe” or “Does the Bible Justify the Means? Dizdar, Discord, & Division in the Body of Christ”
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