Subject: Forum's First Birthday |
Bible Note: Makarios, perhaps your apology for being critical of the forum is unwarranted. My remarks, by the way, were not designed or intended to be critical of your post in any sense! On the contrary, if they have a message at all, the message is that this forum has shown a marked tendency to drag out to the point of absurdity the dogma of Calvinism and the rebuttal of non-Calvinists. Both camps are obviously firmly entrenched in their bunkers and as unyielding as iron, neither side being able to sway the other, and as a consequence no one is being fed anything except a constant repetition of the same arguments and the same rebuttals. What this endless debate produces is nothing short of boredom for those of us who are exposed day after day to the same fruitless argument and debate. I have read the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle several times, but I don't read them EVERY day; I already know how they will turn out. At least these stories had a resolution; these debates do not. The Bible is not restricted from Genesis to Revelation to a single issue. Surely there exists somewhere on the vast Internet a web site dedicated solely to the Calvinism versus Arminianism issue. My considered opinion is that those users who wish to debate this issue to the ends of the earth without ceasing should find another place to do it and give this StudyBibleForum a break. --Hank |