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NASB | Genesis 1:17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to provide light upon the earth, |
Bible Question (short): Study Bible Forum -- or Circus? |
Question (full): Now we have God creating the sun, moon, and stars in his workshop -- a cut and paste operation of sorts -- and putting them wherever He saw an empty space that needed something in it -- like decorating a Christmas tree. Wonder if He had elves in His workshop to help Him build stars? Folks, I'm not trying to be cute and most assuredly not to be sacreligious. I'm merely attempting to illustrate how far off base this forum has wandered and how dangerously close we are to becoming a world wide joke, a Biblical circus of the Internet. Lionstrong posed the question of whether we were at liberty to ask any question or post any note. The sure answer is emphatically not! I am not at liberty to ask anyone on this forum for a recipe for fudge brownies and you are not at liberty to give me an answer. Have you, Lionstrong, and have you and I, the other users, forgotten what this forum is all about? In the last several weeks this forum has been bogged down by endless debates over emotionally-charged denominationally-biased issues, such as the Arminianism verse Calvinism debacle and before that the Oneness fiasco. Read the purposes and aims of this forum set out by the Lockman Foundation. Read their criteria for what constitutes a good posting as listed on the voting bars. Questions should be Biblically oriented and answers Biblically supported. Lockman has given us ample freedom within clearly-defined guidelines. But with freedom come our own personal responsibilties. Folks, I know that many of you, like I, love the idea of having a study Bible forum and see in it a real potential to honor God and His word. And I know that many of you, like I, are displeased and even disgusted with some of the postings that have been made and continue to be made that bring only discord and benefit nothing except perhaps the foolish vanity of the authors of this kind of trash. The forum is in trouble, of that I have no doubt. Unless we mend our ways and get back to the fundamentals of what this forum is all about, I would not be at all surprised that eventually it will cease to be. I've said my say. It's up to you. If you have anything positive to add or suggest that will help this forum, please come forward and make yourselves heard. If you are unwilling to submit to Lockman's guidelines and come only to disrupt, do the rest of us a favor and log out. --Hank |