User talk:TimNelson
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[edit] Re: WikiProject Calvinism
Thanks, but I, Nathaniel Pockras, am really not interested in participation. If nothing else, I prefer fields where things are cut and dried — not things like religion where what I believe is disputed by most people. For example, look at the history of Missionary and see what I put in, and the reactions I got. I know that we need people who can work in such situations, but I believe I'm more the person for matters such as geography pages: much work always needs to be done that really isn't disputable, unless (see the message on my talk page just above the invitation) it's an error and easily can be disproven. That, too, is why I do a lot of Wikipedia photography: aside from the question of doctored pictures, photographs are reliable and don't need sourcing the way text does. I guess you could just look at my edit history: check what I mostly do.
Thanks very much for the invitation, but basically it's not that I don't have time for stuff like this, but that this field isn't the kind of stuff I work with.
And yes, good guess who I am. I guess, though, you've not worked with any other people from Belle Center who are my age :-) Nyttend 12:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- An example of why it's hard for me to deal with matters such as this is your Presbyterian worship page: statements such as the thing about lining out being a practical measure are generally original research, and yet it often seems hard to have a good article like this without having original research. Nyttend 12:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Separation of church and state
My mistake.
I'll have to comb through those documents at a later date. Blast 25.03.07 1555 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Calvinism
We need more input on what should be in the Template for Calvinism. Please share your thoughts in the sections of the talk page starting with Template_talk:Calvinism#Barth_and_Reformed_Baptists. --Flex (talk|contribs) 16:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your recent edit to the Separation of church and state article
Tim,
I find it difficult to understand your recent edit to the Separation of church and state article, which your edit summary said has the purpose of correcting the article's presentation of RP views.
Before edit:
The Reformed Presbyterian Church, a Calvinistic denomination, also disagrees with separation of church and state, and advocates a full integration of the Church into the State.
After edit:
The Reformed Presbyterian Church, a Calvinistic denomination, also believes that the state constitutionally covenant to follow God's laws on earth; this does not involve a structural unification of church and state, though.
I have difficulty parsing the phrase: "believes that the state constitutionally covenant to follow God's laws on earth". According to Wictionary's definition Covenant is a noun which means (in the ordinary sense) an agreement between parties, or (in the Biblical sense) a promise made by God to Man. Could you please rephrase this or explain the phrasing? Also, I am not totally familiar with the reference cited at this point in the article. I presume that you are familiar with this document, and would ask that you cite the specific point in that document which supports your assertion (not that I doubt your assertion, but I would like to be able to find and read the section of the cited document which supports it).
Please either edit the article further or, if you prefer, could we communicate via my talk page? -- Boracay Bill 22:30, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Puritanism category & Reformed Baptists
The Puritanism category & Reformed Baptists items are tagged for the WikiProject Calvinism.Brian0324 17:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your choice
Be glad to help. Pick something that you don't think anyone else would be interested in, and I'll do it.--John Foxe 19:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll work on the Congregationalists.--John Foxe 12:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
- I finished "American Congregationalists." Slim pickin's.--John Foxe 20:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Re:Steeleites
How do the Steeleites reject being RPs? Unless the new incarnation of the Steeleites have turned away from the old position(something I can't imagine), they hold that they're the only true RPs, and that we're not truly that. Otherwise they'd not have the name of Reformed Presbytery, and they wouldn't have names such as Covenanted Reformed Presbyterian Church of Albany. Nyttend 12:55, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's definitely a POV, since we argue about who is a legitimate RPC. I can't imagine the Steeleites not being included, because they hold to all the old positions, while we (thankfully!) don't. Since there aren't any currently existing RPCs, other than the RPCNA/RPCS/RPCI/RPCA/TCCF and the Steeleites, the doctrinal positions shouldn't be too hard. Of course, the Steeleites are stricter than the RPCNA/RPCS/RPCI/RPCA/TCCF, but they do hold the positions listed. Also, someone needs to explain the Irish mission in Nantes and the connexion with churches in Hungary. I know very little about Hungary, other than that the RPCI has some connexion with at least one church in Miskolc.
By the way, completely off topic: you should fix your userboxes, so their right sides aren't off the edge of the screen. Nyttend 13:37, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
