How do you use Yedda? (Meaning more as in “what purpose” do you use Yedda)
This is an open question to everyone and I’m sure there will be varied and interesting answers. While I do not believe that there will be a comment made on here from the individual that has been the catalyst for this question, that person being exzucuh. I received a “Private Message” email from this individual concerning a comment I made to a question he had posed on Yedda. My reply to his email was a specific request that he not do so again. However, tonight I received yet another “Private Message” email, two actually. One stating simply that “Private Message” emails were the only way to talk to me and a second one with more ridicule, the date and time stamp showing that they were sent within minutes of each other.
Whether it was or not, I took the email as an attack on my personal viewpoints, basically because of the first line in the email. The content of that original email I received follows in its entirety:
///Start/// You can say a lot to be absolutely wrong and actually know nothing.
The dead know nothing about what goes on in this world because they are in hell, Jesus said God is the God of the living because those that serve and him never die they live with him after their bodies die. Mt 5:22,Mt 18:9,Mr 9:43,Mr 9:45,Re 20:14 all these scriptures say you will be in hell fire and the greek word for fire means fire (Pur) In the old testament those people had no understanding of death, hell, or salvation because the truth and mystery of those were not revealed until Jesus preached of them.
How can you know if you have no preacher. Jesus has the keys to death, Hell and the Grave and these three things are synonymous . They are the curse that came upon all because of Adam but the second Adam Jesus paid the debt of Adams sin so that all in Christ will not partake of the curse. Those that are in Jesus do not taste death, death is torment the first stage of hell, it begins even before it happens as men are tormented every day by it in their thoughts. But in Christ we have peace and security knowing we cannot die. Hell is the second part of Death where death and torment becomes reality and the grave becomes a prison that cannot be escaped. Hell is compared to a garbage dump because the fires there are never quenched and the bodies of criminals were left there for the vultures and the worms to eat. For people of that day to see the rotting corpses and and burning and smoke it made them think of hell. ///Stop///
This is my entire response to the above email:
///Start/// For future reference, please do not contact me via the “Private Message” option on Yedda. If you want to attack my comments, then do so here in an open forum. I’m not a child and I’m not afraid of you. I do not condemn nor criticize your beliefs; I am merely a voice which presents a different perspective regarding various religious ideologies. I have been a formal student of Theology for 30 years, my structured education began in 1978 while attending Austin Community College in Austin, Texas and has been an enduring study ever since.///Stop///
Below are the two emails I received tonight from exzucuh:
///Start/// This is the only way to reply to you. There is no other. ///Stop///
Here is the second email:
///Start/// The answers you gave reflects a waste of time in your education, as most educated in theology are, I am not afraid to reply to you but you may not know it but being educated as you are you should , you are supposed to answer questions not argue with people at the question site.
1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1 Corinthians 1:26-27 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;///Stop///
exzucuh, I will not reply to your email as I specifically requested that you not do so. While I do not mind emails from those I have agreed to list as a contact, or even a simple friendly email once in awhile from anyone.
I took the time to visit the web site you have listed on your profile. I also spent a great deal of time viewing your YouTube Pulpit from which you preach. That's great if that's what you feel you need to do. I am not critical, but neither am I impressed, you have the right to be who you are and I have the right to be who I am.
I would however like to address the last part of your statement to me. You stated “you are supposed to answer questions not argue with people at the question site.”
I did not argue with you, I merely presented a different perspective of what you asked in your question entitled “No Hell”. I won’t post my answer here as it was quite lengthy. If you don’t like the response you get to a question you “discuss” the difference of opinion or perspective there on the question site. That’s why they have the “Comments” section of that site. What you don’t do is contact them privately and insult them.
As far as your own questions, from what I can see (and it is another reason that I have personally made I think only two comments) they are merely platforms by which you preach to others. Yedda is not a Church Pulpit.
Regarding the comment in your original email… “How can you know if you have no preacher?” No disrespect intended, but I am not illiterate, I do not need you to explain your perspective (or interpretation) to me. While I sincerely enjoy a good open discussion, I thoroughly enjoy doing the research myself thank you.
I am not here (on this Earth or Yedda) to judge anyone for anything, in this case their religion or spirituality. Personally I don’t care what a person’s religion is, I have often stated that I was just glad that a person had a religion. By the same token I am not here for the purpose of preaching my specific religion or spirituality to anyone else.
Personally I would say that I am at about 50/50 on agree and disagree with those I have dealt with here on Yedda. However, it does not mean that I believe those I disagree with to be wrong in their opinion or perspective of the question, their answer or comments to my answers. The greater majority of them are at least basically polite. I enjoy reading most of the questions and comments, being here on Yedda for the purpose of learning new things through open (minded)discussion.
In conclusion, if you are a preacher, maybe you should go back to school and learn a little bit about tact.
