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1 | What mother was commended by Paul? | Bible general Archive 4 | DLorddaughter | 203084 | ||
There is no grade. I am of age to be on the forum. How you don't know if I want to have a more of an understanding of what I am reading. I don't need anyone to do homework for me, I read my bible and I also study to show myself approve of a workman unto God. There are things that my Bible dictionary and concordance don't elibrate in so I ask questions. If there is a problem with me asking questions in the forum, why do we have a questions/answers section? | ||||||
2 | What mother was commended by Paul? | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 203097 | ||
Dear DLorddaughter :: Please try to avoid taking umbrage at the feedback your many questions have engendered. Words standing alone on a screen have a way of appearing stark and harsh at times. There is no way by which your correspondents are able to soften them with the warmth of a smile, the friendly clasp of a handshake, or the disarming sparkle in the eyes that brings loving animation of countenance. I do not believe, and beg you not to believe, that any of the respondents to your posts intended to convey a mean and unloving spirit, because I am convinced that none of them are in fact mean and unloving. We none of us always choose the right words to reflect our real thoughts and feelings, so perhaps in some of the responses you've received, the words betray the true meaning that the author intended. ...... Looking at the situation in retrospect, it becomes fairly easy to understand why it has been inferred that some of your questions had their generation in sources outside yourself. To cite two examples: your question (Post 196694) asked, "Who pleaded with God not to destroy a city?" My question is, unless you had read and knew the answer from your study of Scripture, how would you otherwise know that anyone pleaded with God to destroy a city? ...... The second question in the example is Post 203055 in which you ask, "What mother was commended by Paul?" Same situation: how did you know that Paul commended any mother? ...... Are you now better able to understand the concern of your Forum peers? It is not that there is any ban on asking Bible-based questions. On the contrary, it is basically a question-and-answer format that this web site uses. This is not the problem. The problem lies in the fact that your questions were constructed in a way that is very typical of "homework" questions -- questions that read as though they came straight from a textbook. And it is an unwritten code of the Forum, as it were, that Bible students should do their own homework -- should roll up their sleeves and dig in on their own and do their own research -- and not have someone else do it for them. In looking for an easy fix, they are not only being unfair to the teacher and their classmates, but they are being unfair especially to themselves. There is no magic yellow-brick road to learning. Studying is hard work and demands our best efforts, as the Scripture says, "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15, ESV). ..... An afterthought. You are most welcome to continue to study and learn with us, as together we seek to follow our Lord ever more nearly and to love Him ever more dearly. The hand of friendship and fellowship is most assuredly extended to you. --Hank | ||||||