I just lost 1/2 of my job due to cutbacks, but last week a major bank called me and asked for my resume to work in the forensic IT dept. Seems they need someone good with pattern recognition, so God was watching out for me before I knew I needed it.
@Bob you may or may not be aware there is a 'formative' debate going on on the 'meta' site at the moment. If you have the time/inclination your input would be valuable
@Jack it is a bit difficult to get excited about such things when there is always a move to marginalize me. If there was any sense that people were actually interested it might be different. So I rarely post anymore, and when I did it was to test the hermeneutic against questions that I didn't generate (sort of a blind test).
I've been asked to write the commentary stuff for a study Bible based on the hermeneutic that I use. So my time for 'play' has been reduced.
I get excited to see Christ in the scriptures. It's no fun to always have someone dumping water on it when you share.
If you look at my posts on Judah and Tamar, Acts 12, Gen1 and John 1, I see those kinds of pictures everywhere. I find it discouraging that those who say they love Christ would chuck it by a knee jerk reaction.
I have venues to teach where it is accepted enthusiastically. And people are seeing them for themselves. So it's not really worth my time to try and share it here.
I am currently teaching a class from Matthew to show how he demonstrates the hermeneutic.
@Jack Not really interested in that. There is one guy who is absolutely abusive, others who complain that IO give Christian answers to OT questions (obviously singled out from others who do the same)
@Jack the practice of down voting without comment, is presumably prejudice based on preconceptions rather than being helpful in producing 'good'answers
There is an inherent tension in a site that seeks to exegete a body of texts without a common ground. The main participants at this site seem to be Jews and Christians, but an atheist or a Buddhist or a Muslim could participate here too if they were interested in hermeneutics of ancient texts.
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@Jack as for policies that make it difficult to participate: self-referencing. I have no one else to reference. I have literally been asked to write the book on it. You say you want experts, but that is not apparent from the policy.
@BobJones Questions must start from the text or be about hermeneutical methods. If you follow those guidelines and anyone objects to your question please let me know!
@BobJones this is not supposed to be a site for just one hermemeutical method
and though I approach God's revelation very differently to you, I have found your answers very useful a number of times: I know in my heart I need to adjust my framework, but I'm not sure how yet. My approach (and my heart) is just too... dry
With the current environment, it is unlikely I would generate new questions, and I may dabble at others if they present an opportunity to show a unique angle. I just added to one where "He shall live" is hidden in "only" referring to Isaac as the only son
So God Told Abraham that Isaac would live while he was asking him to be sacrificed
@Jack The method I use frees people up to get the same kind of testimony that Peter had when he said that Jesus was the Messiah, Son of God, and Jesus said that he Father had revealed it to him.
The Holy Ghost 'brings to remembrance' the things that need correlated in order to see the pictures of Christ.
Mt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mt 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
10 ¶ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
The first part of the commentary is a stack of expositions like those I gave to Dan showing the hidden picture in every chapter of the OT
@Jack the reason we are told that Jesus was in the temple at 12 yrs is because it fulfills the prophecy in the narrative of the nine kings of Chedloamer.
@BobJones I hesitate to add to this discussion, but... the issue isn't self-referenceing. You say (and I'm not saying otherwise) that you're an expert in a technique that, to some of us, doesn't look legitimate. So we ask you to show your work. No matter how expert you are, we're all just names on the internet, so a good answer needs to connect the dots. Asserting that X means Y, on its own, is maybe an interesting idea but nothing more.
Sorry, I didn't catch that you were in the middle of another thread while I was typing that. I won't be offended if you set my comment aside for the moment.
@monica.. actually I've had very direct conversations with Jon about self-referencing. If every metaphor were justified in the text of an answer the article becomes too large. Having offsite violates the polkicy of self-referencing
@monica no problem... Hope you had a nice holiday.
@BobJones Ok, obviously I don't have the context you do but that surprises me. Unless what you mean is that you want to store parts of answers elsewhere? That wouldn't work so well, but people link to external articles/books/etc all the time.
@Jack @Monica People score any way they want, which will always be that way, so many people give credit if they agree with it. I look to see if it gives a well-reasoned answer, or information I did not have previously. But the community is what it is.
@BobJones I think the majority here do the same with a bit of laziness thrown in. If an answer is long or unfamiliar folk are very much less likely to up-vote but I don't think there is much we can do about that...
structuring answers with a catchy and concise summary at the top (rather than a conclusion at the bottom) helps I think
@BobJones I'm working my way backward through the chat messages. I think what I said was that it probably wasn't a good idea to flood the site with questions to justify each metaphor. One or two a week (or even more as we grow) would be great. 10 would be overwhelming.
The core criteria for writing answers on the Stack Exchange model, not only on this site but across the entire network, is one of usefulness; this can be reflected simply by hovering over the vote buttons on the side of every post:
Usefulness, unfortunately, is highly subjective. Unlike our pr...
I think it might be good if someone wrote a version of this post for BH.
they have to start insisting on wikipedia style 'supported' answers because they don't have the same solid ground as SO (as you say) and bh.se too in my opinion. Even on SO there not everything is rosy but it works well enough for the site to be useful overall.
" I'm working my way backward through the chat messages" ... that expolains why you never understand my posts ... I'll have to start writing them from the bottom up ;-)
@JackDouglas Have you noticed long answers getting fewer votes? I find them helpful (if well-structured and if they stay on-topic); a long answer that provides its supporting arguments and anticipates and addresses followup issues is exactly the kind of answer I want to vote up.
@BobJones if you're running through the questions (front page, by tag, whatever) then you should be fine. If you're starting from a user's list of answers, that's where you can run into problems.
The core criteria for writing answers on the Stack Exchange model, not only on this site but across the entire network, is one of usefulness; this can be reflected simply by hovering over the vote buttons on the side of every post:
Usefulness, unfortunately, is highly subjective. Unlike our pr...
