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301 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21440 | ||
Looking for commitments ......................... Dear Forumites, I would first like to thank Tim Moran for being the first forum leader to be willing to commit to providing commentary on a book of the Bible. From the posts so far, it looks to be a very thorough and interesting study of 1 Peter. So who else would be willing to commit. Nolan, you mentioned you were thinking about picking a book. And Swartzkm, you're often talking about how much you value the input of the people here on the forum, directly instead of just quoting others. This would be a chance for you to start add a lot of primary thoughts. Hank, you mentioned that the forum would be improved with a stronger sense of purpose. I think that this is a great endeavor to accomplish just that, and it could use your help. Searcher (Steve Butler), you mentioned that you're somewhat frustrated by the repetition on the forum. For you this would be a great chance to cover some new territory and bring up new thoughts for others to ponder. Finally, Prayon, you brought up the observation that this forum is a terriffic opportunity to witness to others and enlighten "baby Christians". This would give you a chance to provide answers for many verses that future visitors to the forum will be able to use to answer questions that they have. All of the people, who I just mentioned, would IMHO, be excellent leaders of individual books of the Bible. I can only hope that they would have the desire to choose to commit to making it happen. From a logistic standpoint, I would recommend that since Tim Moran has already chosen a NT letter, we try to vary things a bit with our other books. Perhaps someone could take a gospel, someone else could take a minor prophet, a third person could take a book of history, and a fourth person could take a book of poetry. I will see what others volunteer for and then take a book from whatever category is left over. Finally, I would suggest that each time a person adds a primary note on a verse of the book they are leading the discussion on, that they also add a first response. That would keep all those posts from filling up the box of "primary notes without responses". This first response could just be a period, or could be a welcome for feedback, or even an email address to send questions to. |
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302 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21427 | ||
Contrary View .................................. Dear EdB, I think that it would be better for several different leaders on the Forum to each be going through books simultaneously rather than just start at Genesis 1:1. For one thing, I think that we would cover more ground, more quickly. Secondly, I think that would help keep the forum as a whole more balanced between focusing on the OT and NT, as well as different types of books (history, prophecy, poetry, etc.). Thirdly, I think that there would be more of a unified voice in the commentaries if there was only one person primarily responsible for each book. Of course everyone would be able to join in to discuss things, but the overall outlook would at least have some consistency. Lastly, I think that it would be better for accountablility. If a job is the responsibility of "everyone", then it often ends up being accomplished by "no one" because "each one" thinks "someone else" is going to do it. |
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303 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21204 | ||
Personal Note .................................. I hate to leave while this all gets figured out, but I've got to take off for the weekend. I'll look forward to comming back Monday to see what you guys figure out. P.S. One other post mentioned how there will still be people comming to visit the Forum and ask questions that aren't related to specific passages. I would recommend that we of course keep trying to help answer those people and point them in the right direction. This new idea is not to replace that, but to supplement it. |
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304 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21198 | ||
How can it work?................................ Dear Forumites, Waldo brings up a good question. How could we implement such a large undertaking. It would require a significant commitment to provide commentary on an entire book of the Bible. At the same time, there is a solution. To begin with, each person could choose a book whose size and complexity would be suitable for the amount of time that they were willing to put forth towards this goal. Someone with little time to contribute could do one of Peter's letters, while someone with more time could do a gospel, while someone else with a ton of time could do Genesis. There could of course be some circumstance that would cause a person to not be able to finish, but even if that were the case, progress would still have been made. Having commentary on half of Romans is better than just having it on the 20 verses that everyone talks about all the time. I would also recommend that a person who wanted to be responsible for a book of the Bible have some sort of minimum number of posts to the Forum already (perhaps 100). Of course, there's nothing to stop anyone from doing this sort of thing on their own, but I think that it would be important to have some sort of way to ensure that such an important task was handled respectfully. Also by having a history of posts from the author, one would be able to see where that person was comming from more clearly. This would help us all take individual comments that a person would make about a book in the context of their overall beliefs. This would also probably diminish "knee-jerk" objections to that often have led to long debates that are eventually discovered to be based purely on a misunderstanding. So what's everybody think? Could we make this work? Are you willing to try it? I think that God has assembled a collection of very gifted and Godly Christians in this Forum, and would like to see this happen. Are there people ready to make some commitment? |
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305 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21194 | ||
Support ..................................... I completely agree with Tim on this issue. I think that having some of our leading members (on a volunteer basis of course) author studies on books of the Bible would accomplish both of these goals. |
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306 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21193 | ||
Personal Note ................................. Dear Schwartzkm, While I of course appreciate the honor of your nomination, I must respectfully decline. I am considering going through a book, however, I would probably prefer one a little less ... well, you know what I mean :) |
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307 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21167 | ||
Personal Note ................................... Dear Waldo, Thank you for sharing your sincere and heartfelt experiences. I would appreciate your thoughts about my idea to have people go through individual books of the Bible? |
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308 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21162 | ||
Personal Note .................................. Dear Hank, I would just like to say thanks. You have been here since practically the beginning of this forum, and I would like you to know that I appreciate all of the time and effort that you have put into it. You will probably not know (until heaven) the difference that you have made in some people's lives. Thanks again for sticking around, and keep up the good work. |
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309 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21161 | ||
Personal Note ................................ Dear EdB, Thank you for such a helpful post. You seem to have a very complete list of reasons why people left. I am interested to hear what you think of my idea to combat some of these reasons. Also, since it seems that you have e-mail contact information for many of our lost contributors, do you think that you could invite them back? If we are able to make significant improvements, they might be interested in rejoining the group. |
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310 | God repented | Rom 1:18 | Sir Pent | 21139 | ||
Personal Note .................................. Dear Lionstrong, I'm pretty impressed that in just over a week, just the two of us have been able to take a thread into the realm of being mocked in other posts. It took about 50 people, several months to do that with the "wife of Cain" posts. Please don't be offended by others who think that the rationality of animals thread is superfluous. I must say that I can see their perspective. However, I linger, in the hopes that this will eventually get somewhere of significance. This seems to be an important issue for you, Lionstrong. And I respect you enough to assume that therefore, it must have some relevance. |
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311 | Animal Intelligence Isn't Rational | Gen 3:1 | Sir Pent | 21138 | ||
Contrary View .................................. Dear Lionstrong, I respect you personally, but your post is based on purely circular reasoning. You say that animals don't communicate, because communication requires thought, and animals don't think. But your fundamental assumption "animals don't think" is the very thing that is being debated. It is not logical to prove an idea by using something completely based on the idea itself. Secondly, you are using a different definition of communication than the dictionary. The true definition of communication is simply "an exchange of information". It is a proven fact that animals are able to do this. Finally, you said that animals are intellegent but not rational. Yet earlier in this thread, you agreed that those words were synonymous, which would be in agreement with the dictionary. It definately appears that you (and perhaps certain Bible verses) are using the word "rational" to have a special meaning beyond the standard definition. Do you mean "self-awareness"? |
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312 | God repented | Rom 1:18 | Sir Pent | 21136 | ||
Personal Note ................................. Dear Joe, I think you bring about some good thoughts here. There are many threads which are either of minimal value (see Kalos' questionable question post), or which leave little room for discussion. I think I will start a new thread to work through this problem. I have some ideas, but they don't really relate to this thread's original purpose. Thanks for provoking my thinking though. |
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313 | Who were the witnesses? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21134 | ||
Personal Note ............................... Dear Angel-7, Don't worry about it. I was actually hoping you had an idea about how to reconcile those verses, as I have wondered about them for a while. Perhaps I'll start a new thread on that subject since it is not really the point of this thread. |
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314 | Where are muslims in the Bible? | Ex 20:3 | Sir Pent | 21133 | ||
Contrary View ................................. Dear Searcher Steve, I appreciate your answer of mincc's question. I agree with everyone else that Islam is not specifically in the Bible, but it was good of you to point out the indirect connections that exist. I would like to disagree with one statement that you made. You said, "the view of God was changed slightly to be Allah." I would say that the word SLIGHTLY is a large understatement. The Muslim idea of Allah is very different from the Christian idea of God. Christians believe God is in 3 persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Muslims believe Allah is only 1 person (denying the deity of Jesus, and existance of the Holy Spirit). Also, Christians believe that God is loving and desires a relationship with human beings. Muslims believe that Allah desires merely to be submitted to. They believe Allah is very impersonal. In my opinion, these are major differences. In fact, they are so important, that I believe that Allah cannot be considered compatible with the true God at all. To imply that these discrepancies are SLIGHT can be dangerous. That belief is what has misled many into believing that Muslims will also be saved, due to their worshipping the same god, by a different name. |
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315 | Who were the witnesses? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21056 | ||
Support and Question ........................... Dear Angel-7, Welcome to the Forum :) I agree with your hypothosis that the two witnesses are Elijah and Enoch. I have thought the same thing for a long time. However, I also have a question regarding your suggestion that each person can literally only die once before the "judgement". How do you reconcile that belief with people like Lazarus, Jairus' daughter, and Dorcus? Each of them died, was ressurrected, and assumedly died a second time. I am curious what you think about them. |
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316 | Animal Intelligence Isn't Rational | Gen 3:1 | Sir Pent | 21016 | ||
Clarification .................................. Dear Lionstrong, The never-ending struggle to find common ground continues :) In your last post, you talk about rationality in terms of "appreciation for her personal history" and "fear of death or non-being". This seems to me like you are talking about being self-aware, which is defined by the dictionary as "an awareness of one's own personality or individuality". If this is what you are talking about, then I also agree with you. Humans have an ability to recognize their unique existance, seperate from the rest of the universe. They are able to perceive that "I" am something other than just stuff (tissue and electric currents). They are also therefore concerned about what happens to "I" after the stuff ceases to function. I do not believe that animals have this ability, and I don't know of any experiments to the contrary. However, I would reiterate that this is "self-awareness", and that is beyond mere intellegence. You seem to agree that animals can communicate to some degree. I think that communication requires some level of intellegence and rationality; don't you? |
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317 | Looking for verses on Spiritual Gifts | NT general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 20934 | ||
Personal Note ................................... Dear Nolan, I completely agree with Hank. You have been sorely missed during your "forum vacation" by both the forum at large, as well as myself in particular. I hope that the time away has been refreshing for you, and that you have a renewed vigor for being perhaps the most consistent voice God uses to make a difference on this forum. Welcome back! Your friend always, Sir Pent |
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318 | Is there an 'online' study guide | Ephesians | Sir Pent | 20914 | ||
Clarification .................................... Dear Ontario, I did some more searching and found the site below. It contains John Wesley's commentary on all of the books in the Bible (including Ephesians). Although it is not specifically Free Methodist, there are probably not any significant discrepancies between the two. I hope that this helps. http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/WesleysExplanatoryNotes/ |
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319 | Animal Intelligence Isn't Rational | Gen 3:1 | Sir Pent | 20899 | ||
Clarification .................................... Dear Lionstrong, I think that I am beginning to see what you are meaning when you talk about being "rational". In your last post, you said there was a "line of the personal. Now, what we have above the line is God, men and angels, and below the line everything else." On that point, I completely agree with you. God has personality, angels have personalities (I think), and humans have personalities. Animals DO NOT have personalities. An animal (especially a pet) may appear to have a personality, but I believe that it is not real. Rather, I believe that it is merely instincts and learned behaviors that we associate with personality traits and therefore project onto the animal. This description seems to fit what you are calling "rationality", and if that is what you mean, then we really have no disagreement, other than definitions. In any case, we agree that humans are in the image of God, animals are not, and that is what totally seperates us from them. P.S. Dear Charis, I would have to do some research to know for sure, but I'm relatively certain that some animals (dolphins, gorillas, etc.) have been taught to complete three tasks in a row on command. |
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320 | Animal Intelligence Isn't Rational | Gen 3:1 | Sir Pent | 20898 | ||
Personal Note .................................... Dear Radioman, I know you're joking here, but some posts would definately indicate that the assertion is false :) |
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