I receive emails, on a regular basis, from people who have been to my website and have seen (and sometimes actually have read) various commentaries that I have written about Bible topics.  The people who have read things I’ve written usually will comment specifically on certain points, with which they agree or disagree.  In those cases, accordingly, I typically will respond to their comments.  Occasionally, I will have ongoing, logical, and rational discussions with people like that, although usually I do not have a lot of time or interest in doing this.

When someone does not comment specifically on things I have written, but instead requests that I read commentaries and opinions that they or others have written, I usually will read what that person has written (or a portion of it, if it is quite lengthy, since I do not have the time or interest to read a great deal of unsolicited material).  Then I will single out some points and indicate why I agree or disagree with them.

In many cases, when I disagree with a person’s viewpoints, that person will continue emailing me, attempting to convince me to adopt his/her viewpoints.  What such a person rarely will do is to cite specific points in my writings and comment why he/she believes that I am in error.  I have two things to say about this:

1. I have zero interest in continually commenting about someone else’s viewpoints if that person has not taken the time to make clear, understandable observations about specific positions I have taken and explained.
   
   
2. It does not bother me at all if someone disagrees with my personal viewpoints.  I usually do not care to persuade anyone, through argument or lengthy discussion, that I am right.  Therefore, I do not understand why so many people are vehement about attempting to get me to embrace their views about various topics.

In any case, I sometimes will take the time to comment on material someone has written and has asked me to read, or else has made statements in an email about which he/she has requested that I make comments.  However, if that person ignores the logic in my comments and continues to bombard me with continual reasons why I should adopt his/her views (especially when that person does not take the time to make constructive, logical comments on explicit points I have made in one of my commentaries or in an email response), I see no reason for our discussion to continue.

As an example, I have compiled the 20 emails—and my responses to many of those emails—of someone who wrote me for about 3 months a few years ago, attempting to convince me that there is nothing in the Bible that speaks of a prophetic 70th Week (of 7 years) to occur in the future.  He steadfastly believed, and adamantly wanted for me to believe, that there are only 3½ years (not 7 years) remaining to fulfill Daniel 9:26,27.  In case you are interested in looking at an extremely lengthy example of what I have described above, click on the following link; I think you will understand why I lose interest in having fruitless, pointless dialogues with people:

Since that word document is quite extensive and protracted (368 KB), it may take awhile to load if you have a slow internet connection.  I have changed the names of people mentioned within the emails.

Incidentally, since the time that I corresponded with that person, the implementation of the seven-year European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has taken place.  More than anything I have seen, in over 25 years of studying Bible and prophecy topics, the ENP appears to fulfill the Daniel 9:27 prophecy more than anything else about which I’ve ever read or observed in my lifetime.  Read more about this here, if you wish:

If, indeed, the final seven years of this age have begun, I believe we have less than a handful of years before the appearance of Jesus Christ in the clouds—with His ultimate descent to earth to be probably a year later, at the end of the seven-year period, just before the beginning of the glorious Millennium.

Ted