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Originally Posted by aron
Thanks for bearing with me. Peace to all who read this.
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I think you're too hard on yourself about your tone, aron. When I'm requesting that you prepare your book draft for final editing, I'll ask you to kindly formalize your tone. Otherwise, an informal and conversational tone here makes these sorts of venues more attractive and interesting. I can smile at a joke that one would never consider making in a formal document.
We've got the smilies, after all.
Regarding organization, we need to be very careful, even precise, when citing to the Word. Just so that you know, if you don't do that, I instinctively and automatically discount your argument into the "hmmmm" category rather than the "amen" category until I have myself had a chance to verify it in the Word. And even posts presenting citations need to be prayerfully considered, of course.
So, taking your implicit challenge, and considering your actual thesis here about John, as far as I understand it, please explain how you have come to "see John as too independent" by citation to specific verses showing his independence, then help me to understand how such a view helps inform your opinion that John has something important to say concerning "elders" and, finally, if you don't mind, please help me to see, again by specific citation, exactly what it is he says on the topic.
But you can still use a smiley or two along the way if it helps...
