Thank you for those explanations. Speaking for myself, we accept your apology. It's simply a feature of our "modern" internet and sometimes faceless communication. We don't have, in it, the normal benefit of knowing someone in person, perceiving their body language, knowing their background, understanding the tone of voice used in saying whatever it is they say. It's only that which has made an apology necessary or helpful in this case, I think.
My own belief: The Bible is divinely inspired, inerrant, and God's Perfect and Living Word. The fact that it is inerrant is a function of His Sovereignty. He has simply made sure that the Word we have received is His actual inerrant message for us. As I child, I accept His Word and receive it within the framework of an understanding of His Soverignty. I do not make any claim to "understanding" every verse in the Bible. But as His child I accept them and receive them and pray that each of them will do their necessary work on me, via the agency of His Holy Spirit.
That Living Word has come to us by means of imperfect human writers, scribes, copy scribes, and through imperfect translators. Through imperfect book publishers. Nevertheless I consider, due to His Sovereignty, that Word in my hands to be inerrant and holy. We used to say, "The Holy Bible", and there was good reason for that, I think.
I revere God's Word, just as I would treasure a letter from my wife, if for some reason she had to be away from me for a long, long period of time. I would treasure that letter. It would be a very important "thing" which I could hold in my hand, which is truly from her. But when I then saw my wife again face to face, that letter would take on far less importance. So it is with God's Word, although it is far far more than a romantic letter. For this time we are in now, we treasure His Word -- I treasure each one of the words of God.
But it is HE Whom we actually worship -- not His Word. We treasure and revere His Word, because it leads us, teaches us, to revere, to treasure, and to love, and to worship HIM, the one to whom is due all worship everywhere and for all time.
onfire247, I have to offer a huge apology. I see now that this website does indeed do auto-correct. (I've been using the "type first letter" option for years now ... and there's no autocorrect with that option). I found that out by temporarily changing my preferences back to typing out the whole word.
Within the context of having to type out every word, yes, I can see why you would want an "extension" of the auto-correct. If you feel strongly about it, you could use the contact form and write to Luke more directly about it.
I'm going to continue to use the "type first letter" option. I like it because as it speeds things up, it's more like reciting verses, and enables me to review a much larger amount of material than otherwise would be possible.
I apologize for the several messages -- I will go back to my queue now :) and try to be silent.
Onfire247, have you tried the "type first letter" option? That option is available as I use my pc, when you look at "Preferences".
Typing only the first letter of each word certainly makes things go faster, and you *still* have to remember each and every word -- and you still have three hints to use --though it is of course possible in a small number of cases to get something right "by chance".
I don't ever experience *any* auto-correction on this site of any kind ... but I do my reviewing on a pc, not on a phone. Perhaps that takes place on a phone?
I understand the feeling and also the experience behind what you said below, but .... to me, memorizing means you just have to *remember* all of those repetitions of "And Jesus answered and said to them ..." I think, we will just have to agree to disagree, onfire :)
Thank you PeterP. For much of my time here I wasn't properly focused; did several resets. But now my aim is to achieve fully learnt for each of my verses. It takes time and patience (as you know).
Thank you PeterP. For much of my time here I wasn't properly focused; did several resets. But now my aim is to achieve fully learnt for each of my verses. It takes time and patience (as you know).
In my opinion your suggestion would make things too easy. We are here to memorize, after all, and we already have three hints on each verse (or 2 or 1 on shorter ones) :)