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Welcome to soc.religion.christian.bible-study!
What is this group and how does it work?
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The purpose of this newsgroup is to discuss the Christian Bible. This
newsgroup is moderated. That means that all articles sent to the group
must be approved by the moderator before they will be distributed to the
net at large. Your NetNews software should automatically transform postings
into email to the moderator. Thus, you should be able to post to this group
just like any other. Do what you would normally do, and in most cases, the
article will be properly forwarded.
Unfortunately, some sites have software or configuration problems such
that postings to moderated groups simply do not work, or create multiple
copies of the submission or send blank submissions. If you have trouble
posting, you can send postings via email directly to the submission id.
Postings sent to my personal email address will be delayed, and may even
be "lost in the shuffle."
moderator's personal mail id......... adams@spss.com
submission id........................ bible@spss.com
comment/question id.................. bible-request@spss.com
Send postings to the submission id, questions or comments for the
moderator to the comment/question id and personal email to my id.
Who can partake and what doctrines are enforced?
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This group was created for the purpose of discussing the Bible, from
both religious and secular viewpoints. It is not in any way limited
to Christians, but the definition of 'The Bible' is the one (actually
'ones') used by Christians. For explicit details, see the Charter for
the group. The Charter can be obtained from listproc@spss.com by sending
the command 'get bible biblestudy.charter'
Contributions are accepted from persons of all points of view, which
explicity means that 'heretical' views are perfectly acceptable, as
are views that attempt to discredit the Bible for various reasons. No
particluar point of view is enforced or restricted.
Note well that flame wars or denominational wars are not acceptable.
Discussions ABOUT denominational views are fine. Please avoid calling
others "heretics," "fools," etc. If you believe a person to hold a
hertical or foolish position, refute them from Scripture.
Often times it is necessary to use materials other than Scripture to
make your point. This is acceptable, so long as what is under discussion
falls in line with the Charter. That is, if you wish to quote the
Church Fathers, the Roman Catholic Catechism, the Council of Trent, the
Augsburg Confession, etc., that is perfectly acceptable, so long as you
stay on topic.
A note about this, though. It is well documented that some reformers
repeatedly referred to the Pope as Anti-Christ, and this view is held
by many today. After long, hard thought on this issue, I feel that this
falls into the notion of denominational attack. Even if it didn't, the
statement itself does nothing to foster discussion or communication. As
such, posts which contain statements to this effect, or similar ones
which tie the Roman Church to certain negative images in the Book of
Revalation, will be rejected.
Anonymous contributions:
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I will accept postings which have pseudonyms attached to email ids which
are identifiable as to their source. I will also accept postings that
request anonymity, posting them with the bible study id as the 'author.'
Postings from anonymous posting sites, or anonymous servers will not be
accepted under any circumstances.
Authors requesting anonymity should make it clear that they desire this
in the first line of their post, in all CAPS. Failure to do so may