Those of us, who are...or were ...parents, call this "modeling".....

Original thoughts!!! Wow, lets do it, looking forward to new explorations!!!

This sounds like a fabulous premise on which to build a forum.

I'll enjoy lurking.
[I too have felt cheated when I click on "Active Topics" and find the same old, same old topics being chewed up and hashed over, again and again.]

What?!?!?!? You lurk??? Sorry, I ain't gonna let that happen, Jeannie....

So, let's test this premise....Let's take a subject and prove the points....without quoting EGW or the Bible....


Here's the subject.....


Ellen G White is concidered a prophet where her words may or may not be on par with the bible....Without quoting her or the bible, support your position regarding the level where her words are inspired and answer the questions of whether ALL of her writings are to be on par with the bible or whether SOME of her writings are par level and which ones if the latter...Be prepared to defend yourself as others will question your position and are also NOT allowed to use the bible quotations nor EGW writings...


And Jeannie...put that lawyer mind to work....start us out...

The test of EGW's inspiration is to read her literature. I get so incensed with people who know so much about what her writings is Not and having never read more than a line or two here and there.

I have read the conflict series and am reading the testimonies through. I especially recommend volume 9 - I think every Adventist convert should be required to read the last chapters of that book.

Funny thing, the ones who are bothered most about the inspiration of her writings are the ones who don't want to believe them and those of us who have had a spiritual feast from them don't need the external proof.

Um, I think this is one of those perpetually repeated issues that Tom started this idea to get *away* from: you know, the kind where everyone is nailed hard to their position and just keeps restating it louder and louder forever?

Yeah, but while they say it "louder and louder", they do so with EGW quotes and hide behind her, and can't formulate a thought without using her words....

I admit to flunking mindreading back in the 3rd grade, and it just fustrates me to no end when someone quotes her, and then doesn't understand why ***I*** don't understand plain english when they quote her....

So, I figgered that they now can say what she meant to say without using her words....

I thought I could finally find out what they were really trying to say...

...Sorry, guys...I was just taken advantage of the situation....If I was wrong, pick another subject....

Yep! Been there done that one til I could puke...

Emphasis must be on original... If invested with moderator super-powers of deletion, if I have heard it before, it would be gone in a flash.

Let's consider an original concept like... Let's apply a stochastic process to time theory and see how it might relate to the prophetic gift... History from God's perspective might resemble a fractal.

OK. Do some thinking and see what you might come up with.

You get extra points if you can google your idea and get no hits. Yes, the search - "stochastic process" "time theory" prophecy fractal - gets no hits.

OK, but we might take it to the new forum (woot!)

WOOT!! Yowza, Dude! How do we get this train out of the station?