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1 | HEY WE ARE SIX MONTHS OLD. PRO 6:22 | Prov 6:22 | Hank | 13308 | ||
To R.C.Scroll and all other Forum friends: The Forum has indeed survived for six months since its nativity. For those of us who came aboard early on, it's been quite a ride, hasn't it? There have been posts, many of them, and some have been sublime, some ridiculous, and others neither. Some users have posted once, folded their tents and silently stolen away while others have made an incredible number of posts...... Quantitavely the Forum has flourished; qualitatively it languishes still. Our thrust, it seems to me, as we enter the back stretch of our first year, should be anchored to the commitment to improve the general quality of postings to the Forum. When I see a post that is heavily beset by glaring errors of spelling and punctuation that can hardly be viewed as anything but gross carelessness of the writer, I generally pass on to something else. Why should I take my time to read something about which the writer cares so little that he is unwilling to take his time or exert his effort to clean up his mess before presenting it to the world? Why should I lay waste my precious time to read an unscriptural opinion foisted upon me about a scriptural topic, when I am far from being reasonably convinced that the writer is even remotely qualified to opine on the topic? What profit is it to read that BillyBob agrees with BobbyBill and posts "Atta boys" day after day? Wherein is edification provided when two or more users engage in interminable diatribes over an issue or precept so trivial that it hardly deserves honorable mention in the first place? What do the mating habits of dinosaurs have to do with one's salvation? Must we know Christ's blood type in order to understand that it was shed for our sins?...... There are people active on the Forum, and others who visit it, who are possessed of education and brains. Should we not make it our business to assure that on these pages they will find at least some display of mind? If this Forum is, as we assume and from time to time assert, dedicated to the study of the Bible and hence becomes indeed God's business, isn't it therefore worth every fiber of our being to give our utmost to His Highest? --Hank | ||||||
2 | HEY WE ARE SIX MONTHS OLD. PRO 6:22 | Prov 6:22 | EdB | 13356 | ||
Well said Hank! I would like to ask this question, I have asked this question before, why does the Bible Study Forum always have to turn into a debate. If you have an opinion why can’t it be stated as such with out referencing someone else’s. If I see something as green and say that. Why can’t someone else say I see it as red? Instead of saying, your wrong it is red, my experts say it is red, a random opinion poll says it is red therefore any one that says it is green is a heretic. Another approach would be you see it as green? I see it as red, tell me why you see as green? Heaven forbid some of us might even learn something that way. The only reason I see for turning this forum into an open debate or a free for all is when an opinion expressed violates what is understood to be orthodoxy Christianity. I also think each of us need to realize we are standing in a glass house of one kind or another before we start pitching rocks. Each of us have hang ups, prejudices, beliefs, crusades, soap boxes, opinions, and most of all egos. Before we respond to a person, before we attack or put down someone else we need to examine what is motivating us to do it. Is our position that much different or that much more defendable than theirs or are we just viewing it to be such. As a third party observer of many threads in this forum, I have seen many cases where neither side has had all that great of a defendable position. Lastly I think each of us need to realize we stand with two buckets, one filled with water and the other filled with gasoline. When we see temperatures rise, when a inflammatory statement is made, an opposing opinion given we can respond one of two ways. We can throw our bucket of gas on the situation and cause a heated debate or we can throw our bucket of water on the situation and bring the temperature of the discussion down. I think we all need to become firemen. |
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3 | HEY WE ARE SIX MONTHS OLD. PRO 6:22 | Prov 6:22 | Morant61 | 13357 | ||
Greetings EdB! You are wrong, it is not green or red! It actually is blue! :-) You make some excellent points Brother! I like debate. When I engage in a debate, I am simply trying to sharpen my understanding. I know many on the Forum sometimes feel like, "Oh No! Not that issue again." I don't feel that way as long as the debate is progressing and neither side is simply saying the same thing over and over again. So I'm all in favor of a good debate. Having said that thought, I agree with you totally about what our attitude should be in our posts. We must stop taking things so personally. We should state our position, defend it, but do so in a humble and gentle attitude. p.s. - Is the water hot or cold? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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