The Open Bible Project talk:Community Portal
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Well it looks like am the first one here.
I pray that this deveolps into a healthy community of believers. And many discussions will be had.
AND 1 day when some of the mainstream churches and denominations use up all their predictive use-by-dates {end of the world} then we will have a valuable resource that many will want to know more about.
BBB.
thanks for joining! I am very encouraged by the many comments and users registered and willing to participate. :) Thanks a lot, and like you, I hope it picks up its own pace and it will develop into something healthy and positive for Christ's kingdom. Also, if you want to better identify your comments and posts, you can use the signature button at the top (the second one from the right) which will insert the signature and time for you automatically. God bless, and welcome!
--Virgil Vaduva 17:37, 3 January 2006 (PST)
The First?
And here I thought I was the first one to contribute to this OBP site! LOL. Welcome, Triple B! Good to have you join the group of thinkers and reasoners here!
John McPherson
Hello to all. I am so thankful that this project is finally underway. I have been looking for a long time to consolidate all my notes into one bible (wide margins are not enough). I have hoped for many years for something like a preterist study bible to fully bear fruit. There are so many books and writings that have been done, but nothing that seeks to look at things on such a large scale. I think this is a nobel project to collect information from many scholars (Jack Scott, Don Preston, William Bell, and so many others) in order to combine it to form one book to deliver such an awesome message of the fulfilment of the promises and the life we now have through Christ.
I was wondering if there anything that can be read on what the final product or goals are for this study bible. I am sure many have a lot to contribute from their own studies. Will this bible be in a commentary format, cross reference format, or word studies? What are the core topics that will be included and what will be excluded? Will this only include escatology, last days, resurection, or also include baptism, the body of Christ and other teaching?
I was also wondering what help you need from the community to help add in information? Can we add in our own personal notes and cross references? I am assuming this will be edited and tracked as people add and remove information. This is my first time at using Wiki so I am not sure how it works quite yet.
The power is huge when pulling in knowledge from a community of believers. I pray that the truth will be revealed in the final result of this work.
ls_thomp 01/05/06
Scott, welcome as well! The bible will be based on the Geneva Notes, so it will be more of a "commentary bible" rather than a word-study bible. We'll attempt toget the best of all worlds converged when possible.
We need all kinds of help right now. The Geneva Notes for many books still have to be pasted into the wiki. When you have a chance, please read the FAQ...I hope it will answer all your questions.
--Virgil Vaduva 15:58, 5 January 2006 (PST)
- One question, what are you doing for in verse footnotes. Should these also be included or will these be added later after all comments are made. I see on some pages that have already been updated the footnotes were pasted and on others they were not included. Please advise.
- Scott, what I do is include all the notes from crosswalk.com (footnotes and comments) and format them properly. I think they can all be sorted out afterwords. The footnotes section under each book are not Geneva footnotes but they are World English Bible footnotes established by the translators and publisher of WEB. I know it can get confusing, but we'll get it streamlined. Thanks again for helping out! :) --Virgil Vaduva 19:28, 5 January 2006 (PST)
Guys, this was too good to pass - I've been pasting Geneva notes:
Ex 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, (a) make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
(a) The root of Idolatry is when men think that God is not present, unless they see him physically.
ouch --Jason Bradfield 22:05, 6 January 2006 (PST)
Jason, that's an awesome note!! I've ran across a few of those myself. I tell you...these people back then had some nerve man, and they never hesitated to teach what they felt was truth. We could probably learn a lot from that ourselves uh?
--Virgil Vaduva 07:39, 7 January 2006 (PST)
Reference links
I fixed the reference links in Acts chapters 3 and 4 as well as Exodus 1 and 2. The only problem I am having is that it takes you to the reference chapter, but not the specific verse. Does anyone know how to fix that?
Randall --Randude 10:55, 8 January 2006 (PST)
